Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

About half of comms pros say they track web traffic, impression and placements for PR measurement, but such metrics point out the direction of success rather than conclusive . Commetric came out this week with its “ PR Measurement Twitter Influencer Index.” PR measurement. PR measurement.”. select all that apply).

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The Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

September is AMEC’s Global Measurement Month with many events around the world focused on PR measurement. Advertising Equivalency Values, where you measure the value of your media coverage by calculating how much an equivalent advertisement would cost.) Why is measuring AVE’s a waste of time? REGISTER NOW.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 6, 2020

In my previous article on marketing ventriloquism , I made the case for marketers talking through voices other than their own and explained that most marketers tend to rely on advertising because of a need for perceived control. This is currently done with massively varying degrees of analytical rigor, but that is another story.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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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? Let’s look at how to measure more thoughtfully. Measurement Pre-Requisites.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Businesses that engage corporate blogging with professionalism and process can boost visibility, grow a community, and ultimately, have a meaningful influence on sales. For example, I once worked for a company that found visitors that engaged the blog were 50% more likely to make a purchase. 1) Measures of Visibility.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2023

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. Track Campaign Effectiveness In the past, it was difficult to measure the impact of a PR campaign.

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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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Cision

JUNE 5, 2015

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Ninety-five percent of communicators say they measure their PR, including social media. Whether you’re new to PR measurement or want to refine or upgrade your efforts, Cision has the resources for you. The bad news?

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NewsWhip

MARCH 31, 2021

What happens when influence outshines advertising? I mean, I think it starts with really that technology layer, because now there’s so many things that we can start to kind of measure in comms that we really couldn’t measure even just one, two years ago. MARCH 26, 2021. Watch webinar. Read transcript. Bryan: Yeah.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

During PRoBono, students from PRLab and AdLab — Boston University’s student-run advertising agency — come together for 18 hours to complete public relations and advertising work for five nonprofit organizations. Many nonprofit clients need strategies that encompass both public relations and advertising. Is PR Right for me?”

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 20, 2023

But to truly maximize content value, you need to have a way to measure your content’s impact. The analytics are crucial for providing insight into the value of your production. Paid Traffic Organic traffic and paid traffic are two primary ways to drive traffic to your website or blog.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We talk a lot about measuring PR on this blog and as a reader, you know that not all PR tactics directly impact the bottom line. If you don’t already have measurement tools and dashboards in place, these questions commonly asked by clients and brand management alike can be a good indicator that it’s well past time to get started.

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Business Wire

MARCH 6, 2017

Provided by your analytics program, URL builders or UTM links are lines of text you add to the end of a URL that allow the program to track the inbound traffic activity you are generating. Create extensions for blog posts, social updates, advertising and other marketing collateral to keep your program’s activities separated.

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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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Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing How To 155

Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. Want to accurately measure PR?

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Onclusive

JULY 18, 2017

As a result, about three quarters of marketers are planning to increase their PR budgets over the next five years, according to research from the Association of National Advertisers. Search for the definition of “PR attribution” and you’re unlikely to find much, because quantifying PR through data and analytics is a fairly new practice.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 25, 2023

These channels include websites, search engines, social media platforms, email marketing, and online advertising. Through data analytics and advanced targeting techniques, retailers can identify their ideal customers and tailor their marketing messages accordingly. Ready to make your retail brand a success?

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Retail Marketing Analytics Social Media 62

5W PR

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This includes diverse models, actors, and real customers in the advertisements. Measuring cultural impact Use analytics to measure the impact of multicultural marketing efforts. Definition & Strategy appeared first on Public Relations Blog | 5W PR Agency | PR Firm. The post What is Cultural Marketing?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2018

I was intrigued by the story of its co-founders who had invented PR Attribution – a credible way to tie corporate communications to real business outcomes, i.e. the holy grail of marketing measurement. But new forms of measurement are not necessarily sufficient to command re-investment in an industry or function.

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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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PRSay

JANUARY 27, 2017

On Wednesday, the company wrote in a blog post : In the five months since it launched, stories has grown considerably. Instagram continued: Ads in stories will let you use targeting, reach and measurement capabilities that make your ads personally relevant to the people you want to reach—which is unmatched in a stories experience today.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

The paper traces the use of pageveiws for measurement to online advertising, where CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, became standard for advertising fees. Contently says some “30% of clicks come from bots” which is easy to see in any of the top analytics platforms such as Google Analytics (GA). Engaged time.

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Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

5W PR

JULY 18, 2023

Advertising Online advertising can significantly boost a brand’s visibility and drive targeted traffic. Performance Regularly track and analyze key performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of the brand’s online presence.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

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. If you don’t have Google Analytics access already, make the case for getting it setup now for 2016 benchmarking! Derek Lyons.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

It grew eventually into a tech-based email list that was free for users with an advertising model. A spokesperson later contacted this blog to say the disruption of service was limited to European customers – that no U.S.-based Measurement templates. Small text ads – written by Shankman – were included at the top of every email.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Tae Hea Nahm of Storm Ventures, an early investor in Marketo, shared, “I see significant parallels between how companies like Marketo and others took marketing to a new level based on data and analytics and what AirPR is doing for PR and the communication function.”.

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Analytics Data Big Data Technology 150

Cision

MAY 6, 2015

Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) (the measurement equivalent of the self-esteem movement), justifies what you have by what it would have cost if you’d bought it. There are plenty of different software packages that offer unique ways to capture and measure PR data, but there is still an unsatisfying aspect to these.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Brand journalism and content creation falls closer to advertising than PR and while we agree it’s very important in this day and age, it certainly doesn’t oust media relations altogether. Purporting otherwise is going to keep the Bad Pitch Blog very busy. We ranted about this a few blogs ago. Journalists still matter.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Seth’s Blog. TopRank Marketing Blog. “It’s HubSpot Blog. Marketo Marketing Blog. SEOBook Blog. The Convince & Convert Blog. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert.

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Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

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. That’s not really the way to measure PR.

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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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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 72

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. This blog is just a cover story for an incredible marketing and PR agency serving B2B tech. Integration with Google Analytics for referrals.

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

I’ve had experience with agencies where I’ve produced great work, but there was no real way to measure it. When we look at the structure of the PESO model, it’s about integrating a whole communications program and making sure it can be measured and linked back to a business’ growth. How important is it to have analytics access?

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

Along the way content, distribution, analytics, and measurement tools have been acquired and bolted on. Paying for tools Investment in software tools has historically flowed into more lucrative areas of marketing tech such as advertising, demand and performance. It is a promise that has been broken in the past few years.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ~ Peter Drucker. But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. THAT you can measure against. Find a way to measure engagement instead.

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