Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I was, of course, thrilled to be in it and eager to read Lin Pophal’s book. Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)? ” The bottom line, though, I think (but of course I’m biased) is that strong writing will continue to be the most important skill for both journalists and PR professionals.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. . Growth of independent journalism. “We We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. Of course, this isn’t limited to new channels. 2016: One Bold Content Marketing Prediction for 2016.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Catharines Standard Torstar Niagara Falls Review Torstar Welland Tribune Torstar Peterborough Examiner Torstar The Kit Torstar National Post Postmedia Financial Post Postmedia Canada.com Postmedia Canoe.com Postmedia Driving.ca Postmedia The GrowthOp Postmedia Healthing.ca Postmedia Remembering.ca Postmedia The GrowthOp Postmedia Healthing.ca

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Top search results for a similar query, in the form of a question, “ can a frog really freeze and come back to life ,” include credible-looking sites such as Science Line , Live Science and the Journal News – a Cox Media-owned publication serving Butler County, Ohio. The Frozen Frog Lesson of Content Marketing.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

Measuring ROI has been a consistent challenge for content marketers and marketers in general over the past decade. Content Marketing overall is getting increasingly better at connecting actions and outcomes. Having Everybody Writes appear on the Wall Street Journal best-seller list organically was cool, too.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After working and learning from Ross Hudgens , the founder of content marketing agency, Siege Media , for close to seven years, I am thrilled to have him on the podcast. Ross and Emily Campbell-Snidal , their VP of Content Marketing, recently released a podcast explaining their new “product-led digital PR” approach.

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Cision

APRIL 4, 2016

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You’ve probably noticed that blogs and content pieces rarely read like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal. The difference isn’t always a matter of substance; style is a reason that we are attracted to and continue to engage with content pieces. Indentation is a great way to add structure to a piece of content.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

In a free online course about media relations for Muck Rack , Michael Smart invokes the 80/20 rule: Spend 80% of your time on the 20% of reporters you really have a shot with. If media relations is hard, so too is journalism and reporting. That’s what content marketing is all about. Focus on 20% of reporters.

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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: 5 Datapoints from the CMO Survey for B2B Marketers.

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Prohibition

JULY 14, 2017

Consider the changing shape of the comms industry, and you will undoubtedly come across the phrase ‘content marketing’. Content has become the ‘buzz word’ for the industry – whether you specialise in SEO, digital marketing or indeed more traditional avenues such as online advertising and PR. But what does content mean?

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Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

He reveals how his background in journalism has shaped his view of the industry, his growing appreciation for PR professionals and gives insight into how journalists in the TV industry truly want to be pitched. How has your background in journalism influenced your abilities in PR? How can brands keep up?

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The public values journalism, and people are moving to media channels they trust. Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business. PR generates influence.

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PRSay

AUGUST 29, 2019

Football season is upon us, which means tailgating, rivalries and, of course, fantasy sports. 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. It’s that time of year.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 10, 2018

Of course, I jumped to make it happen. Alan Murray, who spent years at the Wall Street Journal as a reporter and editor before taking the reins at Fortune magazine, summed it up this way: ‘One, they don’t trust us. The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. Media Relations Ends; Content Marketing Begins.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Great communicators will have the mental toughness and swift ability to pivot that is necessary to respond to this chaotic world and keep PR and marketing on course. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2018

1) What effect do you think the rise of content marketing has had on marketing overall? Well, on one hand, it’s provided marketers with yet another catchphrase to hang their collective hats on. I joke that marketers can’t get out of bed without a new catch phrase or acronym to ‘play with.’

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

Full report: The Effects of Traditional and Social Earned Media on Sales: A Study of a Microlending Marketplace (2012) published in the Journal of Marketing Research by Andrew T. Additional reading: PR, Social Media and the Imperative of Content Marketing [UML]. Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Search Engine Journal. Marketing Land.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 13, 2020

Of course, as with any crisis, there are also plenty of stories about organizations who have mishandled it in one way or another. A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 27, 2018

A third added, “The changing face of journalism has left many newsrooms bereft of veterans and reporters with historical knowledge.”. While I do think the economics of journalism has also played a starring role in this sector, there are a number of other contributing factors. 3) Influence pedaling is overshadowing journalism.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 10, 2020

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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Cision

OCTOBER 21, 2015

During his opening keynote, Mark Schaefer gave the example of a winemaker in Provence, France who succeeded in making it big by incorporating the story of his business into the way he marketed his wine. Over the course of a few years, he posted over 600 times to his blog and uploaded over 200 videos to his YouTube channel.

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Flack's Revenge

MARCH 12, 2015

Colleagues and coworkers compared notes and shared info – my good friend Judy Gombita sent this exit interview of Matthew Ingram, from Columbia Journalism Review. Aren’t our clients and employers expecting the investment (which increasingly also covers social media and content marketing) to deliver business results?

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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Cision

JUNE 14, 2016

If you think that print journalism is dead, I’ll share that I learned about a specific tech tool this weekend not from a Google Alerts or from an RSS feed, but from The New York Times. If you subscribe to Audible you can set up the audio version of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times for free.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s How can they do that?

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

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. 3 Content Marketing Wins with Buyer Personas.

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Cision

APRIL 29, 2016

So, double up on your content marketing efforts. A recent study by USC Viterbi School of Engineering observed the email behavior of over 2 million users who exchanged 16 billion emails over the course of several months. Essentially, it states that people develop a preference for things the more they are exposed to it.

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Critical Mention

MAY 28, 2019

Many marketing, communications and PR professionals still rely heavily on email marketing for one simple reason–it’s still highly effective. In fact, a recent HubSpot article stated that email marketing generates $38 for every $1 dollar spent!

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Let’s hear from four former media people–Vineeta Sawkar (formerly of KSTP-TV), Jay Olstad (formerly of KARE-11), Lynn Melling (former anchor in the Des Moines market), and Dan DeBaun (formerly of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal). I had a non-compete clause so I couldn’t work in this market in TV.

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Critical Mention

JULY 16, 2019

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

This is an excerpt from The Content Marketer’s Playbook: Grow Your Content Program. Brands are creating more content than ever before. According to CMI’s 2019 benchmark report , a majority of both B2B and B2C marketers increased content creation budgets from 2018. That was an evolution for us.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 24, 2018

For example, I work with a producer on the west coast on video courses, and I’m on the east coast, but with technology anything is possible. Currently, there’s a company in Europe who watched my Go-To-Market LinkedIn Learning video course and now they want me to consult on their G-T-M strategy.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A native New Yorker, he originally began his career in journalism and later moved to marketing, discovering a passion for branding and analytics. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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