PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

In 2018, discussions about the future for PR and communications pros will likely include the topic of robots. Digital storytelling, social listening and native advertising will all dramatically increase in significance as well, even as blogs maintain an important role in disseminating information. Wright, Ph.D.,

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2018

Have you given much thought to how you’ll improve your work life in 2018? Learn all you can about measurement: While it may be painful for some, measurement is now a crucial element in a PR campaign. Measuring your efforts helps you show your client or boss that what you’re doing impacts the bottom line.

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Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

How will you measure success? We’ve spent a full year focused on the strategy, framework, and content, and the fun part will all unfold in 2018. AirPR: What are best practices in PR & content marketing measurement? Kathy: Measurement should be clear, concise and easily understandable. What is the desired outcome?

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Do they click a link, visit your site or blog, download content or buy the product? 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.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

A calendar of the key international events in public relations in 2018. It was crowdsourced as part of my public relations in 2018 project. 12 to 14 June – 10 th Annual Global Summit on Measurement , AMEC, Barcelona. 4 to 5 October – ICCO Summit 2018 , Dublin. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Please sign-up here.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. Of those, 84% say they outsource content creation; distribution, technology, strategy and measurement were distant followers. 2) Blogging benchmarks. 1) Content marketing benchmarks.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts, the best of Q4 content of 2018, focused on earned media, Google Analytics metrics, and measuring PR success. HOW TO BEST MEASURE YOUR PR SUCCESS. Take note of these tools, metrics, and analysis tactics to measure your PR success for 2018. Here’s how.

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PR News

APRIL 19, 2018

At this week’s PR News Measurement Conference in Philadelphia, there was a lot of talk about moving away from a media relations-based “coverage model” of communications toward a “community and conversation influencer” model, in which the communications focus is on community building among select influencers.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Fittingly, I asked a whole bunch of folks for predictions to include in a blog post here (if you want to be invited next year, you can sign up here ). Here we go…20 insightful PR and marketing predictions for 2018 follows below. In 2018 it will become even more about the customer experience. 1) Pay to play gains prominence.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If so, then here’s a quick list of 12 ideas for 2018 to help you stay invigorated in your professional life. Emphasize projects where you had a measurable impact on your organization. For example, look up examples of white papers online and write and share your own on LinkedIn, or try your hand at writing a blog post on Medium.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This has provided massive opportunities for data and measurement at scale, but has also brought privacy and regulation to the forefront. When GDPR regulations (data protection law across 28 EU countries) came into effect in back in May 2018, it sent the advertising world into a frenzy. Transparency Post GDPR.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2019

In a Muck Rack survey of 800 communicators, ranging from boutique agency coordinators to chief communications officers at global brands, 72 percent said that the top challenge they face is “measuring business impact,” with the second most prominent challenge (at 65 percent) overcoming the “lack of quantifiable measurement.”

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2022

Respondents said their organization is placing more or much more emphasis on owned media (60%), like blogs, newsletters and websites. DE&I was followed by thought leadership (49%), data & analytics (48%), storytelling (48%), comms strategy (46%), measurement (46%), internal comms (44%) and ESG programs (43%). FIR Network).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2018

measurePR March 2018. By attending webinars, reading blogs & staying up on best practices, youll be armed w/ info you need #measurepr. Pre-release #measurement research will give you an understanding of your position in the industry landscape, plus what matters most to your audiences. – Measurement & analytics.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 20, 2020

This blog was originally published on AdAge.com on December 18, 2019. Corporate comms is probably already doing some informal earned media amplification through social media channels, email, newsletters or the company blog. Lastly, measure your earned media amplification.

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Cision

JANUARY 11, 2018

There were also a lot of big changes here at Cision, including a complete rebrand , celebrating our 150-year heritage by going public and launching new technology that makes PR measurement possible. As we reflect on the previous year and continue to head into 2018, we’ve rounded up our top 10 posts from 2017 for your reading pleasure.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. But inspired by preeminent statistician, George Box, Orin also outlines why asking the correct questions in measurement and evaluation is key.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Conducted in February 2018, the online survey solicited the thoughts and opinions of 5,500 JOTW newsletter subscribers, mainly consisting of senior in-house and corporate communications professionals across a variety of industries. .” – open survey comment regarding the state of social media. Measurement is always tricky and always has been.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 6, 2018

2018 is already proving to be a powerhouse year for crisis communications learnings. While preparing for the unexpected is typically the primary focus, building in ample time post-crisis to measure and assess the company’s approach is critical to learn and evolve. I’ll expand on these benchmarks in a follow-up blog post soon.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2021

Making an effort to measure is half the battle. More than half (60%) of respondents say they measure their comms efforts “always” or often.” Another 30% measure their efforts some of the time, while 10% rarely or never make any effort to measure results. Blog: Code of PR Ethics? Blog: What is PR?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the year’s end, I looked back over these marketing and PR statistics in an effort to surface those points that in some way, shape or form, help to summarize 2018 as a year. Each statistic links to the blog post that covered that particular study or survey and links to the underlying source. Photo credit: Pixabay.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 14, 2018

As you review your career options in 2018 to apply for a new job, here are a few helpful tips to help you get started. We recommend you build a case by calculating how your efforts have earned the measurable company revenue increases. Makeda Waterman is an online media journalist of 4 years with blog features on CNBC Make It.,

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Our goal is to prepare students, educators and professionals with the tips, best practices and tools they need to thrive in 2018. What are the most important steps in 2018? Q3: How important is blogging for anyone aspiring to a career in PR? Q8: How important is learning to measure PR results? If so, how?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 25, 2018

There’s a lot to learn when it comes to content, from strategy and creation best practices to the publishing tools and the content measurement. On Thursday, February 15, 2018, at 12:00 p.m. Q8: From a content creation perspective, what goals should PR pros set for 2018? Q7: Talk about content creation best practices.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

However, given the rise in popularity of content marketing, marketers now find value in having an internal content calendar to stay organized with what they publish on their blogs, websites, press releases and social media. We’re publishing our editorial calendar for 2018 early to give you plenty of time to work on it for the new year.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

As Generation Z attends college and begins to enter the PR workforce, what better time than the present to reflect on how measurement has been taught and implemented by two generations prior. Mercy Bae-coup (@MercyC) June 14, 2018. Danielle Heiny (@DanielleHeiny) June 14, 2018. Greg Rokisky (@GregRokisky) June 14, 2018.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This is the number one skill CMOS are looking for in 2018. The custom PR Measurement Dashboard in Google Analytics was created specifically to help PR practitioners get started with analytics and tracking the results of their work. You should be able to track what happens with the content in your blog and newsroom.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

Answered: unsure , brands should take a stand) Interestingly, the results mirror a 2018 survey that asked consumers if they wanted brands to take a stand on politics. >>> That’s up from 68% in 2019 and 51% in 2018. PR measurement. That is, yes. Media relations only gets harder. Top tactics in PR and comms.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the years, I’ve written 20 blog posts about the findings – plus a boatload of contributions elsewhere. There are some 30 speakers lined up to present sessions on earned media – many of them are best and brightest in our industry. This year’s r eport is freely available on Ned’s Job of the Week website or on SlideShare.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s my take on some of the data from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B lead gen report. These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure. Here are the lead generation metrics the survey says B2B marketers are measuring: 52% say cost of conversion. How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog. Blog about it.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2019

But according to the 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations Global Communications Report , writing is the skill most valued by PR recruiters. From blog posts to media pitches, we shift gears constantly, adapting to many different kinds of written content. A blog-eat-blog world . Less is more.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If you’re reading this blog, you also know I produce a lot of content on a monthly basis: 2 blog posts per week, 2 podcast episodes per month and four Talking Points e-newsletters per month. And, I’ve gotten a lot smarter over the years around what blogs and sites to follow–and which to avoid. Buffer blog.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This blog published about 60 new posts in 2018. And so here’s the annual look at the most read, least read, and posts I recommend reading, that were published on Sword and the Script in 2018. The 7 Most Read Posts in 2018. Here are the posts readers read the most in 2018 – as measured by readers clicks.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 16, 2021

Facebook Pixel, an analytics tool that can be installed on a website to measure Facebook Ad performance, lets you track leads across various devices and retarget visitors with ads on other platforms. Video summaries of current blog posts are another way to ramp up video content. Retargeting is easy.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. We were lumped into the same boat as advertising, where measuring the effectiveness of a campaign was wholly unscientific.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But, this is a blog about PR, communications and media relations, so enough about the plot summary. Eric Lebowitz joined Critical Mention in 2018 as its Director of Marketing. Eric brought a background in content marketing, marketing measurement and marketing automation, having previously co-founded and managed his own agency.

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