Onclusive

APRIL 15, 2020

This is a continuation of our April blog series focused on helping communications teams get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. Simply put, attribution shows how PR efforts are helping a company achieve its business objectives.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015?

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Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing How To 155

Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Strategy Branding Brand Technology 62

The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As businesses become more digitized, paying attention to current trends, like the ever-growing importance of social media and data analytics, helps to promote and protect brand image. Also, it allows professionals to employ the right PR strategies when it matters most. Today, companies expect more from their PR departments.

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Trends Branding Brand Analytics 86

Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. Heck, just keeping up with the news is a challenge, never mind closing the gap on technological skill sets you need to execute effectively. So, how in this wave of ever changing technology do we keep our heads above water here at SHIFT?

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Technology Marketing eBook Training 60

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The IBM Chief Digital Officer Strategy Summit, a bi-annual event hosted by IBM, just wrapped up its fall edition. SHIFT Communications and NATIONAL Public Relations sent a team of three to the Boston CDO Strategy Summit to learn and share data-driven experiences. Implications for Marketing and PR.

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Strategy Government Data Analysis 109

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. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Looking good. Christopher S.

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Measurement Data-Driven PR How To Exercises 161

Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Analytics Measurement Data Technology 170

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. Let’s explore what we can learn from these tools and how we can use them to inform our strategy. The current media landscape lends itself to lucrative opportunities on a global scale. Google News.

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Trends Industry Wikipedia How To 142

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

petabytes of data. The data available to PR professionals and marketers today has the potential to answer so many questions, but the problem is: lots of people don’t know what to do with the data they have. Collecting and analyzing data doesn’t have to mean combing through pages upon pages of spreadsheets.

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Data Data-Driven PR Big Data Analytics 117

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Measuring the the success of programs by the numbers is quickly becoming the standard in PR and marketing with access to so much data. The trouble with having lots of data is determining which to use and how to determine the metrics of success. Account Manager, Marketing Technology. Who will benefit most?

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Google Measurement Data-Driven PR Marketing 107

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. Let’s parallel that to PR and marketing. Vice President, Technology Business Development East Coast.

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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. Step 2: Confirm goals. Step 3: Check for links.

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Analytics Google B2B Data-Driven PR 60

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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Analytics Data-Driven PR Data Facebook 161

Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the spring of 2015, SHIFT launched its cutting-edge Marketing Technology Immersion (MTI) program to help the agency develop a better understanding of SHIFT’s data-driven approach to communications and client services. We Have a Marketing Technology Team For a Reason. Establish Client Goals First.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Thanks to technologies like cloud computing, ubiquitous Internet access, mobile devices, and machine learning, the pace of change will only increase. As AI technology improves, reaching individuals at scale will be possible, and PR practitioners must adapt their integrated strategies to maximize success. Christopher S.

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Trends Publicity SEO Advertising 161

Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

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 our strategy? Don’t ask for reciprocity, just share them as part of your basic content distribution strategy. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Data Publicity Data-Driven PR How To 60

Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

If conversion is the problem, fix that with better sales training or better marketing. 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. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.

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Measurement Data Study Advertising 147

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Friend of SHIFT and professional marketing BS detector Scott Stratten asked recently: Doing some talk research, and I just saw a post that said “SMS (text messages) have an open rate of 95%. I don’t know where the original citation came from, but as data-driven PR professionals, we’d like the data too.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

An astonishing amount of mindshare has been devoted to influencer marketing this year. Interest in influencer marketing is at all-time highs, and based on Google searches for the topic, there’s little indication that interest will flag. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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How To Conference Pitching Software 131

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In fact, of those who use a mobile device to access Facebook, nearly half use ONLY a mobile device to access Facebook, as shown by the red bars below: For half of Facebook’s users, your mobile marketing strategy is synonymous with your Facebook strategy. Who will be the first marketers to try Oculus VR immersive ads?

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Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In fact, of those who use a mobile device to access Facebook, nearly half use ONLY a mobile device to access Facebook, as shown by the red bars below: For half of Facebook’s users, your mobile marketing strategy is synonymous with your Facebook strategy. Who will be the first marketers to try Oculus VR immersive ads?

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Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In fact, of those who use a mobile device to access Facebook, nearly half use ONLY a mobile device to access Facebook, as shown by the red bars below: For half of Facebook’s users, your mobile marketing strategy is synonymous with your Facebook strategy. Who will be the first marketers to try Oculus VR immersive ads?

Facebook 60

Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60

Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? For those brands and professionals who do not engage machine learning technologies in their work, they will see their relative share of voice decline. Better to have 100 hits in trade publications, or 0.05% of the day’s news, than 1 hit in business press.

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Trends Publicity Analytics Software 83

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 7, 2015

As marketers, we reply on people having opinions to do our jobs. While this may be a silly example it demonstrates the point that the plural of anecdote is not data. This is what gets us into trouble and where we create strategies that will struggle. We need to be diligent and disciplined about data collection.

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Data Technology Examples Course 60

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. 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. Senior Marketing Strategist.

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Analytics Google Measurement Data 74

Shift Communications

APRIL 30, 2015

Now that we’ve popped the champagne and cut the cake, it feels natural to consider not just HOW MUCH we’ve grown, but HOW we’ve grown – and more importantly, what does that suggest for mid-sized agencies in an increasingly competitive market? That may sound elementary; basic even – why wouldn’t you use data to make business decisions?

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Agency How To Data-Driven PR Data 60

Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. However, many were concerned that its overly broad models – “business and industrial”, for example – could mean a B2B technology company or an industrial concrete company, two very different businesses.

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Google B2C Analytics Data 60

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We’ve used Watson Analytics to prescribe social media engagement strategy based on users’ engagement habits. ” when you read about the emergence of a new technology, a new tool, a new idea. Vice President, Marketing Technology. What can you find a first-use for in your industry? Ask “what if?”

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Analytics Google Technology System 60

5W PR

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of public relations, the emergence of new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming the industry. The discussion emphasized the convergence of PR and marketing, the increasing significance of data-driven strategies, and the imperative for PR professionals to adapt to these changes.

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Trends Ethics Data-Driven PR Storytelling 78

Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

However, all things being equal, branded non-negative searches are a far better way to determine how present we are in the minds of our audience than other traditional PR metrics ( especially impressions, which are worthless ). A final caveat is that branded non-negative search is the best metric for PR to measure today. Christopher S.

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Measurement SEO Policies Reputation 107

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. Our top posts from the third quarter of 2015 focused on PR strategy, Facebook, and Twitter. Let’s jump in: How to Choose a PR Strategy: Part 1 of 6. Marketing Coordinator.

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Twitter Pitching Facebook Data 74

Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s becoming more fashionable to claim that your PR and marketing is “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean? This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model. Why can this be such a problem for marketing and PR?

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Content Marketing System Google Data 60

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Learn from your results then utilize these lessons to strengthen your strategy over and over again. Marketing Analyst, Marketing Technology. cta] The post Twitter’s New Algorithm appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Compare it to previous months.

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Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. We recommend working with your marketing team to understand which tools they are using and can share with you.

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Data-Driven PR Measurement System Data 362

Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. We recommend working with your marketing team to understand which tools they are using and can share with you.

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Data-Driven PR Measurement System Data 362

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2015

When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. 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. Marketing Coordinator.

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