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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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In a few hours from now, I’ll be heading to AdWeek DC to moderate a panel on content marketing. Then on Friday, I head to Boston to speak at PRSA’s Association/Nonprofit Section Half-Day Conference on email marketing. Notice a common thread here? Nowhere in the panel descriptions do you see “PR.”

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 20, 2017

Now you are at a Google search distance from the future you. Through a simple Google search, you’ll find hundreds of articles on the topic. You are the project manager of every new launch that involves social media, media relations, internal communications, etc. PR professional development has never been this accessible.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When you invite internal and external subject matter experts to contribute to your content marketing program, it’s important to have guidelines for them to follow. The less time you need to spend editing content and following up with contributors, the more time you have for strategy and optimization.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Far too many brands delegate, and relegate social strategy development and implementation to their ad agencies, internal marketing departments, even their PR intern, with a mandate to replicate, share, and spread commercial messages. Have you been recommending a change in strategy regarding social media? Be Helpful.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1.

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Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

Go to your website or your internal server/Dropbox/Google Drive and grab your most recent frequently asked questions sheet. Now, choose 10 of these items you’d like to use for content. Go back to your list of 10 keywords or phrases and, one-by-one, type them into a Google search bar. Cool, right?

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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

APRIL 27, 2017

Communicators need to learn a new language: One of the biggest themes was addressing the elephant in the room: earned media (PR/communications/media relations) budgets do not get as much money allocated to them as owned media or paid media (internal content or advertising) do – despite the fact consumers trust earned media the most.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Their services include targeted distribution to journalists, newsrooms, and media outlets, as well as multimedia embedding and detailed analytics. Drawbacks: Pricing may be higher than some competitors; detailed package features are not extensively outlined on the website. media outlets U.S.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Google Glass is still at a rudimentary stage. But many companies jumping on the content marketing band wagon get it spectacularly wrong. Earlier this week Anne Gregory, president of the Global Alliance of international PR associations, tweeted about her abhorrence of the term corporate journalism.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A content marketer’s job is to create quality content that gets in front of readers organically. After all, what is content worth if you don’t access the readers who would most benefit from your writing? NLP is more prevalent than you might realize—Alexa, Siri, and Google voice assistants all leverage NLP.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

The good news is that many companies have already cracked the thought leadership code using strategies that content marketers can emulate. We’ll walk through examples from organizations like Google, FedEx, Cigna, and more and break down the steps you can take to develop a thought leadership program of your own.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s the year 2010, before anyone even knows to ask the question, “What are content marketing platforms?” You’re playing Angry Birds, listening to “Bulletproof” on repeat, and loving every product Google releases. As a marketing manager, you’ve embraced Gmail, and Google Docs has changed the way you collaborate with your team.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 23, 2015

Janet Fouts , who founded Tatu Digital Media , read this post – Scale Content Marketing: Employees are the Secret – and invited me to a Google Hangout to discuss it (She previously produced The Friday Hangout , a regular weekly show with Steve Farnsworth and Adam Helweh ). How to Energize the Enterprise for Content Marketing.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

If you’re a marketer or business owner with limited experience working with marketing and PR agencies, or you’re unhappy with an existing partner, read on for 5 steps to help you hire the right marketing and PR firm to help build your business. Is the scope of work regional, national or international? 2: Scope of work.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Asian News International (ANI) Status: Pending / Ongoing Date of Lawsuit: November 2024 In November 2024, Indias largest news agency, Asian News International (ANI), filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company used its content without authorization to train AI models and generated false stories attributed to ANI.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 2, 2024

Every content marketer has heard the saying: “Content is king!” ” In fact, all great marketing leaders know that producing great campaigns starts with compelling content. Content marketers are asked to serve nearly every department in the business. The problem? So how do they do it?

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 29, 2021

That was surely the case when our public relations agency hosted Joe Pulizzi, the Amazon best-selling author of “Killing Marketing,” “Content Inc.” ” and “Epic Content Marketing” and founder of the Content Marketing Institute, in our almost-monthly Sharper Angle webinar series.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I have to use Teams, Wrike, Kapost, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Data Studio, Sharepoint, Salesforce, Oktopost and Slack to communicate with clients and teams. I have colleagues who also layer on Trello and other content management systems as well. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By focusing on building trust, marketing and communications pros will also raise Google search algorithm ranking. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. Great leaders make clear and transparent communication a top priority.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Developing a concrete plan for what happens after you publish means identifying the right internal stakeholders to start the distribution process. Figure out what cross-functional team members need to be involved in promoting and distributing the content before it’s created. Execute a larger internal communications plan.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 16, 2025

We dive into their in-house vs agency approach, link velocity benchmarks, international strategy, and how theyre preparing for an AI-driven search future. Build campaigns with media in mind first , then optimize for SEO later through internal linking. Content we discussed in the talk: Rudest Cities in the U.S. Daniele: Okay.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 25, 2023

What does voice search mean for content marketers in 2023? But first, let’s connect the dots between voice search and digital marketing. Voice Search & Digital Marketing: What’s the Connection? As a consequence, you need to optimize your content to ensure rank in voice search results.

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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? Your Prospects.

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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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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Google Penguin and Panda have changed thr face of search forever. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Social Media Strategy for Social Signals : Google tends to spend most of its attention on sites that are constantly changing and updating. It’s worth it!

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Before we called it content marketing, we called it marketing communications.

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Critical Mention

JULY 13, 2021

The release follows a number of other significant feature adds, including a Google Analytics integration , industry-first Media Contact Database features and Podcast Monitoring. Making the decision to build our features internally meant that our entire organization had to make a commitment to a lot of hard work and creative solutions.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Creating good content is just half the content marketing equation. The other half is content distribution. First, for many marketers, so much effort is poured into the creation that distribution becomes an afterthought. It’s not enough to just mention people in content, you must tell them about it too.

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The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Watch our video to find out how to make your PR coverage more visible on Google. Free tool: visualise multi-channel reports in Google Analytics. Is anybody else confused by multi-channel reports in Google Analytics? He’s talking about the same topic the PRSA International conference this weekend in Atlanta.

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Cision

APRIL 21, 2015

Google receives 4 million search queries per minute , about twice the number it received in 2012. One reason is that Google is always within arm’s reach. From interns to executives, everyone has some writing skill, but many have never put together a professional video. Best Practices Featured Content Marketing video'

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The term “buyer persona” has reached peak interest in the last five years, according to Google Trends. If B2B marketing isn’t careful with how these are sourced and created, then interest could plateau or decline. These are fundamental building blocks of effective marketing. Game Theory: Content Marketing as an Infinite Game.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Perhaps they don’t have an internal brand ambassador program of any kind ( a what? ), and they are terrified at the very THOUGHT of giving employees online freedom and autonomy. This tells LinkedIN and Google to treat it like syndicated content. So what’s a PR pro to do?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 21, 2018

Like many companies, PR firms need to ensure that our content marketing and other campaigns are compliant with the new regs. Once upon a time, Facebook, Google, and Apple were viewed as shining examples of U.S. Internally, data can inform our PR strategy and make our branded content better and more engaging.

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