Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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Content Marketing Study Blogging Marketing 144

Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

As consumers gravitate towards multimedia content — multimedia is also the driving force behind the content the media publishes. In our 2017 State of the Media Report , we learned that 71 percent of journalists “always or often” use multimedia in their stories. Visual Content Impacts Your Performance.

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How To Storytelling B2C Measurement 282

Contently - Strategy

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2017, I shared a stage at Collision Conference with Alicia Hatch, the CMO of Deloitte Digital, when she captured the biggest problem plaguing most marketing teams. ” Over the past few years, I’ve found that this problem plagues most organizations when it comes to content strategy. That promise was flawed.

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Content Marketing Data Strategy Marketing 143

Cision

MAY 29, 2017

Fast forward to 2017, the search engines have become even smarter. Enter content discovery! Marketers are now keen on making brand content discoverable to ensure better awareness and traffic. Here are some quick tips that will help marketers present the most relevant content in front of their targeted audience: 1.

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How To Content Marketing Engineering Advertising 129

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The October #measurePR Twitter chat focused on the issue of gender bias in advertising and how measurement of gender bias can affect PR. She is on the team behind the Gender Equality Measure (GEM™), created jointly by ABX and the National Advertisers (ANA) Alliance for Family Entertainment (AFE)’s #SeeHer team.

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Measurement Advertising Advertising Community 85

Cision

JANUARY 3, 2018

In Cision’s 2017 Global Comms Report: Challenges and Trends , we talked to communications professionals around the world to understand the issues they face. Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads.

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Infographics Case Study Content Marketing Video 235

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The 7 Best Performing Blog Posts in 2017. The measure of “best” in this case is unique page views. What is clearer was the sort of topics that attracted readers in 2017. 2) 2017 PR Salary Survey Suggests Demand for Talent Tightening. 3) The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations. The answer depends.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 82

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Here are my predictions for PR , content marketing and social media ; one each. 1) Predictions for PR in 2017. In 2017, PR professionals will be increasingly viewed as strategic business advisors championing integrated communications across the silos of digital marketing, PR and social media.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2016

There are 45 pages in the PDF version of the 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America report this year. Overall, the study found roughly one-fifth (22%) of 1,102 B2B marketers based in North America that answered the annual survey described their content marketing as “extremely successful” or “very successful.”

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Content Marketing Marketing B2B Survey 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In fact, time-on-page grew by 16% this year, which I’ve come to believe is a useful measure of quality. 3) The Facebook Frozen Frog and Fodder for Content Marketing. PR is the best-kept secret in content marketing. 5) 11 Shrewd PR and Marketing Predictions You Can Bank On. A lot of B2B content goes unused.

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Blogging Content Marketing B2B Social Media 127

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

“We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. 2020: 30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020.

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 216

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage.

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Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 68

Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Leadership B2B Study Survey 162

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Businesses will increase investments in marketing for the third year in a row according to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey for 2016- 2017. Sixty-five percent of marketing leaders said they plan to increase their spending on digital advertising, with 23% expecting a significant increase and 42% anticipating a slight increase.”.

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Marketing Survey B2B Study 60

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

Marketing ranked sixth, which I’d have guessed would have ranked higher. The company published its findings in an impressive 60-page report called the 2017 State of the Blogging Industry. A Simple Measure of Marketing Many Businesses Miss. Content Marketing: Don’t Make Home Improvements to Rental Property.

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Survey Blogging Corporate Analytics 60

The Resolution Blog

MAY 17, 2017

PR, influencer outreach, content marketing, link-builders, social and digital marketing set-ups are all winning communications briefs. With better measurement. New communication lines Marketing directors put their budget where they can see a return. How can PR agencies compete?

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How To Measurement Financial Report 120

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2017, I shared a stage at Collision Conference with Alicia Hatch, the CMO of Deloitte Digital, when she captured the biggest problem plaguing most marketing teams. ” Over the past few years, I’ve found that this problem plagues most organizations when it comes to content strategy. That promise was flawed.

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Content Marketing Data Strategy Marketing 65

PRSay

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Emphasize projects where you had a measurable impact on your organization. Learn more about a specific area such as content marketing or big data by attending a local Meetup If you don’t see a Meetup meeting on a topic that you’d like to know more about, then start one yourself. © Stephen Dupont, 2017.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. Those companies that can take data, do a deep dive, and understand what the data tells them will see more success in achieving their goals from content than those who look at simple analytics.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 213

The Proactive Report

MAY 12, 2017

.” Content has become an integral part of the success of your PR and marketing efforts and several studies show that the planning and implementation of a content strategy is high on the list of priorities for 2017. 64% of marketers identify developing a comprehensive content strategy as a top challenge.(

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Knowledge Base SEO Strategy Digital PR 113

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The statistics selected can be grouped are heavily weighted along the following topics: Statistics about – or for – the CMO ; Statistics about digital and B2B marketing ; Statistics about PR or media relations ; and. Statistics about content marketing. Read more: How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony.

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Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 107

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

There’s no written playbook for navigating the PR challenges likely to arise, and smart marketers and comms pros will trust their judgment and past experiences in guiding strategy and providing counsel. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 10, 2017

Bezos could see in 1997 Amazon would be selling anything you could buy at a Walmart in 2017. It’s why, as noted in the March 2017 edition of the Monthly Scripts newsletter , Sir Martin Sorrell, who leads what is perhaps the largest marketing services enterprise in the world, fears not Google or Facebook – but Amazon.

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Trends Marketing Mobile Web 96

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 20, 2018

Other readers liked these related posts: Does Blockchain Really Have Marketing Potential? Why You Can Run a Campaign Inside Content Marketing, but Not the Other Way. They used AR to communicate their complex design, measurement and visualization technologies in their annual report to investors. Further, Ms.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I wanted to spend a little time on the latter, because badly set objectives are one sure-fire way to make sure 2017 continually beats you with a (metaphorical) stick. Measuring the effectiveness of PR is always a tricky topic, but pointing your campaign in the right direction is crucial. One Direction.

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Media Relations Leadership Resources Content Marketing 48

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 28, 2017

The March #measurePR chat was the day following the 2017 recognition of International Women’s Day , so Shonali had some of the PR measurement world’s female superstars as her guests on the chat this month. I saw a lot of PR pros spinning wheels b/c they couldn’t measure effectively #measurepr. Aly Saxe (@Aly_Saxe) March 9, 2017.

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Cision

MARCH 30, 2017

Just as people dislike clickbait headlines and photos, it will test people’s patience to have the primary image in your gallery disparate from the rest of the content within the post. That said, I guarantee someone is already posting bait-and-switch content for Instagram collections (#sad).

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. Don’t miss these related posts: B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success. The 4 Engines You Need to Pull Off Content Marketing Successfully. 2) How long should a blog post be?

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

On the face of it, the idea of using video for B2B marketing in 2017 might not seem that groundbreaking. By 2014 it was obvious that video was the rising star of content marketing. Through this collaboration I learned of Stone Temple’s very creative use of video. How do you make the topic fun and interesting?

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Video B2B Film Marketing 153

Beyond PR

JANUARY 4, 2018

In Cision’s 2017 Global Comms Report: Challenges and Trends , we talked to communications professionals around the world to understand the issues they face. Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing.

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Measurement Tools Journalism eBook 75

Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2017

By a measure of their own assessment , “journalists perceive they are now struggling to maintain the public’s trust.” That’s according to the 2017 State of the Media Report by Cision , which surveyed some 1,500 journalists in the U.S. The Cision report says the findings align with the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

We see infographics in content marketing survey results as well. The data puts infographics in the top five types of content created by B2B marketing shops. When marketers start mashing several data sets together in this fashion, it’s not only junk data, but could very well be misleading information. Talk to Us !

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Infographics Data Case Study Content Marketing 80

Beyond PR

MARCH 1, 2018

Seventy-five percent of communications professionals believe the industry must do a better job of measuring impact and proving value. It’s downright scary that a majority of senior executives do not know whether there was any real-world behavior created by content marketing and earned media. Enter Impact. But it is doable.

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Media Measurement Enterprise Television 73

Shift Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

It’s hard to believe that 2017 has come and gone. We need to integrate consumer clients into trending conversations, valuable insights into our pitches and data into how we’re benchmarking best practices and measuring success. Now we turn to the new year and think about impending industry evolutions and how to get ahead of them.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The report noted in observation: “Fifty-eight percent of respondents cited engagement as a big challenge, compared to 35 percent in our 2017 survey. Analysis: B2B marketing must develop its market. These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure. What Does It Take to Implement Content Marketing Effectively in B2B?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

WooPitch (@WooPitch) March 30, 2017. In what could be deemed an intersection in time and the beginning of a period of transition in PR – the rise of content marketing and the fall of press releases – UBM would acquire the Content Marketing Institute for $17.6 7) March 27, 2017 : Bulletin Intelligence.

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