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Data-Driven PR Milestone: SHIFT Becomes Google Analytics Certified Partner

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Digital has been in SHIFT’s blood for over a decade, from being one of the first agencies to embrace social media to creating the social media press release and social media newsroom. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR.

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 3: Defining Data

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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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Advanced analytics: position, velocity, and acceleration

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At this year’s Social Media Success Summit, I had the opportunity to teach an advanced marketing and communications analytics session. One of the ideas I shared was looking beyond just the data that comes out of the box from tools like Google Analytics, Facebook insights, etc. Today you have 110. Christopher S.

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How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan

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When you’re looking at the data for 2014 in order to formulate ideas for 2015, start by looking for outliers. Look for unusual events that are worth noting, spikes in your data that clearly stand out. Here’s an example from web analytics: Look at those four standout events that are above and beyond normal traffic.

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How to measure the quality of your audience

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For that, we’ll turn to our stalwart, Google Analytics. There are any number of tools that can allow you to download the biographical data of your Twitter following, such as tools from Moz, Sysomos, Simply Measured, and even Twitter’s own API. Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy Tools'

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Using Google Analytics to Inform your B2B Tech PR Program

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You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-driven PR at SHIFT. It’s not just a topic on our blog, it’s a concept we are encouraged to prioritize in every facet of our PR strategies. Step 1: Ask for access. Emily Wienberg. Account Manager.

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A Traditional PR Pro Take on Analytics

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It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. How to measure the impact of our work? With many agencies still stuck offering client reports relying on impressions or number of social shares, you’ve likely seen many posts on the SHIFT blog about how to move past these antiquated forms of measurement.