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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 9: Pitching With Data

Shift Communications

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.

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Using Data from Google Tools to Boost Your PR Pitches

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Our PR teams have been taking an analytical approach to forming their account strategies for some time, and our clients have been very pleased with the results. Over the years, we’ve uncovered some amazing, easy-to-use and best of all – free – tools the search engine offers that can make a big difference in a media relations program.

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Data doesn’t have to be scary

Shift Communications

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. The tool gives you a detailed timeline of impressions and engagement rates for every Tweet, as well as follower trends and demographics.

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Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016

Shift Communications

Both in-house and agency marketing teams will be defending the year’s work, planning for 2016 and securing (or hopefully expanding!) Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. Many of these metrics are easily found via tools in the Moz suite, through the native social platform dashboard and through Google Analytics.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

As the dominant form of communication becomes rich – meaning audio and video – the PR profession is at serious risk of missing key trends if tools and vendors fail to adapt. How will PR adapt to a world in which 10 times the content created today will be created in the near future? Christopher S.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? Public relations is a tool for building awareness and trust. PR Isn’t Sales. Public relations is not a tool for selling things. Those are our primary outcomes. Christopher S.

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IBM Vision: The Future of AI and Public Relations

Shift Communications

We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues. Every industry will need data scientists; every company will need access to data scientists or data science tools in order to remain competitive.

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