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What is the open rate of SMS text messaging?

Shift Communications

Friend of SHIFT and professional marketing BS detector Scott Stratten asked recently: Doing some talk research, and I just saw a post that said “SMS (text messages) have an open rate of 95%. I don’t know where the original citation came from, but as data-driven PR professionals, we’d like the data too.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

If conversion is the problem, fix that with better sales training or better marketing. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. We cannot substitute quantitative data for the qualitative process of asking our customers why they behave the way they do.

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PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap

Shift Communications

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. We started to notice the move towards more widespread marketing technology adoption in our client base in the last 18 months. In order to arm our staff with the necessary skills we designed our Marketing Technology Immersion program.

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Why CEOs Should Invest in PR Attribution and PR Measurement

Onclusive

In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. 1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR?

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2024’s Top 5 PR Trends: What to Watch

Newsfile

AI Integration in Daily Tasks According to the latest annual McKinsey Global Survey on the State of AI , the most commonly reported uses of generative AI tools are in marketing and sales, product and service development and service operations. AI research In 2023, 58% of PR pros surveyed tapped into AI to conduct research.

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2024’s Top 5 PR Trends: What to Watch

Newsfile

AI Integration in Daily Tasks According to the latest annual McKinsey Global Survey on the State of AI , the most commonly reported uses of generative AI tools are in marketing and sales, product and service development and service operations. AI research In 2023, 58% of PR pros surveyed tapped into AI to conduct research.

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What is the value of an impression?

Shift Communications

Impressions are a diagnostic metric; if your earned media placement or advertisement isn’t seen by anyone, then we know its impact to your business is also zero. For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on my commute to work. Measure Perception Through a Survey. Why do we measure impressions?

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