Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 13, 2019

Let’s not even start talking about more traditional online sources like blogs, news sites, and forums. have become essential parts of the marketing and PR toolbox. Albane is a marketing manager at Talkwalker, where she coordinates the brand presence’s in the United States, from influencer relationships to content marketing.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Set the agenda. Play to their ego. Guest Post PR 2.0

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Developing and maintaining a blog is an excellent way for executives to establish relationships and engage with industry thought leaders. Content marketing is not a novel phenomenon and has been used as a marketing tool by PR executives for years. Content Factors. Creating Content.

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Cision

MAY 2, 2015

The Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as “owning, as opposed to renting, media. It’s a marketing process to attract and retain customers by consistently creating and curating content in order to change or enhance a consumer behavior.”. You know influencers who can make a difference.

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Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

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Content Marketing Strategy B2C Marketing 120

Cision

JANUARY 9, 2018

Brands are investing more time, resources and budget into publishing high-quality content with the goal of attracting, engaging and converting customers throughout the buyer’s journey. According to HubSpot’s State of Inbound 2017 , the top three inbound marketing priorities are: Growing SEO & Organic Presence.

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Case Study How To Infographics SEO 210

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. Owned media, aka content, is content you produce that lives on your website or blog. Shared media is also known as social media. Owned Media.

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Cision

MAY 19, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. Not long ago, we had a blog post that described five outside-the-box content marketing ideas. Want even more content marketing tips? Native Advertising. Syndication.

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Content Marketing Marketing Apparel Mobile 120

Cision

MAY 25, 2015

If you’re a PR professional in the year 2015, you are probably well aware of a little tactic known as content marketing. for a while now in the communication world, but the PR industry is finally starting to realize that creating and owning content to tell a story is a great complement to more traditional methods.

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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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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors. Episodic Content

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Public relations and content marketing are powerful when they work together, particularly for B2B PR programs designed to educate prospective customers and push them down the funnel to a point of purchase. But when they work in concert, PR and content marketing are a 1+1+3 situation. Never discount earned media.

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Content Marketing Pharmaceuticals Marketing Software 120

Cision

JULY 21, 2015

While each component of your marketing strategy (email, PR, social media, blogs) should bring you results, it’s often better when two or more components work together. Take blogging and social media. You can write knock-’em-dead content, but without a push from other places, your blog may see little to no traffic on its own.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This is why content marketing plays such a crucial role in media relations , among many other aspects of PR and corporate communications. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility. What better source of credibility is there than to have your content serve as a citation?

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Cision

AUGUST 5, 2015

Sometimes writing fabulous blog posts on your business blog isn’t enough to drive the traffic you really want. One of my favorite content marketing strategies is guest blogging. When you write a guest blog post, you get it published on another well-established blog that caters to your target market.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2018

You cannot run content marketing like a campaign. You can, however, run campaigns inside a content marketing program. Campaigns are how every marketer is trained to think. a white paper that makes the case for solving a problem in a new way. It might even be integrated marketing.

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PR News

JUNE 5, 2018

Whether they’re writing media pitches, RFPs, blog posts, white papers, social posts, content marketing pieces or press releases, PR pros are usually serving several entities. The post 7 Business Writing Sins PR Pros Commit Regularly appeared first on PR News Blog.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in recent years, the concept of timeliness in a content marketing calendar has become less about utility and more about jumping on trends for the sake of relevancy. Don’t get me wrong: there’s a time and place for incorporating memes and internet discourse into your content strategy.

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Cision

APRIL 30, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. How do you stand out with content? Content marketing is far from dead. It just requires creating content that’s a little outside-the-box. Want more ways to stand out with content?

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Telecommunications Content Marketing B2C Video 120

Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy. However, blogging is one of the leading tools in any brand’s content marketing strategy.

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Cision

APRIL 11, 2015

Stay in-the-know by setting up Twitter lists, searching trending hashtags and topics on Facebook, or by using a news aggregator such as Feedly to see the latest news from all of your favorite industry blogs. Use trending topics to get ideas for your blog posts or white papers. Best Practices Featured Content Marketing'

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? Common ones include: Blogs.

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Content Marketing Marketing Infographics Consumer 98

Cision

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Content marketing has evolved, but only 38 percent of B2C marketers consider their strategy to be effective in boosting the bottom line. So what part of the new state of content marketing is most challenging? To keep your hub organized, separate your content by type (white papers, blog posts, news releases, etc.),

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Sword and the Script

MAY 30, 2017

The technology analyst firm Gartner recently weighed in on the difference between “content marketing” and “marketing content.”. Marketing content, according to Gartner, is “All content assets created by marketing teams.”. If one source doesn’t provide utility in content, another will.

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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. But owned media — blogs, tip sheets, case studies, webinars, etc. [By Lisa Davis]. We’re curious, too.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2024

(click image for higher resolution) Three examples of marketing programs The best part about programs versus campaigns is that it’s an approach that requires re-tasking, re-structuring, and re-organizing – but not more budget or headcount. A third example of a program is running a corporate blog like a news site.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We develop a content marketing strategy that encompasses: Expert commentary – weighing in on relevant news. Blogs – an executive’s own, plus a commenting strategy for others. White papers – a great way to demonstrate thought capital in long form to a particular audience.

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Leadership Trade Shows Healthcare Education 149

Cision

APRIL 3, 2015

Throughout March, we provided tons of content centered around using word-of-mouth to raise brand awareness, earn trust and, ultimately, make sales, including a webinar, white paper, tip sheet and numerous blog posts. White Paper. How to Build & Evangelize Your Community With Word-of-Mouth Marketing.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2017

The recent commentary on content marketing by Gartner Research may have given B2B tech marketers motivation to reconsider the concept. Every B2B tech marketer is familiar with the analyst firm because of the implication the four corners of one certain magical graphical quad chart can have on a short list of vendors.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Tactics like content marketing, earned speaking opportunities for C-level executives, and feature articles work together to boost visibility for a brand or situation that the brand solves. Branded content like bylined articles and blog posts offer multiple benefits.

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Storytelling Software Education LinkedIn 233

Sword and the Script

APRIL 18, 2023

In the process of downloading content, the company also polled 38,000 respondents to ask about the buying process throughout 2022. As a side note, it’s worth noting NetLine is owned by the UK-based publisher Informa , which also owns the Content Marketing Institute. Why do we need more content?

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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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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Furthermore, brand journalism does not necessarily bring products and services to the forefront of discussion like content marketing does. Brand journalism is also not content marketing. Content marketing exists to guide people down the sales funnel; brand journalism exists to invite people to start that journey.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2018

And, bringing an earned-media sensibility to the effort increases the credibility for some content that is overly commercial, badly targeted, or stuffed with obvious keywords. Best Practices For PR Content. All good content marketing initiatives begin by getting everyone on the team in agreement with campaign goals.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 18, 2015

Content marketing surveys consistently demonstrate the biggest barrier facing marketer is feeding the content monster. There is a straight forward answer to this problem: Upwards of “60-70% of content produced by B2B marketing goes unused,” according to a white paper by Kapost which cites research by SiriusDecisions.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

In fact, we design multiple offers for Red Wing, such as free downloadable white papers on OSHA standards and receive a free pair of boots in exchange for 15 minutes of their time. You invest a lot of time in your ThinkSEM blog , chiefly written by your wife and co-owner Sarah Danks and PR staffer Kayla Hollatz – it’s a fun read.

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