Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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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5W PR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Media planning and buying are crucial processes for businesses to optimize their marketing efforts , reach their target audience, and achieve communication goals. It involves selecting the best advertising and communication channels. It involves negotiating and purchasing advertising space or airtime on selected media platforms.

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Shift Communications

JULY 18, 2016

In this series, we’ll examine the tools, techniques, and strategies of paid advertising as they apply to public relations work. Advertising Measurement. In this final part in our series, how do we measure our advertising? Properly and completely deployed, these two products can measure the impact of digital advertising.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This includes understanding cultural norms, etiquette, and communication styles. This includes diverse models, actors, and real customers in the advertisements. Measuring cultural impact Use analytics to measure the impact of multicultural marketing efforts. Train the marketing and sales teams to be culturally competent.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

As HubSpot’s first agency partner back in 2008 , we’ve built our firm on the back of automation and have witnessed it transform the industry over the last decade. We’ve decided to accelerate the transformation to drive efficiency and performance for our agency and our clients. AI should make us better people, professionals and brands.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

A recent study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the USC Center for Public Relations found that marketers plan to increase staffing and overall spending on public relations over the next five years. Allow the agency creative freedom. This is good news for clients and PR firms alike. No laurel-resting here!

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Konnect Agency

MARCH 29, 2021

You may be able to start with a great concept, product or service that is designed to fulfill your customer’s need, but the key is to effectively communicate and entice your customers through the right external communication strategies. What is external communication, and why is it important? Choose the appropriate platforms.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

But to the marketing and communications worlds, the reality is that it has been used in various forms for years, having started gaining momentum around 2015. Ways marketing communications is currently utilizing AI Data Analysis and Insights: AI enables marketers to analyze vast amounts of data and extract valuable insights quickly.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Jelly Digital Marketing & PR is a one-stop-shop online marketing agency in Fort Langley, British Columbia. The award-winning , Canadian-based agency, a Critical Mention client, provides agile and responsive public relations, content creation, digital advertising and SEO solutions to those in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley area.

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Cision

JANUARY 3, 2018

With a new year around the corner, communications professionals are gearing up to get their plans ready to conquer the world in 2018. While the communications and PR space has changed drastically over the past few years, it’s also come with some challenges that we’re still working out solutions for. So what’s the solution?

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

I had the pleasure and privilege of attending IBM Vision 2017 as a guest of IBM Analytics. Over three days, we explored the future of analytics and artificial intelligence, from understanding where we are in the evolution of analytics to seeing the cutting edge of how AI will impact every industry.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s certainly possible, using predictive analytics, to get a rough sense of what might work and what might not work, but few companies have access to that much technology and expertise. Instead, most marketers look back at their analytics at the end of the week, month, or quarter. Open up Google Analytics. Remember this!

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NewsWhip

APRIL 14, 2020

We recently had a virtual sit down with Zach Silber from Kivvit to discuss the ways COVID-19 is impacting the PR industry and how agencies’ responsibilities have changed during these last 30 days. Zach is the Chief Innovation Officer at Kivvit, a national data-driven public affairs & strategic communications agency.

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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. Analytics was still at the early stage. Jennifer Bowcock, VP, Global Communications, Dolby.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Now more than ever, brands are understanding the importance of building trust and being transparent with their audiences, not to mention the value of clear communication. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. Livestream goes mainstream. Livestreams become mainstream.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

Yet PR doesn’t always command the same respect as other disciplines, like advertising or direct-mail. As Greg Galant of MuckRack once observed , the advertising business is linked with iconic characters like Don Draper of “Mad Men,” while public relations is more likely to evoke Samantha Jones. PR is about influence.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 9, 2016

At my agency, we generate a great deal of earned media for clients, and even after all these years, it still feels like magic when a great story hits. For years, the PR industry’s response to the problem was to measure outcomes by treating earned media stories as paid advertising, with a dollar value calculated from standard ad rates.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 19, 2017

Marketers, advertisers, and public relations professionals are ill-informed and ill-equipped to manage the largest change in data and privacy in the last 20 years: GDPR. or you use software that does this on your behalf (Google Analytics, marketing automation, sales CRM), GDPR applies to you. What is GDPR? GDPR applies to you.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Virtually everything in marketing, advertising, and PR is measurable. For example, if I get a small mention in the local newspaper about SHIFT Communications that doesn’t have attribution, a clickstream, or a call to action, it would take an extensive research project to find out the true impact of that article. Christopher S.

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The Resolution Blog

MAY 17, 2017

There have never been so many new-breed agencies offering similar services. PR, influencer outreach, content marketing, link-builders, social and digital marketing set-ups are all winning communications briefs. How can PR agencies compete? New communication lines Marketing directors put their budget where they can see a return.

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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2018

This month, PRsay will feature posts by a variety of thought leaders on the year ahead for communicators and the PR profession. I expect we’ll see the following in 2018: Integration acceleration: It’s now a must that strategic planning, creative, analytics and digital are fully integrated in client teams.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public relations professionals create and maintain a positive image for their organization, often through the use of marketing, branding, and communication strategies. PR is a broad field that encompasses many different tactics and strategies for managing communication between an organization and the public. It’s not a bad take.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 9, 2018

If you are taking a social media class that talks about paid advertising, ask your teacher where you should go to learn more about advertising. If you’re in a research class that briefly brings up social media analytics, find out how you can get more practice with analytics.

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5W PR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As the social web expands and the power of consumers continues to grow, small businesses that want stay relevant, attract customers and retain their loyal followings must find new, compelling ways of communicating their brand messages. When it comes to building trust and credibility, PR is king.

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Critical Mention

JULY 16, 2019

As the cost of paid advertising across various digital and broadcast channels increases, brands are increasingly focused on earned media as a way to build awareness and generate revenue. Professionals in PR, marketing and corporate communications understand all too well that there is, in fact, such a thing as bad publicity.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

You can use the data provided in Facebook’s Audience Insights to better inform paid advertising targeting and drive content decisions by creating more of the kinds of content your audience likes. Twitter also recently released its own Analytics dashboard to all users. Google Analytics. PR pros, want a deeper dive? Embrace it!

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

Along the way content, distribution, analytics, and measurement tools have been acquired and bolted on. Cision, Meltwater and Kantar are aimed at the enterprise agency and in-house market and are expensive. Until recently few PR agency or communication team budgets had a line item for tools.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ). This blog is just a cover story for an incredible marketing and PR agency serving B2B tech. Integration with Google Analytics for referrals. Did you know?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In public relations agency offices around the country, the time has come for a few annual rites of passage. Although there will always be clients who want to know AVEs (advertising value equivalency ) because it allows them to place a dollar value on the PR budget, there are better ways to measure the PR investment. What remains?

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Konnect Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2023

At Konnect Agency, our experts have identified some common pitfalls we’ve seen in Public Relations, Social Media and influencer, Creative, and Paid marketing…and our tips on how to avoid them. Use analytics to track the performance of your social and influencer campaigns. Stories are memorable and can set your brand apart.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I also learned about Lin’s agency work at Strategic Communications ; and that she teaches, and has written quite a few books on PR and marketing. When I was director of corporate communications at a local healthcare organization, I would regularly receive a number of resumes from reporters whenever PR jobs opened up.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

>>> Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? In my assessment, SocialChorus is an interesting internal communications platform – in a time when employee communications is more important than ever. Though I do my best to keep tabs on news from PR technology providers for these roundups, I occasionally I miss one.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Whether you work at an agency or with the in-house PR team, there will always be upper-level management or clients asking you why you do what you do, how it impacts the business and how you can show results. Google Analytics automatically separates social traffic (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) How to Measure PR: Paid advertising.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

The former “founded Weber Shandwick’s analytics practice” and the latter “was former head of strategy at Publicis Media.”. This is effectively native advertising, which Cision says is “proven to be more trustworthy.” I agree, but only because native advertising tricks readers into thinking its bona fide coverage.

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Konnect Agency

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With the saturation of online advertising during the holiday season, reaching your consumer often and in the right places will help ensure your brand is breaking through the noise. You would just need to have tighter deadlines for contracts, content approvals and any other communication that could more quickly move the partnership forward.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Check your social networks and Google Analytics. Facebook and Twitter have great audience insight and analytics tools that can show you which fans are engaging with your brand in addition to a post-level analysis of impressions and engagements. Google Analytics can provide demographic and location data about your site visitors.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

Don’t laugh; in a busy agency, it’s easy to double-book the same line for two calls!) Most importantly, the PR agency and client will assess whether the story helped accomplished their objectives and how to merchandise it to key audiences. appeared first on Crenshaw Communications. PR leverage and amplification.

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