Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The November edition of #measurePR focused on measuring engagement. Our trio of guests included: Ashley Brown , Head of Global Communications at Spredfast; Austin Gaule , Media Analysis Director at Universal Information Services; and Angie Jeffrey , Vice President Brand Management at ABX Advertising Benchmark Index.

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PR for Anyone

JANUARY 28, 2024

You’re Missing Out, Corporate America Women navigating the workplace in their 50s encounter a unique set of challenges distinct from their younger colleagues. Together, Christina and Erica explore the hurdles faced by these women, shedding light on the unfortunate trend of some being edged out of corporate roles.

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Employee Policies Creativity Company 130

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 20, 2020

Most have learned from early mistakes or half-measures and have designed campaigns that make a positive impact for employees, customers, and communities. Sure, what helps its advertisers helps Google, but it’s real money where it’s needed. It’s not about the logo. Self-serving?

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Brand Branding Small Business Retail 284

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. Sometimes you can use UTM tags to measure an incremental online action attributable to PR, but truly measuring behavior change (sales, votes, donations) is very difficult. The company calls this Cision Activation.

Publicity 90

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The October 13th edition of #measurePR focused on measuring content. When we got on the topic of the most useless way of measuring content we’ve ever seen, there was lots to say: A4 “Likes” on Facebook. If no engagement from the community, numbers mean nothing #measurepr. For now, let’s catch up on #measurePR.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This includes identifying customer needs, developing products that satisfy those needs, setting prices, determining distribution channels, and promoting the products through various forms of advertising and promotion. It aims to communicate with these groups to create a favourable overall company image.

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Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

8–10: Breaking Misconceptions About Communicating With Rural Americans. When PR professionals target people in poor, rural communities, relying on stereotypes and misconceptions often hinders their campaigns, said Deana Rachelle Haworth, M.A., 10, titled “ Rural Reach: Strategic Communication With Rural and Low Income Audiences.”

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2020

ROI and proving value The top challenge facing communicators is measuring impact, proving value and demonstrating ROI , according to 50% of respondents. However, in a subsequent question, only about half of respondents “often” or “always” measure their communications efforts. Don’t overlook anecdotes either.

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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

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. Public service media is failing the public Thank you My thanks to the following communities and individuals. The #FuturePRoof community goes from strength-to-strength.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. 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.”. Dorothy Crenshaw , CEO, Crenshaw Communications .

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

PR Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

It’s understood that the play’s the thing; however, it was the vibrant community found around each performance that proved an unexpected volunteer adventure at The Toronto Fringe festival 2015. Many of the Fringe community stakeholders are clear: the artists (actors, writers, directors, stage managers, etc.);

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

These are both terrible terms, but I’ve adopted the latter as the moniker for these monthly roundups about the PR software vendor community – and I’m inclined to keep it. The corporate reputation sector saw some consolidation this week, as Signal AI, which bills itself as a global external intelligence company, acquired KELP Inc.,

Publicity 85

Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

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. So how do you now measure the validity of this content? Image: Thinkstock.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What constitutes a small business varies—by size of firm, number of employees, revenue earned, output measurements like sales and shipments, etc.—but PR For Small Businesses PR isn’t some nefarious tactic used by big corporations, it has many benefits for businesses of all sizes. Community relations.

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Real Estate Small Business Local Reputation 52

Stephen Waddington

MARCH 10, 2019

Measurement, PR management lessons from the 50s, inaugural Comms School session, AI is marketing lipstick, wisdom of middle age, and Insta woe. I shared a thread on Twitter this week about measurement that proved so engaging that I thought I’d use it to kick off this week’s letter. Effective measurement isn’t easy.

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Marketing Measurement Government Report 81

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. So, I started tracking the community and publishing three different writing series on PR technology ( PR Tech Sums , PR Tech Briefing s, and Product Reviews ).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2018

Pre-release #measurement research will give you an understanding of your position in the industry landscape, plus what matters most to your audiences. – Measurement & analytics. Even if your management team is not interested in #measurement at this time, do it! – Digital and visual storytelling. A6: Do the work!

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Nonprofit Measurement Analytics Creativity 56

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Today, most of the PR community know her as the vice president of implementation for a venerable vendor in the PR vertical: BurrellesLuce. Tressa credits a brief stint in corporate communications for a health care company with stoking her interest in PR. Sales Beware the Buyer’s System; Josh Pitchford in Off Script #10.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 17, 2014

Here’s some of what we chatted about, and Eric had some great one-liners: On the state of PR and the measurement thereof: A1: PR has a BIG image problem. Eric then made a statement that caused a lively debate regarding the value of measurement: A1. Some say PR isn’t just press releases. Image: Théo via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Measurement B2B Community LinkedIn 72

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Clients now expect PR people to also be search experts, content experts, working knowledge of Google Analytics, knowledge of all sorts of tracking tools to measure effectiveness, while filming, producing, and editing video and managing multiple social media accounts.”. Pressure on measurement. Additional duties. More internal comms.

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Communications Crisis Internal International 122

Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. This has resulted in it receiving a backseat to paid media in most corporate budgets. This creates a ripe opportunity for communicators who manage earned media programs to secure better budgets in 2018.

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Media Advertising Advertising Measurement 57

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

what good and bad measurement looks like, and what PR pros must learn to do from the measurement point of view. Some excerpts: On Q1 (how PR measurement has/hasn’t changed in recent times): @ shonali More than anything PR has been forced to show tangible demand, leads and ROI. Image: moonty via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Strategy Measurement Twitter LinkedIn 75

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Employee Print Writing Survey 148

Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

So in such a busy marketplace, and in an age where the budget can’t always stretch to support content marketing , social media marketing , influencer marketing , advertising, design, e-marketing, PPC, SEO and everything else you’ve been advised to invest in, how can you justify spend to stand out from the crowd? PR is different.

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Publicity Advertising Advertising Tools 48

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2013

This time around, we talked more about the need for education, whether CPM (cost per thousand impressions) is a valid metric for PR, especially since it has recently been discussed by the IPR (Institute for Public Relations “measurati,” and whether or not PR firms should also offer measurement services. Here are a few excerpts.

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Handbook Comparison Advertising Advertising 81

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Since then, I’ve been increasingly impressed with her commitment not just to measurable public relations, but to smart Social PR itself. Measurement! The Master Course doesn’t simply explain what to measure, but walks you through the process of goal setting, messaging and delivery, and then how to tie outcomes back to the goals.

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Measurement Course LinkedIn Banking 65

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 13, 2016

So what better way to kick the week off than to feature some of the world-class speakers and their thoughts on integrated communications, which is the theme of this year’s Summit? PR Measurement and Evaluation – an interview with Richard Bagnall. Why: “Our mission is to educate about measurement best practice.

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Education Measurement Government Interviews 40

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2015

Valuing quality journalism in corporate publishing. If it is going to be compelling, there needs to be a population of quality content creators like journalists and photographers and designers,” says Paul Edwards as he explores journalism in corporate publishing. Measurement in #PR – Social Network Analysis.

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Conference Analysis Journalism Employee 40

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This includes all PR, video, audience development, and social and community management that my team handles. I oversee this, and also focus on strategy, paid advertising and event marketing. While we weren’t doing it perfectly, it was my first foray in this world – quite different than my paid advertising and agency days.

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Content Marketing Marketing eBook Nonprofit 61

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2016

Angela Jeffrey, vice president of ABX Advertising Benchmark Index. After a lifetime in public relations and measurement, I joined ABX to expand my experience into the paid media world. Introduce yourself – who are you and what do you do? Author information Shonali Burke President & CEO at Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

Advertising 40

Advertising Advertising Course Training 40

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The question was always the same and has a lot in common with the greater B2B community. This is because all clients – corporations and consumers – will check your site to see if you can show a depth of experience. – print advertising. – pay per click advertising. By this, I mean a frequently updated blog.

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Sword and the Script

APRIL 5, 2016

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Blog: B2B Beat: CMOs Invest in Social But Do They Measure Its Impact? What’s the engagement rate of a brand page on Facebook that doesn’t advertise? But even paid social has a challenge: advertising annoys users. However, only a fractional 2.8% Rent Media for Owned Media Purposes. Or near-zero.

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Mobile Survey Marketing B2C 60

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 17, 2016

And this is precisely why seizing the opportunities the digital age gives us is critical, and why measurement is such a huge part of smart integrated communications. And – wait for it – measurable, resulting in real outcomes and bottomline impact. Focusing on integration and strategy is key. .

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Internal International Measurement Banking 40

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2015

How to Develop Meaningful PR Measurement. Five Observations Gained from Starting an Online Community. Why: “Video marketing, video advertising, live streaming via video, ephemeral video, video status updates and video-anything will be the way of content life in the new year,” writes Mayra Ruiz. ” 5.

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Cision

JANUARY 6, 2017

Adrienne Weiss Corporation, or AWC, is a branding think tank that has been building successful brands since 1986. They explain, to compete in the market you must tell stories, create communities, and craft a culture your target audience wants to join. How do you measure that success? What is your secret to success?

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