Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. A survey I teamed up with Ned Lundquist to conduct of PR pros last year found 51% said media relations was getting harder. Myth 2: Content marketing doesn’t yield credibility. Myth 5: White papers are content marketing.

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Cision

MAY 19, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. Not long ago, we had a blog post that described five outside-the-box content marketing ideas. Attendees of New York Fashion Week share photos across social media. Native Advertising.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Anne Carton is a small business consultant, digital marketing expert and blogger working with Designhill , the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace. Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? Episodic Content .

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Cision

MAY 7, 2015

When it comes to content marketing, there’s a lot of “been there, done that” out there. You can use them on your blog, social media, email…anywhere. Infographics are another great visual addition to your content marketing arsenal. Want to create stand out content? Infographics and Graphics.

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Cision

MAY 25, 2015

If you’re a PR professional in the year 2015, you are probably well aware of a little tactic known as content marketing. for a while now in the communication world, but the PR industry is finally starting to realize that creating and owning content to tell a story is a great complement to more traditional methods.

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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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Onclusive

MARCH 21, 2018

Earned media had traditionally been the responsibility of public relations, while paid and owned media had been part of the marketing mandate. In the meantime, the rise of shared or social media complicated things further. Was it a function of PR? Its own function? The new continuous storytelling cycle.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

Again, there are tools that will automate some aspects of this game, which enable anyone to completely remove the “social” from social media. If we continue along this path, we might soon remove all aspects of humanity from social media. Are people sharing links on social media they haven’t read?

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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? Set the agenda. Play to their ego. Guest Post PR 2.0

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2018

You cannot run content marketing like a campaign. You can, however, run campaigns inside a content marketing program. Campaigns are how every marketer is trained to think. a white paper that makes the case for solving a problem in a new way. It might even be integrated marketing.

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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. How-To-Guides.

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Cision

JULY 21, 2015

While each component of your marketing strategy (email, PR, social media, blogs) should bring you results, it’s often better when two or more components work together. Take blogging and social media. Here’s how you can boost your blog’s traffic with a few social media tricks. Repost on LinkedIn.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For today’s content creators and content marketing teams, unique original content is always the best route to take. The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike.

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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? White papers.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who: Sarah is a UK-based blogger, content marketer, speaker and mom. 3: Content Marketing Institute. Who: Joe Pulizzi, a leading evangelist for content marketing, founded the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) in 2007. There are lots of free ones available for download. Here are 5 to consider.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 30, 2017

The technology analyst firm Gartner recently weighed in on the difference between “content marketing” and “marketing content.”. Marketing content, according to Gartner, is “All content assets created by marketing teams.”. If one source doesn’t provide utility in content, another will.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

(click image for higher resolution) Three examples of marketing programs The best part about programs versus campaigns is that it’s an approach that requires re-tasking, re-structuring, and re-organizing – but not more budget or headcount. We also did external comms (PR), internal comms, social media and analyst relations.

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5W PR

MAY 17, 2022

Companies can also find people on social media platforms that provide businesses with news coverage at a faster pace. When companies use a combination of both fast-moving and familiar options for distributing their content, they can increase both their impact and their reach. Repurposing content. Art and science.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. For content generation and syndication. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 18, 2015

Content marketing surveys consistently demonstrate the biggest barrier facing marketer is feeding the content monster. There is a straight forward answer to this problem: Upwards of “60-70% of content produced by B2B marketing goes unused,” according to a white paper by Kapost which cites research by SiriusDecisions.

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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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5W PR

MARCH 26, 2024

Content marketing Complement the PR efforts with a strong content marketing strategy. Craft informative blog posts, white papers, and even video content that delve into the technical aspects of the solutions while keeping things engaging and informative.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 10, 2024

Strategists, too, learning how to use ChatGPT for content marketing have likely encountered less-than-revelatory “strategies” like “create compelling content that resonates with your target audience.” ” It’s unsurprising that AI leans heavily on cliches. Below are four to keep in mind.

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Cision

JANUARY 9, 2018

Nearly 70 percent of marketers rate charts and graphics as the most engaging type of visual content. Infographics are plug and play, citable and are liked and shared 3x more on social media. Elevate the efficacy of your content and garner more earned media with Cision’s multimedia distribution. White Papers.

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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? Edit your media.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 16, 2016

In this case, market research has consistently demonstrated people favor recommendations from peers over brands. So while content marketing is the new branding , it’s becoming more evident that PR is the best kept secret in content marketing. No easier opportunity exists than in repurposing content.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 13, 2019

Albane is a marketing manager at Talkwalker, where she coordinates the brand presence’s in the United States, from influencer relationships to content marketing. She lives on Twitter and works with social media experts from all over the world on white papers and webinars about new technologies and digital trends.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Content marketing has evolved, but only 38 percent of B2C marketers consider their strategy to be effective in boosting the bottom line. So what part of the new state of content marketing is most challenging? Learn what is needed to get started and how this model can help your content and social media strategies.

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The Stalwart Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

A few months ago, our agency learned that more of our clients and prospects were in need of greater content marketing assistance. While we’ve always been a PR and Marketing agency, the majority of our work has primarily been focused on media relations. It means putting out quality content on a continuous basis.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Something similar has happened in content marketing and blogging in the marketing community. Too many marketers believe that short content outperforms long form. This analysis was part of a larger study that SEMrush published titled the Global State of Content Marketing Report 2019.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Ask questions on social media. Share the right content on the right social media network.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 9, 2024

Our guide to repurposing content can help you squeeze more juice out of the content you’ve already invested in, but with far less effort than it takes to whip up something fresh. The stats from a recent white paper you published find new life as a shareable infographic. Which podcast episodes have the most downloads?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2023

B2B buyers say they want quality content that demonstrates you understand their industry, and their company and helps them to build a business case to buy your tech product One of the reasons content marketing is so important to B2B companies is the fact that the last person a buyer speaks to is a salesperson.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. Paid Media. Earned Media. Shared Media. Owned Media.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We develop a content marketing strategy that encompasses: Expert commentary – weighing in on relevant news. White papers – a great way to demonstrate thought capital in long form to a particular audience. Social media – to show some leader personality and to leverage all of the other output.

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