Should Marketing Be Held to a Higher Standard? Off Script No. 38: Lacey Ford of insightsoftware
Revenue Driver. Pipeline builder. Marketing with a quota. Those are the words and phrases Lacey Ford uses to describe marketing today. She got her start as an entry-level marketing associate for SBC Communications, which is now AT&T. There she had... Read More
Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder
Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Some 47% of respondents said... Read More
Breaking Down Current Trends in Influencer Marketing: 6 Takeaways from a Global Survey by Talkwalker
Influencer marketing has been around a while, but it’s largely shuffled along as an experiment. For a savvy company with smart relationship driven marketers, there’s an opportunity to cut through a very big problem today: noise and clutter. I define... Read More
Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing
Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. The pitch was about a study they had done. The reporter responded she hadn’t seen the study yet and would review it.... Read More
Marketing as the Center of Knowledge to Help a Company Grow; Off Script No. 37: Cassandra Sherrill of Softgiving
Agency experienced preferred. Anyone that’s ever looked for a job at a PR firm, has run into those words. It’s a bit of a catch 22 because firms only want to hire people with agency experience, but you need agency... Read More
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3 Landmark Studies that Sum Up the State of Creativity for the CMO [UML]
The pendulum of marketing can only swing in one direction at a time, but at some point, the forces of gravity slow the swing and eventually take it back in the other direction. I sense we are reaching that point... Read More
How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019? [And Other Key Blogging Statistics You Should Know]
Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 times more likely to publish... Read More
This Twitter Ad Shows Us Why Social Media Advertising Needs Cross-Functional Teams Empowered with Compassion and Humanity
You can’t just spend your way to success in social media advertising. You can have the best research, personas, targeting, messages and creative – and still miss the mark. Why? Because your customers and prospective customers get a vote. They... Read More
![Statistics Advertising and Silence Summing up that Super Big Game [UML]](https://www.swordandthescript.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Statistics-Advertising-and-Silence-Summing-up-that-Super-Big-Game-UML.jpg)
Statistics, Advertising and Silence: Summing up that Super Big Game [UML]
People will say they dislike advertisements because of the disruptive nature of them. It’s a bit of a bait and switch – a publisher teases you in with a headline or promising show – and then shoves a commercial in... Read More
3 Creative Ways Public Relations can Partner with Human Resources and Recruiting to Attract Talent
He was walking my way and I saw him before he saw me. While I don’t think he was looking for me, I knew if we cross paths, he would stop me for 15 minutes. I’d be stuck listening to... Read More
