Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. There’s a clear benefit for the employer, but what’s the benefit to talent in a market that’s 96% employed? Lots of companies host open houses, which means another one is more of the same in a sea of sameness. 3) Training events or skills showcase.

Resources 76

Resources Creativity Publicity Local 76

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. AirPR: With PR as a focus, you have included marketing and advertising into your agency. AirPR: How do you see PR & content marketing evolving in 2018?

Interviews 284

Interviews Radio Small Business Pitching 284

5W PR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

However, due to limited resources, many small businesses don’t have the money to spend on expensive advertising campaigns yet still need the exposure to survive and gain a competitive edge. When done the right way, public relations allows companies to tell as many people as possible about a business in a cost-effective manner.

Small Business 158

Small Business Publicity Social Media Web 158

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.

Content Marketing 63

Content Marketing B2B Marketing Exercises 63

Sword and the Script

MAY 21, 2019

That led her down a series of paths including content marketing, ecommerce and today, in B2B marketing. BH: When I stepped into the world of content marketing to understand what was happening there, it was in healthcare. The platforms where people hang out are more fragmented and the creative competition is steep.

B2B 79

B2B Social Media Company Marketing 79

Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

From tweets to blogs, many PR organizations publish great PR content. Popular topics consist of top PR trends, product updates, company culture, as well as PR successes and blunders. The company’s News section is an excellent place to visit when seeking the latest updates in PR announcements, awards and coverage. WeberShandwick.

Public Affairs 172

Public Affairs Creativity Nonprofit Agency 172

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2024

Creativity is the one area of marketing that’s immune to budget cuts; the most creative B2B marketing ideas aren’t just “a video” but platforms of messaging and positioning B2B marketing isn’t known for creativity. The company has seemingly parlayed its investment in paid media into earned media as well.

Creativity 97

Creativity B2B Examples Marketing 97

B2B PR Sense

JANUARY 5, 2018

When it comes down to it, PR can be far less expensive than advertising and offer more benefits. When companies try to do their own PR, it often lacks a strategy and falls through the cracks. When companies try to do their own PR, it often falls through the cracks CLICK TO TWEET. Handpicked Related Content.

Crisis Management 238

Crisis Management B2B Reputation Advertising 238

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. 2) The marketing budget as a percentage of revenue. Most (59%) of U.S.-based

Survey 101

Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 101

The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Within the PR and advertising industries, there’s often talk about the PESO model (paid, earned, shared, and owned media). We recently spoke with Jerrid Grimm , co-founder of Pressboard , a company that brings paid and editorial PR together, about how the lines between PR and paid activity are blurring.

Advertising 120

Advertising Advertising Measurement Storytelling 120

Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

Facebook has gained a reputation for being a marketing shortcut of sorts; its ads have an average click-through rate of.9 But becoming overly reliant on Facebook marketing techniques isn’t simply keeping up with the times — it’s lazy. And it’s killing your ability to be creative with your campaigns.

Facebook 0

Facebook Marketing Journalism Creativity 0

Cision

APRIL 2, 2015

Specifically, will they care enough about the concept to talk about it, share it, create content for it, and yes, possibly even consider buying services from the company? As time progressed, while we all had fun with talking toothpaste for a while, social media ROI became a top concern for companies. This is a messaging filter.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Corporate Social Media Internal 120

Beyond PR

AUGUST 3, 2016

When companies launch new products, it means one thing: Opportunity. And, as our white paper Expanding Engagement & Inspiring Action with Your Next Product Launch explores, an opportunity to establish your company as a credible industry influencer. There are times when product managers and content marketers don’t see eye to eye.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Marketing Product Launch Analytics 40

Polaris

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

creative agency. He also addressed the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Forbe s and Fast Company both wrote about Caine’s determination and creativity. Later that year he launched The Imagination Foundation with a mission to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids.

Storytelling 199

Storytelling Reddit Video Creativity 199

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

Consider your audience – you know them better than anyone else – and write quality announcements about the things your company does that matter to them. For many startups, a funding round is the biggest news you’ll have in a while and shows why your company matters. Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other.

Study 142

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 142

Polaris

APRIL 7, 2015

Yet if you work for a large company with a good reputation, should you? Marketers trying to get budgets approved to produce professional video sometimes face objections from CFOs (or even CEOs) who argue: “We all have iPhones. However, length can vary depending on the creative concept. Why can’t we just do it ourselves?”.

Video 100

Video Brand Branding Content Marketing 100

Flack's Revenge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Content curation had been championed as a way to up the pace of content marketing by riding OPC (other people’s content), and to boost thought leadership, by commenting on others’ thoughts when you didn’t have an original idea. Now I was strangely stumped, even disinterested. These are different times.

Content Marketing 149

Content Marketing Privacy Government Web 149

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. If you’re a marketer, surely you thought ‘yes, please’ to at least two of those categories. Topically, this event covers a lot of ground. Experiential storytelling.

Conference 97

Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Both PR and marketing are concerned with promoting an organization or individual, but they go about it in different ways. Marketing is focused on promoting a product or service in order to sell it. Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales.

Interviews 103

Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 103

Sword and the Script

JULY 31, 2018

The traditional purposes for one company to acquire another – merge and acquisition – boil down to four driving reasons: 1) To buy customers or access to customers for cross-selling purposes. 3) To accelerate growth – one company takes on some debt and buys a similarly-sized and suddenly, it’s doubled its revenue. execute them?

Publicity 60

Publicity Software Government Content Marketing 60

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While videos remain the king of content, your PR strategies should go hand-in-hand to boost your campaign’s visibility. Here are the eight ways PR can help you improve your video marketing campaigns. #1. Generate a positive brand image In a company, public relations often works alongside sales and marketing teams.

Video 110

Video Marketing SEO Social Media 110

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

2) The Struggle for Marketing Talent is Just Beginning. A new study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is warning the industry of an approaching “ talent crisis ,” according to reporting by Erik Oster for Adweek. Advertising is indeed marketing, but it only one part of marketing.

Marketing 62

Marketing B2B Content Marketing Survey 62

Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]. 2) Is your brand investing in the right content? One of the primary reasons I believe businesses struggle with content marketing is that they are too reliant on best practice, and not thinking enough about being different. Talk to Us!

Tools 67

Tools Marketing Advertising Advertising 67

Contently - Strategy

JUNE 13, 2024

Five years ago, it was unthinkable that Google—the company whose name has become a verb synonymous with internet queries—might lose its title as the reigning champ of search. Some marketers are even asking the provocative question: Does SEO have a future at all? But Google’s dominance is increasingly on shaky ground.

SEO 52

SEO Google Privacy Engineering 52

Sword and the Script

MARCH 25, 2017

Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other. PR is the Best Kept Secret in Effective Content Marketing. If you are a large independent PR firm, then the consolidation of PR businesses, by the holding companies like Omnicom and WPP, into an advertising construct is a key point of differentiation.

Publicity 79

Publicity Crisis Construction Study 79

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2018, he and his good friend Erik Requidan started The Minority Report Podcast to create a platform where people of color, women, and LGBTQ individuals in marketing could tell their stories and have candid conversations. Along the way, he’s also helped make LiveIntent one of the hottest companies in ad-tech.

Brand 118

Brand Branding Marketing Facebook 118

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. 1) The Parallel between Product Placement and Content Marketing. in its own ads.”).

Brand 60

Brand Branding Content Marketing Film 60

Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Some companies have even seen upwards of $18 in earned media value. In case you aren’t convinced you should consider working with influencers just yet, here are a few other reasons this type of creative partnership can bring value to your business. On average, the earned media value for campaigns with influencers is $5.20

Tourism 157

Tourism YouTube Radio Social Media 157

Cision

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Keeping that in mind, it’s easy to see why the people who enjoy your content can be the same individuals who promote it. . Creating content that website visitors will naturally share is one of the most elusive yet rewarding practices a brand can implement. Influencer Distribution. About Kayla Matthews.

Strategy 251

Strategy Case Study Instagram Print 251

PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. Is your company ready? More Intelligent” Marketing Automation. I love traditional marketing automation. AI should make us better people, professionals and brands.

Agency 84

Agency Enterprise Technology Analytics 84

Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Staying ahead of the game in a hyper-competitive market is vital to your company’s success. Your competitors are most likely already using influencers in their marketing strategy. And in a 2017 TINT article, only 4% of consumers declared trust in marketing in advertising in general. They create fresh content.

Marketing 80

Marketing SEO Advertising Advertising 80

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young. 1) “Make sure that employees, customers and the market understand our company, its services and goals.”.

Employee 147

Employee Print Writing Survey 147

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The company maintains and sells access to an online media contact database, which serves as the population from which the survey sample is drawn. The report didn’t break out numbers for the remaining challenges of “fake news, blurred lines between editorial and advertising, and issues around freedom of the press.”.

Survey 103

Survey Report Media B2B 103

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Graphic used with permission from The Marketing Companion, a podcast with a co-host employed by Edison Research; see link nearby. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search. Audio in marketing doesn’t just mean podcasts writes David Kirkpatrick for Marketing Dive – The call for audio content marketing gets louder.

Tools 60

Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Video is now the main way people consume content online. Much of that video content is pure entertainment , but consumers are itching for branded videos. In fact, 91% of people say they’d like to see more videos from companies they support. Some brands have taken to live streaming to teach new skills.

Video 132

Video Strategy Marketing Instagram 132

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Advertising Age Online. Mobile Marketer.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0