In a recent article Joe Pulizzi of CMI offered 5 reasons why content marketing efforts fail to hit the mark. The first one is operating with the old campaign mindset, rather than focusing on generating conversations. This is a mistake that Digital PR practitioners should not fall prey to - after all PR as a discipline is about creating conversations. It's supposed … [Read more...]
Digital PR and Content Marketing
Content marketing as part of Digital PR has been the buzz phrase of choice for the past couple of years. Almost every company, BtoC and BtoB, has jumped on the content bandwagon. However, only 37% of BtoB firms regard their content strategy as effective. Gartner's recent research that shows how marketing practices evolve, puts content marketing in what they call the Trough of … [Read more...]
Digital PR: What You Need to Know
There's a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you've been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Believe me, there is a lot to learn. And while some of it is tactical, if it's done in a vacuum it's likely to fail. Learning how to devise and implement a strategy … [Read more...]
Digital PR Challenges in 2016
The Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs have produced two excellent reports on the state of content marketing in 2016. One examines the BtoC space and the other covers BtoB. The top content challenges in 2016 for BtoC companies are: BtoB companies list them slightly differently: So it's not the lack of budget that's the main concern for brands - … [Read more...]
Leveraging 4 Key Types of PR Data
Guest post by Leta Soza AirPR Data collection and evaluation are (or, at least, should be) integrated into the daily rituals of PR pros. With the gajillions of measurable actions consumers take every day, the massive amount of information PR pros must sift through grows exponentially, which, in turn, can make locating those meaningful insights challenging. But let’s not get … [Read more...]
