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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

Whether I’m penning a reported piece, ghostwriting, or composing a blog post for a brand, there are a few fact-checking measures I always take. Do I need to parse the fine print of a scientific study every time I cite a statistic? Why accuracy in content marketing is important. But after that, it gets more nuanced.

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Extra Boost of “V”: More Vloggers for your YouTube Cravings

Waxing UnLyrical

Fun Fact Christine vlogged about Kodak’s Print & Prosper calculator, which helps consumers compare printing costs between Kodak printers and their average competitor. Heres the Wikipedia article for YouTube Live: [link] And the channel featuring the full live show and highlights: [link] Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Cheesier [.]

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. Terms are not disclosed.

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Sound the Bell on Pavlovian Marketing

Bad Pitch Blog

It’s a printed piece (thick stock with an even thicker cover stock). To be clear, I don’t begrudge anyone from creating, and mailing, a printed piece. There are a lot of good reasons to create a print experience. There are a lot of good reasons to create a print experience. What was the white paper about?

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

The ‘New Politics’ engaged and enraged in equal measure. I’m sure there are 11 amazing things that you can list about this investigation, but number one would have to be the ambition of reaching the wider consumer base that print can no longer command. In 2015 we all loved authenticity, right?