Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

While there’s always been a demand for marketers with marketing technology skills, the Coronavirus seems to have redoubled the emphasis. The study, citing data from the MIT Technology Review , also suggests knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) could be a competitive advantage for marketing job candidates. it recommends adding 6%.

Survey 99

Survey Trends Marketing Creativity 99

Landis PR

JANUARY 30, 2024

Metrics such as web traffic, page views, bounce rates, time spent on the website, and SEO ranking, all rely on PR tactics. That example is less quantifiable, but brand recognition also can be measured through polling and surveys. Other ways to measure brand recognition is through share of voice in media or on social media.

Leadership 105

Leadership SEO Measurement Reputation 105

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. Everything is measurable and measured.

SEO 204

SEO Analytics Measurement B2B 204

Barokas

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Conveying those characteristics on a website, though, to give new connections a glimpse at who we are as an agency, is not as easy. Especially in a crowded industry, wherein most agencies speak the same language and promise the same value proposition. Barokas Communications is more than a top technology PR firm.

Case Study 78

Case Study Enterprise System Fashion 78

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

The company sells services and was using proprietary technology to assist in the delivery of those services. The publication cites Cision Chief Product & Technology Officer Jay Webster as saying: “Factmata’s unique expertise is helping brands and organizations identify risky narratives earlier and more reliably than a human can.

Software 78

Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

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. 1) Earned media is sales enablement. a) Results may vary.

Study 138

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 138

PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and was also published on the HubSpot Agency Post. As CMOs navigate the marketing talent gap , they are increasingly seeking performance-driven agency partners that are immersed in marketing technology and staffed with digital-savvy professionals.

Agency 40

Agency Marketing Financial System 40

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Almost all of them reported something new – new roles, new responsibilities, new technology, new, new, new. In technology, the classic comparison of Salesforce to Oracle is an iconic example. 5) Feedback and measurement. Now, we can measure web traffic acquisition and behavior with accuracy. You can subscribe here.

Software 97

Software Comparison Measurement Content Marketing 97

Shift Communications

AUGUST 28, 2017

What’s changed is our ability to predict with extremely large, complex datasets – and how accessible such prediction technology is. Today, we ingest thousands of news articles, millions of social media data points, web analytics, customer service data, CRM data – the list of data sources is nearly endless. Stay tuned!

Analytics 96

Analytics Software Technology Data 96

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To keep pace, you’ll need to understand how to cater content to your brands, deliver a video to its target audience and measure performance to prove its value. As content is delivered, PR pros need to be ready for real-time strategy adjustments and know how to measure the success of your content marketing campaign.

Storytelling 106

Storytelling Video Strategy Analytics 106

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Marketers will no longer be able to ignore new technologies and trends, even if they aren’t sure of the application or ROI. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang. Web Ink Now. Sprout Blog.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 9, 2017

112 people responded: 40% in-house; 38% agency; and 22% independent practitioner. Owned media – apps and web sites enable any organisation to create its own media and become a publisher. Planning, creativity and measurement lies at the heart of campaigns. If your agency doesn’t offer images or video you’re missing out.

Publicity 111

Publicity Survey Measurement Community 111

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Generate unique web links for your assets, so you know exactly how much traffic you’re driving and what impact that’s having on sales opportunities. If you don’t have a plan for measuring and proving the value of your efforts, and growing that value over time, your pitch is dead on arrival. Guest Post PR 2.0

Content Marketing 150

Content Marketing Marketing How To Leadership 150

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The median salary breaks down across corporate, agency and non-profit sectors of PR as follows: corporate communications median salary was $127,100; PR agency median salary was $96,000, and non-profit communications salary was $85,000. . 3) Study Reveals Gaps Between the CEO and PR in Communications Goals, Issues and Technology.

Blogging 80

Blogging Publicity Marketing Survey 80

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

According to The Holmes Report, only 27% of agency leaders responding to the survey think the term “public relations” will clearly and adequately describe the work they do by the year 2020. If true, it bodes very well for PR, which specialized in the powerful but maddeningly hard-to-measure mentions. billion over the next five years.

Trends 124

Trends SEO Leadership Print 124

Sword and the Script

APRIL 6, 2021

I took a quick look back to review what was going on then, and thought the subhead accurately summarizes that snapshot in time: Some PR technology vendors have made pandemic-related announcements, but there’s a bit of “business as usual” too. PRophet shares roots with its agency as the founder of both companies is the same person.

Media 105

Media SEO Analytics Analysis 105

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

Tools 136

Tools Publicity SEO Measurement 136

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

This summary of PR technology news – the PR Tech Sum – is back after a two-month hiatus. Digimind’s technology uses AI solutions and machine learning to provide global social media listening and comprehensive analysis across all major social platforms,” the company said in a press release. I do have a sense of humor. PR content picks.

Publicity 85

Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2019

There isn’t a whole lot of coverage about PR technology. Vocus owned or acquired brands like PRWeb, Help A Reporter Out (HARO), iContact, and several lesser-known social media technologies. c) PR Tech Reviews based on my review of the technology (1-2 per year). And with that, here’s a go at the first PR Tech Sum….

Industry 85

Industry Media Technology Employee 85

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They only recently released retargeting tools such as the Snap Pixel for advertisers to take advantage of; custom audiences are still limited to web audiences (versus uploading lists). Vice President, Marketing Technology. Snapchat is still catching up on the business tools side compared to its more mature brethren. Christopher S.

B2C 74

B2C Web Advertising Advertising 74

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s an example from web analytics: Look at those four standout events that are above and beyond normal traffic. Vice President, Marketing Technology. The post How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco. Christopher S.

Analytics 155

Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing How To 155

Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

Recently, I’ve begun looking more closely at PR technology , companies. This is an effort to illustrate some of the interesting innovations occurring within the PR vendor community – and provide an agnostic source of information on tools and technologies I believe PR professionals should have on their radar. Sentiment analysis.

Case Study 116

Case Study Software Data Web 116

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. This is a good fit if you’re looking to master content technology and strategy in 2020. Build a Better Agency Summit.

Conference 97

Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

Shift Communications

MARCH 30, 2015

Think about what things hospitals measure in terms of marketing. One way to measure this is by returning visitors from social media channels. Examine and measure organic search traffic within your geographic radius. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Analytics Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy'

Healthcare 60

Healthcare Analytics Google Local 60

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It reminded me of the awesome power of crowdsourcing and the social web. One person chimed in and said, essentially, “just go out and do great PR – you are wasting your time trying to measure.” The Complete Guide to Dashboards – The Measurement Advisor. The Inquiry. So I kept looking. Digging Deeper.

Measurement 120

Measurement Exercises Interviews Tools 120

PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Modern marketing is constantly shifting, and the folks that are part of your marketing team need to be masters in all things technology, best practices, and trends. Look for opportunities to implement professional development programs to ensure and encourage that the marketing team is staying up on technology and trends. Technology.

Marketing 52

Marketing Technology Internal International 52

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Each tool is sorted according to our 5Ps of marketing AI framework , a framework we devised to help visualize and organize use cases and the marketing AI technology landscape: Planning: Building intelligent strategies. All powered by IBM Watson's cognitive technology. Production: Creating intelligent content. Production.

Tools 71

Tools Marketing Enterprise Software 71

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. What we do 5.

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Search for broadcast video has been limited historically to the metadata about that content; that is, the tags, short descriptions or, in the case of US TV, closed caption text, and for international content, speech-to-text transcriptions (created on our systems via TVEyes Language Technologies).

Television 75

Television Sports Web Advertising 75

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They are most concerned with data that falls into their marketing domain (email, web traffic, social, earned media measurement) and feeding sales as much as possible. Vice President, Technology Business Development East Coast. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

B2B 60

B2B Data Data-Driven PR Enterprise 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

Construction, engineering and manufacturing closed down, but technology and infrastructure are booming. The freelance PR market shut down in the first week of April as agencies and in-house teams reacted to the markets they serve and cut costs. Since that point, the health of the business-to-business market has been mixed.

Crisis 151

Crisis Government Energy Community 151

Shift Communications

MARCH 16, 2015

The measure may cost news publishers web traffic and risks misleading users, analysts said. This change doesn’t alter what Google thinks of your site; in fact, overdoing it may be counterproductive, because you’re helping to send web searchers to wire service websites rather than your site. Christopher S.

Google 60

Google SEO Web Comparison 60

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Every month when I go to write this PR technology summary, I’m surprised at just how many new tools and features are being brought to market. And now, here’s this month’s PR technology summary…. PR technology provider Meltwater unveiled a new interface aimed at simplifying the user experience and providing “enhanced self-help options.”

Internal 63

Internal International Data Media 63

Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Think through who will be your resource to help produce and edit the show, troubleshoot technology and keep you on strategy. Walmart hired an agency named Omelet to help with its production–outsourcing your entire podcast is a viable option. 8 – Have you thought about what your measures of success will be for your podcast?

Corporate 103

Corporate Banking Resources Radio 103

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’ll use SHIFT’s custom-built SCALE Scanner to evaluate links for social sharing and trust, as measured by Moz’s MozTrust score. We’ll use a selection of 15,000 links shared at least once, from both B2B and B2C content selected from around the web. Vice President, Marketing Technology. We’ll learn more in the next post.

Data-Driven PR 60

Data-Driven PR Analysis Data B2C 60

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For all the upbeat indications in the study, an alarming statistic made a debut late in the report: Just 35% of B2B marketers are measuring content marketing ROI. 38% they need an easier way to measure ROI. 21% said it was too time consuming to measure ROI. Measuring ROI is hard. Measuring ROI takes time.

Content Marketing 64

Content Marketing B2B Survey Analysis 64

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2015

2015 found brands reevaluating their agency relationships in an unprecedented way , turning over partners looking for a better mix of nimble, efficient and integrated. Based on the conversations we’re having with existing clients and prospects, agencies will be required to embody all of these attributes and more. Derek Lyons.

Marketing 60

Marketing Mobile Pinterest Analysis 60