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Tracking News Releases and Measuring Success

The Proactive Report

What News Release Measurement Used to Be. Back in 2011 news distribution service, Businesswire, asked 280 PR practitioners with this question: “What is the most important measure of press release success?”. How to measure News Releases in 2018. Measuring Earned Media. 32 percent – generating earned media/clips.

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Shaping My World In 2011: Tackling The Triangle

Waxing UnLyrical

While I’m not calling them my un-resolutions, here’s what I will try to do more – or less – of in 2011. In 2011, I would like to see WUL really take flight; not just from a content point of view, but continue to expand and become a landing pad for global voices of public relations and social media.

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Measuring Public Relations Outcomes With Seth Duncan

Waxing UnLyrical

“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.&# He then said, “The second way to measure offline business outcomes is to use primary research.

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Four Marketing Blunders That Will Cost You

5W PR

While some things are more definite than others, there are a lot of aspects of a business that can’t be measured or evaluated accurately. Marketing lies in the ‘less definite’ category – while there is a lot you can do and measure to build a better campaign – there’s no hard and fast answer on what will be the end result.

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Measurement… Supplemented

Waxing UnLyrical

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?

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Get PR Measurement Off The Island

Waxing UnLyrical

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.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

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.

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