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Research Integrity: The Achilles Heel of Content Marketing

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The marketing profession has a reputation for sometimes using less than reliable market research to promote a point of view. Research integrity was an issue long before the internet became the platform for content marketing. Our very thin D&O liability research was a rare and risky exception…and perhaps a sign of things to come.

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Why Most B2B Companies Don’t Use Earned Media (Public Relations)

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Their job is to present “balanced” coverage, which means it will most always include some information that’s considered to be negative by the company, product, or individual that’s featured in the story.

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Are Pitch Letters The Cinderella Of Content Marketing?

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expose information indirectly to a large audience. Because they require in-depth research, must be well-crafted and cannot be mass produced, very few firms leverage unsolicited pitch letters. Here are a few of the logistics involved in using unsolicited pitch letters: • The process begins with research. Hang in there.

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Client Newsletters for B2B Firms Is Content that’s Dead on Arrival

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Each issue involves a frustrating hunt for timely information of genuine interest. If it’s created in-house, few firms actually track the hours required to research, write, edit, approve and publish their newsletter. In fact, at many firms their client newsletter is a marketing albatross.

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Is Your Firm a “Safe Choice”? for Prospective Clients?

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They’ll form an opinion based on publicly available information they find online. Consistency: Is all your information kept up-to-date, and relevant to current market conditions? Acid Test: Do credible media sources or research firms cover the company? rarely succeeds. Do clients identify themselves by name and company?).

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Your Marketing Content: Is it Fake News?

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The marketing profession has a reputation for sometimes using less than reliable market research to promote a point of view. With very little expectation that such shoddy market research would qualify for exposure in the financial press, and dreading inquiries from journalists asking about our research methodology, the press release went out.

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3 Ways Social Media Will Fail Marketers

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Research by Keller Fay for Google shows that 94% of word of mouth conversations occur offline, and most often, those conversations are sparked by information found on the internet and television…and not on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites. All communication channels have limitations.