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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. Look for unusual events that are worth noting, spikes in your data that clearly stand out. Christopher S.

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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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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. Twitter also recently released its own Analytics dashboard to all users. Google Analytics. PR pros, want a deeper dive?

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Find your Brand’s Optimum Facebook Strategy

Shift Communications

For those who aren’t as familiar with Facebook’s paid options, here are the differences: Boosting Posts is an advertising strategy where you pay to have your post seen by a larger percentage of your audience (than with organic, unpaid reach alone). Tori Sabourin. Marketing Analyst.

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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.

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Using Data from Google Tools to Boost Your PR Pitches

Shift Communications

If you’re an avid (or even a sometimes) reader of the SHIFT blog, then you already know data-driven public relations is something we know well. 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. Casey Egan.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Data-driven PR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must. Emerging channels like podcasts will continue to grow in influence, which means PR pros have to become more fluent in strategically pitching and forming relationships in these channels.

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