Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 21, 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 26, 2016

Our PR teams have been taking an analytical approach to forming their account strategies for some time, and our clients have been very pleased with the results. Over the years, we’ve uncovered some amazing, easy-to-use and best of all – free – tools the search engine offers that can make a big difference in a media relations program.

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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. Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy Tools'

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 4, 2016

They typically require a data analyst to gather, clean, and prepare the data for visualization. A programmer fluent in Node.js, Shiny, or other interactive visualization tools then takes the data and transforms it into interactive magic. Interactive infographics are more complex to create than static images.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

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. and using some relatively simple mathematical principles to turn data into insights. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Marketing Metrics Strategy Training'

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The tool gives you a detailed timeline of impressions and engagement rates for every Tweet, as well as follower trends and demographics. The post Data doesn’t have to be scary appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco. Tori Sabourin. Marketing Analyst.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In this post, we’ll explore numerous free tools readily accessible at our fingertips across the world-wide-web. Let’s explore what we can learn from these tools and how we can use them to inform our strategy. A great third-party tool that can be used for competitive social media research is CrowdTangle. Wikipedia Top 25 Report.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Data scientists, to build predictive models from our data. Data-driven PR professionals, to take the models and turn them into programs of action for our brands and clients. Most PR departments and agencies are lucky to have even one of the three, largely due to cost. The Future of PR is Predictive.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

If articles in publication X consistently fail to drive demo sign-ups, and demo sign-ups is one of your goals, the data-driven PR professional knows that it’s smart to put their eggs elsewhere (…in another basket). But when you’re spending $10-20K a month on a PR agency, you should know what it’s doing for the business.”.

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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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Landis PR

JANUARY 28, 2025

Leveraging Patient Stories Human interest stories are among the most powerful tools in healthcare PR. 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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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. In fact, per thousand jobs in D.C.,

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Alex Cassidy of UK digital PR agency 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.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The book then covers objectives, channels, KPIs, and tools. The post Review: Measure What Matters Most – A Think With Google Guide for Marketers appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco. Data-Driven PR Learning Marketing Metrics Review Think With Google'

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As the dominant form of communication becomes rich – meaning audio and video – the PR profession is at serious risk of missing key trends if tools and vendors fail to adapt. How will PR adapt to a world in which 10 times the content created today will be created in the near future? Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Every industry will need data scientists; every company will need access to data scientists or data science tools in order to remain competitive. cta] The post IBM Vision: The Future of AI and Public Relations appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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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

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? Public relations is a tool for building awareness and trust. PR Isn’t Sales. Public relations is not a tool for selling things. Those are our primary outcomes. Christopher S.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

Surveys are the data gift that keep giving. Polls and surveys are time-honored PR tools for developing campaigns, fine-tuning messaging, and generating earned media and content. They’re beloved among PRs because they’re quick and affordable. The survey possibilities are endless, but here are our favorites.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Access : influencers guard themselves with agents, agencies of their own, and handlers, making working with them challenging in some cases. cta] The post How To Reach Top-Tier Influencers on PR Budgets appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Christopher S.

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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. Many of these metrics are easily found via tools in the Moz suite, through the native social platform dashboard and through Google Analytics.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Google Data Studio™ made a splash when it was first revealed to Google Partners in 2015 as a potential solution for client reporting and dashboards. It’s now available to marketers and communicators globally, and it’s a potent new tool for the data-driven PR practitioner, communicator, or marketer.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Once we’ve got our data compiled in an orderly fashion, we need to understand what drives the actions we care about. For this, use a statistical tool/method such as multiple regression/linear analysis of variance to understand which metrics potentially drive actions. Christopher S. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As the Digital Marketing and Data Driven PR environments become more competitive, your goal should be staying one step ahead of your competition. You have all the latest tools, read all the industry publications, and know all the big players. Now you need a team to work harder, better, faster, and stronger. Katie Lioy.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As the Digital Marketing and Data Driven PR environments become more competitive, your goal should be staying one step ahead of your competition. You have all the latest tools, read all the industry publications, and know all the big players. Now you need a team to work harder, better, faster, and stronger. Katie Lioy.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

We’ve talked about this in the past (as far back as 2012), but only now are the tools and methods for executing on communities of influence becoming available. The post How to build communities of social media influence appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Public relations, a communication-driven field, can and will continue to benefit from this futuristic tool. By definition, it’s the “statistical discipline of predicting what’s likely to happen based on existing data.” The latest focus is on predictive analytics and the power one can wield by predicting future trends.

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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. IBM Watson Analytics has changed that. Casey Egan.

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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

MARCH 11, 2015

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? are also key.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 1, 2016

SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-driven PR agency , announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. 2014: ZIPR Mobile PR Spokesperson App. 2013: SHIFT Branded Coffee Shops.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Predicting PR Job Searches. Using our predictive analytics tools, we forecast that the time when jobseekers in the PR industry will be most active in all of 2018 will be the week of January 14, 2018: Above, the forecast for the search term “public relations jobs”. Christopher S. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 3, 2015

As we enter this brave new world of next-gen marketing analytics, it will be even more important for marketing and PR pros to not only understand leading statistics, but be able to find the seams in the data, follow data sets to causality and truly become more strategic in the application of the tools and data we have available.

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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. Using tools like Facebook’s Crowdtangle social monitoring platform, we digested over a million tweets. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For PR pros in the midst of the planning madness — myself included — there is a better and more efficient way to create PR plans, and it all revolves around data. By that, I mean I’ll never start working on a PR plan without taking a critical, data-driven look under my “client’s hood.”

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

First, in any reputable SEO tool, we’ll find a list of searches by month for our brand and many variations on it: We keep a monthly log of branded non-negative searches broadly from SEO tools, to judge how effective we are at reaching the overall audience, whether or not they click on any search results. Measure what matters.

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