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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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

But before you post a viral video telling your boss you’re quitting your job , it’s important to make sure you’re ready for what it takes to be a successful PR business owner. and name.kitchen, where she does media relations, content marketing, and social media. Not to mention all the conferences and travel you can write off!

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Earned Media provides an abundance of PR and marketing advantages to many businesses, organizations and individuals. Stay a step ahead of your competitors in the new year by using lightning-fast media monitoring to go viral. . Share Tweet Share. Boost your Brand Awareness. Receiving instant alerts is key to boosting your brand’s name.

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Marketwired

MARCH 10, 2016

Content marketing is no longer optional as part of an overall digital marketing plan. What’s important to look at now is whether your content is connecting in the right way. In some cases, this means looking at the theme of the content, but it can be just as beneficial to look at the format of the content.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

It’s a question as old as the web – should you gate your content? It appears that most marketers do and reported gating “ 80% of their major content marketing assets ” according to a survey vetted by MarketingProfs. The same study points out there’s some content – infographics for example – is rarely gated.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

’ Then, set a clear distinction between a business goal and a marketing goal. For example, the business goal may be to drive sales, whereas the marketing goal is to drive qualified leads to demo X product, enter X store, etc. Sounds easy, right? Landsberg went on: first ask yourself, ‘why does our brand exist?’

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brands love to talk about going viral; Dubin actually did it. He created a single piece of content, and suddenly, millions of people knew about his business. The brand’s success was about more than just going viral or getting lucky. Content marketers in all industries can learn from these examples.

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Beyond PR

JULY 10, 2017

Feedback is huge when it comes to developing a successful content marketing strategy. Here, we identify five sources that can prove invaluable to you in crafting your content. Who better to listen to in order to develop more targeted content than the people that you are developing content for? Here’s an example.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Incorporating visual content into your content marketing strategy is about more than just grabbing eyeballs. Understanding these psychological aspects of visual content is crucial for content marketers. Memes: Injecting Humor and Virality Memes are a unique breed of visual content.

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Cision

AUGUST 31, 2015

If that’s even close to being true, you will have to shift your content marketing strategy. After comparing the future influx of information to a tsunami, Mark calmed everyone down by reassuring us that The Content Code has all to do with being human and less to do with SEO tactics. Want your content to stand out?

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 30, 2022

Repurposing content means repackaging one asset into multiple formats. If you’re looking for ideas on how to repurpose content and get every ounce of value from it, we have a few tips for you. For example, you can write one blog post and summarize the critical elements for a Twitter thread. Blog posts into eBooks.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 18, 2024

It’s also an extremely effective example of brand storytelling, as it was produced not by a gritty independent film studio but by the financial services platform Square. That’s a noble aim, but how can a piece of content that is not directly about a brand be one of the best examples of brand storytelling ?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2016

It’s an especially keen and timeless insight because example after example have demonstrated it’s true. Search is a form of a question…which is why answering customer questions is a sound strategy for content marketing. 1) The Science of Viral Content. All three are well worth reading thoroughly.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Today a kid in a garage can start a company, that goes viral and can touch a billion people,” as one technologist put it eloquently recently. Ello is a great example. Will Ello be reminiscent of App.net. Perhaps, but perhaps not. You must know what’s new, how it works and make and assessment of its value.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Innovations in technology and the rise of social media make it possible for bad press and controversy to spread virally. Take these other major incidents for example: Chipotle’s E.coli outbreaks and data breach. Andrew Dennis is a Senior Content Marketing Specialist at Siege Media. Toshiba’s accounting fraud.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 29, 2016

For example, if you run a charity that provides text books to elementary school students, choose a picture from a recent event that shows your volunteers handing out books to happy children. For example, you may offer a lead magnet here that encourages your first time site visitors to join your email list. Produce share-worthy content.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The story went viral in our market niche. That conjures up a business decision to fix a bug, work on a feature – or pull data periodically for marketing. In the example above, customers who opted-in had access to custom benchmarking data in granular detail. Marketing baked into the product scales.

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 17, 2018

For example, the Men’s Health’s media kit clearly states that the theme for their December coverage is tech and gear. Content Marketers are aware of major holidays on the calendar, yet we’re usually pushing to produce a holiday campaign just weeks before the holiday. Here’s an example.

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Cision

OCTOBER 21, 2015

We all want as many social media shares as we can get, but in order for us to increase our content’s chances of going viral, we must first look at the demand side. Learn how to amp up your content marketing with influencers. What does your audience want to hear? ” @markwschaefer #xpotomac15. —

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But these guys clearly got it down, and consistently produce compelling segments (one example – they actually duplicated the deck and garb of Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise in this one about Why Enterprise SEO is so Challenging ). By 2014 it was obvious that video was the rising star of content marketing.

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Beyond PR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Marketers respond to tweets, we receive feedback from surveys and we watch sales trends to determine whether messaging and targeting is effective. Where these types of insights can have the greatest benefit is in content marketing, where knowing what people care about most can deliver impactful results.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For example, visually you might reference the Eiffel Tower in an image before pointing out yourself. The implication is that free is rather expensive and can skew perception of a market (Thanks to Copyblogger’s Brian Clark for this example). But when the Kisses are offered for free, Hershey becomes far more popular.

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Polaris

MARCH 6, 2015

Did you ever wonder why one YouTube sensation is able to turn a viral video into a sustainable business while most flame out after a one-hit wonder? A former journalist turned content marketing entrepreneur, Snow has an undeniable talent for compelling story telling.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Why Picture List Posts Are The Perfect Viral Content Formula Our clever friends over at Buzzsumo reviewed over 100m Facebook posts recently. New breed competitors including content marketing, influencer outreach and SEO link-building agencies are now pitching and winning PR budgets. Watch the recording now.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 16, 2025

So Ruder Cities is an example of that. For example, things like I said, like getting over the line, lowest hanging fruit yeah. I think a lot of the the link-building efforts and content marketing in general were looking at that link velocity. We’re looking at culture. So it’s language and culture.

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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. Get key stakeholders on board.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

One of my favorite examples from this past fall was Uniqlo’s partnership with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts merging fashion, art and hands-on activities seamlessly (pun definitely intended). For example, Patagonia took a strong stand against the reduction of land in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 3, 2020

Memes, public Instagram images, and screenshots of funny things that’ve made it into the media via Facebook are just a few examples of the popular content we see constantly in today’s digital world. PRs and journalists are not immune to this – we use and re-use a vast amount on content on a daily basis. For example.

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ReimaginePR

JUNE 6, 2016

To give you an example, here’s the breakdown of two popular social media channels using research from Pew Research Center : Facebook’s prime users are females between the ages of 18–29, yet you’ll still find just as many 30–49 year old users on there too. The point is, use the exact channels your customer uses.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In corporate blogging and more broadly, in B2B content marketing , it’s not so simple. That study was produced by a different company – the Portland-based ConvertKit which provides email marketing designed for bloggers. Content Marketing: Don’t Make Home Improvements to Rental Property. Answer: Weekly.

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 25, 2022

As an example, Twitter is currently fixated on the recent Elon Musk board scandal but people will quickly move on to the next thing. Positive content is more viral. Researchers in Denmark studied a range of media types; from movie ticket purchasing habits, popular books, Tweets, as well as Wikipedia attention time.

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5W PR

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This guide aims to demystify the process, offering marketing professionals, PR strategists, brand managers, and business owners a roadmap to crafting PR stunts that are impactful, memorable, and ethical. He is passionate about purpose-driven content marketing and using outreach for good.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2015

Serial , the This American Life spin-off podcast phenomenon, debuted in October 2014 and went viral. That close relationship has many businesses wondering whether to add podcasting to their content marketing mix. Podcasting needs more equipment and resources than other forms of content marketing.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 13, 2015

One of the top questions in social media marketing (and content marketing in general) is, how do you know what content is worth promoting? Will a blog post go viral? In the example above, there’s a blog post that’s doing reasonably well on Twitter. Is a tweet less or more likely to work?

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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.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

It’s a good reminder, that it’s not the press release distribution service that results in an effective story, but rather it’s the content and context. It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. 11 Simple Ways for PR to Score Content Marketing Points.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 27, 2015

Shift gave visitors the option to download the content for free with registration – or the option to buy the eBook for $10.00. Click here for screen shot of the clever content marketing details ). Many landing pages pitch free content in exchange for contact details. Content Marketing *is* PR.

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