Sword and the Script

JANUARY 21, 2025

Further, George Lucas seemingly draws on real historical events in his storytelling. Bonus: I take the best of what Ive read about marketing and comms and add it to a monthly newsletter. Since I work in technology, which is by definition the application of science for practical use, there is some direct professional development value.

Google 157

Google Course Survey YouTube 157

Polaris

DECEMBER 15, 2014

10th, the most viewed title during the 30-day binge blogging challenge was “ Blogger Outreach Versus Media Relations: What Marketers Need To Know ”. It received more than twice as many views as the 2nd most popular post, “ Guitar Center: Content Marketing and Storytelling at Their Best.” As I write this post on Dec.

Blogging 156

Blogging B2C Social Media Facebook 156

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 13, 2016

Teams and Skill Sets: Recruiting and developing team members with digital skill sets that are aligned with a model for publishing original content in a scale-able way. Content Marketing: Moving from interruption-marketing strategies to a publishing strategy that is in line with changes in audiences’ information consumption preferences.

Marketing 100

Marketing Digital PR Enterprise Technology 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 13, 2016

Teams and Skill Sets: Recruiting and developing team members with digital skill sets that are aligned with a model for publishing original content in a scale-able way. Content Marketing: Moving from interruption-marketing strategies to a publishing strategy that is in line with changes in audiences’ information consumption preferences.

Marketing 100

Marketing Digital PR Enterprise Technology 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 13, 2016

Teams and Skill Sets: Recruiting and developing team members with digital skill sets that are aligned with a model for publishing original content in a scale-able way. Content Marketing: Moving from interruption-marketing strategies to a publishing strategy that is in line with changes in audiences’ information consumption preferences.

Marketing 100

Marketing Digital PR Enterprise Technology 100

Presspage

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Angelo Harms, Digital Marketing Manager at Curacao Tourist Board: “When I started in my current role, we felt like we needed to transition our marketing efforts more towards what the trend is nowadays: digital and inbound marketing.” In particular, the SEO options and storytelling features captured my attention.

Tourism 122

Tourism SEO Storytelling Social Media 122

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. 13) Storytelling the hottest trend in PR in 2018. Most (59%) of U.S.-based

Survey 107

Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 107

ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If you want to be noticed in the crowd, video is a definitely way to dominance. Why Video Marketing is Important. Video is an essential part of your content marketing strategy. So you should definitely create you own thumbnail, and you can do that with the help of a graphic editor. Click Here. Optimize Your Titles.

Video 120

Video Strategy YouTube Marketing 120

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 24, 2016

Teams and Skill Sets: Recruiting and developing team members with digital skill sets that are aligned with a model for publishing original content in a scale-able way. Content Marketing: Moving from interruption-marketing strategies to a publishing strategy that is in line with changes in audiences’ information consumption preferences.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR Enterprise Technology Study 100

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. One respondent defined storytelling as “Developing a narrative arc with strong, relatable characters who live their values and make a difference.” Top tactics in PR and comms.

Survey 144

Survey Measurement Public Affairs Storytelling 144

Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 9, 2019

For GE, however, it’s the culmination of a decade-long commitment to content marketing. As a result, the brief brims with journalistic rigor, pulling in stories from GE Reports , the brand’s main content hub, where employees across the globe explain new research and innovations by focusing on ideas instead of products.

How To 111

How To Transportation Content Marketing Healthcare 111

ReimaginePR

AUGUST 22, 2016

The most important part of branding is storytelling. And the most important part of storytelling is connecting with your audience. Every message it shares contains a little bit of heroism, from its marketing material to the way Nike portrays its chief executives as trail blazers and community leaders. Click To Tweet.

Branding 156

Branding Brand How To Storytelling 156

Ishmael's Corner

MAY 22, 2017

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Kennedy is one of my favorites and definitely relevant to the Agency’s trajectory. appeared first on Ishmael's Corner ~ Storytelling Techniques For Business Communications. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. This quote from John F.

Storytelling 76

Storytelling Communications Publicity Google 76

PRSay

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If you don’t know your audience, then that’s definitely the place to start. We’ve also found that an earned media management strategy works best when you designate a leader, a strategist, a storyteller and an analyst. Here are four, key steps to understanding and maximizing earned media management: Step 1: Target.

Media 102

Media Storytelling System Technology 102

Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The movie features entities that have an unsettling smile, causing harm to those who see it, so the marketing team behind the movie hired actors to stare into the camera at the games while donning their creepiest smiles. What is content marketing and how can it help your business? The importance of storytelling in PR .

Social Media 118

Social Media Fashion Media Travel 118

ISEBOX

JULY 24, 2015

No one content format will engage all of your prospects and drive traffic, which is why we need to leverage multimedia content in our marketing strategies. Need proof that multimedia is on the rise in content marketing? Multimedia Delivers “Real Beauty’s” Real Storytelling Power. Have a look at the numbers.

Infographics 70

Infographics Storytelling Video YouTube 70

ReimaginePR

MAY 9, 2016

See, when we sense a discrepancy in the stories we hear or read, we’re really raising a mental red flag about the storyteller, not just about the story being told. When they spot something that doesn’t add up, they’ll just pick up and leave—which is definitely not something you can afford.

Writing 120

Writing Storytelling Branding Brand 120

wiredPRworks

APRIL 20, 2022

New additions to the new rules of marketing and PR. Future trends in marketing and PR. How real-time marketing and PR works. Storytelling success stories. The one marketing lesson you need to learn from the Grateful Dead [hint: it’s free]. Your marketing should be too, but there are challenges to be aware of.

Marketing 118

Marketing Social Media Trends Instagram 118

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.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Facebook Groups Reputation 100

Sword and the Script

MARCH 14, 2017

Game Theory: Content Marketing as an Infinite Game. Art or Science: Creative Marketing and PR. Creative Storytelling as the Soul of B2B Marketing [UML]. The marketing landscape is noisier than ever and many businesses resort to trying to shout louder or performing outrageous marketing stunts.

Marketing 74

Marketing Creativity Leadership Storytelling 74

Ishmael's Corner

MAY 10, 2015

One person who has labored over B2B content, what works and what doesn’t work, is my good friend and colleague Steve Farnsworth. In short, Steve knows content marketing and the nitty gritty of lead generation. With this as the backdrop, here are his top 10 tools and resources that he applies to content marketing campaigns.

Tools 60

Tools B2B Software Storytelling 60

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For the next two minutes, he launched into an absurdly dense definition as the packed lecture hall listened attentively. The storytelling solution. Neanderthals were actually much stronger than humans and had bigger brains, but the reason we became the dominant human species is because we had an incredible storytelling superpower.

Marketing 88

Marketing Storytelling Travel Corporate 88

Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

Solid storytelling, writing and editing skills are still very much in demand. Under its ever-broadening current definition, AI can encompass any kind of pattern-matching automation, from a digital assistant like Siri, to the algorithms social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok use to provide users with personalized content.

Communications 97

Communications Marketing Pitching Technology 97

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.

Case Study 110

Case Study Marketing Study Content Marketing 110

Critical Mention

JUNE 24, 2018

Q: What’s your definition of an “influencer?”. With everything in real-time, for example, look at how we’re using streaming video in our storytelling. Since I’m a professor and a storyteller who publishes frequently, Grammarly is also crucial. Deirdre: I’m really glad you asked me that.

Storytelling 106

Storytelling Technology Course Privacy 106

ReimaginePR

AUGUST 1, 2016

For most brands, that’s definitely Facebook. So, whether or not you actively cultivate a community on Facebook, you should definitely use it to market your business. A lot of brands try to do too much. I recommend focusing on one social channel and dominating it. You simply need to be where your audience lives.

Branding 120

Branding Brand Marketing How To 120

Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Consider the following: Investments in content marketing continue to rise. Content partnerships with major media outlets are taking off.

Media Relations 60

Media Relations Media Newspapers Print 60

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). Scott Kaminski is a client-side corporate storyteller who currently manages marketing communications and public relations for Häfele America Co.,

Survey 81

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 81

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

However, the tactics used have definitely transformed, thanks mostly to new technology, the metamorphosis of the news industry and the rise of social media.”. Off Script #7: Lou Hoffman on PR and Storytelling. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: 11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points.

Course 60

Course Measurement Advertising Advertising 60

ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

While that may have been okay for your mom’s generation, times have definitely changed. You’ll be able to easily identify them because they’re the brands that refer to themselves in third person and use overly formal language to communicate with their audience. Audiences demand a more human voices from the brands that they do business with.

Branding 120

Branding Brand Exercises Social Media 120

MaccaPR

JUNE 1, 2016

This format is the result of an intersection of news and content marketing, a completely unprecedented space in the media landscape in which online users are perusing articles, sending snaps and sharing memes that often are riddled with brand messaging. By definition, click-bait promises more than will be delivered.

Branding 48

Branding Brand Storytelling Healthcare 48

Beyond PR

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.

Infographics 72

Infographics Case Study Video Survey 72

ReimaginePR

JUNE 6, 2016

Which is definitely smart; traveling without a guide into a foreign territory isn’t wise or safe unless you’re experienced. If I were to (safely) drop you out of a helicopter and into an uninhabited territory, and you were left alone to find your way home using the sun and stars as your guide, would you go?

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Instagram Advertising 120

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2016

From design tools to understanding analytics, measurement and the changing face of PR in the digital era, the Twitterati have definitely been my guiding light. . It was last year in October that I decided to start a chat to build a community of PR pros, marketers, and entrepreneurs in India to discuss topics of mutual interests.

Meeting 40

Meeting Communications Marketing Community 40

Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

Content Storytelling – the best tips from each panelist on planning, producing and publishing stories for social media. Brian Rudolph, Global Digital Marketing Lead, Verifone ( @brianrudolph ) – Brian formerly worked in digital marketing and social media management roles for AT&T and The Coca-Cola Company.

Social Media 40

Social Media Media Storytelling Local 40

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. Ask 10 different experts to define AI, and you’ll likely get 10 different definitions. Now, if you’re new to AI, even that basic definition is a bit abstract.

Marketing 53

Marketing Software eBook Technology 53

PR in High Definition

JUNE 20, 2019

Meanwhile, the friendship between PR (the bride) and content marketing (her maid of honour) blooms as PR has moved further and further away from being purely media relations focused, and instead become a more holistic communication approach, reaching audiences through many channels.

Banking 48

Banking Course Storytelling B2B 48