Polaris

DECEMBER 10, 2014

It’s a mix of PR, social media and content marketing news designed to help marketers stay up to date on trends and best practices. When I informed one of my marketing colleagues, Randy Milanovic , of the move, I was surprised to hear he was against it. I’d rather have blog subscribers.”. I know this firsthand.

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Blogging Comparison eBook Case Study 183

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Many of the posts published here are heavily weighted with surveys and reports. It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Content Marketing Statistics.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A recent poll by Pipeline360 and Demand Metric found about half of B2B marketers surveyed think they are going to miss their target goals this year. That reality seems to be sinking in as several recent surveys all suggest marketing is going to get much-needed budget bump in 2025. CMOs say marketing budgets grow to 12.7%

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Survey B2B Marketing Measurement 186

Cision

JANUARY 18, 2018

While much of a content marketing strategy revolves around creating new content just for your blog (part of your owned media), I highly recommend that you divert some of your attention to incorporating earned media into your strategy. Create Highly Shareable Content. Amplify Media Mentions. Amplify Media Mentions.

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Strategy How To Media Infographics 276

Marketwired

DECEMBER 10, 2015

If you’re curious about content marketing, a quick Google search will serve up no shortage of information on trends, best practices, benefits for B2B and B2C companies and what it all means as 2016 approaches. Check out the survey highlights in our original infographic and read more in our news release. [By Lisa Davis].

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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. Blog Posts.

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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?

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What smart marketers learned using MarTech and Marketing automation was that their online videos, ads, and email marketing campaigns perform better when integrated with a strong, holistic PR and content marketing strategy. Digital communications attracts and engages customers: What is the New PR?

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Measurement Data-Driven PR Survey Storytelling 231

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

Cision

MAY 29, 2017

The content that appears in an individual feed is offered according to each users past behavior and personal preferences. In fact, a survey carried out by Forrester Consulting found social media to be the most preferred source of discovery for news and information among online adults between the ages of 18 and 55. Offer Variety.

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How To Content Marketing Engineering Advertising 129

Sword and the Script

APRIL 18, 2020

There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them a reason – and the means – to return regularly.

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Trade Shows Content Marketing Conference Marketing 119

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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Survey Marketing B2B Study 173

Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. The complete survey is freely available for download as a PDF on SlideShare.

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Survey Measurement Public Affairs Storytelling 117

Buzzstream

JANUARY 9, 2019

Content marketing takes time and effort. And, unfortunately, average tactics such as blogging, keyword-optimized landing pages and the occasional guest post will only get you average results (at best!). Reciprocal marketing in a nutshell. So let’s dive in! This is my personal checklist: 1. A small effort with big results.

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Content Marketing Marketing How To Resources 134

Sword and the Script

JULY 19, 2016

Marketers are reporting better results stemming from content marketing. That’s according to a recent survey published by Ascend2 titled 2016 State of Content Marketing Survey Summary Report. The survey demographics suggest the respondents were fairly senior with 57% holding director titles or above.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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Content Marketing B2B Survey Analysis 64

Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. Creating and distributing consistent and relevant content is considered a proven strategic marketing approach that attracts and retains an audience and drives customers to action. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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Survey Content Marketing Marketing Measurement 90

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 Again, this year I dived into the survey data again, provided the findings first, followed by my own analysis.

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Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 103

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here’s how the numbers on this blog have added up in 2022: Total blog posts: 46 – down from 51 last year ; Average length: 866 words; Shortest post: 306 words ; Longest post: 2,486 words ; Total words published: 39,852; Unique visitors: 236,756; and. Third-party mentions : 95 (most of which come simply from blogging consistently).

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If content marketing was a self-evaluated college class, marketers would give themselves a “C.” That’s my sense after reading the new B2B Content Marketing 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America report. The annual report is a joint effort between MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This blog published 51 posts this year – the 12 th year of publishing for Sword and the Script. However, the cadence of publishing still meets one absolute requirement of content marketing : consistency in publishing matters as much as anything else. That works out to one post per week, which is like clockwork.

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Cision

JANUARY 10, 2018

However, once you taste success in your new endeavor, aim to cement your position as an emerging thought leader in the industry, with a focused content marketing strategy. This means that a solid content marketing strategy will do wonders for your brand messaging. . Their blog is aptly called “ Shopify Insider.”

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Branding Brand Web Content Marketing 254

Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2017

A 2016 survey from Narrative Science found that 58 percent of enterprise business executives are already using predictive analytics within their organization. AirPR has been on the cutting edge of the New PR and its ties to content marketing and marketing technology. In fact, that future may already be here.

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Strategy Data-Driven PR Measurement Enterprise 294

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 2, 2013

Finding keywords is one of the most important (and most overlooked) aspects of web marketing. That’s a blog post for another day. See, for example, the screen shot below showing the relative usage of the terms “search engine optimization” as compared to “content marketing.”. Competitor websites, blogs and industry forums.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. I’m crunching data from this year’s survey now, and while the results aren’t finished yet, I can tell you that number has grown. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility.

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Content Marketing Marketing Pitching Survey 87

Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When I started as an editorial intern at Contently, the first thing I realized was that I had a lot to learn about content marketing. Like many people entering the job market, I wanted to write and edit, and I was interested in exploring different ways to make a living with those skills.

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Content Marketing Marketing SEO Video 99

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Your content must be relevant, meaningful and useful to capture your audience’s attention. According to a Marketwired survey in November 2015, PR and marketing professionals plan to increase their content marketing programs by 64% in 2016. Discovering new design techniques for content creation.

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Community Creativity Content Marketing Infographics 150

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. After seven years of blogging, and 570+ posts, this struck me as a natural progression. I kept blogging too. The 2016 salary survey by PR Week was a big hit.

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Blogging Content Marketing B2B Social Media 101

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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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Survey Industry Leadership Study 94

Contently - Strategy

MAY 8, 2019

Now, marketing and sales are supposed to collaborate and complement each other like Holmes and Watson. Marketing builds awareness (Watson even blogs in the BBC reboot) and gathers intel, then sales takes over to close the case. Some marketers create a lot of great content but don’t always communicate that to sellers.

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Content Marketing Marketing Case Study Education 103

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. That’s one surprising conclusion I drew from a survey of 850 bloggers by ConvertKit.

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Survey Blogging Corporate Analytics 60

Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 15, 2024

High-quality individual pieces of content marketing don’t just happen in a vacuum – you need goals, a content calendar, competitor, audience and SEO research, and more! In other words, you need a content strategy. Read on for the essential elements of how to create a successful content marketing strategy.

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Content Marketing Strategy How To Marketing 65

Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Some 47% of respondents said they’ve observed more PR work being taken in-house, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey (full report embedded below). This year’s survey polled 223 communications and public relations (PR) professionals. The second annual survey was conducted by yours truly in collaboration with Ned Lundquist.

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Survey Media Relations Corporate Communications 95

Onclusive

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Our data collection and analysis doesn’t end there—we also survey the industry’s most experienced communicators and business executives during our live webinars. As a data science company, Onclusive is known for our unique and unexpected insights from comprehensive media monitoring and PR Attribution.

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Industry Crisis Management Measurement Data 221

Sword and the Script

JULY 27, 2021

That’s according to the 2021 JOTW Communications Survey , which polled 300 communications professionals. The multi-year trendline on this question suggests it’s not getting any easier (here are the survey results to this question in 2020 , 2019 and 2018 ). Perhaps invest in people, research or tools to help facilitate media relations.

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Media Relations Media Pitching Survey 172

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Data analysis of millions of articles and surveys thousands of bloggers find long-form content outperforms short form. Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form.

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Content Marketing Study Analysis Marketing 78

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to Content Marketing Institute Research Director Lisa Beets ( @LisaBeets ), “Nearly all top-performing B2B content marketers—90%—put their audience’s informational needs ahead of their company’s sales/promotional message.”. Today, more B2B marketers than ever rely on a content marketing approach.

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Content Marketing B2B Trends Marketing 81