Nick Bell is the VP of Marketing Communications at Cision. With more than 20 years of technology marketing experience, Bell has held executive-level positions with marketing technology firms including Oracle Marketing Cloud, Eloqua and Adobe. Bell has a proven track record of developing award-winning and ROI-based marketing programs, media relations, and brand strategies. Bell holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Follow him on Twitter @nbell94102.
The divide between communications roles (i.e. public relations) and marketing is nothing new. But is that chasm shrinking? See what the data says.
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Cision surveyed journalists in six countries this year about their perception of the media industry. And we’re amazed at how things have changed.
If marketers are unable to appropriately measure the results of their efforts, how can we continue to justify marketing spend on content?
With a new year around the corner, communications professionals are gearing up to get their plans ready to conquer the world in 2018.
But along with those plans are some obstacles to overcome. While the communications and PR space has...
The concept of “fake news” is anything but novel. In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines.
According to the recent Cision 2017 Global Social Journalism Study, among journalists, there are six distinct types of social media users. These personas impact the way journalists view social media as a tool of their trade.
According to the recent Cision 2017 Global Social Journalism Study, a majority of journalists believe that fake news is a problem that social media may perpetuate. We look at ways for PR professionals and marketers to overcome this mistrust.
Refreshing your corporate image is sometimes necessary to inject fresh energy into your brand, as well as get people to see it with renewed interest. But you should never refresh your corporate image just for the sake of doing so without careful...
The party never stops at Cision. We just finished celebrating our 150th anniversary (and brand launch, and IPO!) and now we’re strapping our party hats back on to celebrate a decade of CODiE Award wins for Cision.
From the vantage point of the C-Suite, we tend to assess our brand’s success based on financials. When money’s coming in, we’re happy. When it’s trickling in, we start asking for answers. But there’s one aspect of your business that I’d encourage ...
When it comes to SEO, earning quality backlinks (links from other websites to your webpage) is one of the most critical ranking factors. While backlinks are a great signal for SEO, it takes a lot of time to earn them. Now, there are certainly...
VP Nick Bell explains how he refocused the brand image to better reflect Cision’s vision, which is to elevate the art, science and impact of the communications profession.