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3 Lean PR Strategies Every Business Can Practice

Convince & Convert

Even if you’re well beyond the start-up phase, you’d have to have been tucked away in hibernation to have missed the lean business trends. When it comes to public relations (PR) specifically, companies would be wise to reevaluate their strategies through the lens of this approach. Both are powerful. Start Being Choosy.

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Return on Intelligence: ServiceNow on Optimizing B2B Brand Thought Leadership with Content

Top Rank Marketing

Think of it as a niche business publication, populated with original research, trend analyses, and special reports. They embrace a hub-and-spoke model, with original studies at the center, branching out into thought leadership articles, social media, region-specific content, PR pitches, and more.

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6 Reasons to Unite Your Customer Service and Marketing on Social Media

Convince & Convert

According to recent Forrester research , one of the most significant hurdles to excelling in this new reality is support teams and marketing teams not being on the same page. As Forrester says, “Customers don’t care about your internal organizational silos.”. The marketing team understands the macro trends on social.

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Content + Intent Data: Informing Content Based on Interest

Content4Demand

Forrester conducted personalization research that found that even companies whose personalization processes and approach are immature still see benefits. More specifically, companies that personalize, according to Forrester, can see a 6% increase in revenue, a 33% increase in customer loyalty and an 11% marketing cost savings.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity

Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. An easy-to-use, graphically rich tool that provides monitoring (who’s talking about you, your competitors, key industry terms and trends, etc., Traditional PR + Social Media Monitoring. Budget: Under $500 per month.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

ViewPoint

David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR. According to the 2012 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report published by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs: 9 out of 10 organizations market with content marketing. Brian Halligan, CEO and Founder of HubSpot. Get Customers.

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Two of my recently published Forrester reports take a deeper look at marketing mix effectiveness and program spending trends. Email, search marketing, and inside sales were the only tactics to show steady upward trends for both branding and demand generation since 2007. " in the marketing mix. What does work?