The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. Instead of dashing off ten 250 word blog posts with not much meat, research and write quality long-form content on your blog or newsroom.

Analytics 100

Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Providers such as Compete, Alexa and Similarweb all provide estimated web traffic based on last month. Check out Steph Bridgeman’s blog post on analysing PR data in excel. Steph is an independent freelance measurement consultant and she has been using excel for data analysis in PR for years. Thank you Steph!

Measurement 120

Measurement Data Analytics Tools 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We need to be able to use social media platforms to reach and engage curated audiences, as well as measure the success of our campaigns. Today, the range is much broader, encompassing blog content, confessional-style social updates, and, of course, video. A strong understanding of digital and social media platforms is a must.

Analytics 170

Analytics Tools Social Media Trends 170

PR 20/20

MARCH 8, 2023

Reporting , for example, "Show me a summary of monthly web visitors for the last two quarters" or "report of monthly revenue in Q4." It struggled a bit to report blog performance, which is a good time to mention that ChatSpot is still in its public alpha stage. Follow-up , such as "Draft a thank you email for Jane Doe."

Tools 85

Tools Web Examples Report 85

Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

The white paper calls the pageview a “superficial impression of how people behave on the web.” For 20 years, the media and marketing world has been beholden to the pageview, a deeply flawed metric that only captures the most superficial impression of how people behave on the web. It’s easy to be shallow on the web).

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 10, 2017

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

Survey 60

Survey Blogging Corporate Analytics 60

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s PR pros must not only navigate, research and pitch in an increasingly complex media environment but also track (monitor) and measure the results in a way that resonates with stakeholders. As I read year-end wrap-ups and new year predictions each year, this topic inevitably crops up. And this year was no exception.

Pitching 94

Pitching Print Measurement Report 94

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s everything from becoming a regular contributor on a media website to having a newspaper or trade publication write about you to appearing on the noon news to talk about your company. Owned media, aka content, is content you produce that lives on your website or blog. Shared Media. Shared media is also known as social media.

Media Relations 331

Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2024

Matt Cutts’ infamous blog post advised “sticking a fork in it” because guest posting for links was done. We looked for sites with clear signals that they accepted guest posts, such as post titles and URLs with the words “contribute” or “write for us.” So, you’ll also need to judge the quality of the writing itself.

Analysis 90

Analysis SEO Guidelines Google 90

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems. The top metrics for marketing communications leaders: 46% lead generation; 45% web traffic; 45% social media engagement; 35% conversion rate; 33% sales; 30% brand share of voice; 24% followers/social media; 18% ad impressions/ reach; and 11% SEO rankings.

Report 105

Report Publicity Marketing Pitching 105

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

The phrase is intended to account for the additional ways a person or company could earn visibility on the web, including traditional news – but more importantly beyond it. Talkwalker characterized the product as “social measurement and audience insights software.” Think: bloggers, influencers, podcasters and so on.

Media Relations 147

Media Relations Media Print Software 147

Barokas

MAY 31, 2019

Campaigns must be simultaneously creative, strategic and measurable. Our agency offers services and writing support around all of these, so you’ll see links to examples of our work included throughout the checklist. Web copy/newsletters : As the face of your brand, your website must be a priority. It’s a tall order.

Case Study 100

Case Study B2B Resources Web 100

Cision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Editorial Guidelines: Establish writing standards to ensure consistency across content. Leveraging your owned media, publish blogs about the new look, update your web copy to reflect new messaging, and post messages on social media to communicate it. Conclude by Measuring Your Initial Success  . Informative?

Corporate 270

Corporate Brand Branding Guidelines 270

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. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

Study 138

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 138

Sword and the Script

JUNE 15, 2021

I’ll even take that a step further: if you aren’t in direct contact with customers in writing content, you are probably just making it all up. As a result, B2B marketing writers turn to analytics and social media to inform their writing. And as a marketing leader , you have to stay on it – measure progress – and keep it top of mind.

Survey 116

Survey B2B Marketing Interviews 116

PRSay

JULY 6, 2020

PR practitioners can meet potential new contacts and clients via web–based video-conference platforms such as Skype and Zoom. Encouraging your employees to help — while also respecting appropriate safety measures — will raise their morale and foster goodwill. Virtual meetings also help people working from home feel more engaged.

Employee 181

Employee Skype Meeting Nonprofit 181

Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Links are the main way Google traverses the web. Link relevance measures how relevant a backlink is to your site. There’s no set scale for link relevancy and we don’t know exactly how Google measures this either. Unless, the football blog is writing something like “Top Tailgating Tips from Professional Chefs”.)

How To 62

How To Google SEO Pitching 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. The metaverse, Web 3.0, To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration.

Marketing 214

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in. Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper.

Blogging 86

Blogging Writing Facebook Twitter 86

Beyond PR

JULY 27, 2016

To promote a blog post, white paper, or other piece of marketing content, the entire press release must be reconsidered. Pay attention to these 12 things when writing a press release for your demand gen content. Audience: You’re not writing a content press release for journalists. Check out Do Your Headlines Measure Up?

Writing 40

Writing SEO Web Content Marketing 40

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

They write quality posts. That’s according to the results of a survey of 1,377 bloggers conducted by Orbit Media a web design agency. These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. 1) How long does it take to write a blog post?

Study 78

Study B2B Marketing Survey 78

Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

Although this data is critical in monitoring and measuring your team’s ROI, remembering to “be human” in your marketing strategy is essential to connecting with your audience and creating lasting relationships. Measure your success. When she’s not writing, you can find her at music festivals, hiking or snowboarding.

Marketing 75

Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 75

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. It’s pretty good.

Measurement 60

Measurement Social Media Tourism Twitter 60

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# He then said, “The second way to measure offline business outcomes is to use primary research.

Measurement 77

Measurement Publicity Web Analytics 77

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I have been writing about issues challenging social media and digital communications, and speaking with thought leaders on the topic. We’ve kicked ideas and blog posts back and forth over Twitter, and I thought he would be a good person to ask. Thanks for participating, Frank! Are the social media waters still safe for marketing?

Social Media 149

Social Media Marketing Media Facebook 149

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The blog posts weren’t especially compelling, in fact these were a little heavy with sales messages; case studies that had been re-purposed. The posts were accented with liberal subheads, short paragraphs, and spotted with lots of bulleted lists – classic web writing if such a thing exists.

Viral 115

Viral Marketing Web Case Study 115

Business Wire

MARCH 7, 2017

This section covers working with influencers, measuring your success, and maintaining the best communications for your brand. Do not expect influencers to write for free. Once the influencer has agreed to be a part of your influencer program, it is time to write and sign a contract. Do not forget this step!

Marketing 156

Marketing Guidelines Measurement Analytics 156

Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

Although this data is critical in monitoring and measuring your team’s ROI, remembering to “be human” in your marketing strategy is essential to connecting with your audience and creating lasting relationships. Measure your success. When she’s not writing, you can find her at music festivals, hiking or snowboarding.

Marketing 68

Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 68

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Factmata uses AI to identify and track narratives online through articles, blogs, tweets and other social chatter, highlighting the ones that could either help or hurt brand reputation and value.” Social media tools offer AI to write social media posts. Email tools will offer AI to help write emails. What does it do?

Software 78

Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

Critical Mention

MAY 10, 2019

Although this data is critical in monitoring and measuring your team’s ROI, remembering to “be human” in your marketing strategy is essential to connecting with your audience and creating lasting relationships. Measure your success. When she’s not writing, you can find her at music festivals, hiking or snowboarding.

Marketing 60

Marketing eBook Case Study Measurement 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 3, 2017

Write more and write better. Good, error-free writing is under threat today. It seems the need for speed in writing and editing is taking its toll. One of the best ways to improve your writing is to create the ideal environment in which to write. We constantly find horrid examples committed by journalists.

Writing 149

Writing Education Pinterest Creativity 149

MaccaPR

JANUARY 5, 2016

Just as every parent thinks their own sons and daughters are the best looking and most brilliant children on Planet Earth, too many companies and marketing agencies – our Minneapolis PR firm included – are convinced that their blogs could hardly be better. You posted full blog posts on the main blog index page. Ah, hubris.

Blogging 48

Blogging Creativity Agency Mobile 48

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Clients now expect PR people to also be search experts, content experts, working knowledge of Google Analytics, knowledge of all sorts of tracking tools to measure effectiveness, while filming, producing, and editing video and managing multiple social media accounts.”. Pressure on measurement. Additional duties. More internal comms.

Communications 120

Communications Crisis Internal International 120

Cision

AUGUST 22, 2016

If you’ve Googled anything with your phone recently, you may have seen a result like the one below and wondered what the “AMP” tag meant: Google’s Amplified Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open source initiative intended to speed mobile delivery of web content. Spoiler alert: AMP is all about speeding up your mobile pages.

Mobile 96

Mobile SEO Web Google 96

Norton's Notes

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, before that I was discussing the digital landscape with a potential employee, and they expressed their thoughts to me that blogging was now dead. This struck me as a bold statement, they were younger than me and although I know blogging is not in its 2000s hey day – I still felt it was a powerful tool in the right hands.

Blogging 28

Blogging Marketing Web Twitter 28

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 9, 2017

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. Measurement and demonstrating value – 73% of respondents cited measurement and demonstrating return on investment as important. Management.

Publicity 111

Publicity Survey Measurement Community 111

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 28, 2020

Recently, I had a chance to view a web demonstration of the product and ask some questions. Notified calls these functions – listen, connect, publish amplify and measure. Measure is the dashboard and analytics. Users access these functions by logging into the product through a web browser. What I saw was quite impressive.

Software 113

Software Tools Publicity System 113