Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

PR no longer is a press release or media relations business. We use a wide range of content and activities to communicate our messages and reach our target audiences. We generally rely upon three content types: Owned. We then consider how, when and where to publish and promote the content and activities.

Media 120

Media Content Marketing Infographics Fashion 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. It can include social media, tip sheets, and emails, as well as paid promotions like native advertising and promoted posts on social platforms. A: We encourage everyone to share their work on social media.

Community 120

Community Mobile Blogging Publicity 120

Sword and the Script

JULY 24, 2018

There’s are several industry organizations that field annual surveys about content marketing and they are gearing up. Last year, the data overwhelmingly found every business says they are doing content marketing. This year, I predict satisfaction with content marketing will slide and many won’t understand why.

Content Marketing 64

Content Marketing B2B Marketing Exercises 64

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2019

” Earned media doesn’t work as consistently as email marketing or paid media. The blurring of lines between earned media, paid, shared, and owned media has greatly amplified PR’s reach. Branded content like bylined articles and blog posts offer multiple benefits.

Storytelling 233

Storytelling Education Software LinkedIn 233

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

I was pretty good at media relations and I was confident I’d be able to turn things around. Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. We needed to get the client some coverage.

Content Marketing 78

Content Marketing Study Analysis Marketing 78

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For today’s content creators and content marketing teams, unique original content is always the best route to take. The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike.

Social Media 126

Social Media Ethics Trends Viral 126

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.

Marketing 120

Marketing Customer Service Employee Mobile 120

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2023

B2B buyers say they want quality content that demonstrates you understand their industry, and their company and helps them to build a business case to buy your tech product One of the reasons content marketing is so important to B2B companies is the fact that the last person a buyer speaks to is a salesperson.

B2B 122

B2B Study Survey Software 122

Cision

APRIL 22, 2015

Last week, Cision’s journalism facing brand Help a Reporter Out (HARO) attended New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We received tons of great info on content creation , storytelling and writing, so below we highlighted some of the best takeaways: 1. Get Pat Flynn’s past, present and future principles of building strong communities here.

Media 120

Media Storytelling Content Marketing Journalism 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

A skilled team will help mold an executive’s bare-bones concept into something that news media and other audiences will want to hear about. Sometimes, that means simple tweaks to make a generalization more specific, like when our digital publisher client wanted to share expertise on storytelling in healthcare marketing.

Leadership 149

Leadership Trade Shows Healthcare Education 149

Cision

APRIL 2, 2015

Creating social media campaigns often generate scores of ideas. This rejection rule focuses on public audiences: Will the community like this idea and act upon it ? Specifically, will they care enough about the concept to talk about it, share it, create content for it, and yes, possibly even consider buying services from the company?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Corporate Social Media Internal 120

Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Interactive content collects a very different kind of data. “A list is the community you have the opportunity and pleasure to serve.” Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” Want more content marketing insights from Ann Handley?

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Marketing SEO Education 120

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Analyze, but experiment.

Engineering 63

Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 63

Cision

APRIL 25, 2015

You can, and should, write a press release and send it to your targeted media group to drum up publicity. Want to stand out with standout content? Get our free “Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR” white paper now! Measurement can often be the toughest part of any content marketing campaign.

Film 120

Film Content Marketing Analytics Measurement 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 8, 2019

Media references tend to take a back seat to the mad pace that is often B2B marketing. Media references are hard for several reasons. This works best when you start well in advance and some helpful ways of getting it done is to make part of your other marketing programs. 3) Reports, ebooks and white papers.

B2B 78

B2B Media eBook Interviews 78

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2018

“ Content is fire. Social media is gasoline, ” according to writer Jay Baer, and most in public relations would agree. The trick is how to create content that is “fire” and will fire up audiences about your brand. We look at an eight-point plan that will help any team create, produce and promote meaningful content.

Strategy 159

Strategy Guidelines Content Marketing Small Business 159

Sword and the Script

APRIL 4, 2017

The channels that produce the most leads for B2B marketers are as follows: Email: 62%. Content marketing: 51%. Social media also ranks low, through the survey doesn’t distinguish between paid and organic efforts. The missing link here is integration with PR , and PR is the best-kept secret in content marketing.

B2B 63

B2B Study Marketing Survey 63

Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work. Media Relations is Hard and Getting Harder. A majority (68%) of PR professionals say media relations is getting harder or much harder. content marketing (64%).

Survey 101

Survey Media Relations Corporate Communications 101

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 27, 2017

By now we expect that many have mastered the basics of personal branding, but it’s not as easy as setting up a social media presence and hoping an audience finds you. This should encompass key topics related to your expertise, content frequency, and the most relevant social platforms. Steps for Building and Extending Your Brand.

Brand 149

Brand Branding Healthcare B2C 149

Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If you’re only partially committed to creating and distributing content, Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi would rather you do no content marketing at all. This may not have been the message Content Marketing World attendees were expecting to hear during Joe’s welcome address.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Marketing Customer Service Airlines 40

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ). This blog is just a cover story for an incredible marketing and PR agency serving B2B tech. Marketing attribution for earned media. Did you know?

Technology 169

Technology Publicity Software Pitching 169

Cision

APRIL 28, 2015

One received a lot of attention in the media; the other had little. The media loved it. A community uniting around a labor strike? Try the outside-the-box content marketing ideas from our free white paper! The message is the bulk of the work. Without it, nothing can be shared or promoted. What to do.

Employee 120

Employee Print Customer Service Local 120

Cision

MARCH 30, 2015

Content curation is defined as bringing meaningful organization to some subset of all of the content in the world. For practical purposes, it’s the way that we share relevant information with our audiences through social and owned media. With so much great content available, how can you stand out?

Google 120

Google Measurement Content Marketing Engineering 120

Marketwired

APRIL 21, 2016

When you think of content marketing today, the traditional way you see it in the marketplace is as a blog post, white paper, video, or some other piece of easily sharable digital content that can help you make your purchasing decisions. The answer is in how the world shares content. Grassroots methods.

Viral 100

Viral Guidelines Social Media Groups 100

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

Marketing 48

Marketing Content Marketing Pinterest LinkedIn 48

Sword and the Script

MAY 3, 2016

Those are all respectable objectives, but webinars can also help B2B marketers solve their biggest content marketing challenge : producing engaging content. Some studies suggest 60-70% of content produced in B2B goes unused: A few searches on the company website will demonstrate if this is true in your organization.

B2B 60

B2B Content Marketing Web Blogging 60

Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

A new survey of primarily corporate communications professionals identified the hottest trends and tactics in PR – and perhaps those that aren’t so hot too. Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. 67% said thought leadership.

Survey 73

Survey Trends Communications Storytelling 73

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

That sea of sameness is how the Cindy Klein Roche , the CMO for Cybereason, describe the competitive landscape in cybersecurity during an interview with the Marketing Smarts podcast. From white papers to the trade press, the entire community is fixated on the next exploit, hack or breach. 3) Repurpose with purpose.

B2B 65

B2B Creativity Film Trade Shows 65

5W PR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In marketing terms, this is known as “earned media,” which holds more weight than other types of media. Putting in the energy, however, it worth it at the end of the day and can put your business on equal footing with companies that have big marketing budgets. For instance, partner PR with content marketing.

Publicity 87

Publicity Case Study Infographics Energy 87

Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In PR and media relations, it’s easy to become entirely focused on the day-to-day issues at the expense of the longer event horizon. For media relations and PR professionals, this means even more attention to not just the text and images but the coding and metadata of online content. Click to enlarge. The PR Ramifications.

Trends 120

Trends Mobile Web System 120

Beyond PR

MARCH 17, 2016

If you are looking to broaden your networks and build trusting (and profitable) relationships with your customers, consider incorporating a few of these budget-friendly marketing ideas into the mix. Social Media Marketing. For businesses, social media provides a means to communicate directly and honestly with audiences.

Marketing 40

Marketing Small Business Web Nonprofit 40

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Roundups are content curation at its finest. Simply roundup a handful of the best news articles and blog posts from other credible sources – that are relevant to your community – and weave a promotion for your webinar into the content. This works best if this is part of marketing operating system. Use this sparingly.

B2B 60

B2B Infographics Interviews eBook 60

MaccaPR

MARCH 2, 2017

To satisfy the info hunger of those ravenous students, I curated this list of the most vital sources on social media strategy, video marketing and online communication: Best Social Media Blogs. The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them) ”. 46 Marketing Tools to Consider For 2017 ”.

Blogging 48

Blogging Marketing YouTube Content Marketing 48

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

As communicators, we are sometimes holed up in self-imposed exile creating content for others to deliver on ever-shrinking budgets. A recent survey conducted by Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week (JOTW) in partnership with Sword and the Script Media, LLC sought to find out the true status of our industry. Or are we?

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. To keep things simple, I tend to categorize metrics into broad buckets: visibility, community strength, quality and marketing or business impact. Coverage [UML].

B2B 68

B2B Measurement Blogging Community 68

Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

On a weekly basis, I get a platform to the communications and marketing communities and need to write effectively for them. You (probably) should have focused on this a long time ago, but an email subscriber list is one of the most efficient ways to regularly deliver content to the people you want to read it.

Tools 120

Tools How To SEO Writing 120

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