33 Statistics Summarizing the Year 2017 in Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO
Many of the posts published here are heavily weighted with surveys and reports. There are a couple solid reasons behind this approach. First, I think data provides a wide canvas of the happenings in the industry. It’s good to know...Read More
20 Golden PR and Content Marketing Ideas that will Outlive 2017
PR professionals know storytelling is powerful, but science is beginning to show just how stories trigger powerful learning reactions in the brain. In her book – Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from...Read More
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Earned Media Poised for New Prominence Several Studies Find [UML]
If there’s one theme that plagued digital advertising throughout 2017, it was controversy. Fraud, questionable metrics, and brand safety to name a few. It amazes me that one of the big debates in programmatic is how many seconds of video...Read More
10 Fundamentals for Successful B2B Media Interviews
B2B reporters today don’t do media interviews like they once did. The pace of news is faster. The shelf-life of articles is shorter. There are fewer reporters responsible for more stories. There’s only so much time in the day which...Read More
The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations
Most public relations professionals don’t think their functional namesake will accurately describe their work in the future. That’s according to the 2017 Global Communications Report, from the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism at USC. The report found “87% of...Read More
3 PR Takeaways from the State of the Media Report by Cision
These are strange times for those in the news business, as public trust and confidence in the news media has eroded. By a measure of their own assessment, “journalists perceive they are now struggling to maintain the public’s trust.” In...Read More
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Corporate Reputation: Buying from Brands We Know, Like and Trust [UML]
News and coverage can contribute to a corporate reputation, but it’s rarely the catalyst. Earned media is usually the result of good ideas backed by actions long since set in motion. This is where corporate leaders get confused about PR and...Read More
One Prediction Each for PR, Content Marketing and Social Media
There’s more than one way to look at the annual cycle of prediction posts that surface on the web, as the final days of another calendar year wane. Some see them as fun and a break from the usual content...Read More
The Advantages of Working with a Boutique B2B PR Firm
I hadn’t heard from the vice president in three or four weeks. Then on our monthly PR conference call, that vice president dialed in, dominated the conversation, and demonstrated she had no idea what was going on with my business....Read More
New Lessons on PR Tradition: Audience, Subject Lines & Newsjacking [UML]
There are no experts in PR – only students. It’s more than a snappy quote, it’s a philosophy. The expert that knows everything is prone to get blindsided by the unexpected on an otherwise idle Tuesday. PR is dynamic. Reporters...Read More
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