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Data-Driven PR Campaign Planning: Part 1

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PR campaign planning includes: Setting clear objectives that help drive measurable business impact and organizational success Identifying and understanding the appropriate audiences Developing a strategy to effectively communicate messages that resonate to these audiences Measuring how well these activities achieved the objectives.

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Data-Driven PR Campaign Planning: Part 2

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Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign. At this stage, it is useful to go back to the insights about what’s currently trending in your industry, what your competitors are talking about, and what is being covered by the media.

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 7: Refinement

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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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Embracing the Data-Driven PR Future (And Math)

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The Internet has significantly changed the way every industry works. As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. This goes for every industry.

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Data-Driven PR Milestone: SHIFT Becomes Google Analytics Certified Partner

Shift Communications

One of the greatest challenges to public relations as an industry since the advent of digital marketing and communications is how to measure the effectiveness of PR. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR.

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What PR Teams Love Right Now: Valentine’s Day Edition

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Those can extend beyond personal connections to the professional tools and trends that have captured our hearts in the PR industry. So as we celebrate the month of romance, it’s a good moment to send some love to the tools that PR professionals value every day. Today, PR strategy is often informed by data insights.

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How to Research Industry Trends Hassle-Free

Shift Communications

While most of us communication pros are ringing in the new year with hefty planning, how seriously are we taking our research? What time and resources are we committing to understanding overall cultural trends and our industry’s current relevant news? All of these can be used to research industry trends and current news: Google News.

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