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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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Using Data from Google Tools to Boost Your PR Pitches

Shift Communications

As one of the only public relations agencies that is a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are always looking to see how we can use Google’s tools and programs to strengthen both our PR and marketing teams’ efforts. Google Trends, Google Correlate and Think with Google are three of the tools we use most often. Casey Egan.

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PRTech Is Evolving. Is Your PR Strategy?

Deirdre Breakenridge

This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. Is it all one in the same now that marketing and PR are more interwoven?

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Data doesn’t have to be scary

Shift Communications

You can use the data provided in Facebook’s Audience Insights to better inform paid advertising targeting and drive content decisions by creating more of the kinds of content your audience likes. The tool gives you a detailed timeline of impressions and engagement rates for every Tweet, as well as follower trends and demographics.

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Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016

Shift Communications

Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year. Figure out where your audience is and don’t be afraid to remind them with targeted advertising.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

As the dominant form of communication becomes rich – meaning audio and video – the PR profession is at serious risk of missing key trends if tools and vendors fail to adapt. How will PR adapt to a world in which 10 times the content created today will be created in the near future?

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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.