Onclusive

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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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. How can we access data for PR ROI?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The tool gives you a detailed timeline of impressions and engagement rates for every Tweet, as well as follower trends and demographics. Comedic movies and TV shows are of interest to our followers, but not really related to marketing or PR explicitly. Twitter also recently released its own Analytics dashboard to all users.

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

Companies such as Iris PR and Vidyard are giving PR professionals and communications experts data sets and analytics tools that help them understand which messages are resonating with customers and prospects. We’ve all heard the saying you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year. Check out our PR measurement tool. First let’s review what you can and should be doing today.

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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. Use influence monitoring tools to determine what topics are trending in advance of the event. What’s the goal?

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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.

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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

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. As PR pros, we should be familiar with the different types of metrics that demonstrate the success of our work.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For PR pros in the midst of the planning madness — myself included — there is a better and more efficient way to create PR plans, and it all revolves around data. By that, I mean I’ll never start working on a PR plan without taking a critical, data-driven look under my “client’s hood.”

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s becoming more fashionable to claim that your PR and marketing is “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean? It means we evaluate our situation honestly, using the most unbiased tools at our disposal. This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Using our custom-built influencer identification tools, we examined hundreds of thousands of conversations from Dreamforce 2017 and distilled down the social shares to a list of the top 100 most talked-about individuals (excluding corporate entities). This year, over 175,000 people attended the massive event in San Francisco.

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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. One of the most impressive demonstrations of managing unstructured data was IBM Watson’s ability to read and interpret legal and financial regulations, then compare a company’s compliance with those regulations.

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

s PR reps/trusted advisors/crisis comms ride-or-dies, deny the fire of its resources we shall. In this five part blog crisis management series, we’ll walk through how we would work with our pretend client, G.W., Research (using tools such as Sysomos, Crowdtangle, Google Trends). Media training. Sentiment/tone analysis.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 28, 2019

Owned media can be a powerful tool when it comes to giving people a reason to keep revisiting your site. Do a quick audit of what owned properties make sense for you – a blog , social media, etc. — No one wants to read about a topic that’s already been rehashed a bunch of times. Stay in the content game.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Want to see how to do this for your blog? Our top posts from the fourth quarter of 2015 focused on best and worst times for press releases, connecting PR and sales, and measuring PR for 2016 planning. That’s why we collected the key understandings needed to explain the profitability of PR to a sales team. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dealing with proprietary software often means converting our data into compatible formats for use by multiple, different tools. The final and arguably most important attribute of great data for predictive analytics is data that’s been chosen well. Listen to this blog post: [link]. Chosen Well. Stay tuned!

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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. The first step toward implementation is to examine tools that are already in your backyard.

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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. The first step toward implementation is to examine tools that are already in your backyard.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. With plenty of free analytics tools available, there are many of options for interpreting this data. Social media planning tools Buffer and Hootsuite both offer limited access for free accounts. Connecting with Customers as Actual Human Beings.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. With plenty of free analytics tools available, there are many of options for interpreting this data. Social media planning tools Buffer and Hootsuite both offer limited access for free accounts. Connecting with Customers as Actual Human Beings.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. With plenty of free analytics tools available, there are many of options for interpreting this data. Social media planning tools Buffer and Hootsuite both offer limited access for free accounts. Connecting with Customers as Actual Human Beings.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Media Lab and Deloitte launched the joint project Data USA. That doesn’t even factor in new tool debuts, anything out of Google, Medium’s recent business model change, etc…. At SHIFT we run a daily blog and a weekly SHIFT Happens newsletter, which daily and weekly provide summary news from the front lines of PR and Marketing.

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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. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

To get this information, all you need to do is visit and walk through Google’s Search Console adding a property and then connect it with your Google Analytics account (formerly Google Webmaster Tools). I personally like to use the report to see the CTR rate of our blog posts given the number of impressions those landing pages get.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

The public relations field covers a wide array of tools and you may find it hard to know how to prioritize your PR efforts in 2024. So, to help you out, we’ve identified the top 5 PR trends in 2024. For instance, AI can help you generate ideas for your next blog or article, advertising strategy or any facet of PR.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

PR and earned media content, blog posts, and other company digital assets can often drive more top of funnel sales leads than ads and email marketing. New PR has an opportunity to work alongside marketers to align all aspects of brand communications while investing in tools and technology to properly showcase PR’s business impact.

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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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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Melissa Strle It can be challenging for PR professionals to navigate through an array of tools and strategies. Understanding what to prioritize can be daunting and 2024’s top 5 PR trends sift through the constant advancements and shifts in the industry. As well, it synthesizes a host of ideas.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 21, 2018

For many B2B technology brands, data is not only a business asset, but a PR tool. No one should underestimate the power of data for storytelling. The data is often derived inexpensively from behavior surveys or flash polls, or it may already exist within the company’s own research unit.

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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. That’s because companies still need tools that will help them work through and with all the data that has been generated.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

It’s hard to miss all the articles and blog posts about how the PR industry is changing, how it’s integrating with new skill sets. Today, I wanted to dive a little more into my personal experience on the subject – including why PR pros should honestly start thinking about expanding their skill sets (and where to start).

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

With today’s consumer AI tools at your fingertips, it may feel like you don’t need a computer science degree to understand how artificial intelligence will bring value to the communications process. Today, most agency executives only seem to agree on what the limits of AI in PR will be. Next Steps For AI And The PR Sector.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

Surveys are the data gift that keep giving. Polls and surveys are time-honored PR tools for developing campaigns, fine-tuning messaging, and generating earned media and content. They’re beloved among PRs because they’re quick and affordable. The survey possibilities are endless, but here are our favorites.

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Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. Living on the B2B side of the house, I’ve been thrilled by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for deeper understanding on how these elements play into our PR programs and the RFP’s we’re receiving. Interestingly there were no formal blogs on any of the sites.

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