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How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

Shift Communications

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. Here’s an example from web analytics: Look at those four standout events that are above and beyond normal traffic.

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How the New York Public Library’s Blog Mobilizes Communities

Cision

It can include social media, tip sheets, and emails, as well as paid promotions like native advertising and promoted posts on social platforms. Centrally, we have a cross-departmental weekly engagement meeting—representatives from marketing, homepage, media, web, programs—to plan what content to promote.

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I Sold PR 20/20, but That’s Just the Start of the Story

PR 20/20

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics.

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We Should Measure Content Marketing by Relationships

Sword and the Script

The white paper calls the pageview a “superficial impression of how people behave on the web.” For 20 years, the media and marketing world has been beholden to the pageview, a deeply flawed metric that only captures the most superficial impression of how people behave on the web. It’s easy to be shallow on the web).

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What Is Distributed Content? (and 5 Ways to Use It)

Cision

On the same panel, Julie Hansen, President of Business Insider shared the success of their completely distributed product Insider which she says has been “seamless to implement” despite having no web presence whatsoever outside of external channels. Native advertise through a third-party. But so is publishing in general.

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I Sold PR 20/20, but That’s Just the Start of the Story

PR 20/20

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics.

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6 Ways to Win Executive Buy-In for Inbound Marketing

PR 20/20

Editor's note: This post was originally published in May 2013, and was updated in August 2017 per latest best practices and data. Traditional, outbound marketing (print advertising, direct mail, coupon books, etc.) Some of us willingly share more with strangers on the web than we would at the holiday dinner table.