Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Campaigns sometimes become the foundation of marketing activity. Creative briefs. Measurement. click image for higher resolution) Build marketing and PR programs What’s a better approach? You develop a defined process for promoting it – from publication to measurement – and let the program run. The results?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s not uncommon for specialized agencies to be hired on a project basis to help with specific repositioning or market research. Measuring the effectiveness of internal communications is an interesting PR problem that has often been debated by experts. Media Measurement. Event & Experiential Marketing.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2023

Public relations has always been a challenge to measure. However, now that public relations is overlapping with marketing, you’d think demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) would be getting easier. If there’s anything marketing has a lot of, then it’s metrics. However, EMV baselines fluctuate like the stock market.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The agency market is in flux as the economy reinflates. Agency positioning for growth Another significant focus is helping agencies sort out their marketing and sales processes, and refine their proposition. COVID-19 is flushing out a fiercely competitive market. But there’s plenty of opportunity. It’s understandable.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. We could do marketing mix optimizations and even ROI, but PR was always on the outside of that.

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Onclusive

MARCH 17, 2020

Traditional models of PR measurement no longer work (i.e. Digital has become intrinsic to the PR and communications landscape, and diversification is forcing measurement to become more innovative than ever. In a time where measurement is increasingly critical, it’s becoming more and more complex to do. A new approach.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The most effective PR pros agree measurement is more than impressions, and yet clients and leadership keep requesting those numbers anyway. How can we show stakeholders that taking PR measurement beyond impressions helps us better celebrate success — while also providing greater insight into what we can improve? Define your client(s).

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PR Conversations

JUNE 28, 2020

I used to follow Don’s blog, MetricsMan as he was one of the leading figures discussing measurement and evaluation at this time (along with Katie Delahaye Paine ). It was followed in August by the post Mobile Marketing: Use the Four Media Types in Promotion , where she talked about integrating paid, earned, owned, and shared.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

In a perfect world, public relations and marketing teams would work together more often to achieve common goals. But let’s be honest: we’re all fighting an uphill battle in reducing organizational drag , and not everyone needs to be in your weekly marketing meeting. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to the 2017 State of Inbound report, 63 percent of marketers feel that generating traffic and leads remains the biggest challenge in their work. However, your goals must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART). However, reaching the top of the earned media pyramid is easier said than done.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s like an unsung hero of the public relations world — not flashy or creative, but vital to a robust media placement schedule. Though they’re typically created for advertising purposes, edcals give a PR team a topic guide for creation of press releases, blog posts and content marketing. Measure Performance.

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Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives. MMM doesn’t account for user-level engagements, whereas data-driven attribution models will measure impressions, clicks, and other user activities. Data integration across all marketing channels and efforts.

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? Facebook has gained a reputation for being a marketing shortcut of sorts; its ads have an average click-through rate of.9 But becoming overly reliant on Facebook marketing techniques isn’t simply keeping up with the times — it’s lazy.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. PR Measurement is Not One Size Fits All.

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Onclusive

MARCH 17, 2020

Traditional models of PR measurement no longer work (i.e. Digital has become intrinsic to the PR and communications landscape, and diversification is forcing measurement to become more innovative than ever. In a time where measurement is increasingly critical, it’s becoming more and more complex to do. A new approach.

Media 221

Media Analysis Measurement Advertising 221

Contently - Strategy

JULY 27, 2020

Every marketing leader on earth needs to focus on developing their team’s content muscle if they want to thrive. In-person events make up over 20 percent of B2B marketing budgets on average, and upwards of 50 percent inside many organizations. Starting today, every marketing leader should have this checklist in their head.

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Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

It frustrates me when people tell me their marketing or PR isn’t working. If you don’t know what you want to happen as a result of your marketing or PR, how can you get upset when it doesn’t happen? So What Do I Need to Measure? Modernize your PR measurement with our free tip sheet. Want more accurate PR measurement?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 28, 2020

There was an excellent example of this last year, when event success technology platform Bizzabo launched EMPOWER NYC , an invite-only event celebrating women in business, marketing and leadership, on International Women’s Day. Build your strategy with measurement and reporting in mind.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 16, 2019

Marketing and Communications are converging as PR has evolved radically over the last decade. Data science and digital media are transforming the way companies tell stories and how they measure success. Here are five key takeaways from the conference to kick off your 2019 communications and marketing strategy: 1.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 31, 2018

At the New PR Conference hosted by AirPR Software in San Francisco, discussion swirled around ‘New PR’ and an evolution of public relations, including PR’s place in the greater marketing mix. To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. Cunningham is the author of ‘Get to Aha!

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Brand prioritizes perception, demand prioritizes behavior; integrated marketing teams tend to have stronger cross-functional relationships, are more involved in strategy, and generally have larger budgets Marketers who succeed at integrating brand marketing with demand marketing tend to produce better results.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 15, 2021

They also work well for sales and marketing. While these are all excellent measures of a solution’s effectiveness, judges tend to value metrics like ROI and ROAS (return on ad spend) the most. Get creative with solutions. Every PR person knows that strong customer case studies are powerful additions to the B2B PR toolkit.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

B2B marketers that outperform peers are more likely to devote 40% or more of their marketing budget to long-term goals Good things really do come to those who wait. These marketing “leaders” are more likely to devote 40% or more of their marketing budget to long-term goals, compared to 25% of the rest of marketing.

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Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives. MMM doesn’t account for user-level engagements, whereas data-driven attribution models will measure impressions, clicks, and other user activities. Data Driven Attribution.

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Media Measurement Analysis Television 195

Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives. MMM doesn’t account for user-level engagements, whereas data-driven attribution models will measure impressions, clicks, and other user activities. Data Driven Attribution.

Media 195

Media Measurement Analysis Television 195

Cision

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Images are an important component of content marketing. To make a memorable image is part creative (creating or choosing a high-resolution image , manipulating it) and part operational ( choosing image size and reducing the file size with a tool like compressor.io Drawbacks: Creative tools are limited.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As companies continue to capitalize on the power of livestream, there will be a lot of room for creativity and innovation around employee and customer communications, including hybrid events and programs for both virtual and physical participants. That’s why content marketing needs PR.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2023

I saw this firsthand at my last agency, where the early adoption of marketing technology for PR helped our team differentiate and win business, as well as during my time at Propel PRM, a SaaS solution that provides a CRM for public relations. Amid budget cuts, tools like generative AI are ushering in a new era of creativity.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For marketers, this makes brand awareness a huge challenge: How do we stand out above the noise? Marketers and communicators are now competing for consumer attention amid Facebook posts, Buzzfeed memes, blog posts, articles, texts and more. Use social media marketing – such as Facebook – to build awareness for your brand.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2021

88% of PR pros say creativity is more important in the era of Covid. PR places a premium on creativity in Covid era. Nearly nine in 10 (88%) to the Creativity in PR study “believe creativity will be either ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ important to business recovery post-Covid.”

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Onclusive

MARCH 8, 2018

They discussed how AI is already impacting the PR industry, how AI will impact the role of PR and content marketing professionals, and how to leverage this evolution to drive business impact and success. How AI will impact the role of PR and content marketing professionals. How AI is already impacting the PR industry.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 7, 2024

While AI plays a valuable role, human analysis remains crucial for generating actionable insights and evaluating key performance indicators (KPIs) that accurately measure PR campaign effectiveness. At the same time, measurement is one of the most challenging parts of PR and communications. They are numbers that are simple to count.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 31, 2021

High-performing marketers are more likely to lead CX, partner with IT and automate marketing attribution – among other important details. Salesforce recently published its seventh annual State of Marketing report – based on a survey of 8,227 marketers around the world. High-Performing Marketers Do the Details Differently.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Marketers need to] adapt. Marketing Land.

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