article thumbnail

How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

Shift Communications

How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015? When you’re looking at the data for 2014 in order to formulate ideas for 2015, start by looking for outliers. Look for unusual events that are worth noting, spikes in your data that clearly stand out.

Analytics 155
article thumbnail

SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q1 2015

Shift Communications

Our top posts from the first quarter of 2015 focused on Facebook and SHIFT updates. Data-Driven PR Milestone: SHIFT Becomes Google Analytics Certified Partner. Our clients now gain a competitive edge through better data, analysis and insights. Keep PR Weird: SHIFT Starts 2015 With New Austin Office.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q3 2015

Shift Communications

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. 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.

Twitter 74
article thumbnail

SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q4 2015

Shift Communications

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. Let’s take a look: The State of the Press Release in 2015. Ah, the question on every PR pro’s mind. Want to see how to do this for your blog? Here’s how.

article thumbnail

SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q2 2015

Shift Communications

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2015 focused on same-day content promotion, Game of Thrones, and expanding your skill set. Let’s dive a little more into one SHIFTers personal experience on the subject – including why PR pros should honestly start thinking about expanding their skill sets (and where to start). Here’s how.

article thumbnail

PR and Marketing in 2015: The Road Ahead

Shift Communications

The challenge in 2015 will be for you to build relationships first through effective engagement so that when you have something worth sharing, your preferred audiences will be receptive to you. 2015 will be the year when companies either fully embrace data-driven PR and marketing or fall far behind. Christopher S.

article thumbnail

The State of the Press Release in 2015

Shift Communications

First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. In 2015, Tuesday was the most popular day to publish a release, followed closely by Wednesday. Here’s where it gets interesting: the average press release in 2015 was only shared 18 times.

Data 60