ReimaginePR

JULY 11, 2016

You may assume that creating a similar content marketing strategy will be too complicated for your business to handle. After all, when you try to create content, it probably seems to take forever as you fall further down the never-ending rabbit hole of ideas, tasks, and social media updates. content marketing strategy.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

They say the only thing constant is change, and that’s certainly true in the world of content marketing. Every month, or so it seems, there’s a new must-do-or-you’re-toast trend in content marketing. So, how do you keep up, or better yet keep ahead, with your content marketing strategy?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Strategy Marketing Engineering 120

Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2020

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? Episodic Content .

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 24, 2018

Write a rock-solid PR plan. Get on the same page as marketing. The communications goals should align with or complement those of marketing, advertising, and sales – but they don’t have to be the same. PR and marketing content are increasingly intertwined, as well. Define your objectives.

Writing 136

Writing How To Pitching Privacy 136

B2B PR Sense

JANUARY 5, 2018

When it comes down to it, PR can be far less expensive than advertising and offer more benefits. For example, if you want to generate more website traffic, you may be better off authoring and placing articles in targeted outlets rather than trying to get the media to write about you. Handpicked Related Content. Product launch.

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Crisis Management B2B Reputation Advertising 238

Cision

JULY 5, 2017

How can a brand like yours be authentic, especially in its content marketing ? . Your content shouldn’t be thinly-veiled advertising, but instead, should provide useful information to your audience. If you see success in writing really long, in-depth posts, keep doing that. Yes, you want more customers.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts. I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) this year.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing eBook 119

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. There will be a glut of AI-generated content as well.

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Writing Communications Marketing B2B 189

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing. Earned Media.

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Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Cision

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It seems like creating digital content for organizations like the NFL, Disney World and Carnival Cruise Line would be relatively easy tasks since their industries are naturally exciting. Exciting content people want to share is all around them — all they must do is write it down or film it. Brainstorm Related Topics.

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Polaris

JANUARY 2, 2015

A quick check of my Twitter feed on Tuesday morning told me it’s that time of year: the end of December when bloggers write about their most popular posts from the last year. 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.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

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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Writing Study Viral Consumer 144

PR Fuel

AUGUST 12, 2021

About 70% of US companies actively invest in content marketing, too. Consider adding press releases to your content marketing strategy this year. Press release writing can help you gain media coverage. You don’t have to learn how to write a press release alone! Write for Your Audience.

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Writing SEO Pitching Engineering 105

Polaris

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi. Joe Pulizzi, the godfather of content marketing, wrote this book in 2014. It’s an instant classic that helps us achieve improved results while marketing less by doing “epic content marketing.” 2 Kathi Kruse.

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Marketing Resources Content Marketing Leadership 251

Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Ah, the “boring press release” — we’ve all read them, and most of us are guilty of writing one. That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. To exceed your content benchmarks, you must promote your content beyond your owned channels (email, social, website, etc.).

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Infographics Case Study Content Marketing Video 235

Rock the Status Quo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Calling themselves advertising agencies or interactive agencies feels dated, and while they might have a public relations department (or person), calling themselves a public relations agency is too limited – so they substitute the word digital. Dollars spent on advertising just aren’t what it used to be.

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Agency SEO Advertising Advertising 188

Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

If you already have a list of vetted keywords from your marketing team to work from, skip ahead to step two. If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. Write down all of the questions your customer service department is asked.

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Exercises Google Writing Blogging 198

Cision

AUGUST 2, 2017

Working with bloggers, industry leaders, and social media stars to spread the word about your brand can have a larger — and often more successful — impact than your brand could get through more traditional advertising and content marketing. Write a blog review. When these influencers speak, their audiences listen.

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Energy Writing Instagram Brand 238

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration.

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If you’re looking for an easy, but sure way, to define yourself as an expert in your field, here’s my advice: write an ebook. Let’s talk about why an ebook is an essential element for your content marketing strategy, and how to create and promote one for maximum effect. you may wonder. Click Here. Click To Tweet. Start Here.

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eBook How To Writing Community 219

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In fact, you must publish content in order for it to be indexed and returned in response to search. That’s the gist of a piece Michael Brenner wrote for the Content Marketing Institute last week titled The Best Reason to Do Content Marketing? b) Integrated marketing. b) Integrated marketing.

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Content Marketing Marketing Comparison Measurement 79

Cision

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Along with your run-of-the-mill best practices in SEO, user-generated content distribution is more likely to be successful if you do the following: Collaborate with already successful publishers and experts: COVERGIRL has an influencer program set up that practically allows industry experts to create and distribute content for them.

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Strategy Case Study Instagram Print 251

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Content creation can be one of the hardest things to plan when you first begin blogging. It’s all too easy to write about yourself and your company in a favorable light– it’s your blog after all. Use this information to cater your posts and content to your audience. Marketing Coordinator.

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Blogging How To SEO Analytics 161

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nearly 80% of the 1,279 bloggers in the 7 th annual Orbit Media blogger survey say blogging drives some marketing results – and 25% say it draws “strong marketing results.” >>> Looking for a consulting partner with the content chops to build a sound strategy and execute? click image for higher resolution) 2.

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B2B Study Blogging Survey 145

Cision

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Using keywords that will help the right people find your website is essential for every facet of your marketing strategy from search engine optimization to social media to blogging to PR. At Cision, our marketing team is all about working smarter. You can also track results for keywords you use in your paid advertising.

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Brand Branding How To SEO 208

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.

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Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2015

“The biggest challenge is that we are moving from an industry that could create one amazing commercial to reach consumers to an ecosystem with a diversified channel structure,” according to Mike Scafidi , marketing operations with PepsiCo. Yet the paper also surfaces the underlying driver of the shift to content marketing.

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Content Marketing Employee Marketing Viral 60

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In smaller markets, like where I live, there has long been a tendency for media professionals to seek corporate roles when they become available. It’s interesting to me that the digital world is still very different than the traditional when it comes to revealing what is “advertising” and what is “news.”

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Pitching Journalism Video Advertising 174

Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

According to research by Boston Consulting Group, one ultraloyal customer who shares content can generate eight times his or her own consumption through their advocacy. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. It comes from the transmission of content.

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Marketing Television Handbook Web 239

Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2017

Use PR to build a brand and advertising to defend it. The point of that philosophy used to be that, while you can build a brand with advertising, it’s very expensive. But marketing is anything but stagnant. More recently, fake news has laid the groundwork for a new-found trust in advertising. 1) In advertising, we trust.

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Advertising Advertising Print Study 62

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2016

In other words, we spend lots of time mapping what content is needed, for what persona, at what stage – and then wind up sending more emails offering discounts. It’s been a trend in content marketing too. B2B marketers seem to think that buying content by the pound and then throwing it at Google is the path to scale.

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Content Marketing Marketing B2B Small Business 60

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.

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Content Marketing Privacy Government Web 149

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. Analyze, but experiment.

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Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. A reset on advertising spend.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 186

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Other readers liked these related posts: The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations. Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]. In reviewing the study, I think it has implications for business in public relations and content marketing. You can and should run content marketing like a publisher.

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Content Marketing Marketing Journalism Financial 67

Cision

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Do the marketing tools and tactics you use actually keep your brand top of mind? It may be time to say out with the old (traditional TV advertising) and in with the new (brand journalism). Why Are You Writing? A brand journalism program, like any marketing strategy, must include goals, metrics and outlined measurement tactics.

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