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Board members with marketing experience improve shareholder returns by 3% [benchmark]

Sword and the Script

The researchers then examined three measures of financial performance among the firms including market share, revenue growth and shareholder return. By comparison, “100% of boards now include at least one designated finance expert among their memberships, many boards have multiple finance experts.”

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Critical Mention Names Vishal Padhye Chief Technology Officer

Critical Mention

Padhye joined Critical Mention in 2013 as Senior Network/Systems Engineer. His leadership has resulted in the improvement and modernization of over 160 globally-distributed datacenters, using configuration management, distributed networking, datacenter infrastructure management and hardware lifecycle management.

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5 Categories of PR Metrics Pros Should Measure

Sword and the Script

The demand for measuring effectiveness in marketing is on the rise too, according to an eMarketer report titled, Execs to Marketers: Show Me the Metrics. Such reporting is expected on a monthly basis as respondents, “reported marketing metrics to their CEO and leadership teams at least monthly, up from 55% in 2013.”.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems. ” I first heard the term in 2013, but it’s grown increasingly popular, because marketing people like to give new names to traditional concepts. So, says Propel, which provides PR software. Is that good? What exactly is that?

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Last Bad Pitch of 2013?

Bad Pitch Blog

Ready-Made Content Is there a place for pre-fab content in thought leadership campaigns? And I''m willing to bet the professionals using this tactic are measuring success with quantitative metrics and not qualitative ones. Recycling content is a tactic with diminishing returns.

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How to Measure Reputation

David PR Group

Measurement in the world of public relations has always been an ethereal concept. How we measure reputation appears just as daunting to me, but it turns out that analysts at the Harris Poll have been studying this since 1999, gauging the reputations of the most visible companies in the U.S. Harris Reputation Quotient attributes.

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Behind the Headlines with Yvonne Lorie

Cision

Yvonne Lorie, the founder of ReFresh PR and a recipient of the 2013 HPRA Premio PR Achievement Award, has been elected president of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) national board for 2017. PR measurement and Hispanic consumer sentiment models have evolved and can be layered to quantify sales impact.