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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AUGUST 15, 2017

So today, we’re sharing the top takeaways from a fireside chat focused on PR metrics and the “d” word: data! If articles in publication X consistently fail to drive demo sign-ups, and demo sign-ups is one of your goals, the data-driven PR professional knows that it’s smart to put their eggs elsewhere (…in another basket).

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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. To answer that question, we did our homework using our own data in a research experiment to determine what strategy worked best for our audience (i.e.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

If I dig into this particular chart, those spikes were caused by 4 big media hits. Now we have an idea of what’s repeatable and what’s not, which can help to plan our editorial calendar, content marketing, public relations program, and paid media plans. The second was a Super Bowl ad. Can this be repeated?

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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. Comedic movies and TV shows are of interest to our followers, but not really related to marketing or PR explicitly.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. CMOs and CEOs are starting to ask: Why can’t PR be measured and attributed the way that marketing efforts can? The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 26, 2016

If you’re an avid (or even a sometimes) reader of the SHIFT blog, then you already know data-driven public relations is something we know well. Our PR teams have been taking an analytical approach to forming their account strategies for some time, and our clients have been very pleased with the results. Think with Google.

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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

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.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect. The noise is created by the jumble of news sites, blogs of all types, celeb gossip, tweets and posts from numerous friends and acquaintances. Thus I couldn’t be more happy with the latest and greatest SHIFT website!

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

We’ve covered the basics of public speaking here on the SHIFT blog before. 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. As early as a month out, track the conference hashtag or social media profiles to see what the hot topics are.

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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. I’ll use data from my personal website so as to avoid revealing anything under NDA.

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Barokas

AUGUST 8, 2017

Reporters at every rung of the media landscape, from high-profile, top-tier publications all the way down to niche, vertical outlets, strive to create the most thought-provoking stories possible. And when data-driven PR strategies are leveraged over time, the results can be especially impactful. The numbers don’t lie.

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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. We’ve all seen it before.

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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. We’ve all seen it before.

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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. We’ve all seen it before.

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Barokas

AUGUST 8, 2017

Reporters at every rung of the media landscape, from high-profile, top-tier publications all the way down to niche, vertical outlets, strive to create the most thought-provoking stories possible. And when data-driven PR strategies are leveraged over time, the results can be especially impactful. The numbers don’t lie.

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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. Daily blog posts demand large amounts of time and effort. Owned content. The Problem. Owned content doesn’t always perform as well as it should.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

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. In fact, you’ve seen an entire team form within the SHIFT walls dedicated to quantifiable PR. Nearly $90k in sales.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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? Reach Influencers Through Their Media. How To Find Influencer Media. How might we go about determining this?

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

In this five part blog crisis management series, we’ll walk through how we would work with our pretend client, G.W., This series will touch briefly on the following offerings/capabilities from SHIFT’s PR, marketing tech and creative services teams: Media monitoring. Media training. Owned media/messaging.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts, the best of Q4 content of 2018, focused on earned media, Google Analytics metrics, and measuring PR success. 3 CATEGORIES OF PR AND EARNED MEDIA. All earned media, like all public relations efforts, are not the same. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more. Social media management. The Data Science Shortage. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues.

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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. Stay in the content game.

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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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MARCH 2, 2021

In this blog, let’s explore the two biggest and heaviest cultural roadblocks (and the most common) on the path of data-driven journeys, specifically for PR/Communications, i.e., the earned media space.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What data do we have access to as communicators? A quick look at the data landscape shows much promise: Web analytics from systems like Google Analytics™. Social media data. Publication data from the many media monitoring systems out there. Massive numbers of public data sets. Stay tuned!

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts from the third quarter of 2015 focused on PR strategy, Facebook, and Twitter. Let’s jump in: How to Choose a PR Strategy: Part 1 of 6. The hot topic in PR is always strategy. How to Build Rapport and Pitch Media Using Twitter. Here’s how.

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Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. Action: PR Attribution. Engagement: Reader Engagement. Influence: Brand Impact.

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Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. Action: PR Attribution. Engagement: Reader Engagement. Influence: Brand Impact.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Owned — if your client’s owned content isn’t performing well, chances are the same themes and perspectives you’re pushing from a PR standpoint aren’t making much of an impact. By understanding site and referral traffic, you get a sense of the impact and interest on blogs, white papers, ebooks, etc.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

This was when Sheridan and his business partners decided to start a business blog where they would become a resource for customers and potential customers. They started off with a very direct application of “listen to the customer,” and answered customer questions in-depth on the blog.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In early 2013, we published a blog sharing what we felt were the worst times and days for press releases. That blog post is to this day (over two years later) one of the most highly trafficked page on SHIFT’s website. The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. With digital convergence, PR and media communicators are no longer just the traditional writers of press releases or distributors of media pitches. ” 4.

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MARCH 17, 2021

In part one of this blog series, Sunita discussed the first cultural roadblock for PR/Communications’ Data-Driven Journeys – Lack of trust in a data management process and data analytics solution for PR/Communications earned media data domain.

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