Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The world seems awash in data with trends like IoT, wearables and big data dominating the headlines. For a B2B marketer, these headlines can feel very consumer oriented and likely not relevant. That approach, although understandable on the surface, misses a number of undercurrents that B2B marketers will start to encounter.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. If we are building out a content strategy for owned media, like a company blog, using content that pertains to trending topics is a way to take advantage of the increasing searches on Google.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Data Driven PR. As you can see from the content strategy, it’s all about the data. And every part of your PR plan should be data-driven now. But if it is to be a PR function you will have to understand how it works or find a vendor or consultant that can advise and guide you.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Big data is a buzzword thrown around in every industry. Companies of all shapes and sizes collect data that can be used to make strategic decisions at every level. petabytes of data. Collecting and analyzing data doesn’t have to mean combing through pages upon pages of spreadsheets. Marketing Analyst.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A successful tech PR strategy focuses on targeting the right media outlets, using engaging content, and creating relationships with key influencers in the industry. Role of Tech PR in promoting technology companies Tech PR plays a vital role in promoting technology companies.

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

In government, public relations specialists are sometimes called press secretaries and they are responsible for keeping the public informed (or perhaps uninformed ) about the activities of government officials and agencies. roughly 21 are PR professionals. In the end, working in PR can be as challenging as it is rewarding.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

In my last post , I covered what for me was a particularly egregious misuse of marketing technology, when a bot promoted a white paper with “Fear and Loathing” in the title on the 10 th anniversary of the suicide of Hunter S. Data-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. But creative thinking is the fuel.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 8, 2016

The marketing and PR industry responded with a collective yawn. From our perspective as a Google Analytics™ Certified Partner, every marketing and PR professional should be jumping up and down with excitement. For example, we can see in the Demo Account Google’s eCommerce data. For classes and instruction.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

In short, as mobile and digital make nearly every transaction seamless, legacy companies must adapt quickly or be completely disrupted. Imagine what a timesaver this will be for companies as they tackle GDPR compliance in the next year, one of the most important changing regulations in marketing and advertising.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the spring of 2015, SHIFT launched its cutting-edge Marketing Technology Immersion (MTI) program to help the agency develop a better understanding of SHIFT’s data-driven approach to communications and client services. We Have a Marketing Technology Team For a Reason. Establish Client Goals First.

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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. In the planning stages, you will want to confirm with your B2B tech clients what is considered a win for the PR program.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

An astonishing amount of mindshare has been devoted to influencer marketing this year. Interest in influencer marketing is at all-time highs, and based on Google searches for the topic, there’s little indication that interest will flag. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? When public relations works well, people know our company, our products, our services, and positively associate with them. PR Isn’t Sales. Why did our friend recommend a company to us?

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

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. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Companies at their apogee today may find themselves at their perigee within months. The 2018 PR Mega-Trends. While companies may be publishing more of these than ever, their impact continues to lessen every year. Part 4: Search Marketing. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully. Part 1: Earned Media.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Some observations we noted: Marketing and PR aren’t making significant use of the new character limits. B2B tech companies have jumped in with both feet. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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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. Analytics Marketing Technology analytics'

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Shift Communications

MAY 4, 2016

SHIFT has prided itself on its independence for the past 13 years (and our status as one of the few ESOP companies out there), even as so many of our competitors were peeled off by intergalactic holding companies like WPP, Publicis, etc. I know, it’s a little jarring at first to hear this news. What’s next? More of the same.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I took some time on The Cube to discuss machine learning as well as the future of media: Data Governance. A second major area of focus for the CDO is data governance, especially with massive changes coming to data regulation such as GDPR. Implications for Marketing and PR. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Companies slow down in America between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Only sales professionals aiming to hit quota and publicly-traded companies seeking a strong quarter close go full throttle until December 31. Vice President, Marketing Technology. People’s thoughts turn towards friends, family, and home. Christopher S.

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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. Marketers, PR Pros, and Advertisers are in a daily battle to remove opinion from decision making and tactical execution. Owned content. The Solution.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

In the end, a full package to a reporter is the best course of action, and that package often includes: Consumer messaging – even if your client is a B2B company, you need to focus on how it impacts the Average Joe. This is the most important (and most difficult) part of the package – a B2B company will rarely hook a reporter without it.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

No coverage at all is the worst possible outcome, because it says our company doesn’t matter. Our company isn’t in the game. Our company doesn’t even cross our potential customers’ minds. So, what measurable trait helps us determine the effectiveness of PR? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 30, 2018

Below are a few other areas where Dr. Mittendorff sees potential for companies looking to make waves in the industry: AI, AI, AI. AI has huge potential in healthcare and is already leveraged in various degrees from helping physicians choose treatment plans, assisting in jobs or identifying notable data trends. Caela Shay.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

While the ultimate goal of marketing is to transform members of said audience into a more deeply interested group – one willing to engage and potentially do business with us. In this post, discover how to optimize your media efforts for all three levels of the marketing funnel. Senior Marketing Strategist. Lisa Zanchi.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

What’s in stock for us as practitioners, as agencies, as companies seeking to build awareness, reputation, and trust? We public relations professionals, whether in house at a brand or at an agency, must take ownership of our audiences. What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Modern companies and organizations have the capability to leverage data to produce insights and data-driven business decisions. As such, the future of business is in large data sets and the observations derived from the analysis. Marketing Analyst. Lisa Zanchi.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. However, many were concerned that its overly broad models – “business and industrial”, for example – could mean a B2B technology company or an industrial concrete company, two very different businesses.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

If you’ve been working in the PR business long enough, the PR planning process can become rather formulaic, especially if you’ve worked with the client over a long period of time. Company goals can often remain the same and a radical change in topics and trends is not typical. This is when award-winning programs are born.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Analyzing your client’s overall marketing and PR performance gives you an in-depth look at how they perform against competitors and how PR can fill in the gaps. what words and terms they’re paying for) you can get a pretty good sense of where they’re taking their company and the media themes they’ll be pushing in 2018.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The chefs are faced with only the data the ingredients provide and their own intuition. As I sat watching these chefs whip up their treats, it got me thinking – this is exactly what we as marketers and communicators do every day. The chefs grab their beets and lamb; we collect our data. The same can be said for marketing.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

to agenda-driven data. The cardinal sin to a citizen analyst is deciding what you want to say first, then cherry picking facts and data to support your point of view. For example, an incurious marketer or communicator will simply ask the question, “when is the best time to tweet?” Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 15, 2015

SHIFT examined the social media engagement of posts from the Fortune 10 companies over the last year, June 15, 2014 – June 14, 2015: Apple. Ford Motor Company. These are the world’s largest companies, and they have dramatically different audiences than many of our businesses. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

to agenda-driven data. The cardinal sin to a citizen analyst is deciding what you want to say first, then cherry picking facts and data to support your point of view. For example, an incurious marketer or communicator will simply ask the question, “when is the best time to tweet?” Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

SHIFT was not the first Google Analytics Certified Partner ; there were hundreds of companies before us. In the PR industry, however, we hold that distinction. We are, to the best of our knowledge, one of the earliest adopters in PR. Vice President, Marketing Technology. New can mean a first-use case in our industries.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

needs time to debrief his team, sharing anything and everything, from company history and team background to any prior media relationships or conflicts. can tap into the relationships his PR team has built and identify reporters who are willing to listen and communicate the truth. As such, G.W. Before reporters are on the hook.

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Shift Communications

JULY 6, 2015

Imagine you were ABC Car Company, and your arch competitor was XYZ Motors. It takes significant investments of time, people, and effort, but if you want truly accurate sentiment analysis in your gathered public opinion data, it’s the only way to go for now. Vice President, Marketing Technology. How terribly wrong.

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