NewsWhip

JUNE 9, 2023

For any marketing professional, accurate and contextual media monitoring is essential for evaluating and forecasting the success of any promotional campaign. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way marketers collect, understand, and even improve customer interactions, particularly when it comes to content marketing strategy.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 7, 2022

B2B content marketers may groan at the thought of optimizing their brilliantly written, carefully crafted copy for search engines. Here are seven top SEO tools every B2B content marketer should consider using to up their optimization game. And it’s perfect for developing an SEO-focused content calendar.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our jobs may not consist of saving the world, but work deadlines can still have a powerful impact on our effectiveness and content marketing ROI. To find out the impact due dates have on marketers, Contently’s data science team studied the workflows of more than 13,000 pieces of content.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 25, 2019

PR and content marketing are rapidly evolving with new access to data and insights, new methods of measurement and more channels to reach your audience than ever. Content Marketing World. Content Marketing Conference. Confab, The Content Strategy Conference. Dates: September 3-6, 2019.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Not according to the 65 percent of brands who say that their success with content marketing is a direct result of a documented strategy. A complete content marketing strategy starts with research, not setting goals. Without data, you’re making decisions in a vacuum. Follow me on Twitter. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories.

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Onclusive

APRIL 9, 2019

The acquisition brings together AirPR’s industry-leading communications measurement solution with Ozmotik’s content marketing and analytics offering, creating a unified platform for companies to discover their most valuable earned media and to deliver it to its intended audience at scale. Measuring Reader Engagement and Brand Impact.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2017, I shared a stage at Collision Conference with Alicia Hatch, the CMO of Deloitte Digital, when she captured the biggest problem plaguing most marketing teams. They’ve got all this data at their fingertips,” Hatch said. What brands get wrong about data-driven content. That promise was flawed.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a recent piece I wrote on abortion , the editor required that I verify every statistic, claim, or data point with a news source or expert. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. Why accuracy in content marketing is important.

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Content Marketing Marketing Viral Study 144

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The good news is there’s no need for marketers to pivot careers just yet. With content marketing, brands can deliver personalized and relevant customer experiences that not only nurture them through the funnel but also provide value, build trust, and foster lasting connections. Follow these four steps to get started.

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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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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Audit your content.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When we talk about content marketing ROI, we often ignore one of the biggest opportunities in front of us: sales enablement. As I wrote about in this Ask a Content Strategist column , content marketers have a tendency to stop thinking about ROI after lead generation. The Hidden ROI of Content Marketing Platforms.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 19, 2019

Did you know that over 60% of businesses don’t have a documented content marketing strategy according to CMI and MarketingProfs? Without a plan, you risk all of your content efforts going to waste. We have 10 steps on how to create your next content marketing plan: What exactly is content marketing?

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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. 1) Content marketing benchmarks. MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute published their 10 th Annual B2B Marketing report with benchmarks, budgets and trends.

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5W PR

MARCH 2, 2020

Marketers who are successful in connecting with their target audiences would also attest to that, but is it happening? Content Marketing Institute recently weighed in on the matter by sharing results of its research of folks who work at B2B and B2C companies. Content Marketing. Why the contrast? Major Challenges.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Content marketing is all the rage nowadays. And there’s no shortage of marketing firms touting content marketing as the latest bandwagon you don’t want to miss. Yet, truth be told, content marketing is nothing new. Below are 5 essentials of an effective content marketing strategy.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It addresses a unique confluence of big ideas around technology, data, finance, economics, leadership, cybersecurity and change management. market alone. So, I drafted them up and Legaltech News saw it fit to print: 6 Pragmatic Content Marketing Tips for Bona Fide Success in Legal Tech The key point? And the six tips?

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The title: The top 10 laziest phrases in social content marketing. Because there’s only one phrase that can be labeled “the laziest” in social content marketing–and I’m not sure it’s close! The content machine is now in overdrive. ” 2 – Use a data point as a hook.

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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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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

We don’t need to sell you on the benefits of content marketing. When compared with other forms of marketing, content marketing has the potential to form a meaningful and long-lasting relationship with your customer or prospect. So, how do you get it right when it comes to content marketing?

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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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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Most of these come from registering for one-off gated content like white papers and webinars – these assets are expensive to create and promote. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 10, 2018

With the explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, an increased focus from the C-suite on business- and metrics-driven KPIs, and a new trend toward Growth PR , PR & content marketing measurement is changing – radically and rapidly. I want marketers to think more creatively and broadly about what to measure.

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Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

Kathy: In my opinion, Integrated Marketing as a function has morphed into Content Operations and Campaign Management. AirPR: Does the UL marketing team combine content marketing, PR & communications, social & digital marketing and direct marketing efforts? What are you trying to accomplish?

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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? Play to their ego. Guest Post PR 2.0

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. 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.

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Flack's Revenge

MARCH 8, 2018

Their Spike and Analytics solutions provide a wealth of data that can shed light on social media buzz and content performance. Sure, if you are a content marketing or social media jock, or work for a publication, it makes perfect sense. Despite the imperative to get more data-driven, I was just not getting it.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 28, 2021

They recently unveiled their emerging visual design trends for 2021 based on hard-core search data from their users. But, then I got to thinking: These trends can and should inspire social content marketers as you think about what kinds of visuals to use this year in your posts on Facebook, Insta, LinkedIn and other platforms.

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Flack's Revenge

AUGUST 9, 2016

At last week’s NY Data Science Meetup (at Metis NYC ) we learned how the Huffington Post , the largest social publisher, is using data science to better understand which articles can benefit from a promotional push. The meetup was about Data Science in the Newsroom. Data across the Content Life Cycle.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 8, 2019

As Contently’s co-founder and CTO, I’m always thinking about new ways software can help people. Technology has played a huge role in the growth of content marketing by simplifying communication, automating tasks, and collecting data.

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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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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2016

Earlier this year, I was a guest on the #DigitalPR Twitter chat in a conversation focused on the use of Big Data by public relations professionals for content success. The first question chat host Sally Falkow asked was whether or not the participants believe Big Data is the future of PR. Being a PR Engineer, […].

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

They took some time to catch up to other lines of business, but marketing departments are now making data and analytics a huge part of what they do. A 2018 survey by Dun & Bradstreet, for instance, found that data quality was extremely important to 63 percent of B2B companies. Data clean-up projects.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 5, 2018

Like many American marketers, I didn’t pay too much attention to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) until recently. They mainly require organizations that collect and process data to ask internet users in clear language whether they’re OK with it.”. Now the European Union (EU) says marketing must get permission.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed. This Internet media company has been making waves for almost a decade, focusing on churning out content that spreads.

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Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 1, 2019

A newly released study from small bizcontent marketing platform Matcha illuminates what’s working and what’s not in content marketing for small businesses and e-commerce stores. The post What’s working in content marketing? The […].

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