Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The current media landscape lends itself to lucrative opportunities on a global scale. The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. Trends on Social Media. Trends on Social Media. Wikipedia Top 25 Report. Google Trends.

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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. You have to learn to gather it, slice and dice it, analyze it and extract the insights that drive your PR strategy and actions.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. The tactic still matters, but PR pros and writers will need to step up their game to cut through the clutter. We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

Now, in the digital age, the quest is a business press article authored by an influencer: a reporter with name recognition and a large social media follower list. I think we can all agree – securing earned media today has become harder and that often starts with business press coverage. Amanda Monroe. Vice President.

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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

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

APRIL 1, 2016

SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-driven PR agency , announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. HAROLD can replicate itself and call the whole media list simultaneously.”

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Creating memorable media experiences through product trial has long been a staple of public relations for food & beverage and related brands. While product trials and demos can whet an editor’s appetite for a story, recipes are rich content that can both maximize PR campaigns and drive measurable business results in multiple ways.

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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. What should you be pitching them exactly?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Using Sysomos , I not only like to look back at the last 90 days to see how many pieces of coverage my client’s competitors received, but also look for patterns and themes my client hasn’t promoted, new publications to consider and how my client’s competitors are being talked about or talking to the media. Natalie Townsend. Account Director.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How to Build Rapport and Pitch Media Using Twitter. PR pros know that journalists aren’t limited to being pitched solely via email anymore. Twitter is emerging as a new frontier of pitching opportunities for the savvy PR professional. Amanda Loewy. Marketing Coordinator.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

A large, in-depth, running list of data that you are now tasked with digesting and turning into something tangible and enticing to elicit media coverage. Because of this, more often than not data pulled from a vendor survey is not worthy of breaking news status.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

A large, in-depth, running list of data that you are now tasked with digesting and turning into something tangible and enticing to elicit media coverage. Because of this, more often than not data pulled from a vendor survey is not worthy of breaking news status.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

It’s ok to have a good “feeling” that a story or tactic will bear fruit (that’s the art and experience we all bring to the table), but it’s critical that we all gut-check feelings around strategy and tactics by looking at data. What topics are competitors owning (through their own content and earned media)? Amanda Munroe.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 8, 2016

One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned over the course of my 17 year professional career – and worked to impart on those I have mentored – is that thinking critically and creatively, showing genuine curiosity, and prioritizing relationship building are THE most important skills to develop as a PR professional. Relationship Building.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s why social media influence scores and top 100 social media lists seem to matter a great deal. In old influencer outreach programs, you’d reach out to the biggest individual dots and send them pitches. The blue cluster above are general media and influencers. How do we think about communities of influence?

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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. Disinformation.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

that prefers pitches via e-mail with phone call followup afterward. Assuming that didn’t work for you, it brings up a larger point: While you don’t need a degree in computer science to build an AI strategy, it is important that PR pros don’t sit on the sidelines and let an AI strategy get defined for them without their input.

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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

APRIL 2, 2015

years working on the technology PR team. The Agency had just sprouted a marketing technology team arm, and I had been itching to learn more in that area for some time. I was already starting to see the need to integrate our traditional PR practices with marketing tech. The ability to show our PR efforts are working.

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Shift Communications

JULY 28, 2017

The important part of a press release is the proactive media pitching that accompanies a press release. While issuing a press release over a distribution wire is effective, personally pitching key contacts in the national, trade and local media will be an added layer of exposure for any announcement. Paid Media.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Our top posts from the first quarter of 2016 focused on the different ways data and analytics have transformed the efforts of public relations professionals and how they affect client expectations. TOP DATA-DRIVEN PR TRENDS OF 2016: INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHICS. USE IBM WATSON ANALYTICS FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA INSIGHTS.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Shel Israel followed up in our discussion last week about the automation (or lack thereof) of persuasion technologies and public relations by asking: Since you are in the business of building trust for clients, why are so many PR people not trusted by the media? This is a pitch almost entirely devoid of value for my audience.

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