Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

petabytes of data. The data available to PR professionals and marketers today has the potential to answer so many questions, but the problem is: lots of people don’t know what to do with the data they have. Collecting and analyzing data doesn’t have to mean combing through pages upon pages of spreadsheets.

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Data Data-Driven PR Big Data Analytics 117

Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

In 2015, Google released its Customer Journey to Online Purchase insights tool and there was much rejoicing. Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. What if a company’s data doesn’t exactly map to the generic model?

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 2, 2017

To execute predictive analytics efficiently and effectively, we need three classes of people in our organizations: Developers, to access the data and APIs that provide our data. Data scientists, to build predictive models from our data. The Future of PR is Predictive. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Analytics Data-Driven PR Software Enterprise 112

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. After a routine Google search for at least a webpage belonging to the business, you come back empty handed and decide to move on.

Small Business 60

Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

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. After a routine Google search for at least a webpage belonging to the business, you come back empty handed and decide to move on.

Small Business 60

Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

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. After a routine Google search for at least a webpage belonging to the business, you come back empty handed and decide to move on.

Small Business 60

Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

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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Data Data-Driven PR System Analytics 157

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Certainly, you can look downfunnel and see how many closed deals you’re getting in your sales CRM, but if your website is broken or your retail staff are surly, you may not see the results you want no matter how good your PR is. For that, we’ll turn to our stalwart, Google Analytics. For that, let’s look first at social media.

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Measurement Data-Driven PR How To Exercises 161

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In between those times where you use Google Analytics to do reporting, there is plenty of maintenance to do to ensure that the data that you rely on to make decisions is accurate and will lead to the best decisions. Social Media Configuration. Connecting Google Search Console. It’s super easy to do.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 22, 2015

On virtually every site you visit on the Internet, you’ll find social media sharing icons. Instinct would say yes, but we cannot run a marketing department on instinct alone. We just want to prove or disprove a positive association between social media shares and page views. Let’s first get our data.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Data LinkedIn 60

Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

Analytics 170

Analytics Measurement Data Technology 170

Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

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. I’ve been on the PR side, and I’ve ventured over to the digital side. So where do you start?

Marketing 60

Marketing Data-Driven PR Analytics Training 60

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. Christopher S.

Analytics 161

Analytics Data-Driven PR Data Facebook 161

Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. We’re constantly pushing clients and prospects to embrace elements such as Google Analytics, Twitter advertising, measurement beyond pure clicks and the like. I n other words, when it comes to marketing, what are more “traditional” B2B companies doing these days?

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

Thanks to Google Trends , we know interest in the term “shark attack” is set to increase drastically as searches for “shark week” do: According to The Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File, 2016 saw 84 unprovoked shark attacks, which is on par with the average 82 incidents a year. Media training.

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Case Study Crisis Management Crisis Study 118

Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

Before activating a speaking bench or hitting the phones to contact media friendlies, you need to understand what and how the situation needs to be addressed. Brands that are too quick to pull the trigger – usually via social media – often get caught in a riptide of negative backlash. Another data source G.W.’s

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Let’s take a look: How To Use Google Analytics for Same-Day Content Promotion. One of the top questions in social media marketing (and content marketing in general) is how do you know what content is worth promoting? Instead, most marketers look back at their analytics at the end of the week, month, or quarter.

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Analytics Viral Social Media Google 60

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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Strategy Brand Branding Technology 62

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A quick look at the data landscape shows much promise: Web analytics from systems like Google Analytics™. Social media data. Publication data from the many media monitoring systems out there. Massive numbers of public data sets. Trend data from reputable providers like Google.

Analytics 92

Analytics Software Data System 92

Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

When I first started in PR, the desire was an article in a major national newspaper, above the fold and on the right side. Now, in the digital age, the quest is a business press article authored by an influencer: a reporter with name recognition and a large social media follower list.

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Media Data B2B Pitching 100

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2015

That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year,” writes Derek Lyons for Business 2 Community. Reclaiming Social: Content Strategy for Social Media. Uber-Targeted Social Media Strategies.

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Data-Driven PR Banking Facebook Writing 40

Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

Just in news publications alone, we saw an astonishing 72 million news stories written in 2016 according to Google News, an all-time high. Just as the email marketing world has had to evolve from “batch and blast” email messages to everyone to refined, segmented, and targeted communications, so must our public relations work also evolve.

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Trends Publicity Analytics Software 83

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

SHIFT was not the first Google Analytics Certified Partner ; there were hundreds of companies before us. In the PR industry, however, we hold that distinction. We are, to the best of our knowledge, one of the earliest adopters in PR. We discovered GDELT, while powerful, isn’t ready for the average PR practitioner to use.

Analytics 60

Analytics Google Technology System 60

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? This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model. Why can this be such a problem for marketing and PR?

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Content Marketing System Google Data 60

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In the PR and marketing space, we hear a lot of talk about how mobile devices change the “brandscape” as we know it. Localized Marketing. Ever wonder how Google Maps can tell you when there’s traffic on the road? Marketers and advertisers pay attention to this. Marketing Coordinator. Savannah Whitman.

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