The Top PR Challenges and Tips for Overcoming Them
According to the Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020, the top PR challenges are: 1. ROI and proving value 2. Educating executives 3. Cutting through the clutter 4. PR budgets 5. Ever-expanding duties 6. A protracted review and approval process...Read More
IABC Webinar Recap: The 2020 JOTW Communication Survey Review
The IABC Heritage Region recently hosted Ned Lundquist and I for a webinar. We presented a sampling of the findings – along with analysis – from the 3rd Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020. The full report is more than...Read More
Partisan Politics Complicates PR and Comms for Business, Survey Finds
72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. Some 72% of professionals believe...Read More
Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]
There’s an opportunity for content marketing as audiences become fatigued with Coronavirus news and marketers reallocate live event funding One of the goals of content marketing is attracting an audience of likely buyers to your web properties and giving them...Read More
3 Studies to Help You Keep Your Marketing Budget and Fend Off Reactionary Cuts [UML]
You can’t control the constraints imposed by the Coronavirus, but you can make a case to keep your marketing budget It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. You’ve got more constraints than ever. Examples? First, there’s a clear need...Read More
Why You Should Absolutely, Positively NOT Cut Your Marketing and PR Budget Right Now
Product launches and marketing campaigns are getting delayed. That’s probably not a surprise – you’ve probably experienced this yourself – but Econsultancy has put some numbers to it: “A survey of more than 2,200 marketers conducted by Econsultancy and Marketing...Read More
2020 Marketing Budget Planning: Here’s How Marketers Say Spending is Shaping Up
October is typically a time of year with special urgency for many in marketing. For starters, it’s the beginning of Q4 and all the pressure that comes with trying to make the numbers for the year. At the same time,...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
Top of Mind Among Senior Marketers: Cliff Notes to 3 Significant Surveys of CMOs
If your marketing budget grew by 5% or more in the next year, how would you invest that money? I like to ask that kind question because it’s an interesting mental exercise that really makes marketing think about what they...Read More
Marketing Budgets to Grow: 5 Datapoints from the CMO Survey for B2B Marketers
Marketers are relatively upbeat about the economy and growth prospects over the next 12 months or so. That’s according to the newest edition of The CMO Survey, a semiannual study spawned out of Duke University’s business school. It’s a survey...Read More
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