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
12 Things You Should do to Amplify a Media Mention Once You’ve Earned It
Several studies suggest businesses plan to invest in public relations in 2018. Specifically, media relations, or earned media, is poised for new prominence. Even the advertisers are aiming for a bigger investment in PR. If you are going to invest,... Read More
33 Statistics Summarizing the Year 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
Brand Engagement on Social Media Has Never Mattered Less
Facebook has reportedly been rewarding video on its platform recently. This means social media posts that include video are granted better reach on the platform. In turn, social media experts have rushed to proclaim brands should be using video to... Read More
It’s not “Social Media Marketing” Anymore – it’s Just “Advertising”
Senior marketers report spending 9.8% of the marketing budget on social media — here and now. They expect that figure to rise to 13% over the next 12 months – and to 18.5% over the next five years. The benchmark... Read More
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Internet Marketing Trends: What’s the Business Impact? [UML]
As the saying goes it takes three data points to make a trend, but the problem for marketers with this identification is that it’s often too late. It’s easy to identify a trend in hindsight – the web is littered... Read More
PR, Social Media and the Imperative of Content Marketing [UML]
For a time, social media worked organically. Then it didn’t. Long thinkers pushed paid social as a “rent-to-own” strategy. It’s still brilliant…but there’s an expiration date on it now. Why? You can’t tell – even digitally savvy marketers can’t tell... Read More
Predictions, PR and Pressing Questions on SEO [UML]
I made three marketing predictions for 2017 but if I could go back in time, I might add a fourth: The decline in traffic from organic social media will renew interest in SEO and organic search. Social networks are deluged with... Read More
Features, Fidelity and Faux Pas of the Social Media Platforms [UML]
It’s been several years since social media has embarked down a path paved in payment. The ability to drive results purely from organic efforts have diminished. Social media became a toll road and the price of thruway has spiked during... Read More
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