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Beets, Tomatoes…Big Data?

Shift Communications

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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Data doesn’t have to be scary

Shift Communications

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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B2B Marketers: Even more data is coming, are you ready?

Shift Communications

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. Data is Just for Consumers and Science Projects, right? So, you think you’re data-driven….

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Demystifying PR ROI

Onclusive

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Latest PR Trends

5W PR

For instance, in the past, a number of companies were used to having separate public relations departments internally, but these days, those departments are divided into public relations and marketing and both departments have shared responsibilities, especially in terms of any potential negative responses from the customers.

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What PR Professionals Should Have Learned at IBM World of Watson

Shift Communications

Rather than assigning a whole team to read the day’s news or client mentions, smart PR professionals will take advantage of the latest Big Data technologies like Apache Spark , and use an artificial intelligence summarize the relevant news about their clients and provide useful insights about what’s driving the day’s news.

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BuzzFeed Pound and the Future of Data-Driven Decisions

Shift Communications

As marketers and users in the world of social content distribution, we often wonder what’s next. What’s the next big social network that will come into play with the companies we represent and their audiences? Lately, that focus has turned to data. Marketers have long tried to determine what makes something go viral.

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