Gini Dietrich is a longtime friend and has been a top blogger in the PR world for more than a decade. In 2014, she first coined the term "PESO model" to describe how public relations (including media relations or "earned media") is increasingly integrated with other forms of digital marketing, including paid media (advertising), shared media (e.g., social), and owned media (e.g., blogs and other content).
READ MOREHow’s your email inbox treating you lately? Is it overflowing with real work, or it is a quagmire of untargeted (and unwanted) messages from dozens of companies vying for a few moments of your time and budget?
Social media marketing may be on the rise, but 64 percent of companies still say email is the most effective tool in their digital sales and marketing arsenal. Yet if that’s true, why do we get so annoyed with all those messages in our inboxes?
If you—as a marketing professional—feel that way about your inbox, imagine what your customers might think of the emails you’re sending their way.
Do your prospects view your emails as welcome guests—or unwanted pests?
READ MOREDigital marketing comes with a lot of promises. More leads. Better engagement with customers. And ultimately, more sales. But the problem with digital marketing, especially in the B2B world, is that many of those promises never become reality.
That’s not for a lack of time, money, and effort. In some cases, a lot of each. And for many unsuccessful digital marketing efforts, that’s where the first problem is: You are trying to do too many things and moving too fast.
The key to digital marketing isn’t necessarily the perfect message or the right downloadable asset, although both of those are critically important. It’s having the patience to let the process work.
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Idea Grove, a Dallas-based public relations and inbound marketing agency, helps enterprise technology companies reach media and buyers by combining proven PR strategies with a proprietary digital marketing system. The agency creates custom public relations and inbound marketing programs for its roster of national B2B technology clients, which range from Fortune 500 companies to high-growth, venture-backed startups. Idea Grove drives brand awareness, online engagement, and sales conversion by integrating public relations, social media, search marketing, content creation, web design, and conversion rate optimization in an efficient, scalable system.
