Contently - Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

They’re one of the main avenues by which advertisers build personalized profiles about potential customers. Google itself has announced it does not plan build “alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse the web.” Let’s say you work in marketing at that ramen company.

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The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Go to any publisher advertising rate card and you’ll find the unique user figure rarely changes so is this a true representation of who viewed our coverage? When we created coveragebook.com, our aim was to try and gain the most accurate impact measurement as possible for online PR coverage so we felt; Views. In short, no.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

Yet PR doesn’t always command the same respect as other disciplines, like advertising or direct-mail. As Greg Galant of MuckRack once observed , the advertising business is linked with iconic characters like Don Draper of “Mad Men,” while public relations is more likely to evoke Samantha Jones. PR is about influence.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. The second measure was largely a manual effort: going back through the deals closed at the end of the year and identifying which ones had downloaded gated for content featured on the blog. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog.

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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. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

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Flack's Revenge

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Of course, the LinkedIn audience is of great interest to brands and business publishers alike: Anyone who has ever published a news story can tell you that it’s nice to have readers. Much of this growth has been fueled by “native” advertising. You have a social network that is, by some measures, the most influential business publisher.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Spin Academy | Online PR Courses Public Relations vs Marketing Public relations (PR) and marketing are essential components of an organisation’s strategy to promote and sell its products or services, but they focus on different areas and have distinct goals. While advertising can support such endeavours, it’s all about PR.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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.”. And that requires good data – not only to find the right people and outlets but also to measure the reach and impact of these efforts. Of course, this isn’t limited to new channels.

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The Proactive Report

MAY 7, 2018

Here’s another stat: There’s a 45 percent under-employment rate for graduates with an advertising or PR major. Web Architecture and Development Framework. The PR Measurement Course could give you that extra edge on your resume. Middleware and Integration Software. User Interface Design. Data Presentation.

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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. And of course that reasoning informs very little about how PR drives business objectives. Want to implement a PR measurement program today?

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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.” Of course those things have to occur. Result: Web traffic increased time coincident with this campaign and they received more than 1600 downloads of the Guide.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 5, 2019

What is Facebook Advertising? Three years after the launch of one of the most prolific social media platforms, Facebook made the lucrative decision to launch an advertising capability within the channel. This is one of the worst errors that you can make when running a Facebook advertising campaign. Is my audience too broad?

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert. Advertising Week. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang. Web Ink Now. Given that, ignoring or dismissing it seems massively flawed.” Search Engine Land.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Measured on clicks, quick hits.”

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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. As the web has evolved and we’ve started to understand where things come from and how they affect a business’ growth, that has started to evolve. What are your thoughts on having a proxy measurement?

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PRSay

OCTOBER 2, 2017

According to Nielsen’s Global Trust in Advertising study , consumers trust earned media and recommendations from friends and family more than any other source. However, paid media has historically had a significant advantage over earned when it comes to measuring success. So how can brands build trust?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Social media sites dislike external links because it takes people away from the platform which disrupts the advertising business model. As these so-called content snacks zip around the social web, the marketing brain is squirting dopamine with every like and share, but it’s not moving the needle for your business.

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Cision

MAY 2, 2016

Fast forward a few months and with very little conscious thought I get much of my News briefs from the Apple News app, as well as from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon’s Alexa and (of course) Google. Of course this is disproportionate younger adults, which means that mobile content consumption is increasing as well.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Most in-house spend is invested in video-based content (62%) with paid social media at 55% along with web design and build also at 55% (down 24% over the past four years). In-house staff are more confident that they can measure the ROI of Digital PR (e.g. banner advertising, SEO etc) (73%) than traditional PR activities (65%).

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PR 20/20

JULY 6, 2020

With that goal in mind, we deployed a HubSpot training program for our entire team to really dig into new courses available via The HubSpot Academy. If your clients were doing a lot with the sales side of the platform, we encouraged those teams to take sales-related courses. Agency HubSpot Training Tracks & Courses.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

This is because Onclusive takes broader crawl of the web, which matters to PR because the media landscape has fragmented. Yes, of course, but Mr. O’Neal says among near-peers, the Onclusive newscrawler is probably 6-8 years ahead of the competition. 3) Measuring the influence of coverage. Could Google build an index like this?

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Mark My Words

JUNE 9, 2017

Of course, it’s far more complex than that, because to get to the story we also ask questions, have critical conversations, create strategies and provide counsel. Advertising can no longer shape perceptions about a brand to the same extent. We tell stories, that’s all. A world of Fake News and alternative facts.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Web visitors that bounce, maybe more valuable than businesses give them credit for, according to research by Parsely , and reviewed by Lucia Moses of Digiday for a piece titled, Turns out the flyby reader is more valuable than often thought : “Parsely looked at 1.6 Also see: B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Of course, I could always ask Shonali to the rescue. We even built and launched a consumer app helping power users (the term “influencer” didn’t exist to describe online authorities at the time) measure their success and gain insights on their contribution, their peer network, etc. Guest post by Pierre-Loic Assayag.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

“Users have grown used to being able to access web pages quickly, and if your page takes longer than two seconds to show signs of life, users quickly discard the page and go back to their search results.” Of course there are other ways such as content curation tools to expand your content beyond what you produce in-house.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In the time I spent in-house for a global company and focusing on marketing to lawyers, one of the questions I’d consistently hear in the course of work from attorneys was this: There’s so much noise in marketing, how can I tell what is real and what is snake oil? – print advertising. – pay per click advertising.

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Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

It’s not just the volume of tasks to be finished in a compressed timeline that makes this time of year hectic – but the type tasks as well: closing key deals you’ve been working for months, wrapping up strategic plans for the new year, and of course making the case for marketing budgets. Where will marketing invest that budget?

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Cision

AUGUST 31, 2015

Despite the advertised novelty of these apps, Meerkat and Periscope are simply the latest iteration of live-streaming video apps. Monetization means little to a publisher or end-user right now, so we have to have another way to measure how effective a live-streaming video service would be for you to propagate content to your audience.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

Misguided, Traffic-Driving Scheme According to the Social Madness sales materials, the program "measures the growth of a company''s social presence" at a local and national level. Companies are ranked “based on a scoring algorithm that measures social influence." It''s not even benefiting a charity.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 15, 2023

And the other big difference is that for the first time in all of history, social media is measurable. You can measure how many people have read your article, how many have liked it, and how many have shared it. She was so loving and took such good care of us that somehow that lack disappeared, but of course the pain remained.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Customers can reach support through a chat channel on its website, within the Meltwater web application, or through the mobile app. While you will set benchmarks as you begin your measurement program, it should not only be used to see what happened. The company rolled out three new chat channels to provided 24/7 support to customers.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2016

The face of a nearly brand new iPhone 6s looked like a spider web. In the course of my networking this week, I’ve had a number of conversations about leads. In an ideal situation, the role of PR is measured against acquiring, nurturing and closing the sale. So I turned to a local repair shop to see what could be done.

Marketing 60

Marketing B2B Local Customer Service 60

PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

Traditional, outbound marketing (print advertising, direct mail, coupon books, etc.) Some of us willingly share more with strangers on the web than we would at the holiday dinner table. Acknowledge the potential downsides, and propose a course of action based on best practices. The Real Reasons Inbound Marketing Is Scary.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of course, I am making some assumptions here. If web metrics from these local sites start showing less referral traffic from Google, then it’s surely possible that Google Instant is, at least in part, to blame. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising costs might increase. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s an old saying in advertising that half of the budget is wasted, but marketers don’t know which half. The demand for measuring effectiveness in marketing is on the rise too, according to an eMarketer report titled, Execs to Marketers: Show Me the Metrics. PR Measurement Isn’t Quite the Same. by Frank Strong. Consumption.

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Cision

APRIL 25, 2016

At Facebook’s recent F8 Developer Conference , Product Marketing Manager Kristen Jones gave a presentation detailing advertising best practices on Facebook (and Instagram, which uses the same resources). Ideally for eCommerce and retailers with high web traffic and large inventory).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In addition, this same disruption – led by the 2024 election, the speed of misinformation and continued economic uncertainty – will require a strong measure of GRIT. Great communicators will have the mental toughness and swift ability to pivot that is necessary to respond to this chaotic world and keep PR and marketing on course.

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