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S&T Live Recap: Gini Dietrich on the Evolution of the PESO Model and the Impact of AI

PRSay

When trying to demonstrate the value of their work, “One of the biggest challenges that PR professionals have is that we measure outputs instead of outcomes,” Gini Dietrich said. Dietrich, CEO and founder of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based communications firm, is the author of the 2014 book “Spin Sucks” and the “Spin Sucks” blog.

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New Rules That Every PR Person Should Know

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

billion in 2014. A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. PR today is about SEO.

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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. When you’re looking at the data for 2014 in order to formulate ideas for 2015, start by looking for outliers.

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR and SEO are joined. If PR is all about content, it stands to reason that PR and SEO must work together, and that PR professionals should have more than a passing familiarity with SEO and web analytics. ” Penguin penalized shady backlinks, keyword stuffing, and other black-hat SEO strategies in favor of quality content.

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150+ Guest Posting Sites That Will Actually Build Traffic (Analysis)

Buzzstream

In the early days of Google, guest posting was seen as a legitimate SEO strategy, and Google didn’t publicly penalize it. Then, in 2014, Google warned about the potential harm of guest posting if its main purpose was solely link building. For example: “write for us” AND “SEO” if I wanted the SEO industry.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

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.

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Press Releases Don’t Work

Shift Communications

Because Google devalued press release distribution sites a few years ago, press releases are untrusted and therefore don’t pass along any SEO authority. 200 to $1,200 is a lot of money to spend on a piece of content that gets shared by us, doesn’t engage the audience, and offers no SEO value. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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