Cision

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Although that notion might seem right at first glance, a bit more digging reveals content for any industry can be exciting and engaging — all you need to do is think about creating content differently and add some extra creativity. For ideas, consider the following tips. Add a Human Element. Brainstorm Related Topics.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. CSR Is a Popular Use Case That Often Lacks Creativity.

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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. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration. We need to bring back the conversation, the private event and up our creativity to navigate the changing media landscape.

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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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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. So, how do you get it right when it comes to content marketing?

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 10, 2024

Strategists, too, learning how to use ChatGPT for content marketing have likely encountered less-than-revelatory “strategies” like “create compelling content that resonates with your target audience.” Don’t rely solely on ChatGPT content analysis. Below are four to keep in mind.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Staying on top of your game is a must when it comes to content marketing. Having various marketing strategies across multiple platforms can be hard to keep on top of – so having the right tools at your disposal can be a game-changer. Working with experts can ensure your content is hitting the mark.

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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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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It revealed valuable insights about content longevity, SEO, and how our readership has evolved. Here’s what the exercise taught me—and what I think other content marketers can learn from my experience. So, we started out by conducting a comprehensive keyword and competitor analysis.

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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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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 2, 2024

Every content marketer has heard the saying: “Content is king!” ” In fact, all great marketing leaders know that producing great campaigns starts with compelling content. Content marketers are asked to serve nearly every department in the business. The problem? So how do they do it?

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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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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.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Editor's Note: The following excerpt originally appeared in Content Marketing Fast Forward. Despite advances in marketing automation, much of the technology marketers rely on to plan, execute, and evaluate content marketing campaigns is elementary. AI Takes the Human Guesswork Out of Content Marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here are the seven tasks to focus on before you start creating content. A few years ago, athenahealth debuted athenaInsight, its data-driven news publication, to make a serious investment in content marketing. In content chaos , the first mistake marketers make is leaning too heavily on intuition. Enter: Google.

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ReimaginePR

JULY 25, 2018

It’s the marketing discipline which helps visitors easily find your site in popular search engines like Google. SEO leverages creative elements and technical elements which help your rankings, spread awareness about your product or brand and ultimately drive traffic to your site. Looking for comprehensive link analysis?

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

These findings are from a new report called Humans still needed: An analysis of skills and tools in public relations , published today by the CIPR’s #AIinPR panel. A further 27% of the practitioner’s skillset benefits from the support of some technology to assist in analysis and decision making.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 6, 2024

This kind of social media experience has become all but universal; as consumers, targeted ads and influencer content can feel creepily timed to our real-life conversations. When planned correctly, content marketing is still one of the most valuable investments brands can make.

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PRSay

AUGUST 29, 2019

Each year, millions of people play fantasy football, and just like it’s important for you to draft a winning team, it’s important for content marketers to recruit an all-star content team. From data analysis to content planning, it’s crucial to make sure the right people are occupying the right positions.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 9, 2019

For GE, however, it’s the culmination of a decade-long commitment to content marketing. As a result, the brief brims with journalistic rigor, pulling in stories from GE Reports , the brand’s main content hub, where employees across the globe explain new research and innovations by focusing on ideas instead of products.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2016

11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points. Personalization is a marketing trend that’s forever on the horizon. Analysis of personalization varies: some call it creepy , while others call it key , and still others say it’s the path to the next level in marketing. 2) Personalization is Optimization.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research. This number includes content creation, distribution, technology, and talent. To help marketers be more efficient and effective, Contently created this new report that examines the state of financial services content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Social media is making marketing lazy. It’s created a “ cut and paste ” content marketing culture. So said Simms Jenkins speaking on a panel in Atlanta hosted by the team from the Oracle Marketing Cloud. That problem is an enormous gap in knowledge of strategic marketing including positioning and messaging.

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Wadds Inc.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Text at the click of a button There’s a great deal of excitement about the technology as it seemingly is able to mimic human creativity and generate and edit content incredibly quickly. More sophisticated text analysis is also possible. It can also use machine learning to summarise text.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Again, this year I dived into the survey data again, provided the findings first, followed by my own analysis. It’s important for readers to keep in mind my world view is heavily filtered from the perspective of B2B marketing and PR. Analysis: . Analysis: . 1) How long should a blog post be? Imagery matters.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. CSR Is a Popular Use Case That Often Lacks Creativity.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

I have seen firsthand in my own analysis – across many B2B tech press releases – that readership has fallen precipitously. Additional reading: PR, Social Media and the Imperative of Content Marketing [UML]. Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other. No one will read it.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000. The most successful content marketers invested more, with an average of $272,000, while the least successful content marketers spent less at $109,000.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are many more creative approaches to achieving a positive image. It involves strategic planning by the PR and marketing team to create video content, deliver messages, and leverage platforms and events that align with the campaign objectives. #2. Related read: Why Combining Content Marketing and PR is a Smart Move #8.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 26, 2018

Absolutely no critical analysis is happening. Unfortunately, I see very little of that on today’s marketing/communications teams. After all, these people are getting paid for their analysis and ideas! Another article I read last week claimed 65 percent of marketers plan to increase their martech spend in the years ahead.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

They stay mired in dry details and leave out the psychographic analysis. There is really no excuse to stick with lackluster content that rubs people the wrong way or leaves them disinterested. Buyer personas have the potential to catapult businesses into the big league with personalized marketing wins.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. Just before you tie down the exact detail for content take a look at this research from content share experts BuzzSumo. The 20 most engaging types of content. What do you guys think? Watch the recording now.

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Beyond PR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Only a few years ago, it was relatively easy to jump onto social, build an audience and promote your content. It takes savvy, creativity and a penchant for experimentation to connect with audiences. Stay on top of audiences’ shifting preferences by regularly running a media channel analysis. Find a newsworthy story angle.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tie that same concept into content marketing, and you’ve got gamified content. In other words, content that incorporates common features found in games, like puzzles, points, leaderboards, and badges. What is gamification in marketing? Even sprinkling in one or two clever elements can elevate your content.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2016

With this simple framework, marketing organizations can avoid the analysis paralysis that plagues meetings and both build buyer personas and map content to each of those stages. Marketing is partly a process of analysis continuous improvement. Analysis Shows How B2B Loses Clients. An analysis of $2.3

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Specifically, the survey found storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership topped the list of more than 20 tactics or trends related to PR in terms of importance. 67% said thought leadership.

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Cision

AUGUST 27, 2015

Why should your brand consider adding podcasts to your content marketing strategy? Turner said podcasts better enable people to have emotional responses to our content. Consider this competitive analysis. Image: Ruta N Medellin , Holmes Palacio ( Creative Commons ). Remember your goals.

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