Marketing Craftmanship

MARCH 13, 2021

Media relations (or press relations) involves risks and consequences that can quickly derail any career, either as a corporate executive or PR agency rep. Some of those media scars have been self-inflicted; others were caused by journalists who often play by their own set of rules. Press relations is always a crap shoot.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Then, you should work with your marketing team on adding more journalistic content to your mix. You probably don’t have anyone pressing you on a deadline for your blog post or newsletter, but content marketing is only effective when it’s consistent. Short, easy-to-read sentences also work best for holding attention.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

APRIL 3, 2024

On the backend, Attain Partners also set up dozens of business rules to create an intuitive and low-custom-code user experience. Let common use cases drive the visual hierarchy Everything critical must be on the first page. ” The dashboard highlights immediate tasks and events, so the most pressing matters are visible.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 28, 2010

  Just as the invention of the printing press created the advent of knowledge and information being made available to the masses, the compass meant civilizations were given the tool to explore.    The compass allowed travelers and explorers to know what direction they were headed with a good degree of certainty. 

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Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 23, 2021

Organizations should focus on measures that inform decisions, help determine whether performance is within acceptable parameters, and provide a view into what is and isn’t working. Accounting produces invoices. Legal produces contracts. Sales produces new orders. First, let’s agree on what is manufactured in our Marketing factory.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As a general rule, marketers should major in the majors. A friend told me that he’d worked for months to perfect a computer system, and when his boss came to test it, he dropped both arms on the keyboard. Human beings rarely follow the rules. Software has to work for every user – or as close to “every” as can be managed.

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seo.co

JANUARY 18, 2022

So, continue to build your links, but make sure you’re doing it within the guidelines the search engines have outlined, remembering that Google makes the rules, not a government agency. What people usually mean when they say it’s illegal is that it’s against Google’s rules. It worked great but it was abused.

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Trade Press Services

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Clear suggests following the “Two-Minute Rule.” The post Mastering Productivity: How to Harness the Power of Tiny Habits to Achieve Remarkable Results appeared first on Trade Press Services. As such, habits are formed based on frequency. When starting a new habit, it’s easy to try to do too much too soon. Atomic Habit Law No.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 16, 2020

How does viral marketing work, though? The same rules apply to viral marketing in which followers and customers share a brand’s content because their message or ad is buzz-worthy. That’s how viral marketing works. Not all press is “good” press anymore. Content spreads organically. Times have changed, though.

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Sprout Social

MAY 31, 2023

For example, I’m working on the city’s annual Pride Month campaign. At Sprout, our communications team employs generative AI to develop creative titles for press releases and media pitches. These tools capture the nuances specific to each language’s unique grammar rules. The tech isn’t there yet.”

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Don’t introduce yourself and tell what your website is, where you work, your fancy title, all those things. Harking back to her timing rule, she reminds us, “You have eight seconds so be generous. It doesn’t work to say, “Get the PDF, follow me, subscribe, comment below. Do not go into your elevator pitch.

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Excelsior Research

MAY 31, 2021

Ways To Make Content Syndication Work For You. Gradually helping you build up a relationship with the press and media. It doesn’t mean working with a competitor. The rule of thumb in co-marketing is – do not co-market with companies competing for the same keywords in organic searches. CONTENT SYNDICATION. MARKET RESEARCH.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Yet, for me, it raises a concern – namely that stories in the marketing press like this one may be raising the bar for lead nurturing too high, setting too high a standard, and in the process making lead nurturing seem more complex, and more daunting to the uninitiated than it really should be. I doubt it.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

That means that if you have a potential employee who’s a Baby Boomer and you manufacture boho fashions, don’t rule them out. Similarly, don’t rule out a hijab-wearing chemist for your brewery. Now that you have such a team, put them to work on transforming your culture. Transform Your Content Culture.

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Martech

APRIL 22, 2022

I was pressed for time, and in a pinch, the spreadsheet worked best. It’s going beyond basic business rules like first-touch and last-touch and moving toward data science models that incorporate the nuances of each customer touchpoint.” This all could have been achieved through digital transformation. Food for thought.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At the ICO, he established new technology and innovation policy, directed work in areas such as artificial intelligence, adtech, and competition, and led ICO’s response to data usage in the U.K. That’s really important to how we work. mainly at the state level, there are new privacy laws that are fresh on the books or in the works.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This type of work is not journalism, strictly speaking. Fact-checking for my content marketing stories is just as essential as it is for my editorial work,” said Anna Dimond , a journalist, content creator, and producer. AP Fact Check, Associated Press : The AP provides helpful accountability resources for journalists.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Track this event with : Google alert for the company name, the company's press releases page, LinkedIn 2. Track this event with : Google alerts, press releases page, industry news 4. Track this event with : Google alerts, press releases page 5. Track this event with : Google alerts, press releases page 6.

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Martech

MARCH 20, 2024

In one case, my internal team of three digital marketers and I worked with an outside design firm, one with whom I had prior experience, to refresh the corporate and product logos, update the color scheme and then redesign the website and product data sheets. Agent Gibbs’ rule No. Descriptive names (e.g., And please skip the jargon.

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Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Richard Murphy, Director, Editor in Chief at ServiceNow While AI promises some significant advancements from revolutionizing creativity to optimizing workflows, it’s important to remember the foundational rule: garbage in, garbage out. Gen AI simply makes you more of what you are — a broke jerk only becomes a rich jerk with more money.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s a consistent and repeatable strategy that works across all niches. As a rule of thumb, all traffic from the guest post should lead people to your coming soon page. Prepare a Press Kit If you want media to cover your product launch, you should prepare a press kit. Not every guest post will take off.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series. Weekly we feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader here answering what have become the standard “ How I Work ” questions in our own series. Here in her own words is how she works.

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Predictive Response

AUGUST 15, 2022

This means that the moment you press the “send” button on your next email newsletter, someone will read it. The first rule of creating a successful newsletter is : DO NOT try and send your newsletter manually through Gmail, Outlook, or any other public email service provider. Be sure to check your links to ensure that they work.

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Newsletter Template Ad Frequency Eye-Tracking 98

Outbrain

JANUARY 20, 2021

Forced to find new, reliable, and creative ways to connect with consumers who went online to work, learn, shop, socialize, and more in response to a global pandemic, the business of digital fundamentally changed before our eyes, and rapidly. According to our very own Brands & Agencies Poll , 33.3% Opening Remarks. The Rise of D2C.

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 27, 2020

How we work, travel, communicate, relate, and aspire towards goals will all look and feel different. For many businesses across the globe whether in business-to-business or business-to-consumer, pressing questions are top of mind. As a result of COVID-19, there will be new rules for buying emerging in the next year.

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Buy Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles Amazon 182

ClearVoice

AUGUST 18, 2020

There are definitely good and not-great tactics for writing press releases, but there are also good and not-so-good ways of sending them. How you target media, clean up a list, and personalize your email pitch is of equal or more importance to what’s in the press release. Press release best practices: Top 7 do’s.

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Optinmonster

MARCH 22, 2023

Both are tactics used to boost sales revenue, but they work slightly differently. This works well for SaaS products. Follow our instructions for creating your first campaign , then go to Display Rules » Who should see the campaign? Then, go to Display Rules – When should the campaign appear? Choose a campaign type.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Today’s blog post answers your most pressing questions about list segmentation and explains why you should segment your lists today. There are many ways to segment an email list— and, what works for one company might not work for another. You can’t ignore these numbers—segmentation works! Unfamiliar with the term?

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Bionic

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s how they work. Bionic enables you to set rules to automatically calculate the end date based on the start date. Press Save All your selected placement dates will update accordingly. Media planning is never easy. Lots of Dates in Media Plans Every line item in your media plan has a start date and end date.

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Media Plans Automation Tools Media 52

Optinmonster

JANUARY 27, 2022

With a powerful yet simplistic builder, all of the hard work has been done for you. And don’t forget, OptinMonster comes with targeting rules so you can show your visitors the exact campaigns you want at the second you want: Exit-Intent® Technology : recover users actively leaving your site. Step 3: Set Display Rules.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Have you ever had those moments of realization that you’ve just wasted a huge chunk of time doing anything but the most pressing tasks? Are you a morning person and do better kinds of work in the morning versus the afternoon when you’re ready for a siesta? Employ the 80/20 rule to build a productive workday.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 3, 2019

In this series, we navigate the importance of publicity in content creation, and illustrate how these two powerhouses can better work together to create captivating, timely and impactful stories. In part four, we explain the responsibility of a journalist working with a publicist. Journalists should be specific.

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Work Management Public Relations Ethics Press 58

Biznology

JUNE 1, 2021

This happened – again – recently, this time to the Associated Press, which prides itself on its neutral objective stand on issues and has a tough line on political statements by its staff. Employees want to work together to build their company’s reputation and standing – you just need to provide the framework and the proper environment.

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Social Media Media Personalization Business 118

Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2018

The “How I Work” series is a favorite of mine from Inc Magazine as well as Lifehacker. Every Thursday we feature a new B2B sales, marketing or business leader of our own answering our version of “How I Work” questions. You can catch up on everyone we’ve featured thus far in the “How I Work” series here.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Build a strong working relationship with writers by sending them lots of constructive review feedback. As you stick to a consistent process, providing constructive feedback keeps your writers engaged in the work process and improves your business growth. Work with Your Legal and Cross-Functional Partners. Ready to learn more?

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Marketing Agencies 2 Guidelines Advertising Agencies Work Management 244

Trade Press Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Every publication has its own rules about word count, referencing, inclusion of graphics and style. Bring in fresh, trusted eyes to provide feedback and refine your work. The post Best Practices for Unlocking the Power of Contributed Content appeared first on Trade Press Services. Follow submission guidelines.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here are some examples of how ad copy works, what makes it resonate, and which brands are using it in incredible ways. A simple Twitter poll received crazy press and over 900,000 votes when it asked if people would go for the idea of mayo and ketchup mixed into one product. What is ad copy? Create demand. Avoid shortcuts.

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