Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What books do you recommend? PR Measurement: How is Communications Proving Value? Should the Public Relations Report to the CEO or CMO? What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living Sources for public relations salary benchmarks: 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey: How Much Money do PRs Pros Make?

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 6, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Book Clubbin’ series recaps business and marketing related books read by the PR 20/20 team each quarter as part of the agency book club. This series will highlight key takeaways and top tips directly from each book club book. Marketing is everywhere, whether you realize it or not.

Marketing 40

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The October 13th edition of #measurePR focused on measuring content. On how agencies and consultants can optimize content for profitability: A3-1: Understand what content attracts audiences vs. what content CONVERTS them to buying. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn #measurePR Recap (October 2016): Measuring Content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2016

I thought, “A children’s book… seriously?” I envisioned the entire book in its complete glory – from every page spread and the cover to how I could use my skills in IMC to make this book a reality. My book, “When Willie Got His Wheels,” is written for a 7-10 year-old reader.

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Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . In my book The Content Code, I refer to this group as the “Alpha Audience” and I contend that this elite group is the bedrock of your business. In the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth became the first celebrity advertisers.

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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. PR measures up. PR leverage and amplification.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public affairs: This involves working with government officials and agencies to shape public policy and advocate on behalf of an organization.”. Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales. How is public relations measured?

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What constitutes a small business varies—by size of firm, number of employees, revenue earned, output measurements like sales and shipments, etc.—but Even if your small business is struggling or you don’t have the income to spend on a long-term contract with an agency, PR can help your business in the following ways.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

I started out in book PR in Los Angeles. It was a great beginning, since one week you were working with a non-fiction author about a political book and the next, a high profile novelist like Danielle Steele. Crenshaw Communications recently was named as the agency to represent Wearsafe labs.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 28, 2024

The Bulgarian Association of PR Agencies accepted principles for the use of artificial intelligence in PR. Given the fast development in this field, AI has the potential to optimize processes and assist in addressing ethical dilemmas in agencies and companies. We put a lot of hopes in it, and many of them are justified. Host: Welcome!

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. The book holds up almost ten years on because most organisations are lousy at using social media to listen to their customers. This is the story told by Robert McKeen and Thomas Gerace in their book Storynomics.

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5W PR

JUNE 8, 2020

Advertising on social media is losing favor among many marketers. They attributed their success to consumers having a higher perceived value from the course than a book or cheat sheet. As always, measure the brand’s conversion rate with industry averages and be prepared to adjust, where needed. What to Shed.

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PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and was also published on the HubSpot Agency Post. As CMOs navigate the marketing talent gap , they are increasingly seeking performance-driven agency partners that are immersed in marketing technology and staffed with digital-savvy professionals.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. Build a Better Agency Summit.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. Toth, among others.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As president of the Maccabee agency for 24 years, I’ve been motivated by a different sort of advisor – Penn & Teller, David Blaine, David Copperfield and Harry Houdini (pictured right). To learn more about focusing your brand, check out an exquisite book, Take A Stand For Your Brand. magicians, illusionists, and conjurors.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I suspect, given the company Kantar keeps, the survey sample is heavily weighted towards advertisers, but still, the thinking is useful. The full report shows some nuance between agency and in-house respondents (graphic and summary by Marketing Charts here and here ). 16% on marketing analytics. 66% said newspapers.

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Prohibition

APRIL 2, 2017

The PR industry, much like the advertising industry, has been challenged no end over recent years. At first the rise of internet, computers and connectivity helped to streamline admin, create new and measurable mechanisms and provide communicators with a more coherent way of working. And with that comes a need for change.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Host: You wrote the book "The World PR Revolution" and it became an absolute bestseller. It was also ranked at the top of the charts by an independent organization that evaluates the popularity of these types of books. And that's why I decided to write this book because I saw these huge changes happening in our business.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2019

Back in August 2018, we had three incredible industry guests, who shared how they uniquely measure PR and marketing. A3: The Amazon Effect has taken over the travel industry, making reviews one of the most powerful forms of advertising #measurepr. So we look at how and why people book travel. Measuring impact.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

It’s hard to measure but there’s negative consequences for not doing it.”. ” Certainly, the digital fingerprints of the web provided better mechanisms to measure indicators in these areas. There are, it seems, two ideological camps: “can’t measure” and “measure everything.”

Marketing 60

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Ethical Voices

AUGUST 22, 2022

After my time there, went on to Ogilvy, a very large global PR agency specializing in tech, before I founded Volume PR. How am I engaging with respect to the agency of my audience, with respect to codes of civility? What am I measuring this quarter, next quarter, this year? It’s been over 21 years ago now.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

These two efforts need to work in unison to amplify your company’s messaging, support your brand and drive measurable results. cta] The post Five Tips to Align Marketing and PR Strategies appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Here’s how: Establish Goals. Kristin Amico.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 16, 2016

And, they were two claims that continue to make it very, very difficult for agencies and consultants to have realistic discussions about what influencer marketing is and how it can help your brand. In the post, Mark refers to a partner he interviewed for his book who claims influencer marketing can be “cost effective.”

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Edelman will be the first agency to cross-reference earned audiences with Cision’s 925+ million influencer profiles for targeted ongoing engagement. This means they can measure earned the same way they do paid or owned, and make more fully informed investment mix decisions.”. Have you read the book Crossing the Chasm ?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 10, 2017

That Amazon chose to sell books first was a matter simply math and pragmatism to work out kinks in a supply chain. Can your agency bring big ideas – and execute them? Build systems and processes that consistently produce measurable results with business impact and then iterate and improve. His slidedeck is embedded nearby.

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

So, I started my small one-man show advertising agency that produced souvenirs, business cards, and calendars. They gave me a big book about advertising and public relations and said there was no other public relations company in my country, so I shall do my best to learn the business. So, what made you write this book?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

I believe technology gives us leverage, but like Peter Thiel says in his book Zero to One , it works best when it compliments or augments humanity rather than replaces it. Perhaps time-on-page is a better digital analytical measure than the volume of sessions or visitors. More, More and Still More. Engagement.

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PR Conversations

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I have seen a senior practitioner almost brag that he didn’t have time to read books about practice. I see agencies offering communication research and audit services when they appear to have no-one in their team with any qualifications in research. practitioners not that bothered about career development?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Benefits of Being a Good PR Agency Client; Off Script #18: Rich Young. Lloyd of Chicago wrote the definitive book of jury selection in Illinois. – print advertising. – pay per click advertising. The rule is: if you can’t measure the results, eliminate it. Plaintiff lawyer Kurt D. – SEO.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing. While we weren’t doing it perfectly, it was my first foray in this world – quite different than my paid advertising and agency days. Sales is working on sponsorships, benefactors, magazine advertising, and the like—focusing on brands.

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OnePitch

MAY 12, 2022

Important tip: if you’re a blatant advertisement for your company, you’ll never be invited back. What’s your best tip for measuring PR for broadcast coverage? Having a demo tape to show how compelling a speaker you are will put you above the rest when they are choosing to book for an upcoming segment.

Strategy 52

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

Consequently, social media agencies have mushroomed , with their fair share of self-confessed SM consultants cashing in on the tide. Advertising giants like Saatchi and Saatchi are slowly making a foray into the industry. Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Read it here.] [.]

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Norton's Notes

JULY 29, 2015

Twitter’s approach to open data also makes measurement easy. So many organisations have experienced negative consequences of trusting SEO agencies to manage content marketing for them, only for them to be penalised by Google. This is shown by the requests we get as an agency. Not so much a campaign, but a project.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Old fashioned press releases and advertising can lead to bona fide editorial coverage. Notified adds coverage books.

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