Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

That’s according to the results of a survey of 1,377 bloggers conducted by Orbit Media a web design agency. It’s the fourth consecutive year the agency has conducted the survey. These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. Give our services a try.

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Study B2B Marketing Survey 78

Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Your email should sound like a pitch, not a marketing play. Cision’s State of Journalism survey found that “pitches that sound like marketing brochures” are one of the top ways to lose favor with journalists. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, BuzzStream is trusted by thousands of brands, agencies, and enterprises around the world.

Pitching 126

Pitching How To Digital PR Data 126

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Then, take some time to undertake creative thinking exercises without pressuring yourself or your group too much at the outset. To borrow the phrase from content marketer Mark Johnstone on how to come up with better ideas , there are ways to jump start that “light bulb” moment. Jump-start the light bulb.

Creativity 174

Creativity Exercises Survey Writing 174

Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2017

The knowledge gained working for a PR agency is often described as a mile wide and an inch deep. If dynamics of clients and agencies are likened to relationships, it’s the effective integration of these two perspectives that often make a meaningful difference. 1) You spent a long time at an agency and then when in-house.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Such traditional marketing examples – the influence of young people on consumer sales – demonstrates that influence in the sense of marketing is highly contextual and therefore difficult to universally define. Recently, KPS Digital, a marketing organization in the UK, named me to a list of the Top 100 Influencers in Content Marketing.

Marketing 60

Marketing Study Survey Content Marketing 60

Landis PR

JUNE 27, 2022

My career started 35 years ago at a PR agency that specialized in the luxury lifestyle sector. And now I’m happily back at an agency, working with environmental and healthcare clients. I also cook and struggle to exercise some restraint at our weekly neighborhood farmers market at this time of year.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Exercises Pitching Sports 52

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A young boy imagines himself Darth Vader and moves through his home attempting to use “The Force” on various objects – an exercise bike, a doll, and a dog, for example. Whether your job is to writing advertisements, pitching reporters, or creating good content, make your customer the hero. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute?

Branding 70

Branding Brand B2B Exercises 70

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 2, 2018

But let’s challenge that marketing assumption : what if businesses are instead giving up the chance to communicate with a C-Suite executive for life in exchange for a narrower list of MQLs ? Thinking differently about marketing in the New Year doesn’t have to be a major exercise in transformation. Give our services a try.

eBook 71

eBook Exercises Employee SEO 71

PR 20/20

JULY 6, 2020

From certifications, to professional association memberships, to events, and to using our strengths to give back to the community — pouring time and resources into our team comes back to the agency tenfold. And we’re constantly learning and evolving when it comes to the ever-changing world of business and marketing. Weekly Updates.

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Training How To Course Software 72

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. based reporters said, “ensuring content is 100 percent accurate is the most important” in their organization. Comment: Content marketers should borrow this hint from reporters in their own work.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To that end, I started blogging for business before starting this blog, which celebrated 10 years of publication earlier this month and eventually became a natural platform for starting an agency three years ago. 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 105

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

The effect this has had is to require a major change in approach for most PR agencies and in-house teams. Content – Earlier during the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking content marketing should take a backseat. After all, people don’t want to be marketed to at the moment, right?

Exercises 71

Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 71

Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Erik Wheater, account executive at Burns360, details his transition from a five-year career in television news to the PR agency life. While Burns360 is an agency that is embracing new PR concepts like digital and content marketing, its belief that journalism is essential to PR has never wavered. Rapid Fire Round.

Television 120

Television Pitching Journalism Interviews 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. 2) What hasn’t changed in marketing ? .

Journalism 61

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

PR in High Definition

JUNE 25, 2020

The effect this has had is to require a major change in approach for most PR agencies and in-house teams. Content – Earlier during the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking content marketing should take a backseat. After all, people don’t want to be marketed to at the moment, right?

Exercises 62

Exercises Employee Social Media Communications 62

Konnect Agency

APRIL 23, 2021

We used to think we needed to exercise for an hour but have determined 30 minutes will suffice and give back time in our day to do more. Brands must use personalized content marketing, communication, influencer marketing, and digital ad strategies to generate excitement around brands, announce new launches, and drive towards purchase.

Retail 52

Retail Consumer Exercises Creativity 52

Konnect Agency

APRIL 23, 2021

We used to think we needed to exercise for an hour but have determined 30 minutes will suffice and give back time in our day to do more. Brands must use personalized content marketing, communication, influencer marketing, and digital ad strategies to generate excitement around brands, announce new launches, and drive towards purchase.

Retail 52

Retail Consumer Exercises Creativity 52

Communications Conversations

JULY 19, 2018

At 3M, I was one member of a pretty big corporate team of social & digital marketing specialists whose services span many divisions across just about every industry you can name. I left that behind for an opportunity to build a modern marketing center at Toro, more-or-less from the ground up. It all depends on the day.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2B Content Marketing 60

Sword and the Script

APRIL 16, 2019

The exercise of getting a release through reviews and approvals can take longer than does the process of writing one. In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing.

Survey 70

Survey Technology Corporate Financial 70

Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). But you will be far more successful on the other side of completing this strategy exercise.

Blogging 69

Blogging Strategy How To Writing 69

Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

The market for tools in PR is exploding. A crowdsourced exercise by the #AIinPR panel over the past few months has characterised more than 120 tools. The exercise was highly subjective – hence so is the analysis and interpretation of the data. I sought him out to lead this initiative when we set up the panel earlier this year.

Analysis 60

Analysis Technology Tools Exercises 60

Cision

APRIL 13, 2015

Content marketing can be challenging for health care communicators, especially at the local level — hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. So how do you do health care content marketing? So how do you do health care content marketing? Want to rise above the content clutter?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Communications Crisis Communications Marketing 120

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Distributing your PR content through that channel would be synonymous to taking one macro voice and turning it into (insert the number of your employees here) micro voices. Now consider this exercise in the real-time social media scenario. One of the biggest selling points of digital/social marketing is that it can be measured.

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Employee Measurement Social Media Product Launch 40

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. 12% say competing go-to-market strategy or goals (KPIs).

B2B 117

B2B Marketing Survey Software 117

Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). But you will be far more successful on the other side of completing this strategy exercise.

Blogging 40

Blogging Strategy How To Writing 40

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

For many, media relations is just an exercise in exporting a spreadsheet of contacts and hitting the send button. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing. As I wrote for an IABC feature in Communication World , my epiphany with content came years ago, when a pitch I thought was timely and relevant fell on deaf ears.

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Survey Media Relations Media Ethics 377

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

In fact, as all savvy marketers know, more than “what” you sell, “how” you sell creates a bigger emotional, and thus bankable, impact. But generally speaking, it is a content research tool that allows marketers to put themselves in the shoes (and the mindset) of different segments of customers. This is where businesses falter.

How To 120

How To Tools Exercises Viral 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2017

It sometimes strikes people as a nebulous and becomes equated with PR or marketing snake oil. Messaging ought to be an exhausting mental exercise – and one that needs refreshing from time-to-time. If you get the message wrong, then the investment in marketing or communications could prove wasteful in the future.

B2B 60

B2B Pitching Survey Journalism 60

Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Taral Patel is PR Executive at PRmention , a digital PR agency for startups. Their campaign was highly successful, although the content hardly mentioned Dove in the videos. Create a strong content marketing plan. Just creating content, whether textual or visual, is not enough if it does not resonate with your audience.

Infographics 120

Infographics eBook Content Marketing Video 120

ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

Entrepreneurs, CEOs, authors, Professors, bloggers, PRs, SEOs, digital marketers, speakers. She is a social media, SEO, Internet marketing and blogging consultant. my day is somewhat at the mercy of the marketing industry. He's also a world-leading web strategist, content marketer, author, and speaker.

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Writing Social Media SEO Blogging 114

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s an old saying in advertising that half of the budget is wasted, but marketers don’t know which half. Today, there are enough analytical tools today to avoid wasting half of the marketing spend. Eight-five percent of marketers said the pressure to demonstrate business value had increased this year over the previous year.

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Measurement Analytics Tools SEO 119

Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. Jim Hawker, Threepipe Digital Marketing and PR – #FuturePRoofing a Public Relations agency or a Communications team. In 2014, turnover rates reached over 55 percent in PR agencies in the United States.

How To 60

How To Software System Employee 60

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Steve has long been a believer “content marketing” even before the phrase gained the popularity it has today. The content marketing hype-cycle helped alert those asleep at the wheel that this was a requirement for doing business in an information (Google) age. I quit my job went to work at a PR agency.

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Content Marketing Mobile Google B2B 111