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PR Pros In A “Content Frenzy” (or “Blurred Lines”) | Crenshaw Communications

PR Pros In A “Content Frenzy” (or “Blurred Lines”) | Crenshaw Communications | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

“Content is a shitty business. You listicle-making sheep are following us off the cliff!”- Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachineDespite Jarvis’ colorful warning to the crowd of PR professionals at the Council of PR Firms Critical Issues Forum, dubbed “Content Frenzy,” we PRs came to listen and learn at the feet of the media and content pundits.


The forum’s subtitle, “Holy Grail or Spam-a-lot?” pretty well sums up the PR dilemma. We’ve drunk the content Kool-Aid. No one doubts its potency, nor PR’s ownership claim, given our storytelling DNA and earned media chops. But literally every second brings a new flood of the stuff — tips lists, cat videos, white papers, parodies, inforgraphics, you name it. We’re in a frenzy to make our content bigger and stronger, but with so much out there, how to go beyond the listicle? How can we make ourselves and our clients heard?...

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Dorothy Crenshaw reports on a recent conference and the blurring the lines between PR and content marketing.

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Classic Example Of Growing A Company With Content Marketing | Business 2 Community

Classic Example Of Growing A Company With Content Marketing | Business 2 Community | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Much like social media of a few years ago, there are two words that are currently making their way around cyberspace and marketing halls – hallowed or otherwise.

The two words are of course: content marketing. I myself have scribed an article or two about this very topic including my most recent piece When It Comes To Content Marketing, Seeing Is Believing which, as the title suggests, speaks to the need for visual and or/video content as part of your content marketing strategy.

Today however I want to tell you about a company that truly is a classic example of growing a company with content marketing. The name of the company in question is ProjectManager.com....
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This is an excellent case study in content marketing results.

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What Relevance Means for Content Strategy | Social Media Today

What Relevance Means for Content Strategy | Social Media Today | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

When we’re building audience archetypes or buying personas, what we’re really doing is trying to get into the heads of our prospective buyers, and figure out how they think, feel, and experience the world....


In fact, both of those words are baked into the definition of content marketing presented by the Content Marketing Institute, “Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”


The driving principle behind content marketing isn’t really about marketing at all.It’s about producing and distributing information-rich content to your intended buyer to make them better informed about the stuff you sell. The logic goes something like this: If an organization/brand/company delivers valuable information — consistently — to their current and prospective buyer, those buyers will reward said knowledge share with their hard-earned dollars and, perhaps more importantly, their loyalty....

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More relevant content will deliver stronger connections and results. That's the content marketing challenge.

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