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 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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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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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

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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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

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

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

JULY 24, 2017

Brands that are too quick to pull the trigger – usually via social media – often get caught in a riptide of negative backlash. s team should arm themselves with the proper media monitoring tools to help cull coverage and track the conversation, enabling the execution team to react to course changes in real-time.

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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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Shift Communications

MAY 4, 2016

My recent tour of the USC Annenberg School’s Center for Public Relations only confirmed my hunch that our formerly-hidebound industry has been radically transformed via social media, content marketing, visual storytelling, better analytics tools and processes, etc. – and that this process is speeding up, not slowing down.

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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. After the beta, Twitter rolled out 280-character tweets to all users.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

In 2015, Google released its Customer Journey to Online Purchase insights tool and there was much rejoicing. We applied Google’s Customer Journey idea and paired it with data-driven models to help you understand what’s really working in your digital marketing plans. Discover the sequence your customers take to purchase.

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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. Research (using tools such as Sysomos, Crowdtangle, Google Trends). Owned media/messaging. Media relations. Social media management.

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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. — No one wants to read about a topic that’s already been rehashed a bunch of times. Stay in the content game.

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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 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. This way, you can adjust which tools and strategies you are using and provide optimal results all year long.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dealing with proprietary software often means converting our data into compatible formats for use by multiple, different tools. The final and arguably most important attribute of great data for predictive analytics is data that’s been chosen well. So, what data fits the mold for the above criteria? Chosen Well.

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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

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. We discovered GDELT, while powerful, isn’t ready for the average PR practitioner to use. Ask “what if?”

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. Social media data, web analytics, email marketing metrics, oh my! It’s our job to take bits and pieces from one tool, a few tidbits from another, and with it tell a story that ends with actionable takeaways. Tori Sabourin. Photo Credit.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2015

That’s why we collected the key understandings needed to explain the profitability of PR to a sales team. Use our insights and our recommended tools, and you’ll be able to explain the ROI of your PR to whoever needs to hear it. Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016. Savannah Whitman. Marketing Coordinator.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social Media Configuration. Hidden in Google Analytics is a way to set up your social media channels so that Google Analytics tracks the content that you share on social channels and splits it up from other’s shares of your content on the same channels. It’s super easy to do. Chel Wolverton.

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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? It means we evaluate our situation honestly, using the most unbiased tools at our disposal. This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model. Savannah Whitman.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Everyone’s favorite blue bird is here to stay, so harness its power for your PR. cta] The post SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q3 2015 appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Amanda Loewy. Marketing Coordinator.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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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. 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. Let’s show how this might work. Christopher S.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

In fact, using data-driven approaches is relatively new in public relations, especially in terms of the different advancements of tools and technologies in the realm of data analytics. That’s because companies still need tools that will help them work through and with all the data that has been generated.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

With today’s consumer AI tools at your fingertips, it may feel like you don’t need a computer science degree to understand how artificial intelligence will bring value to the communications process. Today, most agency executives only seem to agree on what the limits of AI in PR will be. in the mid-Western U.S.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

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. Social listening is also a great method for coming up with fresh ideas that will resonate with a specific target audience. Data.gov, Healthdata.gov, U.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. The ability to show our PR efforts are working.

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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

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. Living on the B2B side of the house, I’ve been thrilled by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for deeper understanding on how these elements play into our PR programs and the RFP’s we’re receiving. But more importantly my 3 year old son loves trucks and shouts “diggers!”

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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

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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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If we sit back and let such tools pass us by, someone else — someone driven, someone prepared — will swoop in and leave us in the dust. These tools, plus our individual industry expertise, offer new public relations solutions. Visual content is unquestionably the current dominant form of media for the digital age.

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