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Writing Earnings Releases for the Associated Press’ Robots

Cision

A very interesting question was posed by a client: “Do I need to write my earnings release in any special manner to facilitate better quality reporting by the Associated Press’ (AP) automated journalists?”. Only the writing aspect of the AP process is automated, not the data parsing. The short answer: “No.”. They read it.

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10 Research-Based Tips for Writing Better Content

Cision

When I looked into what actual research has been done into words that work well to convert customers, what I found was that linguistic research isn’t focused as much on what you say or write as much as the context and framing of your words. There are a few services that years after a cart abandonment still write a few times a week.

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PR And SEO: Why They’re Better Together

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Journalists, writers, and bloggers will write about it and link to Apple because, well, it’s the iPhone.” When the coverage presents expertise related to an industry, the journalist may opt to link back a resource on a brand’s website. “Big brands can do it relatively easily, but that’s because they’re a big brand.

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The Present & Future Tech Trends PRs Should Prepare For

Cision

Before we dive in, here are some quick definitions: Emerged trends are trends that are already present and becoming more widespread and important. Emerging trends are present but not yet widespread and are just now becoming important. Content optimization for the mobile and semantic web. Emerged Trends.

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Blogging is dead: just 36% of internet users write blogs

Stuart Bruce

This presents an opportunity for corporate social media policies and guidelines to enable far more employees to blog about topics that they are interested in and that will be of interest to customers and other stakeholders. Rather than relying on the PR and communications team to produce content you can enable real experts to write it.

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On the A-List: 10 Tips for Creating Winning Listicles

PRSay

Lists “are to the web reader’s eye what Brad Pitt is to the paparazzi,” says Kara Pernice, Kathryn Whitenton and Jakob Nielsen, the authors of How People Read on the Web. Indeed, according to Pernice, Whitenton and Nielson, web visitors look at 70 percent of the bulleted lists they encounter. Readers can’t resist a list.

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Writing Earnings Releases for the Associated Press’ Robots

Beyond PR

A very interesting question was posed by a client: “Do I need to write my earnings release in any special manner to facilitate better quality reporting by the Associated Press’ (AP) automated journalists?”. Only the writing aspect of the AP process is automated, not the data parsing. The short answer: “No.”. They read it.

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