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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 9: Pitching With Data

Shift Communications

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.

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Data doesn’t have to be scary

Shift Communications

Data is everywhere, and in every industry you have access to lots of it – so let’s see if we can make it less scary to approach and show you the value of the information that you hold. Social Media Data. Comedic movies and TV shows are of interest to our followers, but not really related to marketing or PR explicitly.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. Society and social media have created hyper-focused segmentation of the audience. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? Public relations is a tool for building awareness and trust. PR Isn’t Sales. Public relations is not a tool for selling things. Those are our primary outcomes. Christopher S.

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IBM Vision: The Future of AI and Public Relations

Shift Communications

We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues. At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more.

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How to Build a Data-Driven Public Speaking Program

Shift Communications

Rather than just wing it or have a purely canned talk that may not be relevant to the audience and the event, we can look to data. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-driven PR program. What’s the goal? Wrap-Up.

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Breaching 140: Who’s Using Twitter’s 280 Characters?

Shift Communications

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Using tools like Facebook’s Crowdtangle social monitoring platform, we digested over a million tweets. Marketing and advertising. Media and publications. Consumer health and fitness.

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