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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 9: Pitching With Data

Shift Communications

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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Find your Brand’s Optimum Facebook Strategy

Shift Communications

For those who aren’t as familiar with Facebook’s paid options, here are the differences: Boosting Posts is an advertising strategy where you pay to have your post seen by a larger percentage of your audience (than with organic, unpaid reach alone). if you want to replicate this for your own purposes, use your data, not our conclusions ).

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Data doesn’t have to be scary

Shift Communications

You can use the data provided in Facebook’s Audience Insights to better inform paid advertising targeting and drive content decisions by creating more of the kinds of content your audience likes. This data can help you find promotion opportunities or even indicate where you could spend an advertising budget. Embrace it!

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SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q1 2015

Shift Communications

We’ve talked a lot in the past year about Facebook, from the evolution of its advertising offering to the almost complete destruction of organic reach for brand pages. If Facebook is where your target audience spends time online, allocate a portion of your marketing spend to Facebook advertising. Tori Sabourin.

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Using Data from Google Tools to Boost Your PR Pitches

Shift Communications

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. It does a deeper dive into Google data and trends, making comparisons and predictions based on historical data and results of real-life advertising and marketing campaigns.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. So, my prediction for 2022 is that those PR practitioners with stand-out skills like stellar writing ability and a proven track record of success will have unlimited career opportunities. Data-driven PR.

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How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

Shift Communications

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

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