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in the recent years with PR/Communications executives, leaders and, professionals across agency, in-house, education, research, collective groups and a number of Comm Tech data platforms.
If you’re working with a data-drivenPR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.
As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. To explore why this is important, let’s look at an example of how data helps PR get press for clients.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
Digital has been in SHIFT’s blood for over a decade, from being one of the first agencies to embrace social media to creating the social media press release and social media newsroom. We agree on the qualitative outputs of public relations: Increased awareness of your company and its products/services. A Milestone Reached.
You’ll have a substantial advantage over companies cranking out the same old thing. cta] The post Top Data-DrivenPR Trends of 2016: Interactive Infographics appeared first on SHIFT Communications PRAgency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Christopher S.
The fourth spike was from Scott Monty joining the company , which is not a repeatable event, and thus we can’t count on it in the coming year or add it to our playbook. The post How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan appeared first on SHIFT Communications PRAgency | Boston | New York | San Francisco.
Well, we suspect that measurement and PRdata can elicit fear because: (a) not every PR pro loves working with numbers, and (b) PR pros could discover that their PR work isn’t really helping their companies achieve the quantifiable business goals they’re after.
Big data is a buzzword thrown around in every industry. Companies of all shapes and sizes collect data that can be used to make strategic decisions at every level. petabytes of data. The post Data doesn’t have to be scary appeared first on SHIFT Communications PRAgency | Boston | New York | San Francisco.
In government, public relations specialists are sometimes called press secretaries and they are responsible for keeping the public informed (or perhaps uninformed ) about the activities of government officials and agencies. roughly 21 are PR professionals. In the end, working in PR can be as challenging as it is rewarding.
Companies who attempt to ride roughshod over their employees – whether it be forcing them back into the office after extended period away due the pandemic or those who choose to pay less – are going to have all sorts of issues which are going to be publicly known in very short order. Data-drivenPR. Year of the employee.
In short, as mobile and digital make nearly every transaction seamless, legacy companies must adapt quickly or be completely disrupted. Imagine what a timesaver this will be for companies as they tackle GDPR compliance in the next year, one of the most important changing regulations in marketing and advertising. Airbnb has no rooms.
DataDrivenPR. As you can see from the content strategy, it’s all about the data. And every part of your PR plan should be data-driven now. But if it is to be a PR function you will have to understand how it works or find a vendor or consultant that can advise and guide you.
If we are building out a content strategy for owned media, like a company blog, using content that pertains to trending topics is a way to take advantage of the increasing searches on Google. Well, first it’s a free media monitoring tool and while other tools may give more analytical data about coverage, they also can eat into a budget.
The section ends with some great questions that will help your company find its way to measuring the right thing, not any thing. This chapter also speaks to the importance of being aligned with other departmental and company wide goals. Are you clear about where the points of attribution are for your company’s funnel?
What’s in stock for us as practitioners, as agencies, as companies seeking to build awareness, reputation, and trust? We public relations professionals, whether in house at a brand or at an agency, must take ownership of our audiences. What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017? Christopher S.
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Access : influencers guard themselves with agents, agencies of their own, and handlers, making working with them challenging in some cases. This is a modern twist on an age-old PR strategy: by creating awareness in publications that our target audiences read, we help our companies and clients grow. Christopher S.
This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? When public relations works well, people know our company, our products, our services, and positively associate with them. PR Isn’t Sales. Why did our friend recommend a company to us?
See our earlier post for more on how to make surveys work for PR. Quality data may already exist. Even a small company may have thousands of marketing contacts collected from CRM, website visits, and social followers. Media love poll-results story pitches, especially when accompanied by visuals like infographics.
Automated marketing technologies rely heavily on the mimicry of the masses in social spheres to measure efficacy and the resonance of company messages in the market. Data-drivenPR does not equate with programmatic thinking. Data-DrivenPR Marketing Technology Public Relations' Nicole Bestard.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce XYZ which is a California based mobile development company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in India. I trimmed off the remaining 12 paragraphs of information about their company launch. This is where data-drivenPR has a chance to shine.
If you’re a truly data-drivenPR professional, you want to showcase your analytics chops in every new business/sales presentation. Most PR professionals run into a serious problem every time we go to use Google Analytics in a sales presentation: We’re showing someone else’s data. For training videos and webinars.
If you’re a security hardware provider, buying attitudes are changing internally at Fortune 500 companies and you need to understand how to reach and message to the CFO vs. the network admin. If so, this means you already have a wealth of data that you can arm your PR and communications partners with for more strategic results.
Alex Cassidy of UK digital PRagency Distinctly wrote a post about how they were trying to use ChatGPT to build creative campaigns. The digital PR team’s doing it, and other agencies are doing it. How has AI changed the way your agency thinks? That’s how it all started. That’s good.
Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Some observations we noted: Marketing and PR aren’t making significant use of the new character limits. B2B tech companies have jumped in with both feet. Pharmaceutical companies. The Fortune 10.
You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-drivenPR at SHIFT. It’s not just a topic on our blog, it’s a concept we are encouraged to prioritize in every facet of our PR strategies. In the planning stages, you will want to confirm with your B2B tech clients what is considered a win for the PR program.
As the Digital Marketing and DataDrivenPR environments become more competitive, your goal should be staying one step ahead of your competition. You’re not recruiting professionals to work at a company, you’re recruiting superheros to build the next Justice League.” You need a 10x Marketer. Easy, right? Katie Lioy.
As the Digital Marketing and DataDrivenPR environments become more competitive, your goal should be staying one step ahead of your competition. You’re not recruiting professionals to work at a company, you’re recruiting superheros to build the next Justice League.” You need a 10x Marketer. Easy, right? Katie Lioy.
Our top posts from the first quarter of 2016 focused on the different ways data and analytics have transformed the efforts of public relations professionals and how they affect client expectations. TOP DATA-DRIVENPR TRENDS OF 2016: INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHICS. USE IBM WATSON ANALYTICS FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA INSIGHTS.
Companies slow down in America between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Only sales professionals aiming to hit quota and publicly-traded companies seeking a strong quarter close go full throttle until December 31. As 2017 enters its final month, we hit a period in the US B2B world known as the great lull. Christopher S.
No coverage at all is the worst possible outcome, because it says our company doesn’t matter. Our company isn’t in the game. Our company doesn’t even cross our potential customers’ minds. So, what measurable trait helps us determine the effectiveness of PR? What is branded non-negative search?
Rather than just wing it or have a purely canned talk that may not be relevant to the audience and the event, we can look to data. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-drivenPR program. What’s the goal? Christopher S.
I took some time on The Cube to discuss machine learning as well as the future of media: Data Governance. A second major area of focus for the CDO is data governance, especially with massive changes coming to data regulation such as GDPR. Innovation and Digital Transformation. Christopher S. Vice President, Marketing Technology.
SHIFT has prided itself on its independence for the past 13 years (and our status as one of the few ESOP companies out there), even as so many of our competitors were peeled off by intergalactic holding companies like WPP, Publicis, etc. I know, it’s a little jarring at first to hear this news. What’s next? More of the same.
It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. With many agencies still stuck offering client reports relying on impressions or number of social shares, you’ve likely seen many posts on the SHIFT blog about how to move past these antiquated forms of measurement. How to measure the impact of our work? Julie Staadecker.
In the end, a full package to a reporter is the best course of action, and that package often includes: Consumer messaging – even if your client is a B2B company, you need to focus on how it impacts the Average Joe. This is the most important (and most difficult) part of the package – a B2B company will rarely hook a reporter without it.
Modern companies and organizations have the capability to leverage data to produce insights and data-driven business decisions. As such, the future of business is in large data sets and the observations derived from the analysis. Lisa Zanchi. Marketing Analyst.
years working on the technology PR team. The Agency had just sprouted a marketing technology team arm, and I had been itching to learn more in that area for some time. I was already starting to see the need to integrate our traditional PR practices with marketing tech. I spent the first 3.5 Amanda Grinavich.
A launch can be a great moment for a company. For some companies that can be easy. Here are a few things you can do to keep your company top-of-mind following a launch: Keep a steady media relations program. (Cue the crickets.). The harder part is maintaining that momentum after it’s come and gone. cta] The post Now What?
Once you’ve begun reaching out to celebrity or influencer talent managers, determine if their clients actually like or use your company/product. Or, if you represent a clothing company, does the person you’re considering ever wear their clothes? But with thorough vetting – and a solid contract – you can set yourself up for success.
If you’ve been working in the PR business long enough, the PR planning process can become rather formulaic, especially if you’ve worked with the client over a long period of time. Company goals can often remain the same and a radical change in topics and trends is not typical. This is when award-winning programs are born.
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At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-drivenPR. Living on the B2B side of the house, I’ve been thrilled by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for deeper understanding on how these elements play into our PR programs and the RFP’s we’re receiving. Interestingly only one company using a formal marketing automation system.
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