3 Comparative Metrics if Organic Search is Your Raison D’etre for Content Marketing
For most businesses, organic search is the single largest source of web traffic. It’s often high-quality traffic too because that’s how people find things: they have a question and they search for answers. Organizations that publish content with answers to... Read More
New Tech Products and New Features for PR Pros; PR Tech Sum: Agility, Meltwater, Prezly, Business Wire, Onclusive, Intrado, Cision and TVEyes
The solution providers serving the PR and communications space have been busy. There were more product releases in September than in any other month, since I started tracking a list of 30 or so vendors about six months ago. You... Read More
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3 Alternate Viewpoints You Should Read on the Death of the CMO [UML]
Over the course of the summer, a few changes to the CMO role at high profile companies have caused some to conclude the role is on its way out. It’s a trend, they say. The biggest proponents of this view... Read More
Borrowed Time for the AOR and the Impact of the Big 4 on Marketing and PR Agencies; Off Script No. 43: Chris Forhan of Bytelion
Not every one that winds up in the marketing and PR space started there. Take Chris Forhan for example. After college, he spent seven years in capital markets, “trading corporate and high yield bonds for a large regional money manager.”... Read More
xiQ Mixes Content Curation with AI in Support of Account Based Marketing [Martech Briefing]
I didn’t set out to write a briefing on a martech product – I strive to reserve these efforts for PR technology – but it just sort of happened. A company called xiQ tweeted a link to something I had... Read More
Cliff Notes to Effective Media Relations: A Summary of 3 Surveys of Editors, Reporters and Journalists [UML]
Most PR professionals say media relations is getting harder or much harder, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey. This is up 17% from last year where 51% said media relations was getting harder. What can PR do about it?... Read More
6 Benchmarks from a Survey of CMOs through the Lenses of B2B Marketing
Another edition of the bi-annual survey of CMOs published by Christine Moorman, a professor at the business school at Duke University, was published at the end of August. I’ve read and written about the survey since about 2013 and have... Read More
A CRM with Real Analytics for Public Relations, M&A Report, Geoffrey Moore on PR Technology; PR Tech Sum: Propel, Burton-Taylor, Cision, Edelman and Onclusive
Earlier this year I started tracking some of the PR tech vendors and summarizing news from the community here once a month. As I wrapped up the writing on this post, I figured I had done three of these so... Read More
All Marketing is NOT Content Marketing
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. Even experienced marketers... Read More
Advocating for a Better Workplace; Off Script No. 42: Tina McCormack Beaty of SHRM
In high school, she landed an internship with a local radio station and started a club for kids trying to pursue a career in broadcasting. She says her career aspiration, at the time, was to be a video jockey for... Read More
