The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As businesses become more digitized, paying attention to current trends, like the ever-growing importance of social media and data analytics, helps to promote and protect brand image. Also, it allows professionals to employ the right PR strategies when it matters most.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In the last post, we introduced the idea of predictive analytics in public relations. Public relations would benefit strongly from predictive analytics, forecasting communications needs in advance. The foundation of predictive analytics is one familiar to modern PR practitioners: data. Compatible Data.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In between those times where you use Google Analytics to do reporting, there is plenty of maintenance to do to ensure that the data that you rely on to make decisions is accurate and will lead to the best decisions. Social Media Configuration. Last but not least, want to get search engine data inside Google Analytics?

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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. Twitter also recently released its own Analytics dashboard to all users. Google Analytics.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Certainly, you can look downfunnel and see how many closed deals you’re getting in your sales CRM, but if your website is broken or your retail staff are surly, you may not see the results you want no matter how good your PR is. For that, we’ll turn to our stalwart, Google Analytics. For that, let’s look first at social media.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Trends on Social Media. When it comes to earned and owned media getting a pulse on what’s trending worldwide provides a competitive advantage. Well, first it’s a free media monitoring tool and while other tools may give more analytical data about coverage, they also can eat into a budget. 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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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But with PR attribution, one can see how efforts impact business goals and metrics aligned with the lower part of the funnel, such as whether those articles prompt downloads, convert leads into customers, and so forth. Make Data-Driven PR Decisions. Therefore owned analytics become a great asset in PR.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The tactic still matters, but PR pros and writers will need to step up their game to cut through the clutter. Engage with the blogger on social media first, personalize your outreach, read and follow any requirements, and provide high-quality content. Social media livestreams will become acceptable as mainstream ‘news.’.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2014

It’s never a surprise when another ‘update’ materializes in the daily news scan, making the maintenance of a successful social media strategy difficult for marketers and communicators. See if your audience reacts differently than ours, and most important, find the best paid social media strategy for your brand.

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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. Or do social media shares drive page views? Do these activities matter?

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

I had the pleasure and privilege of attending IBM Vision 2017 as a guest of IBM Analytics. Over three days, we explored the future of analytics and artificial intelligence, from understanding where we are in the evolution of analytics to seeing the cutting edge of how AI will impact every industry. Social media management.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 15, 2015

This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Should social media managers be skipping the hashtag? Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven approach. Where a brand had more than one social media page or profile, we chose the page with the largest audience.

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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. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

The most cutting-edge public relations and media relations professionals will be investigating the forefront of artificial intelligence and how it can be used to generate massive amount of relevant content. How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? Dark Social and Influence.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

We applied Google’s Customer Journey idea and paired it with data-driven models to help you understand what’s really working in your digital marketing plans. Our Data-Driven Customer Journey model helps you: Understand what channels deliver results. Discover the sequence your customers take to purchase.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

Short for S hared C ontent A nd L ink E valuation, SCALE is an open source program designed to ingest URL-based marketing data from multiple, disparate data sources , and unify the findings. It incorporates organic data from MOZ Open Site Explorer API, SEMRush, and APIs of the top social media platforms.

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Data SEO Guidelines Advertising 92

Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

Owned media/messaging. Media relations. Social media management. Paid media and syndication. Predictive analytics. Research (using tools such as Sysomos, Crowdtangle, Google Trends). Sentiment/tone analysis. Press release alternatives. Email marketing. Speaking programs.

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Shift Communications

MAY 4, 2016

My recent tour of the USC Annenberg School’s Center for Public Relations only confirmed my hunch that our formerly-hidebound industry has been radically transformed via social media, content marketing, visual storytelling, better analytics tools and processes, etc. – and that this process is speeding up, not slowing down.

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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. Likewise, SHIFT is by no means the first user of IBM’s Watson Analytics. We are, to the best of our knowledge, one of the earliest adopters in PR.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

When I first started in PR, the desire was an article in a major national newspaper, above the fold and on the right side. 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.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

” News of this announcement spread (okay—exploded) across the internet with widely varying interpretations like a game of social media telephone. Learn how to use Twitter Analytics to find out which tweets have received the most impressions, URL clicks, detail expansions, retweets, favorites, replies, and more.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The chefs grab their beets and lamb; we collect our data. As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. Social media data, web analytics, email marketing metrics, oh my! Where the challenge lies is with the analyzing and figuring out what comes next.

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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. This beta test was to determine whether users wanted the increased characters. After the beta, Twitter rolled out 280-character tweets to all users. Are users taking advantage of the new character lengths?

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sissie Hsiao, Google AI-generated content AI-generated content is becoming increasingly popular in the PR industry as it generates content quickly and in large volumes. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. The trick is making sure you get comfortable with your AI.

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Trends Data-Driven PR Analytics Survey 52

Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. We look at impressions, unique monthly visitors, website traffic, social media engagements, website form submissions, organic search keywords – every form of quantitative data available to us.

Measurement 147

Measurement Data Study Advertising 147

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sissie Hsiao, Google AI-generated content AI-generated content is becoming increasingly popular in the PR industry as it generates content quickly and in large volumes. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. In particular, short form videos are booming in PR trends.

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Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

This, along with making sure you’re in tune with your analytics and metrics, will help you see what’s working and what’s quickly fading. The post Don’t Be Outdated: Why It’s Important to Refresh Your Models appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Savannah Whitman.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

We learned how to optimize the success of an ad campaign on a variety of social media platforms, how to better understand and analyze our clients’ SEO and how to run and interpret a comprehensive competitor report – just to name a few. Content is Key.

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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

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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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Let’s take a look: How To Use Google Analytics for Same-Day Content Promotion. One of the top questions in social media marketing (and content marketing in general) is how do you know what content is worth promoting? Instead, most marketers look back at their analytics at the end of the week, month, or quarter.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

In fact, using data-driven approaches is relatively new in public relations, especially in terms of the different advancements of tools and technologies in the realm of data analytics. What used to be seen as a successful PR campaign in the past is quite different from the successful PR campaigns these days.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Today, with over 2 billion smartphones in use, the ways in which consumers experience brands is fundamentally different. This is no fad – it is projected that by 2020, 80% of adults on Earth will have a smart phone. The way we think of the “internet” as a place for brands must fundamentally change to reflect the rise of mobile.

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