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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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PRTech Is Evolving. Is Your PR Strategy?

Deirdre Breakenridge

This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. Is it all one in the same now that marketing and PR are more interwoven?

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration. Data-driven PR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must.

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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. How do you make all of that analysis effort and time worthwhile? How do you avoid this problem?

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SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q1 2015

Shift Communications

We’ve talked a lot in the past year about Facebook, from the evolution of its advertising offering to the almost complete destruction of organic reach for brand pages. If Facebook is where your target audience spends time online, allocate a portion of your marketing spend to Facebook advertising. What does this mean for clients?

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Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016

Shift Communications

That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year. You have gathered the data to defend your program, you’ve run data-driven analysis and you’re ready to create an even better PR plan for 2016.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

There’s nothing wrong with quantitative data, especially if you want to answer the question, “ what happened? ”. What’s wrong with this approach is that we try to force quantitative analysis to answer qualitative questions. No amount of quantitative data will ever answer the qualitative question, “ Why?