Prohibition

APRIL 18, 2023

Measuring the success of your PR activity can be difficult, as results are often more tricky to quantify than traditional advertising and marketing campaigns. So how do you measure the success of your PR efforts? We’ve compiled a list of key metrics that you can consider when it comes to evaluating your PR activity.

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Measurement How To Comparison B2C 62

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Is earned media – otherwise known as press coverage — still the key to a successful public relations program? It may seem like a silly question; after all, “publicity” is what people think of when they think about PR. Positive press drives SEO. Or is it simply one component of the broader picture?

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SEO Agency Reputation Policies 227

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

And despite digital and legacy media outlets shuttering or laying off, there is a slew of independent, niche and grant-funded newsrooms starting up or getting help from organizations like Press Forward, Local Media Foundation, News/Media Alliance, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, the American Journalism Project and others.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. A subset of corporate communications work, developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging is key to building a strong brand with a consistent message.

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Media Training Crisis Communications Conference Training 397

The Resolution Blog

MAY 24, 2017

The award winners are all leading the way in modern PR measurement but when we saw that Smoking Gun PR from Manchester, UK won two awards we had to get in touch and find out their secrets. Launched in January 2016, the brand had one fundamental problem — low awareness. KPI: 1,000 downloads What was so good about the campaign?

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Measurement B2B Google Financial 136

Konnect Agency

JANUARY 7, 2022

The key is to attract qualified business-minded prospects who are aligned with your company values and can help your brand successfully grow. By working with a PR agency experienced in B2B marketing and the franchise industry, their team of experts can help create a fully integrated multichannel program for your franchise development needs.

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Konnect Agency

JANUARY 7, 2022

The key is to attract qualified business-minded prospects who are aligned with your company values and can help your brand successfully grow. By working with a PR agency experienced in B2B marketing and the franchise industry, their team of experts can help create a fully integrated multichannel program for your franchise development needs.

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Agency Local Newspapers Interviews 52

Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. It can help to increase brand visibility and credibility in the tech industry, and build trust with key stakeholders and media outlets.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

PRNEWS Crisis and Measurement Summit. There are two pressing topics plaguing today’s PR professionals – and this conference covers both of them. Spend two days mastering the latest and greatest in Communications Measurement. Browse this curated list and then book tickets to kick off your best year of marketing and PR yet!

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The Hoyt Organization

MAY 20, 2024

Read on to learn more about the role of public relations for doctors. Even a private practitioner can enjoy several benefits by enlisting the services of a small business PR agency. This is exactly what public relations is all about. Like any other brand on the market, it must be advertised to the right audience to be a success.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2017

Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message. A few of the most popular PR analysis tools include: Content Analysis–Is your core narrative being reported accurately in the press?

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Measurement How To Television Analysis 90

5W PR

MARCH 26, 2024

With new startups emerging rapidly, it is vital to develop a strong PR strategy for building brand recognition and credibility. Industry movers and shakers Teaming up with reputed figures in fintech can give the brand’s message a megaphone. Press releases These are a great chance to announce major milestones to the media.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 2, 2023

Influencer marketing has become an incredibly powerful tool for brands to reach their target audience. Influencer marketing involves collaborating with influential individuals to create authentic and engaging content that showcases a brand’s offerings. Celebrity endorsements also help in creating brand awareness.

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Brand Branding Reputation Consumer 62

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The second season ended in thrilling fashion, with Kendall Roy, Logan’s son, double-crossing his father in a shocking press conference where he was supposed to take the fall for a company scandal, but instead implicated his father in the scandal and a host of cover-ups and illegal activity.

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Media Fashion Television Radio 162

PRSay

MAY 30, 2023

In the past, multicultural marketing and brand purpose were often siloed within organizations. Brands must find new ways to understand their customers outside of traditional segmentation, first-party data and other means. BRANDthrō uses data science to score and measure emotion.

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Cision

JANUARY 11, 2018

Think about a few of the most notable trends we saw: With massive potential audiences on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, live streaming saw huge growth. Earned media has become increasingly important with 89 percent of marketing/communications professionals saying they use it to support the demand generation goal of driving brand awareness.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 9, 2018

As companies make public relations decisions for the year, considering what to look for in a PR agency partner is a key commitment. From the beginning of any PR partnership, a client should feel that the team has thoroughly researched its industry and brand, competition and target audience. Demonstrable relevant experience.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2018

I was intrigued by the story of its co-founders who had invented PR Attribution – a credible way to tie corporate communications to real business outcomes, i.e. the holy grail of marketing measurement. But new forms of measurement are not necessarily sufficient to command re-investment in an industry or function.

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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. At a point in time, we started worrying about integration and how we integrate what we do for our clients.

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Banking Marketing Measurement Leadership 199

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. It’s not a bad take. How is public relations defined?

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Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 100

Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

As PR agencies go, Wildfire is unashamedly nerdy. So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. Measurement by output — pretty useless for the most part.

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2023

In the beauty and wellness industry , corporate communications play a crucial role in shaping brand perception, establishing credibility, and fostering customer trust. The brand message should clearly articulate the brand’s values, mission, and unique selling propositions.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

If a PR team or agency doesn’t work in collaboration with marketing, it may be spinning its wheels — or worse, working in opposition to company business objectives. It may be tempting to think that a great PR program is the magic ingredient for a critical product launch or the sole solution to a decline in brand reputation.

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SEO Storytelling Product Launch Measurement 178

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 18, 2019

They may talk about generating visibility for a tech startup, or a desire to position the CEO as a thought leader. Think in terms of measurable brand preference, increases in website traffic, lead generation, or even specific deliverables, like speaking opportunities generated for the CEO. They’re measurable.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. PR today is about SEO. PR is about “influence.”

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SEO Analytics Measurement B2B 204

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. Quality referral traffic from press releases.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 19, 2018

Any new agency of record deserves a 90-day trial period. No PR firm is perfect, but chances are, there’s an agency perfect for you. If a young tech business enters a partnership with the right like-minded agency, then it will be better equipped to compete in a crowded marketplace. Good PR pros still make mistakes.

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Buchanan PR

APRIL 12, 2023

We have all seen these terms tossed around about companies, in advertisements and throughout the media, but what do they really mean and why do they matter? Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is a framework that helps companies measure and assess their ethical impacts using detailed criteria to meet their sustainability goals.

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Onclusive

MARCH 24, 2022

PR Measurement Best Practices – Part 2. Welcome back to our blog series on Demystifying PR Measurement! Get the right data & measurement tools. Get the right data & measurement tools. Establish your PR measurement framework. What is a measurement framework?

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Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Hiring an agency can seem pretty cool – having a dedicated team of professionals promoting you and your business all day sounds nice, right? And unless you’re tracking and measuring their performance, that cost can quickly become a money pit. So when is the right time to hire a PR agency? That depends.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 6, 2020

Then, they challenge and expand their prospects’ thinking about those needs and wants, often in a way that aligns with what they are selling. Think about it. Second, install control systems, also known as media monitoring systems, that keep you informed about the media environment and what messages are working.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption happens to industries measured in weeks and months rather than years or epochs. Press Releases Continue Their Slow Demise. The venerable press release continues its decline into irrelevancy. Reputation Is Brand. Content shock is about to exponentially explode. The Big Picture. The 2018 PR Mega-Trends.

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Trends Publicity SEO Advertising 161

Cision

APRIL 14, 2017

Salzman and her team at Havas PR give a variety of insights including how to master the brand narrative, how to craft a story, and how make a client’s brand the story. I stumbled into a media relations role in a financial PR agency and knew instantly I liked life in, and around, media. How can brands keep up?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

Well, we suspect that measurement and PR data can elicit fear because: (a) not every PR pro loves working with numbers, and (b) PR pros could discover that their PR work isn’t really helping their companies achieve the quantifiable business goals they’re after. Why is this the case?

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Data Data-Driven PR Analytics Measurement 170

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

” A Norwegian Krone equals about $1.80 According to a press release published by Marlin Partners, which owns a controlling stake in MW Investment: “The Offer Price represents a premium of 36% to the last traded price of NOK 13.25 What’s different about that? which is a privately held “special acquisition vehicle.”

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Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

NewsWhip

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As the regional agency hub, we created a more thorough reporting structure and defined the most important tools and metrics to report back on. This combination of processes led the way to better metrics-tracking consistency, a more efficient KPI measurement and a more insightful coverage performance analysis. Can you share examples?

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5W PR

JUNE 23, 2022

There are all kinds of benefits to establishing a company’s reputation, such as increasing brand visibility, supporting fundraising efforts, attracting talent, increasing employee and investor morale, reaching customers, and retaining them as well.

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Publicity Reputation Technology Industry 88