Marketing.
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Making your content team efficient while still encouraging creativity
Content marketing is a great tool to increase traffic, establish topic authority and improve your search engine rankings. When introducing a new content team to your overall marketing strategy, there are some important things to keep in mind so they can work efficiently while still staying creative. Working hard shouldn’t…
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5 best practices for video stories that matter
Video isn’t always the right medium for telling your story, but it can be a very powerful one, according to Annie Granatstein, Head of WP BrandStudio, the branded content agency within The Washington Post. During a ClickZ webinar hosted by OpenText Hightail, Granatstein said, “We have all these different ways…
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The 6 rules you need to know to create a great business video
When it comes to creating business videos, Kurtis Thomas, manager of video marketing at OpenText says it’s important to distance yourself from what he calls a “field of dreams” scenario, because “if you build it, people might not necessarily come.” During a ClickZ webinar, sponsored by OpenText Hightail, he added…
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7 ways to use design thinking for innovative marketing now
The concept of “design thinking” has become more than just a buzzword, according to Melissa Rancourt, Academic Director, Global Executive Master’s in Strategic Design & Management at Parsons School of Design. Instead of focusing on what it is, she said the trend has shifted to focusing on how to do…
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Why clients outsource to agencies, and 3 ways to win the work you want
In 2018, Susan Baier of Audience Audit Inc. and Drew McLellan of Agency Management Institute decided to take a deeper look at a trend they were seeing: “There’s not an agency, big or small, that hasn’t suffered from clients bringing work in-house,” McLellan said, during a recent Adweek webinar sponsored by OpenText Hightail. To…
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Better client collaborations: The benefits and best practices of on-site agencies
News UK is an around-the-clock operation with numerous platforms, such as video, radio and two newspapers a day. As such, the organization wanted to have an agency that “moved at the speed of news,” according to Oliver Egan, chief strategy officer at Pulse Creative, an on-site agency for News UK.…
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3 drivers to consider for on-site agency operations
As companies look to improve their marketing agility and cost-cutting efforts, many are bringing their agency partners on-site. According to James Sanderson, managing director, Wunderman Inside, on-site teams can sometimes deliver work 50-percent faster and some companies have reported saving as much as 30 percent of marketing spend. During the…
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The what, why and how of agile marketing
If you Google “agile marketing,” you’ll get nearly half a million hits. With so much new and evolving information out there about the concept, it can be challenging to know what it is and how to get started. First, a quick background. Agile marketing’s roots stem from agile software and…
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Stop the madness: 6 considerations for providing better briefs
When advertising clients provide creative briefs or statements of work (SOWs) to agencies, there is a bit of a disconnect in how those efforts are perceived. It’s “bad enough” that only 58% of clients said they provide clear assignment SOW/briefings to their agencies, according to Bruno Gralpois, co-founder of Agency…
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7 questions to ask yourself before creating a video
Using videos to tell your story is such a huge opportunity, for many reasons, but one of the best is because it factors in so many of the senses. According to the book Brain Rules, when people hear information, they’re likely to remember only 10% of that information three…
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Turn your content assembly line into a content group hug
When your team has had conversations about producing content, it’s likely been focused on things like the topic, tone and purpose. Once those decisions are made, content simply moves into a series of tasks, assignments and deadlines to funnel through to production. But times are changing, according to Doug Kessler,…
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Go from war to peace in creative collaboration
Once upon a time, in the world of marketing, those people with the word “creative” in their titles were expected to be the only ones to bring great creative ideas to the table, according to Ron Tite, award-winning advertising writer and creative director. During a MarketingProfs webinar, sponsored by OpenText…
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Creative marketing templates for your next campaign
Starting a new creative project, whether it’s producing an infographic, social videos or a full on advertising campaign, can cause mixed emotions of both excitement and panic. Don’t let the process of getting your creative ducks in a row stall momentum before the project even kicks-off. Here are a few…
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