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What are you missing by not using a PR firm?
Usually, when a B2B tech company researches PR firms they read up on all the reasons for hiring one. But what if a startup, or even an established tech company, decides to forgo investing in PR altogether? What then? Here are some of the opportunities you will miss...
9 Ways Your PR Firm can Help with B2B Demand Generation
Many B2B tech marketers think that public relations exist in its own dimension of time and space, like some parallel marketing universe. It helps with brand awareness and reputation management but little else. But they often fail to see the value of PR in terms of...
Swyft Opinion: It’s time for B2B Tech Marketing to Sell to Millennials
The millennial generation is coming into its own. With around 10,000 baby boomers reaching retirement age daily, that puts even more millennials into leadership positions in organizations of all kinds and sizes. The millennial generation officially began in 1981,...
10 Best B2B Lead Generation Strategies for 2019 and Beyond
What are the best B2B lead generation strategies for 2019 and beyond? It’s not a trick question. At Swyft we’ve found that it comes down to this: It’s whatever works the best for your company when it comes to reaching and persuading your target audience to take...
11 Things B2B Tech Marketers Should Know
Swyft has been helping B2B tech companies of all kinds and sizes with marketing for nearly a decade in Austin, and nearly five years in Houston and Denver. That doesn’t include what our individual marketing professionals have done prior to joining Swyft. In other...
Five PR & Marketing Mistakes to Avoid When Launching a Product
This post comes from first-hand observations and experiences Swyft has had assisting B2B technology companies with product launch promotions over the past decade. Whether your product is SaaS, PaaS, device or on-premise matters not. Planning for a product launch is...
Five Ways to Improve Your WordPress Website Security
Digital security is becoming a more important issue for small and mid-sized businesses relying upon WordPress websites. Why? A 2018 report on data breaches by Verizon found that 58% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. With Wordpress running 30% of 1.65...
How to use Google Analytics to Measure the Impact of PR
There has always been a lot of debate surrounding the measurability of PR -- its impact on the bottom line has always been difficult to prove with any certainty. Given that we live in a digital era where everything is capable of being analyzed, that demand for...
Swyft Attends WPEngine’s Digital Breakthrough Summit in Austin
Since joining the WPEngine Agency Partner program, Swyft has had access to quite a lot of new information from the world’s leading WordPress hosting platform, particularly on helping our clients grow further, faster. We were invited to attend the WPEngine Digital...
Communications Advice for Pre-IPO Tech Companies
Not every tech startup will end up going public. The vast majority that make it through the initial startup gauntlet will engineer an exit through some form of merger or acquisition. However, for those intrepid founders whose eyes are set on pursuing an IPO as a...
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Why B2B SaaS CEOs Struggle with PR and Marketing
Many CEOs of B2B software companies, particularly ones with annual revenue less than $25 million, struggle to see the value of investing in a robust marketing program.
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