Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As part of the AMEC Measurement Week, I’ve been asked to prepare some quick thoughts on how to explain PR metrics to stakeholders and executives. Who should be measured by sales of pies? So Grandpa’s work isn’t without value or quantifiable measurement. How would you measure and quantify that? It’s important.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR 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.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR 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.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 19, 2015

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. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. This is a core challenge of data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Google’s new guide, “ Measure What Matters Most “, drives home the point of improving outcomes by focusing on the customer journey. It will challenge you to consider all the possibilities of your choices — from what to measure to promotions to measuring the customer journey to proving that your efforts indeed work.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

However, one area where video-minded PR professionals fall short is how to measure the success of video communications. The old way of measuring video success was simple, if ineffective: how many views did our video receive? The Video Communications Measurement Funnel. Video Impact Can Be Measured! The Old Way.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

If you track how much your position changes over time, you are starting to measure velocity. If you track how much your change is changing, you are starting to measure acceleration. The post Advanced analytics: position, velocity, and acceleration appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The post How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy' Suppose you’re trying to formulate a 2015 SEO strategy.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

The PR metrics and PR data that are available to us today can help us do just that, but dealing with analytics is still a little scary to a lot of communicators. Being a good communicator doesn’t mean you can’t be data-driven. Why is this the case?

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

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. We’ve all heard the saying you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

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? Content Shockwave.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Both in-house and agency marketing teams will be defending the year’s work, planning for 2016 and securing (or hopefully expanding!) Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. This helps you measure how a campaign or individual piece of content performs. Check out our PR measurement tool.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. Disruption happens to industries measured in weeks and months rather than years or epochs. These tools will help PR practitioners more quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. The Big Picture.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

The reason we struggle to answer this question, as an industry, is because we are unwilling to invest in the tools, techniques, and strategies that lead to sound, effective measurement. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. PR grows more in demand. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. Data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

I was asked recently what the most important metric, the most important thing to measure in PR is. So, what measurable trait helps us determine the effectiveness of PR? The Most Important Metric in PR Today is Branded Non-Negative Search. Measure What Matters. Measure what matters. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It’s a brochure, a cultural touchpoint and an ideal place for not only aggregating content in one spot but also for measuring how effective your efforts have been in wooing prospects to check out your offerings. The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-driven PR 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. Step 1: Ask for access. Emily Wienberg. Account Manager.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

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-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. Data-driven is just that—information drives the direction, moves us forward.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Finally, let’s look at the post-beta period: What we see is no relationship between any engagement measure and tweet length, in any time period. Are users taking advantage of the new character lengths?

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Shift Communications

MARCH 3, 2015

For the general sports fan, statistics and data have been making their way into the mainstream for some time, similar to how online has brought measurement to marketing in a new way over the past 5+ years. The post Are PR and Marketing Entering the Moneyball II Era? Vice President, Technology Business Development East Coast.

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5W PR

AUGUST 30, 2024

The panelists agreed that client expectations are evolving, with a greater emphasis on the integration of PR and marketing efforts. This integration is being driven by the need for cohesive messaging and the ability to measure the impact of campaigns across multiple channels. You can watch the complete webinar for yourself here.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. How to measure the impact of our work? 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.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

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-driven PR program. Measurement. What’s the goal?

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They are most concerned with data that falls into their marketing domain (email, web traffic, social, earned media measurement) and feeding sales as much as possible. The post B2B Marketers: Even more data is coming, are you ready? appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Our top posts, the best of Q4 content of 2018, focused on earned media, Google Analytics metrics, and measuring PR success. 3 CATEGORIES OF PR AND EARNED MEDIA. HOW TO BEST MEASURE YOUR PR SUCCESS. Take note of these tools, metrics, and analysis tactics to measure your PR success for 2018. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

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. The ability to show our PR efforts are working.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

How can all of this be measured and analyzed? SCALE is a cloud based software designed to close the data gap when analyzing how well content performs. Data-driven approaches are proven to provide the best results. For example, analyzing top-performing posts within an industry will uncover apparent trends. Roman Greco.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

Naturally, this includes a review of the company’s goals to ensure the program is supportive, trends/topics the client should continue to own, what worked and what hasn’t during the program, and new metrics to measure success. This is when award-winning programs are born. Amanda Munroe. Vice President .

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Let’s jump in: How to Choose a PR Strategy: Part 1 of 6. The hot topic in PR is always strategy. SHIFT honed in on creating a way to choose a PR strategy based on visible, measurable criteria and a meta-strategic framework. Everyone’s favorite blue bird is here to stay, so harness its power for your PR.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It can also involve data -driven strategies, such as driving lead generation, maximising reach, and measuring the success of distribution strategies. Tech PR can be used to create positive brand awareness, enhance online reputation, and boost business profits. 3d hands holding a cell phone and pointing to the screen.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Our top posts from the fourth quarter of 2015 focused on best and worst times for press releases, connecting PR and sales, and measuring PR for 2016 planning. Ah, the question on every PR pro’s mind. That’s why we collected the key understandings needed to explain the profitability of PR to a sales team.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 23, 2015

Many times, I’m asked by younger communicators what skills they should concentrate on as they finish their degree or begin seeking an agency role. By understanding how to think about and interpret data, communicators need to be able to draw inferences and understand trends by providing insights based on what they observe.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 24, 2017

While product trials and demos can whet an editor’s appetite for a story, recipes are rich content that can both maximize PR campaigns and drive measurable business results in multiple ways. Alan Marcus. Vice President .

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Shift Communications

JULY 28, 2017

We can use a data-driven strategy to identify our most highly-connected, and thus influential targets. Eigenvector centrality, the computing method behind our network graphic, may seem like a mouth-full but it’s simply the measure of influence (and reach) of any given user in a network. Stay tuned to see how G.W.

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Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. We’re constantly pushing clients and prospects to embrace elements such as Google Analytics, Twitter advertising, measurement beyond pure clicks and the like. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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