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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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

If you’re not using Facebook ads because you don’t think they work in B2B marketing , then you are among thin ranks. Several surveys reviewed by eMarketer suggest social media advertising continues to advance – and Facebook is often voted the most effective paid platform – even for B2B.

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PR in High Definition

MARCH 21, 2018

Facebook (and many of the social networks) have already been putting greater transparency measures in place in the recent waves of scrutiny and interest. For example, Facebook discussed openly how it deals with abuse and radicalisation , and Canada allowed consumers to see what ads a company is running at any one time.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The performance of marketing strategies is carefully measured across the web, mobile and social media, and then it’s compared to the industry competitors or any available challenger brands for the company. There are different benchmarks for every channel, as well as for advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), and email.

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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. The paper criticizes four other typical measures: unique visitors, Facebook likes, social media share sand conversion rates. Engaged time. Average finish.

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Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. 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

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Polaris

AUGUST 19, 2014

In my field, that means scoring a big win for a client—whether it’s securing a feature article in a national newspaper, improving engagement on a Facebook page or creating an eBook that attracts thousands of downloads. The public relations measurement challenge. The state of public relations measurement today.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When it comes to the transformation of the public relations industry, Google, Facebook, and Twitter always receive the revolutionizing praise. From online articles to advertisements to blogs to social media posts — numerous mediums are competing for your audience’s attention. How long did people spend reading it?

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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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The Proactive Report

JUNE 18, 2021

In Ries and Trout’s book Positioning, the battle for your mind they said, “PR starts the fire, marketing and advertising fan the flames.” Or you could leverage other people’s groups on LinkedIn and Facebook. Read this article about leveraging Facebook Groups. The top of the funnel is filled by PR.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. After seven years of blogging, and 570+ posts, this struck me as a natural progression. I kept blogging too. 3) The Facebook Frozen Frog and Fodder for Content Marketing.

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5W PR

JULY 18, 2023

Advertising Online advertising can significantly boost a brand’s visibility and drive targeted traffic. Consider running paid campaigns on platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, or Instagram Ads. Regularly create valuable and shareable content to attract backlinks and increase the website’s authority.

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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. People said, you know, Facebook’s not social media, they’re media.

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Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

Owned media is content you create on a platform you own, such as your company’s website or blog. As an example, if my topic was “blog posts,” I’d create a headline for my first piece of content in the main circle. In this case, I chose, “How to write blog posts that get read and shared.”. Get people to share blog posts.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 25, 2023

These channels include websites, search engines, social media platforms, email marketing, and online advertising. Digital marketing also allows retailers to track and measure the success of their campaigns in real-time. Ready to make your retail brand a success?

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Retail Marketing Analytics Social Media 62

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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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

PR professionals use this data to assess sentiment, measure reach, identify emerging issues, and adjust communication strategies accordingly. How Do You Measure Media Coverage? Measuring media coverage involves quantifying the impact and visibility of PR efforts. company website, blogs). What is Native Advertising?

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Viral Crisis Communications SEO Reputation 52

Marketwired

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

It’s hard to believe that by that time social networks like Facebook and Twitter will be over ten years old. First, it’s my feeling that we’ll see a greater understanding of the melding of PR, marketing and advertising. Second, we’ll finally have a better way to measure the work we do, day in and day out. Now, or in 2020.

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Television Radio Measurement Facebook 100

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We’ve kicked ideas and blog posts back and forth over Twitter, and I thought he would be a good person to ask. So, what businesses need the most is marketing strategy and the fundamentals – audience identification, positioning, messaging, distribution and feedback or measurement – haven’t changed even as tactics have evolved.

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Social Media Marketing Media Facebook 149

Cision

JULY 26, 2017

The ability to target audiences on social is increasingly important considering that networks have grown in size (Facebook now has two billion monthly users ), and fake profiles have become increasingly prevalent (It is estimated that between 9 percent and 15 percent of monthly Twitter users are bots ).

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

An analysis of more than 22 million posts from over 56,000 business sites identified some revealing industry benchmarks on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter. What it found is that Instagram appeared to be the rising star among advertisers in 2020. In spite of Facebook’s enormous popularity, the study reported that the platform’s.26%

Social Media 88

Social Media Healthcare Brand Branding 88

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a critical component of any digital marketing strategy. Because digital marketers are finding an increase in performance with pay-per-click advertising methods. Businesses that promote on social media have a variety of options for getting their advertisements and content visible on this platform.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 24, 2016

Whenever I share information about Women Worldwide , the outcome varies from friends and colleagues sharing show ideas / topics, getting introduced to amazing guests, capturing the attention of sponsors and advertisers and growing my community with more listeners. Tip #4: Measure success with numbers.

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Energy Mobile Community Measurement 190

PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Tools to measure and evaluate public relations might continue their march away from simplistic and output-based methods toward more valuable outcome-based measures.

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Publicity Social Media Television Measurement 167

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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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

In this blog I explore how paid forms of media can be used as part of an integrated campaign. These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. It reflects the innovation in digital media over the last 20 years driven by Facebook and Google. Native advertising.

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Media How To Advertising Advertising 103

Contently - Strategy

APRIL 20, 2023

But to truly maximize content value, you need to have a way to measure your content’s impact. Paid Traffic Organic traffic and paid traffic are two primary ways to drive traffic to your website or blog. In contrast, paid traffic refers to traffic that comes from paid advertising, such as Google Ads or Facebook Ads.

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Analytics Content Marketing SEO Data 78

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? So when the nature of authoritative content is changing so dramatically, how you measure the success of your content has to change as well. An “engaged” blog was one that drew a lot of attention, comments, back links, etc.

Measurement 40

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 5, 2017

4 Internet advertising set to pass television. Global spend on internet advertising is set to overtake television advertising in the next six months. The ability to target and measure ad performance makes digital ads attractive to brands. 5 Seeking social media measurement return on investment. . #5

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Publicity Marketing Healthcare Television 122

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2015

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Odds are that you’ve heard someone say that PR can’t be quantified, or social media ROI can’t be measured, or that a media impression or social post generated an advertising value equivalent (AVE) of hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars.

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Measurement How To Analytics Customer Service 40

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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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. You’ll find my own prognostication at the very bottom. Blogger outreach gets personal. Fast-vertising.

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

Critical Mention

JANUARY 9, 2019

To be a successful marketer, you must be able to measure your strategies. Without measuring your data, you won’t know what’s working and what’s not and how to move forward. Rise of native advertising. In a 2017 report , 54 percent of companies were using native advertising , and 38 percent were likely to do so in the future.

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Trends Marketing Mobile YouTube 108

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. 6 Ways Facebook Branded Content Changes the Influencer Game. Here’s how. Prioritize and share. So what was the big change?

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Technology Facebook Measurement Policies 83

Polaris

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Twitter and Facebook lagged significantly behind the photo-sharing platform—engagement increased a mere 32% and 27% respectively. We’re recommending Instagram to clients more often as part of influencer outreach programs for consumer brands—and at the same time trying to determine the best approach to measure and evaluate results.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 6, 2016

There is a 31% drop in the use of expert blogs (21%). For agency people, when asked about their three top sources for social media education, expert blogs are the most popular (64%); followed by conferences and events (44%) and external training courses (35%). banner advertising, SEO etc) (73%) than traditional PR activities (65%).

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Training Digital PR Media Training Education 119

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. Then you start to break it down.

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