Shift Communications

MARCH 19, 2015

One of the greatest challenges to public relations as an industry since the advent of digital marketing and communications is how to measure the effectiveness of PR. We agree on the qualitative outputs of public relations: Increased awareness of your company and its products/services. Increased trust in your brand.

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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. Today, companies expect more from their PR departments.

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Onclusive

APRIL 8, 2020

There has never been a better opportunity to claim your seat at the table by serving your company as a communications leader during this time of crisis, and providing unique insights that only you have access to. But in order to get the credit you deserve and the resources you need as a PR professional, you have to make one key shift.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What this means for PR. Companies spend about $30 billion on PR per year, and executives rightfully demand to see a return on that investment. Unfortunately, 82 percent of practitioners say they have no way to evaluate the return they receive on PR. PR coverage has typically been measured by media outlet audience size.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. You can’t argue with the data. It was subjective.

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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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Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

The PR metrics and PR data that are available to us today can help us do just that, but dealing with analytics is still a little scary to a lot of communicators. So today, we’re sharing the top takeaways from a fireside chat focused on PR metrics and the “d” word: data! Why is this the case?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Companies who attempt to ride roughshod over their employees – whether it be forcing them back into the office after extended period away due the pandemic or those who choose to pay less – are going to have all sorts of issues which are going to be publicly known in very short order. PR grows more in demand. Data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

I was asked recently what the most important metric, the most important thing to measure in PR is. However, if we distill down the essence of public relations, it’s to build awareness and trust in a brand, such that people want to share it, talk about it, and ultimately buy from it. Our company isn’t in the game.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption happens to industries measured in weeks and months rather than years or epochs. Companies at their apogee today may find themselves at their perigee within months. While companies may be publishing more of these than ever, their impact continues to lessen every year. Reputation Is Brand. Part 2: Owned Media.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? When public relations works well, people know our company, our products, our services, and positively associate with them. PR Isn’t Sales. Why did our friend recommend a company to us?

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

Automated marketing technologies rely heavily on the mimicry of the masses in social spheres to measure efficacy and the resonance of company messages in the market. Data-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. Data-driven is just that—information drives the direction, moves us forward.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

B2B tech companies have jumped in with both feet. Of all the industries using the new format, B2C financial services – banking and retail investment brands – are using the most characters in the new format. Pharmaceutical companies. SaaS technology companies. Technology companies. More isn’t better.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. How to measure the impact of our work? 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.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

What’s in stock for us as practitioners, as agencies, as companies seeking to build awareness, reputation, and trust? How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? We public relations professionals, whether in house at a brand or at an agency, must take ownership of our audiences.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

With digital convergence, PR and media communicators are no longer just the traditional writers of press releases or distributors of media pitches. New PR serves three pivotal roles to build your corporate brand and support your sales and marketing organizations: PR is digital storytelling through content and social amplification.

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Shift Communications

JULY 6, 2015

One of the most difficult challenges reporting and analytics face in public relations measurement is sentiment analysis. Imagine you were ABC Car Company, and your arch competitor was XYZ Motors. What a terrible mixup, to classify something as negative towards your brand when it’s a positive. How does it go wrong?

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

McKinsey & Company, 2023 By all accounts, PR pros are increasingly using generative AI in their roles and this is expected to steadily increase over the next year. 74% of PR pros report an increase in work quality when using AI. Data-driven PR Trends PR pros are using data-driven analytics to guide PR strategies.

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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 24, 2024

McKinsey & Company, 2023 By all accounts, PR pros are increasingly using generative AI in their roles and this is expected to steadily increase over the next year. 74% of PR pros report an increase in work quality when using AI. Data-driven PR Data-driven PR uses analytics to guide PR strategies.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

And as all of those elements are changing, so should the PR strategies that companies are using so they can adapt and cater to everyone’s needs. With the evolution of technology, companies have generated a lot more data, which can inspire the creation of a lot more ideas, as well as increase the reach of those creative ideas.

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Shift Communications

JULY 28, 2017

While press release distribution can be costly, the practice can be valuable which is why companies across the globe use them in their PR strategy. s crisis is one many brands hope for – one where he has the upper hand. did nothing wrong, yet his brand (and thus character) are being questioned. Paid Media.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

PR pros work hard to secure media hits, and a stellar feature in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times deserves to have a longer life than the hot minute it gets post-publication. Many companies will tell you a hit like this can drive a spike in traffic, but it’s often times short lived before traffic returns back to normal.

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Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. We’re constantly pushing clients and prospects to embrace elements such as Google Analytics, Twitter advertising, measurement beyond pure clicks and the like. I n other words, when it comes to marketing, what are more “traditional” B2B companies doing these days?

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Shift Communications

APRIL 23, 2015

Whether it’s participating in webinars, interacting with people online, or speaking at industry, company or academic events, I meet people who are at varying levels of comfort with the fast-paced world in which we live. Social : Without a doubt, social is a key element in anything digital today.

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