Polaris

JANUARY 2, 2015

Hopefully we learn a few content marketing lessons by reviewing the past year, then use that information to develop even more effective editorial calendars in 2015. Here are some of Polaris’ most popular blog posts from 2014, along with the lessons they taught us. Content Marketing Lesson #1: Make it useful and timely.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This blog published 51 posts this year – the 12 th year of publishing for Sword and the Script. However, the cadence of publishing still meets one absolute requirement of content marketing : consistency in publishing matters as much as anything else. That works out to one post per week, which is like clockwork.

Blogging 137

Blogging Software Google Content Marketing 137

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Public relations and content marketing are powerful when they work together, particularly for B2B PR programs designed to educate prospective customers and push them down the funnel to a point of purchase. But when they work in concert, PR and content marketing are a 1+1+3 situation. Have joint planning sessions.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Pharmaceuticals Marketing Software 120

Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

We’ve grown quite a bit, and our team now includes Corporate Social Responsibility, our own in-house agency team, a Demand Operations/Lean Gen capability, Strategic Meetings Management, and, most recently, Customer Advocacy. Kathy: In my opinion, Integrated Marketing as a function has morphed into Content Operations and Campaign Management.

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Content Marketing Interviews Marketing Leadership 170

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Set the agenda. We’d love to hear from you….

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Mediagraphix PR

APRIL 18, 2023

Content marketing is one of the renowned promotion strategies focused on developing and distributing innovative, valuable, and quality content to gain more brand awareness and attract the potential audience for a brand.

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Content Marketing Strategy Marketing Brand 52

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This is why content marketing plays such a crucial role in media relations , among many other aspects of PR and corporate communications. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility. What better source of credibility is there than to have your content serve as a citation?

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hence our obsession with keeping tabs on industry blogs and finding those articles and authors that impact our own ways of thinking. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. Below is a guide to Ready North's favorite blogs and publications.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 9, 2019

Content marketing takes time and effort. And, unfortunately, average tactics such as blogging, keyword-optimized landing pages and the occasional guest post will only get you average results (at best!). People who are very active in marketing in their niche and that work for (or run) a company of similar size to your own.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2017

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

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Content Marketing Marketing B2B Analytics 79

MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Major brands across America – from Spotify, Wells Fargo and Ikea to Chobani, Mayo Clinic and HBO – are embracing the power of content marketing. At the same time, many CMOs and Content Marketing Directors are also asking the same questions: where does content go from here, in 2022? The Surprising Value of LinkedIn.

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PR Fuel

MAY 12, 2019

In this day and age, many people still consider PR and content marketing to be mutually exclusive. While content marketers create quality material to inform readers while also branding that company in a certain way and with a certain voice, traditional PR generally aims to get stories and other material to the “news.”.

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Content Marketing Marketing Local Social Media 45

Rock the Status Quo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Agencies, PR and marketing professionals, bloggers and anyone doing social media (who doesn’t?) And… at work, when you use a photograph of Angelina Jolie in a blog post on breast cancer. (It She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. Right where it counts! What am I talking about?

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Blogging Agency Social Media Content Marketing 194

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 It’s important for readers to keep in mind my world view is heavily filtered from the perspective of B2B marketing and PR.

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Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 107

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2018

You cannot run content marketing like a campaign. You can, however, run campaigns inside a content marketing program. Campaigns are how every marketer is trained to think. There is nothing wrong with any of this, but is not content marketing. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute on them?

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The same could be asked about a blog: If a blog is written but has no readers, does it exist at all? Don’t let your blog fall into the cobwebs of your website. Content creation can be one of the hardest things to plan when you first begin blogging. Your readers are already on your website to read the blog.

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Blogging How To SEO Analytics 161

Tribe Builder Media

APRIL 9, 2019

Why is it that content marketing is touted as one of the best online marketing strategies for business exposure? OK, that’s great, but exactly how do you go about perfecting the art of content marketing ? Content marketing resources… lots and lots of resources —that’s how!

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Resources Content Marketing Marketing Leadership 65

Onclusive

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The poll respondents include in-house communicators and PR teams from companies of all sizes, large and boutique PR agencies, freelance PR professionals, and the C-suite. Which PR agency services are most relevant to your business’ primary needs? How well does your executive team understand how to leverage PR?

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 29, 2021

That was surely the case when our public relations agency hosted Joe Pulizzi, the Amazon best-selling author of “Killing Marketing,” “Content Inc.” ” and “Epic Content Marketing” and founder of the Content Marketing Institute, in our almost-monthly Sharper Angle webinar series.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. 50% say improved distribution.

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Content Marketing B2B Survey Analysis 65

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Part 1: Blog Core Values. Part 10: How To Get Blogging Ideas. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Blogging Chemicals Content Marketing Writing 128

Polaris

DECEMBER 10, 2014

It’s a mix of PR, social media and content marketing news designed to help marketers stay up to date on trends and best practices. When I informed one of my marketing colleagues, Randy Milanovic , of the move, I was surprised to hear he was against it. I’d rather have blog subscribers.”. I know this firsthand.

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Blogging Comparison eBook Case Study 183

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Part 1: Blog Core Values. Part 10: How To Get Blogging Ideas. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Blogging Content Marketing Retail Examples 141

5W PR

MAY 17, 2024

Adventure-based content marketing Creating captivating content through blog posts, articles, or videos can convey a sense of adventure. The post Elevating Outdoor Brands Through PR Strategies appeared first on Public Relations Blog | 5W PR Agency | PR Firm.

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Strategy Brand Branding Travel 78

Sword and the Script

JULY 19, 2016

Marketers are reporting better results stemming from content marketing. That’s according to a recent survey published by Ascend2 titled 2016 State of Content Marketing Survey Summary Report. Click Here to Subscribe to Sword and the Script by Email.

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Survey Content Marketing Marketing B2B 60

Solo PR Pro

APRIL 2, 2019

Our recent blog covering the relationship between SEO and PR shared the good news that content marketing remains a valid and successful method of supporting search engine ranking. With content ranging from blogs to podcasts to video, what qualifies as the most effective content marketing these days?

Content Marketing 45

Content Marketing Trends Report B2C 45

Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2017

What does it take to implement content marketing effectively in a B2B organization? It’s not an easy question to answer broadly because: a) every team has its own dynamics; b) every organization has constraints and limitations, and c) every vertical market has its own unique characteristics. 1) Hands on marketing leadership.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Leadership 69

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. After seven years of blogging, and 570+ posts, this struck me as a natural progression. I kept blogging too. PR is the best-kept secret in content marketing.

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Blogging Content Marketing B2B Social Media 106

Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. This year, I predict satisfaction with content marketing will slide and many won’t understand why.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing Exercises 64

Stephen Waddington

MAY 2, 2018

Inbound PR is a new book about modernising marketing and public relations by Iliyana Stareva. Iliyana is a young woman who started her career working in public relations agencies in Germany and the UK before joining Hubspot in Dublin. I’m a long-time fan of Iliyana’s blog. Iliyana has used her blog to help develop her thinking.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Bulk Blog Topic Generation. Suppose we wanted to blog about coffee, but were unsure what to write about?

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Blogging Conference Content Marketing Writing 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Bulk Blog Topic Generation. Suppose we wanted to blog about coffee, but were unsure what to write about?

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Blogging Conference Content Marketing Writing 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Research shows more than half of all B2B content goes unused. This means the burden of creating more content, at least in part, could be solved with a little creative effort. The key to repurposing in content marketing is to add value along the way. Does your PR agency make your job easier or harder?

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Content Marketing Marketing B2B eBook 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73

5W PR

MARCH 29, 2024

Digital PR Harnessing online channels like social media engagement, content marketing, and influencer outreach is key. Content marketing through insightful blog posts, articles, and industry reports further cements the brand as a thought leader.

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Fashion Content Marketing Consumer Social Media 78

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Blogging isn’t going out of style any time soon; with the ascent of content marketing, blogging, podcasting and video are on the minds of marketers and PR professionals all the time. Beginner's Guide to Blogging Series: Part 1: Blog Core Values. Part 10: Bulk Blog Topics Generation.

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Blogging Conference Content Marketing Writing 60

Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Blogs are an effective way for PR and marketing pros to get information quickly and easily. With so many blogs out there, the challenge becomes which ones to choose while you’re on your daily commute, coffee break or even at your desk. Its blog is also very educational. Holmes Report. holmesreport.

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