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The Secret Weapon of B2B Marketing: How Influencers Drive Growth

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

The term “influencer” has become synonymous with consumer brands, lifestyle trends, and social media aesthetics. The effects of business-to-business influencer marketing are more challenging to measure as it predominantly enhances brand awareness and affinity.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

A 2023 Edelman study found that the responsibilities of corporate communications teams are increasing in less traditional areas like digital and social media (72%), monitoring, measurement & analytics (68%), social listening (67%), and audience insights (31%). Wait, what is earned media?

Media 99
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B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success

Sword and the Script

The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. The second measure was largely a manual effort: going back through the deals closed at the end of the year and identifying which ones had downloaded gated for content featured on the blog. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog.

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B2C Content Marketing Trends: Key Findings from the 2015 Study

Polaris

even more effective than in-person meetings (63%), social media content (58%) and blogs (54%). When used with an opt-in list and following other best practices, email marketing is powerful—a kind of social media platform on steroids. 5: How are marketers measuring content marketing success? I certainly was.

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

“Now need to produce videos and podcasts in-house – something that used to be a once-in-a-while activity and was outsourced – in addition to providing content for every social media platform and continuing all other ‘old school’ communication duties.”. Real effort into digital and social. More emphasis on social media.

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How the Women of Game of Thrones Can Inspire Your Content Strategy

Cision

If you don’t have an end game in mind, how will you determine what actions to take or know how to measure success? Arya exemplifies why it’s important to outline your objectives before diving into creating or disseminating content. Think about what your brand wants to achieve.

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The “Ides of March” Are Here – Beware These Common PR Pitfalls

Critical Mention

For example, one of the things we learn early on in media relations is how far ahead some publications plan their editorial content. Is your brand exhibiting at the industry’s biggest trade show? Are you thinking about social media? Failing to measure your results. Better start pitching EARLY, say in July.