Shift Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2014

It’s never a surprise when another ‘update’ materializes in the daily news scan, making the maintenance of a successful social media strategy difficult for marketers and communicators. To answer that question, we did our homework using our own data in a research experiment to determine what strategy worked best for our audience (i.e.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Certainly, you can look downfunnel and see how many closed deals you’re getting in your sales CRM, but if your website is broken or your retail staff are surly, you may not see the results you want no matter how good your PR is. For that, let’s look first at social media. The next question is, does that translate down funnel?

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Trends on Social Media. When it comes to earned and owned media getting a pulse on what’s trending worldwide provides a competitive advantage. Trends on Social Media. While Twitter isn’t the center of attention when it comes to social media platforms these days, it is the most transparent with its data.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

At this year’s Social Media Success Summit, I had the opportunity to teach an advanced marketing and communications analytics session. One of the ideas I shared was looking beyond just the data that comes out of the box from tools like Google Analytics, Facebook insights, etc. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 28, 2025

Share these stories on your website, social media, and during community events. Harnessing Social Media Effectively Social media is a powerful tool for healthcare organizations to connect with potential leads. Leveraging Data and Metrics Data-driven PR strategies ensure you focus on what works.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The tactic still matters, but PR pros and writers will need to step up their game to cut through the clutter. Engage with the blogger on social media first, personalize your outreach, read and follow any requirements, and provide high-quality content. Social media livestreams will become acceptable as mainstream ‘news.’.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Data is everywhere, and in every industry you have access to lots of it – so let’s see if we can make it less scary to approach and show you the value of the information that you hold. Social Media Data. Comedic movies and TV shows are of interest to our followers, but not really related to marketing or PR explicitly.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Data Driven PR. 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. You have to learn to gather it, slice and dice it, analyze it and extract the insights that drive your PR strategy and actions.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 6, 2015

In early 2007, SHIFT CEO Todd Defren commissioned a map of the social media world to better visualize the social media landscape. This was a simpler time, when MySpace ruled the social media sphere and people still blogged heavily on services like LiveJournal. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Infographic'

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s why social media influence scores and top 100 social media lists seem to matter a great deal. The post How to build communities of social media influence appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Christopher S.

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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. Dark Social and Influence. Let’s see if we’re ready for them. Content Shockwave.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more. Social media management. The Data Science Shortage. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 22, 2015

On virtually every site you visit on the Internet, you’ll find social media sharing icons. We just want to prove or disprove a positive association between social media shares and page views. Let’s first get our data. Or do social media shares drive page views? Do these activities matter?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. Society and social media have created hyper-focused segmentation of the audience. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 10, 2015

We’ve grown to eclipse our precursor agency in size and scope. We invented the Social Media Press Release and Newsroom templates in the heady first days of the Social Media era. Later of course, everyone was grateful that we’d made the decision to weave “the social stuff” into the firm’s DNA. Todd Defren.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 15, 2015

This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Should social media managers be skipping the hashtag? Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven approach. Where a brand had more than one social media page or profile, we chose the page with the largest audience.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

Social monitoring and listening not only give us a heads up on customer service issues or negative PR, but they can illuminate industry trends and customer behavior. A PR campaign can include a general theme or direction found in social media data or patterns, or the social data can inform a content calendar.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 27, 2016

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-DRIVEN PR TRENDS OF 2016: INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHICS. USE IBM WATSON ANALYTICS FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA INSIGHTS.

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2017

Even with a solid crisis PR plan in place, getting the gears going takes time – this is where social media comes into play. Although, be warned – social media is as relentless as it is swift. Social is necessary . Scan social media to see if anyone is talking about it. In order for G.W.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Untrusted PR professionals who don’t do the hard work of building relationships often focus only the client’s interests. Many of the communications systems of the digital age DO scale, such as email, instant messaging, text messages, and social media. This is where data-driven PR has a chance to shine.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. We look at impressions, unique monthly visitors, website traffic, social media engagements, website form submissions, organic search keywords – every form of quantitative data available to us. Christopher S.

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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. What’s the goal? Christopher S.

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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. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. This beta test was to determine whether users wanted the increased characters.

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

This series will touch briefly on the following offerings/capabilities from SHIFT’s PR, marketing tech and creative services teams: Media monitoring. Media training. Owned media/messaging. Media relations. Social media management. Paid media and syndication. Sentiment/tone analysis. Emily Mong.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

Before activating a speaking bench or hitting the phones to contact media friendlies, you need to understand what and how the situation needs to be addressed. Brands that are too quick to pull the trigger – usually via social media – often get caught in a riptide of negative backlash. Another data source G.W.’s

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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. Creating content that assists our earned media efforts.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

Short for S hared C ontent A nd L ink E valuation, SCALE is an open source program designed to ingest URL-based marketing data from multiple, disparate data sources , and unify the findings. It incorporates organic data from MOZ Open Site Explorer API, SEMRush, and APIs of the top social media platforms.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

Assuming that didn’t work for you, it brings up a larger point: While you don’t need a degree in computer science to build an AI strategy, it is important that PR pros don’t sit on the sidelines and let an AI strategy get defined for them without their input. If you’re a data-driven PR shop, you may have a head start on what AI could do.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

It’s ok to have a good “feeling” that a story or tactic will bear fruit (that’s the art and experience we all bring to the table), but it’s critical that we all gut-check feelings around strategy and tactics by looking at data. What are the themes discussed the most during a conference on social media? Amanda Munroe.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

Social media used to be a shiny object, a channel unto itself. Fred Wilson, noted VC, said quite aptly that social as we knew it is over. Social media is now part and parcel of ordinary communications. 2015 will be the year when companies either fully embrace data-driven PR and marketing or fall far behind.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 2, 2017

Consider factors such as how often your potential picks have been in the media recently and what current projects they have underway. Look at their social media channels to see how large their followings are, and more importantly how engaged they are. Are all the people still relevant? Julie Staadecker. Account Director.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

So, what data fits the mold for the above criteria? What data do we have access to as communicators? A quick look at the data landscape shows much promise: Web analytics from systems like Google Analytics™. Social media data. Publication data from the many media monitoring systems out there.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

When I first started in PR, the desire was an article in a major national newspaper, above the fold and on the right side. Now, in the digital age, the quest is a business press article authored by an influencer: a reporter with name recognition and a large social media follower list. Amanda Monroe. Vice President.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 28, 2019

Owned media can be a powerful tool when it comes to giving people a reason to keep revisiting your site. Do a quick audit of what owned properties make sense for you – a blog , social media, etc. — and then put together a content calendar that will keep the content flowing on a regular basis. cta] The post Now What?

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