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Not just seen, but believed: trust is the new mandate for marketing and comms

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Multiple surveys have demonstrated the impact in B2B marketing, as sales cycles have grown longer and required more interactions. People are less likely to buy from a business unless they trust you. It takes more convincing, more touches, and more proof to create a customer. That extra effort drives up costs.

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Study says influencers that turn off social media comments aren’t very influential  

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This B2B marketing pitfall risks wasting your spend on influencers – and may have implications for social advertising, email marketing and even internal communications The use of influencers is on the rise in B2B marketing. If you pick your influencers correctly, you can accelerate awareness and leadgen. What are the top use cases?

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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

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It also surveyed 1,500 respondents in the U.S. survey respondents said the following: 61% trust business. According to the survey, business was the only institution that respondents classified as both ethical and competent. Both media and government were labeled – by survey responses – as unethical and less competent.

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Why CEOs Should Invest in PR Attribution and PR Measurement

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1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR?

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Marketing Salary Survey Shows the Pandemic is Changing Hiring Trends

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Annual marketing salary survey shows remote interviews and shorter hiring process have become the norm as a consequence of the pandemic The was a cartoon going around the business world a few weeks ago that asked “who led the digital transformation in your company?” The survey polled, 2,400 senior managers (U.S.) Try our services.

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Financial analysts say marketing is an investment, not a cost

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The “Brand Finance Investment Analyst Survey” polled more than 200 financial analysts who “cover publicly listed companies in the United States and United Kingdom.” The survey had three findings that stood out to me: 1. Comment: This is an advertising association, so the question is naturally focused on advertising.

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Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys

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Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten.

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