Rock the Status Quo

APRIL 26, 2017

Because I focus on the integration of content with SEO and social media, I am lucky enough to see the entire spectrum from creation to ROI – something many marketers don’t get to do as an agency. One of the reasons I appreciate the ability to measure so much is the insider’s view on what works and what doesn’t.

SEO 133

SEO Community Writing Content Marketing 133

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. Finkenstadt, Josh Folk, and Lokesh Venkataswamy, Harvard Business Review, 2023 How to generate ideas in ChatGPT To generate writing ideas in ChatGPT, you can input the subject area you wish to write about and ask it to generate ideas for you.

Trends 105

Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ).

Technology 169

Technology Publicity Software Pitching 169

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While it may be tempting to cut costs using shady SEO tactics to take advantage of Google’s algorithm, Google eventually catches up and penalizes many sites over time. With the powerful SEO tool SEMRush , you can discover link reclamation opportunities using their Backlink Audit Tool. Building links is a time-intensive process.

Tools 62

Tools SEO Analysis Google 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While it may be tempting to cut costs using shady SEO tactics to take advantage of Google’s algorithm, Google eventually catches up and penalizes many sites over time. With the powerful SEO tool SEMRush , you can discover link reclamation opportunities using their Backlink Audit Tool. Building links is a time-intensive process.

Tools 62

Tools SEO Analysis Google 62

Sword and the Script

APRIL 6, 2021

Things are definitely picking up though and from where I sit, there’s a renewed sense of optimism across the PR and marketing community. SEMrush is better known for its SEO tools, but it moved into PR last year with the acquisition of Prowly in 2020. SEMrush has had an impressive streak in the SEO space. million in sales.”.

Media 106

Media SEO Analytics Analysis 106

Rock the Status Quo

APRIL 26, 2017

Because I focus on the integration of content with SEO and social media, I am lucky enough to see the entire spectrum from creation to ROI – something many marketers don’t get to do as an agency. One of the reasons I appreciate the ability to measure so much is the insider’s view on what works and what doesn’t.

SEO 100

SEO Community Writing Content Marketing 100

Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

PR professionals use this data to assess sentiment, measure reach, identify emerging issues, and adjust communication strategies accordingly. How Do You Measure Media Coverage? Measuring media coverage involves quantifying the impact and visibility of PR efforts. What are the Basics of Crisis Communication Planning?

Viral 52

Viral Crisis Communications SEO Reputation 52

Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

If left to my own devices I write in a passive voice, I habitually use compound sentences, and my vocabulary choice is less than ideal (humblebrag – I use too many syllables). On a weekly basis, I get a platform to the communications and marketing communities and need to write effectively for them. Google Now.

Tools 120

Tools How To SEO Writing 120

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

Community 82

Community Publicity Web Social Media 82

PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

Beyond content, CMI does break it down into other areas, like SEO, social, and measurement. Ann Handley , the author of Everybody Writes , heads up content at ‘Profs. Buffer authors do their research, writing in-depth posts with ample resources to back up their intelligence. For Social Media, we like….

Blogging 52

Blogging Marketing Pinterest SEO 52

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. Here he outlines a talk from Yext’s Duane Forrester on what a future SEO job description. But inspired by preeminent statistician, George Box, Orin also outlines why asking the correct questions in measurement and evaluation is key. When do they want it?

Tools 136

Tools Publicity Measurement SEO 136

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. Strengthening community-building and connections.

Marketing 189

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 189

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Meandering Through Measurement November 20th, 2010 Tweet Measurement takes a holiday What happens when you get a roomful of communicators listening to a bunch of speakers on measurement?

Measurement 71

Measurement Conference Tourism Blogging 71

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. In reading through it, I had several points worth making here.

Study 139

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 139

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

These are both terrible terms, but I’ve adopted the latter as the moniker for these monthly roundups about the PR software vendor community – and I’m inclined to keep it. Muck Rack released an integration with Google Analytics (GA) that helps PR measure web traffic from media placements. CommsTech does seem like the broader category.

Publicity 85

Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sarah Waddington has handed over #FuturePRoof to the BAME community for her latest book. Along the way she has published three books and created a vibrant community. How do you recommend planning and measuring success? I don’t think we are bad at proving value, there are lots of ways to measure value that supports our industry.

Public Affairs 145

Public Affairs Education Measurement LinkedIn 145

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Clients now expect PR people to also be search experts, content experts, working knowledge of Google Analytics, knowledge of all sorts of tracking tools to measure effectiveness, while filming, producing, and editing video and managing multiple social media accounts.”. Communicating to two worlds. Pressure on measurement.

Communications 122

Communications Crisis Internal International 122

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 10, 2017

Write “vertically.” ” It’s particularly important to stick to industry topics and issues when writing for a B2B audience. Today’s PR teams encourage clients to blog about relevant topics for their audience and pitch these writings to trade pub and other editors. A successful outcome?

Blogging 136

Blogging Writing Engineering Analytics 136

The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. The insights you discover can be useful to the SEO, SEM, social media and marketing teams. Use the SMART formula for your goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound). Write web content. Measurement.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR Analytics SEO Measurement 100

The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. The insights you discover can be useful to the SEO, SEM, social media and marketing teams. Use the SMART formula for your goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound). Write web content. Measurement.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR Analytics SEO Measurement 100

The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. The insights you discover can be useful to the SEO, SEM, social media and marketing teams. Use the SMART formula for your goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound). Write web content. Measurement.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR Analytics SEO Measurement 100

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media .

Marketing 214

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Sticky PR Measurement: Are We There Yet? Measure me this How many times have you been asked, “Well, what is the value of public relations?” .&# or “Can you really measure that ?”

Measurement 103

Measurement Education Facebook Course 103

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay? Traditional and social media measurement tools usually provide 3 broad types of automation: 1.

Measurement 80

Measurement Publicity Analysis Tools 80

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. Sales of what?

Measurement 60

Measurement Social Media Tourism Twitter 60

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

You don’t have to be Einstein to start measuring smartly. There are no absolutes when it comes to measurement, as Don points out… only – and, perhaps most importantly – context. by Daniel Sitkin at Metrica’s Measurement Matters. Why: Measuring the channels is not important. Who owns the news?

Measurement 47

Measurement Analytics Conference Web 47

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

This week I’m writing to you on my iPhone on a Grand Central Rail train between London and York. It's published a guide to community management on the platform. It’s an analytics tool that measures how effective you are at establishing your professional brand, finding relevant people, engaging with insights, and building relationships.

Viral 68

Viral Journalism Analytics Case Study 68

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# “PR outcomes usually refer to any end results of the communication campaign.

Measurement 77

Measurement Publicity Web Analytics 77

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The question was always the same and has a lot in common with the greater B2B community. The top challenge for marketers today is disregarding the latest sparkly things (social media, SEO, paying for leads,law domains ) and focusing instead on real techniques that generate new business. SEO is snake oil. – SEO.

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

ISEBOX

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Write for the Platform. Include an image that has the title of the release, so that you can use your space on the actual post for writing something interesting that will convince the reader to click through for more. LinkedIn: The LI community is a little more straight-laced than Facebook and Twitter.

Pinterest 70

Pinterest LinkedIn Facebook Writing 70

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

Measurement 53

Measurement Blogging Tourism Twitter 53

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The thing is, despite the ad nauseam posts on SEO for news releases, I discovered this recent report from Schwartz Communications that shows a pitiful 18% of news release headlines are SEO-optimized. A word to the wise In my experience, communication pros these days are, more often than not, wise to SEO in general.

Google 109

Google SEO Engineering Measurement 109

Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

If you didn’t believe it can drive sales, amplify brand awareness, build brand credibility and supercharge your SEO, then you wouldn’t be reading this would you? Audience insight – this is directly polling your own customers or social media communities to better understand them and their challenges. Measuring for success.

Content Marketing 62

Content Marketing Marketing Social Media Video 62

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. Other disciplines, notably marketing, have encroached on PR practice in areas that lead with paid media, such as influencer marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO).

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. New LinkedIn research found that only 4% of digital marketers are measuring return on investment six months into a campaign or longer. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn.

Marketing 100

Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 100

Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It is SEO-friendly and appropriate to be then shared on the LinkedIn Company Page and other corporate social assets. If the executive is comfortable with giving you access to their LinkedIn profile, you can follow the same processes you use to interview, write, edit and gain approval of a byline article to fuel your LinkedIn post.

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Corporate Leadership Brand Branding 100