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? Focus on the content. Play to their ego.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Here are the metrics that every PR pro should measure. Additionally, some journalists report that they reject up to 95 percent of the pitches they receive on a weekly basis. With odds like these, it’s important to measure your pitching efforts and other online work to make sure everything is working properly.

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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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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing. 3) Quality matters in content marketing.

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Content Marketing Social Media SEO Publicity 142

Contently - Strategy

MAY 7, 2020

When you’re working in a larger organization that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, you can develop a brilliant content marketing strategy that will absolutely delight your customers. But, if you fail to make an internal case for your content, your plan will never get the buy-in or budget it needs to succeed.

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Content Marketing Marketing Case Study Internal 141

Cision

JANUARY 5, 2017

Recent research from The Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs found the top two factors in increased content marketing effectiveness are doing a better job with content creation (85%) and developing or adjusting their content marketing strategy (72%). SMARTER goals. PESO tactics.

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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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Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2020

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing.

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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.

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Cision

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Many in PR are familiar with looking at a publication’s calendar to know what to pitch them in a timely manner. However, given the rise in popularity of content marketing, marketers now find value in having an internal content calendar to stay organized with what they publish on their blogs, websites, press releases and social media.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The new goals of digital PR While your clients might still want to see vanity metrics and concrete data, it's your job to make sure they also understand that success isn't only measured by the number of media mentions, backlinks, and press releases being sent out. This is important and measures general brand awareness.

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Digital PR Case Study SEO Measurement 104

Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

“Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. After hundreds of meetings and workshops this year, I feel confident that content marketing is about to take a big leap—thanks to a few key factors.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 20, 2017

The same applies if you want to improve your pitching journalists or learning how to prove your PR work is tied to business results. From traditional media relations to social media, influencer marketing, content marketing, building community, measuring results, and so much more. Become Fearless.

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Community Social Media Course Measurement 244

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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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Once upon a time, emailing journalists meant buying a list of media email addresses and blasting out a generic pitch. Some got coverage, but the vast majority of pitches were irrelevant, which decreased journalist receptivity to pitches overall. Personalized email pitching is the key to success today.

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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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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. The survey found, “The top three areas live event budgets will be reallocated to are content creation (43%): hosted webinars (40%); and search marketing (33%).”. The deluge of PR pitches.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. cookies) is in its twilight which puts diminishes marketing reach and targeting. Blogger outreach gets personal.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. These stories generate 83% more page views, 39% more time spent reading the content and 103% more sharing activity than other topics. She will answer questions about PR measurement.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. These stories generate 83% more page views, 39% more time spent reading the content and 103% more sharing activity than other topics. Take an Original Angle.

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Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2021

However, the cadence of publishing still meets one absolute requirement of content marketing : consistency in publishing matters as much as anything else. If you want content marketing to augment PR, social media and other marketing activities…. If you want to build an audience of subscribers….

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 24, 2017

While product trials and demos can whet an editor’s appetite for a story, recipes are rich content that can both maximize PR campaigns and drive measurable business results in multiple ways. Let’s face it though – if you’re pitching a turkey-themed recipe, odds are so is everyone else. according to Google Trends. Alan Marcus.

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Content Marketing Marketing Google Trends 74

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market.

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Technology Publicity Software Pitching 173

5W PR

JANUARY 4, 2025

Content marketing is another powerful tool that can help companies attract and retain potential players. By creating high-quality content like vlogs, trailers, and gameplay videos, companies can showcase the development process, generate excitement, and provide valuable insights into the game.

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Marketing Instagram Advertising Advertising 78

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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B2B Study Blogging Survey 169

Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Measured on clicks, quick hits.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

PRs can then reach out to pitch “thought leaders,” authors and other spokespeople to any number of shows looking for talent or topic-specific expertise. Think again, you may need Scoop.it, a content marketing automation SaaS platform that uses AI to help grow traffic and lead generation through content.

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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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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Everyone is doing content marketing these days. In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. You can also think about these in stages of content marketing maturity, though I’d caution, you never done with any given stage. Analyze, but experiment.

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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. increase brand awareness.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Other organizations’ content marketing — They have an audience and they need to keep serving them fresh, useful content. Establish a personal relationship with the content team and work out a way to share each other’s stuff. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here.

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Landis PR

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The show excels at breaking down complex topics like artificial intelligence in PR, social media analytics and content marketing into practical, implementable steps. Each episode provides inspiration for crafting more engaging press releases, pitches and content.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. Turning PR into a measurable science means there is no longer room for personal preference. It was subjective. You can’t argue with the data. What is it?

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Buzzstream

APRIL 2, 2025

A different team member wrote each chapter, encompassing everything from digital PR history to tactics to measuring performance. Digital PR is more than “PR done online” ; it’s a strategic blend of content marketing, SEO, and traditional PR tactics, focused on earning links and building brand credibility.

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Digital PR Brand Branding SEO 62

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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PRSay

MAY 29, 2019

You’ll need to iron out specific language (hashtags, links, phrasing) and also establish a way to measure the results of the influencer’s reach. Just like with traditional pitches, you’ll need to demonstrate how your story will succeed on their platform. Use analytics to measure your success.

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