Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

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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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect. We’re also well on our way to embedding at least one data jockey on every Agency team. In essence, we’ve built an Integrated Marketing Agency while in mid-air aboard a high-flying PR Firm.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. Step 3: Check for links. Emily Wienberg. Account Manager.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

We’ve covered the basics of public speaking here on the SHIFT blog before. 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. As early as a month out, track the conference hashtag or social media profiles to see what the hot topics are.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It involves developing relationships with tech journalists, bloggers and influencers , as well as leveraging online channels like social media, blogs and other digital platforms. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 22, 2015

On virtually every site you visit on the Internet, you’ll find social media sharing icons. We just want to prove or disprove a positive association between social media shares and page views. Let’s first get our data. I’ll use data from my personal website so as to avoid revealing anything under NDA.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Access : influencers guard themselves with agents, agencies of their own, and handlers, making working with them challenging in some cases. Given these potential complications, how might we leverage our public relations capabilities to align with or reach influencers on more traditional PR budgets and messaging? Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more. Social media management. The Data Science Shortage. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. 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. How to measure the impact of our work?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media. We’ve all seen it before.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media. We’ve all seen it before.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media. We’ve all seen it before.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

From blog posts to white papers, most companies create some form of owned content but not all are utilizing it to its fullest potential – or even know how it performs on its own. Daily blog posts demand large amounts of time and effort. Data-driven approaches are proven to provide the best results. Owned content.

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

In this five part blog crisis management series, we’ll walk through how we would work with our pretend client, G.W., This series will touch briefly on the following offerings/capabilities from SHIFT’s PR, marketing tech and creative services teams: Media monitoring. Media training. Owned media/messaging.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts, the best of Q4 content of 2018, focused on earned media, Google Analytics metrics, and measuring PR success. 3 CATEGORIES OF PR AND EARNED MEDIA. All earned media, like all public relations efforts, are not the same. Here’s how. Lisa Zanchi.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here are a few things you can do to keep your company top-of-mind following a launch: Keep a steady media relations program. Media relations is a core part of any PR program, and in this case having a steady, ongoing media effort will help you remain a part of the conversation. Stay in the content game.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What data do we have access to as communicators? A quick look at the data landscape shows much promise: Web analytics from systems like Google Analytics™. Social media data. Publication data from the many media monitoring systems out there. Massive numbers of public data sets. Stay tuned!

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts from the third quarter of 2015 focused on PR strategy, Facebook, and Twitter. Let’s jump in: How to Choose a PR Strategy: Part 1 of 6. The hot topic in PR is always strategy. How to Build Rapport and Pitch Media Using Twitter. Here’s how. Amanda Loewy.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Owned — if your client’s owned content isn’t performing well, chances are the same themes and perspectives you’re pushing from a PR standpoint aren’t making much of an impact. By understanding site and referral traffic, you get a sense of the impact and interest on blogs, white papers, ebooks, etc. Natalie Townsend.

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Onclusive

MARCH 2, 2021

In this blog, let’s explore the two biggest and heaviest cultural roadblocks (and the most common) on the path of data-driven journeys, specifically for PR/Communications, i.e., the earned media space.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts from the fourth quarter of 2015 focused on best and worst times for press releases, connecting PR and sales, and measuring PR for 2016 planning. As each year comes to a close, we like to sneak a peek into the SHIFT archives to see our content hits and misses. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Media Lab and Deloitte launched the joint project Data USA. We also installed a policy as an agency that each team can go “heads down,” where we set aside dedicated time to keeping up on key trends. This was reinforced when we recently hosted a set of local university PR students for a half day round robin with agency leaders.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

This was when Sheridan and his business partners decided to start a business blog where they would become a resource for customers and potential customers. They started off with a very direct application of “listen to the customer,” and answered customer questions in-depth on the blog. Savannah Whitman. Marketing Coordinator.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social Media Configuration. Hidden in Google Analytics is a way to set up your social media channels so that Google Analytics tracks the content that you share on social channels and splits it up from other’s shares of your content on the same channels. There are a variety of ways you can use it as with the reports above.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Clever brands will choose the first option, and likely gain an advantage over those who cling to older, non-mobile conventions. Savannah Whitman. Marketing Coordinator. cta] The post How DOES Mobile Change The Brandscape?

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Want to see how to do this for your blog? One of the top questions in social media marketing (and content marketing in general) is how do you know what content is worth promoting? One of the top questions in social media marketing (and content marketing in general) is how do you know what content is worth promoting? Here’s how.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

One of the most important public relations elements is communicating with media outlets as well as journalists. To that end, companies that have a better understanding of journalists and media outlets can get a lot more success from their PR efforts. Digital PR.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 10, 2015

We’ve grown to eclipse our precursor agency in size and scope. We invented the Social Media Press Release and Newsroom templates in the heady first days of the Social Media era. We were among the founders of the now-global Social Media Club along with great friends like Brian Solis, Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, et al.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

It’s hard to miss all the articles and blog posts about how the PR industry is changing, how it’s integrating with new skill sets. Today, I wanted to dive a little more into my personal experience on the subject – including why PR pros should honestly start thinking about expanding their skill sets (and where to start).

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

Today, most agency executives only seem to agree on what the limits of AI in PR will be. You might be forgiven, however, if you wondered just how much AI could take on in the earned media capacity. Let’s use one of the simple PR tasks referenced earlier — social media duties — as an example.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 6, 2015

In early 2007, SHIFT CEO Todd Defren commissioned a map of the social media world to better visualize the social media landscape. This was a simpler time, when MySpace ruled the social media sphere and people still blogged heavily on services like LiveJournal. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Infographic'

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

Social monitoring and listening not only give us a heads up on customer service issues or negative PR, but they can illuminate industry trends and customer behavior. A PR campaign can include a general theme or direction found in social media data or patterns, or the social data can inform a content calendar.

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Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. Living on the B2B side of the house, I’ve been thrilled by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for deeper understanding on how these elements play into our PR programs and the RFP’s we’re receiving. Interestingly there were no formal blogs on any of the sites. Derek Lyons.

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