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Create Better Content by First Creating a Better Relationship with Your Lawyers

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And so on we go, back to our desks to create content that will get approved. How did lawyers gain so much control over what we do and the content we create? You see, their job isn’t to create engaging content. Here are three key takeaways for anyone creating content for their brand: Do your own research.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Sure, there aren’t usually any hard costs required to set up social media accounts, but someone is still had to create the content, engage in the conversation, monitor and manage those conversations, etc. Content marketing, the creation and distribution of content to attract leads and generate sales, has become a $118.4

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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Today we have Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Managers, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) analysts, Digital Analysts, Community Managers, Content Marketing Specialists, and way too many social media ninjas, gurus, and rockstars. It means integrating social ads, sponsored content, and syndicated content into strategies from the very beginning.

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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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No, the more concerning consequence of this mixing of church and state is the audience no longer knows the provenance of the content they’re consuming. If the public is OK with pay-for-play content, then why wouldn’t we offer more of it? Report undisclosed sponsored content to the FTC. What’s the solution?

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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No one talked about social “content.” Other things happened: Conversations gave way to content. The only thing early adopters of social media had in common was the desire to create change. These conditions applied: People were people, not fictionalized digital personas. The organizational hierarchy flattened dramatically.

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PR Pros: Start Thinking Bigger Before It’s Too Late

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Now that brands can pay to secure native content in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal that achieves similar (if not better) statistics as traditional editorial content, the value proposition of a PR pro has to change. Saving a few dollars? We have to think bigger, beyond the execution of these roles.

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Who Owns Content Marketing?

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Rather than rushing to plant your flag in content marketing, invite others to participate. This happened with websites, with social media , and it’s happening again with content marketing. Who owns content marketing? A dedicated content marketing team? We continue to make the same mistakes we did before. Publishers?

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