Comments from K2 Global Communications

As a 20+ year comms professional, economics student, and someone immersed in the start-up world, here’s my perspective on the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis.

It could have been only a cold but then it turned into fatal pneumonia because….

Topics: Start-ups, Business

Practically all B2B marketers agree that content marketing works, but not everyone is clear on how exactly to calculate the ROI and business value of a company’s content marketing investment. Assessing the quality of content - Is the content original and audience-appropriate? Does it tell a story or add value to the site? Is the tone, spelling, and grammar pitch-perfect? - is one thing. But determining the bottom- line impact or business benefit of each blog post, article, email, e-book, case study, podcast, infographic, or social campaign is quite another - and one of the trickier challenges facing marketers today.

You can use a number of metrics to measure content performance, depending on your business goals and what you intended for your content marketing program to achieve. Was your content written to acquire customers or increase revenue and profit? Position your brand or tell your product story? Enhance customer engagement? Acquire better-quality leads? Among the most obvious measurements of content marketing success would be ROI (the revenue gained from content marketing compared to the amount spent on creating and distributing content), number of qualified leads, and percentage of lead conversions to closed sales generated by the content. Other important indicators of content effectiveness include:

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Metrics, Bounce rate, Exit rate

Implement almost any type of marketing campaign, and you’ll find that getting truly qualified leads is like trying to hit targets you can’t see.

Not so with social media campaigns.

By marketing to your followers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or anywhere else your customers may be, you’re reaching out to people who already love, support, or are interested in your company, or have had a prior relationship or encounter with you - in other words, a qualified lead.

Topics: Content marketing, Social media, Brand, Customer communications, Audience, Messaging, Personas, Client relations, Shared media, LinkedIn, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Twitter/X, YouTube, Facebook, Reputation

Since its release, ChatGPT has taken the internet by a storm. Self described as a: “large language model that was trained by OpenAI, ChatGPT is capable of understanding and generating natural language text, which allows it to perform a variety of tasks such as answering questions, generating written content, and more.”

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Customer communications, Message, ChatGPT

With massive cyberattacks on organizations and states, cyber security is one of today’s hottest news topics. Consequently, the phenomenon has birthed a cybersecurity startup boom, further crowding an already congested market. This begs the question: How can cybersecurity companies, with proven innovations on offer, break through the logjam and get the media recognition they deserve?

Topics: Public relations, Press coverage, Media coverage, Cybersecurity, Statistics, Objective

The news situation is in flux right now. The demand for news is increasing – web traffic was up about 23% at top news sites the week of March 9 from the previous week and up 31% from the week of Jan. 6, and fewer subscribers are canceling. However, many U.S. national and global news outlets are cutting back to skeleton staff due to plummeting ad revenues.

Topics: Media coverage, Media, Customer communications, Messaging, Personas, PR, Internal communications, Corporate communications, Technology

K2 Global Communications has been working with Israeli technology companies for more than 15 years. As such, we have a good overall perspective on the key industries and players in the Israeli ecosystem.

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Audience, Messaging, PR, Internal communications, Corporate communications

Over the years, our clients have given invaluable feedback and pushed us to become one of the best PR firms in Israel, as named by Clutch, a business news and tips site.

Topics: Inbound marketing, Customer communications, PR, Review, Internal communications, Corporate communications

New Year’s Resolutions for Success with Your PR Firm

Topics: Public relations, Journalist, Press coverage, Marketing