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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

The Point

Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. After all, as earned media, the “cost” of organic social is basically zero. I spoke to Daniel Kushner, CEO of B2B social media management platform company Oktopost , for his perspective. (HS)

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Content Marketing: 4 stages to mapping your content strategy

markempa

Tweet Effective content marketing starts with listening to customers to truly understand them, and then identifying the personas of your audience, according to Ninan Chacko, CEO, PR Newswire. In his keynote at MarketingSherpa Lead Gen Summit 2013, Ninan explained the five steps to effective content marketing. You may also like.

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How a Common Content Strategy Unites Marketing’s Different Natures

Contently

I recently wrote about the many natures of marketing , including brand awareness and short-term sales activation (or lead gen, as we B2B marketers call it) and the role of content within an overall marketing strategy. brand lift or number of leads), but they always share common macro-goals.

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Your guide to building a marketing budget template

The Marketing Blender

You’ll want to look at budgeting for direct lead generation strategies (think of platforms like Google Ads or LinkedIn Lead Gen ads). You may need to think about allocating more of your marketing budget towards brand awareness channels (such as social media, PR, etc). . Getting lots of traffic but no leads?

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7 Lead Gen Opportunities PR Pros Should Seize

Hubspot

Most people don't think of PR professionals and brand marketers as lead generators. After all, it's hard to measure the effect a placement or a graphic has on leads. But brand marketers actually have a lot of opportunity to help their marketing team generate and reconvert leads. Case Studies & Testimonials.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 10 Proven Ways to Improve Your Results

KoMarketing Associates

Demand generation programs can help your organization reach new markets, promote new product features, build consumer buzz, generate PR, and re-engage existing customers.”. But also make it easy for people to share your content via email, or via social media – especially via LinkedIn. Invest in earned and paid media.