Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? Is content marketing important?

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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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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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 20, 2023

When you find the right metrics to prove the value of your content, you can showcase how important your work is to the organization. As content marketers, it’s our job to engage our audience , build brand awareness , and drive interest in our company’s products and services.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Some of them are buyers, which the report refers to as “decision makers” and the others come from sellers, which the report calls “producers.” The business model in B2B tech means sales owns the customer relationship – and they aren’t always so willing to spend a reference-call-chip on thought leadership.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. You’ll also get the webinar on-demand.).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business. PR is more measurable than ever. PR generates influence. But does it scale?

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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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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Many digital savvy marketers will point out in lieu of such a question, a variety of web metrics are inherently available through tagged-links, analytics and marketing automation. That’s usually true, but it doesn’t provide a long view or historical reference. Marketing: Investment, Cost or Profit Center?

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. You’ll also get the webinar on-demand.).

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Reputation Us

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Every year, the Edelman Trust Barometer measures trust in four institutions – government, media, business and NGOs. The annual survey of more than 33,000 individuals in 28 countries seeks to understand the public’s perception of trust across different markets and demographics.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. The second measure was largely a manual effort: going back through the deals closed at the end of the year and identifying which ones had downloaded gated for content featured on the blog. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 23, 2024

What is a content strategy template? A content strategy template is a roadmap for how you plan to use individual pieces of content to reach your organization’s goals. Define how you will measure success What does success look like for your content marketing goals?

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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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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 have Conversion Goals setup in Google Analytics, you will also see how many conversions occurred from each referring site. BOOM, bottom-line metrics!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

And anyone who has managed a PR-driven content marketing program understands that it can work in a far more enduring way than digital advertising. High-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, driving SEO ranking and attracting traffic for a minimal investment. PR outcomes are measurable.

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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. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing. Paid Media. Earned Media.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While you know content is integral to your lead nurturing strategy, you need more tangible results from your content marketing teams. When you work with your content team, you want to align your team goals across functions. Are the demand generation marketers working hand in hand with content?

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At the heart of this alignment lies a well-structured content framework grounded on solid topic pillars, which act as the foundation for content marketers to build compelling, relevant, and targeted content. They serve as the cornerstone of your content marketing strategy. What Are Topic Pillars?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

How is public relations measured? Public relations (PR) practitioners use a variety of methods to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. Overall, there are many ways to measure the effectiveness of PR campaigns, and the best approach will depend on the goals of the campaign and the organization.”. Maybe more. .

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

Content marketing is a crucial piece of content strategies. As technology becomes ever-present, content strategies should include video, podcasts, games, comics, events and more. Social media, e-newsletters, articles on owned websites and blogs make up the four most used content marketing tactics.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Ability to Measure Sets Paid and Editorial Apart On paper, the glaring difference between paid and editorial PR is that one is paid, which means that placement is guaranteed. However, Jerrid claims the less obvious difference (and a major advantage) of paid media is the ability to measure it. Advertising is also learning from PR.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

A 2023 Edelman study found that the responsibilities of corporate communications teams are increasing in less traditional areas like digital and social media (72%), monitoring, measurement & analytics (68%), social listening (67%), and audience insights (31%). Find out how we simplify monitoring and measurement for brands and agencies.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Digital-only media — This refers to outlets with multiple staffers and advertisers that exist only online: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Quartz, Refinery29. Other organizations’ content marketing — They have an audience and they need to keep serving them fresh, useful content. As long as they can reach people.

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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. Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer: Initially, we started referring to “PRTech” because there wasn’t yet a way to bucket what we do. How has the space changed since then? What is it?

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 17, 2024

Novelty in marketing refers to anything new, original, or unusual that makes a story stand out and grab your audience’s attention. 5 brainy benefits of novelty in marketing By understanding and leveraging the power of novelty, you can elevate your brand’s storytelling , making narratives more memorable and impactful.

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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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Cision

AUGUST 22, 2016

One of the biggest developments for content marketing may have been hidden in plain sight for the last year. From a communications and marketing perspective, it’s important to understand what AMP is, how it works and how you can implement it in your content marketing. How about without WordPress?

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

To shave off the time you spend on finding great content to share, use content curation tools like these to quickly find the kinds of articles your audience wants to read. Content Creation. Content marketing is another area that can seem overwhelming, but if you continually work on it, it won’t take over your life.

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Cision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

What this means to you is that you will no longer see the number of times that people have shared your content on Twitter. This might seem like an innocuous announcement, but it could be a huge disruptor for content, marketing and communication plans everywhere. Measurement and migration.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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. What is the content marketing sales funnel? They also know Contently gave that information to them.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using the Buzzmarker allows you to craft emails without leaving the blog page, so you can easily reference any information from the target blog post within your email. For instance, you can filter by Publication Date to find the most recent content and active blogs for outreach. Pricing: $99/mo for Lite Version 3.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using the Buzzmarker allows you to craft emails without leaving the blog page, so you can easily reference any information from the target blog post within your email. For instance, you can filter by Publication Date to find the most recent content and active blogs for outreach. Pricing: $99/mo for Lite Version 3.

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Polaris

MAY 14, 2015

I often refer to Grammar Girl (or my handy Canadian Press Style Guide ) to avoid common pitfalls of punctuation, capitalization and other grammatical fundamentals. Bonus tip: “Myself” is only used when you’ve already referred to yourself in a sentence. I’m not actually that good with grammar. 3: Fewer versus Less. 4: Lie or Lay.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 14, 2024

Closed captions are ideal for use in accessibility measures. Transcripts are the textual content of recorded material. Transcripts are ideal to use for making content more accessible. There are two types of captions: open and closed. Open captions can’t be turned off, while closed captions are easy for users to turn on and off.

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