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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Segment your target markets. Use keywords.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

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But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Shedding Light on Black PR

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And reputation management is often a large part of what we, as PR professionals, do; for some, it’s what they specialize in and focus on. There are also numerous companies that offer to “scrub” your reputation for you (for varying amounts of money), or teach you how to do it yourself; though at least in the U.S.,

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The New Measurement: Shifting from Traditional PR to Growth PR

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Marketing and Communications are converging as PR is poised to evolve radically over the next decade. Thanks to the latest technologies, PR now has the potential to be a data-driven powerhouse that maps to real business results, earning a seat at the table alongside Marketing generally, or, at least, other important marketing activities.

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Public Relations

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How can PR professionals harness the power of big data to support customer service, PR and marketing efforts? million users, marketers and PR professionals can use Waze to obtain valuable information, especially during a crisis. It refers to the ability to collect large sets of complex data that are normally difficult to filter.

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Creating a Communal Narrative: A Case for Skipping the Press Release

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The onset of content marketing and emergence “owned media” has turned the storytelling torch into a shared thing that is jointly owned by traditional media and brands. Leta Soza , our director of PR engineering and operations, wrote A Journey Into the PRTech Unknown.

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Monday Roundup: PRSA 2015 International Conference

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Content Forecast Calls for Users, Search Engines, Customization, and More. Why: “Content marketers need to be more like meteorologists than fortune tellers. Why: “A thought leadership platform can produce significant results and impact reputation, relationships and revenue.