Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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B2B Study Blogging Survey 145

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. Of those, 84% say they outsource content creation; distribution, technology, strategy and measurement were distant followers. 2) Blogging benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks.

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Content Marketing Study Blogging Marketing 135

Onclusive

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about building a PR business case and securing the investment! Draft the implementation plan for your proposal, including the timeline, the expected outcomes, the resources needed, who will be involved, and how you will measure success. Step 5: Write the business case. What are the benefits?

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How To Measurement Writing Data 396

Onclusive

JUNE 9, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! This week, we’re concluding the series with an overview of how to craft your messaging, identify the right authors and outlets, distribute strategically and proactively, and finally, measure success. Set your messaging, write the story. Measure success.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 10, 2017

This is true for the earned media we generate, the thought leadership content we produce for clients and for our own blog content. Any company blogging today must have a strategy for boosting the visibility of their content and ensuring it is shareable and shared. Write “vertically.” A successful outcome?

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Blogging Writing Engineering Analytics 136

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 They always use analytics to measure performance. 1) How long should a blog post be? hours to write.”.

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Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 103

Onclusive

JANUARY 26, 2022

Savvy communicators know that there is more to a perfect pitch than simply good writing, and media relations is not just about distributing these stories to the media. This means that pitching must start with the right data and end with measurement. The post Building a perfect pitch?

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Pitching Data Privacy Writing 370

Onclusive

JUNE 4, 2020

In This Webinar You’ll Learn: How owned media fits into the modern communications strategy Building your digital footprint using owned media Best practices for blog writing and design How to measure the effectiveness of owned media. Speaker Info. Andy Cunningham. Chief Brand Officer. Michelle Herman.

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Media Advertising Advertising Corporate 370

Onclusive

JUNE 24, 2020

In our last blog , we shared some insights on consumer behavior with the media. You likely have great staff who can help write content, it’s worth your while to try to enlist those experts at your company for their subject matter expertise. Measure and improve. Seek internal experts.

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Strategy Media Advertising Advertising 418

The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Can you measure the quality of your content? The quality of writing and visuals is very subjective. Is your content based on research or did you just have a “bright ideas” and dash off a blog post or news item? So how do you know if your efforts are working? I may love something that you think is awful.

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Measurement How To Guidelines Analytics 154

Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors. Writing & Editing of Miscellaneous PR Assets.

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Training Media Training Crisis Communications Reputation 370

PR Fuel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There’s an art to headline writing — but it’s not rocket science. It’s possible to write a headline that always captures attention, you just have to remember the fundamentals. This blog is here to remind you. There’s no harm in playing on this sentiment when writing headlines.

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Writing Education Tools Resources 105

PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hence our obsession with keeping tabs on industry blogs and finding those articles and authors that impact our own ways of thinking. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. Below is a guide to Ready North's favorite blogs and publications. Sorry if we missed you!

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Blogging Marketing Pinterest SEO 52

Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors.

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Training Media Training Crisis Communications Reputation 195

Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A blog post about writing a public relations plan. Our recommendation is to take the longest term outlook feasible for your organisation but to test, measure and adapt your plan over time. Our recommendation is to take the longest term outlook feasible for your organisation but to test, measure and adapt your plan over time.

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Writing Publicity How To Measurement 106

PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificia l Intelligence Institute's blog. One of the top challenges marketers ask us about at Marketing AI institute is how to use artificial intelligence (AI) for blogging. Done right, blogging attracts and converts prospects for less money than traditional methods.

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Blogging How To Engineering Writing 73

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Yesterday Mark Schaefer published a terrific post on how to pluck up the courage to blog with confidence. and then some, before I got my started on my blogging journey. And I also recalled how I might never have actually started that journey had it not been for Kami Huyse asking me to guest blog for her back in 2008.

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Writing Blogging Conference Creativity 109

Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. The PR pro either writes some of this content themselves or helps drive strategy with a team of writers/editors and/or guest blog contributors. Iterative PR Measurement.

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Media Training Crisis Communications Conference Training 397

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2019

But according to the 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations Global Communications Report , writing is the skill most valued by PR recruiters. Successful PR people tend to be good writers; yet even more impressive than the quality of good PR writing is its versatility. A blog-eat-blog world .

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Case Study Writing Pitching SEO 231

The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’re getting our ducks in order to make sure we’re measuring all the right things. I’ll write up a bigger post detailing all this very soon. We’re about to launch something. It’s exciting. So we’re going to going to tell people about it. I know right?! Hopefully, you’ll find it useful. But for […].

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Onclusive

AUGUST 3, 2020

1) Measure the quality, not just quantity of your competitors’ media placements. Key measures of quality include (1) how relevant press articles are to their brand, (2) the reputation of the media outlets which are covering them, and (3) the tone and sentiment of their media coverage. 3) Discover the unexpected authors.

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Media Pinterest Measurement Energy 397

Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

So I guide people toward reasonable goals and then show them what to measure so they know that their press releases were actually a success, despite the lack of fame that resulted. So What Do I Need to Measure? Modernize your PR measurement with our free tip sheet. Want more accurate PR measurement? Still relying on AVE?

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Measurement Software Nonprofit Analytics 120

5W PR

MAY 21, 2024

Businesses now use data analytics to measure campaign impact. Invest in PR software Numerous tools are available to track media mentions, analyze social media sentiment, and measure campaign performance. Content creation AI can aid content creation by generating outlines, analyzing writing styles, and suggesting pertinent keywords.

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Technology Trends Company Storytelling 127

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. Instead of dashing off ten 250 word blog posts with not much meat, research and write quality long-form content on your blog or newsroom.

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Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

5W PR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Encouraging participation in social media campaigns, writing blog posts, or speaking at industry events gives employees a voice. Measurement and Analytics To measure the effectiveness of PR efforts, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and analyzing data is essential.

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Corporate Reputation Strategy Storytelling 78

PRSay

MAY 9, 2019

In a Muck Rack survey of 800 communicators, ranging from boutique agency coordinators to chief communications officers at global brands, 72 percent said that the top challenge they face is “measuring business impact,” with the second most prominent challenge (at 65 percent) overcoming the “lack of quantifiable measurement.”

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Making up Metrics I was recently on a conference call with a respected nternational measurement organization and a new member of the group was explaining how she’d been pressured by her CEO to put a dollar value on her efforts. “So There should be a special place in measurement hell for people who make up bad metrics.

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Measurement How To Comparison System 52

Onclusive

OCTOBER 29, 2014

When a writer for Fast Company agrees to write a “first dibs” article for your company blog, it is all at once flattering (OMG! Industry Insights & Trends future of PR journalism media media relations PR PR measurement public relations Wendy Marx' She’s gonna do that for lil’ ol’ us??),

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Journalism Media Measurement Trends 330

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. Instead of dashing off ten 250 word blog posts with not much meat, research and write quality long-form content on your blog or newsroom.

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Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 24, 2019

While we certainly encourage PR and communications pros to follow our insightful Critical Mention blog , we also want to share a few of our other favorite PR blogs. Our take on Ragan’s PR Daily blog: Without a doubt, Ragan’s PR Daily blog is one of our go-to blogs for communication and media related news and tips.

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Blogging Education Resources Creativity 68

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

There were 62 posts published on this blog in 2019. In going through the reader analytics for the full year, these are the top 10 most-read posts on this blog about public relations (PR) and marketing. If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to these blog posts by email or RSS. 6) How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019?

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Blogging Publicity Marketing Survey 80

Stern + Associates

AUGUST 23, 2024

You may also consider a content training session, providing tools they need to write content such as blog posts or resource guides themselves. Keep a master plan to track these activities and measure impact across your leaders.

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Strategy Training LinkedIn Resources 127

The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Check out Steph Bridgeman’s blog post on analysing PR data in excel. Steph is an independent freelance measurement consultant and she has been using excel for data analysis in PR for years. Steph knows her stuff and more what’s more, she writes in a language we all understand. Thank you Steph! Happy new year indeed.

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Measurement Data Analytics Tools 120

ISEBOX

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

You write your press release. You are super excited to measure the results – but alas, they are dismal. The key is to write your press release for the people you want to cover your story. Writing content for your Persona becomes much easier when you have this information set and at your finger tips.

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Writing Measurement Report Blogging 70

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. For this reason, PR professionals are converting their media publications into blogs and e-newsletters. Write content in response. Avoid writing too much about numerous things.

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Content Marketing Marketing Measurement Data 148

Communications Conversations

AUGUST 28, 2017

Turns out, MOA is doing some interesting things with its (relatively newly revamped) blog, 55425. So, I sat down with Timothy Pate, digital project manager at MOA and talked about the blog and how MOA is using it to drive awareness and interest for the popular international destination. Who is the team in charge of managing the blog?

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Blogging Handbook Sports Internal 87

Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The first thing most ambitious marketers do when beginning their marketing adventure is to plan the tactics and choose the forms of the content they want to publish (blogs, videos, podcasts, infographics, etc.). Write stories that readers will not only relate to but also use as a valuable source for their future business endeavors.

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Content Marketing How To Marketing Infographics 240