Onclusive

OCTOBER 18, 2017

New AirPR Webinar Explores How to Measure True Multi-Channel ROI. We live in the age of the integrated marketing campaigns. Instead of sending a single email or posting a blog, companies leverage a myriad of tactics to drive their message: social media, PR, content, PPC and more. Identifying the goal. Identifying the goal.

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Measurement Marketing Social Media Web 150

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. It’s incredibly difficult to measure a direct return-on-investment from most traditional media relations efforts. The Earned Media Domino Effect.

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Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Content marketing has the power to turn your brand into a driving force in your industry, but with so much competition in the marketplace, how can you ensure that your content makes an impact? What other challenges do you see brands facing in terms of content? Q: How has content marketing changed in recent years?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The head-on approach to customer acquisition works less, and the indirect approach (via content marketing in many cases) works better….in There is more content than ever, but most content fails miserably. Second, you have to be able to know definitively what these influencers are doing for your business.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts. I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) this year.

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Content Marketing B2B Marketing eBook 119

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 27, 2019

Content marketing could quite possibly be the most misunderstood concept in marketing today. Most confuse content marketing as synonymous with content, which is a solid way to make sure your content marketing program underperforms, or worse, fails. So, what is content marketing?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In fact, you must publish content in order for it to be indexed and returned in response to search. That’s the gist of a piece Michael Brenner wrote for the Content Marketing Institute last week titled The Best Reason to Do Content Marketing? b) Integrated marketing. b) Integrated marketing.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message. Market Surveys –Typically this will involve before-and-after surveys regarding awareness of your brand. Be more selective.

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Cision

DECEMBER 8, 2015

While analytics typically comes toward the end of a content marketing process, it’s first in the alphabet so we’ll start there. A is for analytics, which is extremely important in not only learning how many visitors and shares you have on your content, but how many qualified leads you are generating. A is for analytics.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Analytics Blogging Education 120

PRSay

MAY 29, 2019

If you asked people where they get their content these days, you might be surprised by how many rely on social influencers and viral platforms like Uplift and Humankind to hear from their favorite brands. People want to believe the marketing they see is authentic, while also relating to the influencers and platforms doing the amplifying.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 24, 2018

This compounding effect is analogous to some aspects of content marketing , especially in audience growth. It’s important to note in this context, content marketing means something very specific : developing useful and relevant content consistently over time, on an owned media platform, in order to attract and grow an audience.

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Content Marketing Financial Marketing Banking 61

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I asked Rebecca questions based on her recent research report for Altimeter Group about content, measurement and KPIs: Q1: Why are marketers finding measurement to be the single most formidable content marketing challenge? What is it about measurement that seems to stump them? and, of course, KPIs.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 9, 2024

Every content marketer loves the feeling when a content piece climbs the rankings for views, engagement, and, ultimately, conversion. But nowadays, marketers have more reliable ways to choose content topics that are likely to engage customers. What is data-driven content, and why should content marketers create it?

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Content Marketing Data Marketing SEO 52

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Content marketing is blending the functions of marketing and sales to the extent, marketing has lost its focus on creating demand. That’s my take after listening to Tom Webster evolve a concept over couple of podcasts on The Marketing Companion and finally rendered in a more polished format on Mark W.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 18, 2014

New social media platforms will launch while existing platforms evolve and change—likely in a way that’s disadvantageous to marketers unless they invest in paid media. The lines between public relations, social media, content marketing—and every other marketing discipline—will continue to blur. How do we measure results?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” To be sure, America definitely has a problem trusting the media. Keep your content marketing separate and distinct. Among the key findings, was that business is now the most trusted institution.

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Government Survey Ethics Media 135

Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

Instead, she said her brand’s ad agency was producing a “million-dollar campaign,” and the company’s existing content was just being used by the PR department. This example is the definition of taking shortcuts. The post Take Your Marketing to the Next Level — Without Facebook appeared first on Cision.

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Inbound PR

MARCH 22, 2024

The definition of public relations has expanded and now includes activities such as managing social networks, developing blogs, implementing email marketing campaigns, participating in events, and more. Gone are the days when PR solely provided support; now, it is recognized that communication must have a strategic focus.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. Why Content Marketing and Public Relations Need Each Other.

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Cision

AUGUST 18, 2015

Gary Vaynerchuk , business builder and owner of VaynerMedia , knows the secret to attracting your audience: quality content and effective communication. At his upcoming free webinar, “ The Do’s and Don’t’s of Social Media ROI ,” Gary will discuss how to accurately measure your social efforts to track your performance.

Communications 120

Communications Social Media Television Radio 120

Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Word on the street is that audio is (re)emerging as one of the fastest growing content platforms for 2015. Freshen up your skills with metrics: CyberAlert created a wonderful resource called The 2014 Measurement Handbook for PR, Marketing and Social Media. Good stuff, Cyberalert! It’s awesome! It’s a keeper.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For many PR professionals, Referral traffic is the main website metric they use to measure PR success because it works the most like traffic from advertising or organic search. If you haven’t used Google Search Console much, it’s definitely worth a look. The website that sent the traffic to your site is known as the “Source.”.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

However, even those that answered definitively indicated they were are open to changing their mind depending on the issue and organization. PR measurement. While more respondents (38%) said “no” brands should not take a stand – and that represents the single largest grouping of answers – it’s not a majority.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2020

Bylines provide “an accountability measure,” as the Poynter Institute , a research organization dedicated to improving journalism, says. Company blogs are not journalism, but the best performing ones take a journalistic approach to content. That is by definition “ sameness.” Give our services a try. Image credit: Unsplash.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 18, 2015

Moderated by Maccabee''s Social Media Director Christina Milanowski, the panel discussions featured content marketing all-stars: Angela Dalton , Content Strategist and Senior Marketing Planner, General Mills – Tablespoon.com. Brian Enderlein , Digital Media, Interactive Marketing & Analytics, 3M.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 11, 2024

However, this explosion of resources presents a mounting challenge for financial services companies that have relied on tried-and-true content marketing playbooks for years. So, what should content marketing for financial services look like in 2024? In that regard, content is hugely important.

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Financial Content Marketing Marketing How To 52

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: How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2019

It’s a bit like that with gated content. Marketers tend to be for it or against it – and passion may sometimes cloud new perspective. The Case Supporting Gated Content. Here are the key arguments for gating content. Gates provide marketing justification. — Tom Fishburne (@tomfishburne) March 13, 2016.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Without a clear definition of the ultimate aim of your marketing campaign, it’s impossible to be able to measure the results. With that in mind, here are five of our top tips for making sure your campaigns convert. Set your campaign goals and make them SMART.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Enter earned media management — the system we use to think about, track and measure earned media at Cision. If you don’t know your audience, then that’s definitely the place to start. Step 3: Measure. She previously managed content and social media for several brands, in addition to working as a freelance writer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 19, 2014

The concept of people posting publicly but not exactly understanding that it can—and possibly would—be monitored was definitely a hot-button issue for chat participants. Events Guest Posts Measurement MeasurePR Resources comply socially eric schwartzman social media monitoring social media training' MeasurePR #measurepr. See you then!

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Privacy Training Social Media Media Training 93

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute. It’s a growing trend and it is definitely impacting the practice of PR. 59% od companies surveyed late last year say hiring of content marketing is imminent. We are the storytellers and content marketing should be our domain.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But in practice, people use different definitions and trip up on the different parts of the funnel. When you map all of your content marketing to the funnel, things get trickier. Most content marketers, unlike sales reps, usually shy away from promotional ad copy that could scare their audience away.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 24, 2015

So that’s what we focused on for the April #measurePR Twitter chat; how to measure community, how to tell when community-building initiatives are working (and when they’re not), and how community-focused metrics might change over time. Experts in measuring community. At the heart of social PR lies community. SeeDepth Inc.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? What is that if not the definition of “authoritative”? So when the nature of authoritative content is changing so dramatically, how you measure the success of your content has to change as well.

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Measurement System Blogging Facebook 40

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tie that same concept into content marketing, and you’ve got gamified content. In other words, content that incorporates common features found in games, like puzzles, points, leaderboards, and badges. By definition, play is a fun activity. What is gamification in marketing?

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Marketing Content Marketing Analysis B2B 93