The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

If the idea of technology invading the practice of PR freaks you out a little, perhaps all you need a different perspective. These five tools can do just that. A digital newsroom. My choice is Sendible – it has everything you could possibly need: Monitoring online conversations for brand mentions and industry keywords.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Having various marketing strategies across multiple platforms can be hard to keep on top of – so having the right tools at your disposal can be a game-changer. Here we’ve pulled together seven tried and tested tools that are guaranteed to help streamline your content marketing strategy.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 22, 2024

Photo courtesy of Pixabay For CMOs, understanding the importance of effective communication measurement is vital. Effective communication measurement should be all about using tools that make sense and feel relevant. Measuring perception and qualitative factors, on the other hand, is more challenging and time-consuming.

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Brands and organizations are naturally interested in the journey of their customers, supporters or members. The 2018 Gartner Multichannel Effectiveness Study shows that Social Media, Mobile, and Digital are the channels most effective for reaching people at every stage of the journey – and there are only a few points between them.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message. Market Surveys –Typically this will involve before-and-after surveys regarding awareness of your brand.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Luckily, there are ways to shave off time with link building tools that won’t lead you down the dark path to black hat link building. Over the past ten years, I’ve tried numerous tools, and the ones below represent the most useful link-building tools on the market today. Why pay for a tool when you can do this yourself?

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Luckily, there are ways to shave off time with link building tools that won’t lead you down the dark path to black hat link building. Over the past ten years, I’ve tried numerous tools, and reviewed several tools for digital PR , and tools for blogger outreach. Pricing: Free trial, $125/mo for Pro account 3.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Luckily, there are ways to shave off time with link building tools that won’t lead you down the dark path to black hat link building. Over the past ten years, I’ve tried numerous tools, and reviewed several tools for digital PR , and tools for blogger outreach. Pricing: Free trial, $125/mo for Pro account 3.

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5W PR

JUNE 15, 2020

Brands need to have a vibrant and active social media presence today. The opportunity to engage, to solve problems, and to influence the narrative about and around the brand in the consumer public. The opportunity to engage, to solve problems, and to influence the narrative about and around the brand in the consumer public.

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Presspage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A well-crafted press release or a viral social media campaign can translate into measurable financial gains. Companies have begun to understand that PR is not just an expense - it’s an investment with potential returns. 72% of PR specialists say storytelling is their most important skill set - and they’re not wrong.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 30, 2015

Two recent studies show that brand engagement is the No. of UK and US agency and brand professionals put this at the top of their list. The biggest challenges to achieving this goal were maintaining a two0way dialog and measuring results. Tech Tools. The last two steps are about engagement and measurement.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Having previously used BuzzStream for all of my outreach, fortunately name mess-ups rarely happened due to the organised nature of the ‘People’ and name fields of the tool when prospecting. You also never need that much background on a client unless it’s a release on the brand itself. Prove you understand the sector and topic.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

However, I connected with him when he offered a free run-through of his new tool, Positional , on LinkedIn before its launch. In terms of using social platforms to be a knowledge leader, building your brand within a marketing category is like building equity in yourself that you can then take forward to whatever’s next.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

However, your goals must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART). Without SMART goals, measuring the success of your marketing strategy is next to impossible. People are not interested in hearing how great your brand is. Learn to Measure Success.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Media coverage PR earns can drive searches for branded terms which technical SEO experts say is more powerful than even links or keywords. We’ve long known that PR can have a significant impact on search rankings, but some of the industry’s leading search experts are suggesting the effects may be even greater.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 30, 2024

An intangible, yet essential, aspect of PR’s impact is brand recognition. That example is less quantifiable, but brand recognition also can be measured through polling and surveys. Other ways to measure brand recognition is through share of voice in media or on social media.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this article, 5W PR CEO Ronn Torossian and others share tips on how executives can use a blog and other social media avenues to spark conversations and conversions, establishing themselves as a leader within their industry. Content marketing is not a novel phenomenon and has been used as a marketing tool by PR executives for years.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. Back in the pre-digital era before we could track the most intricate of details of PR, that reputation was probably fair.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 31, 2023

As a PR or marketer, you’ve probably come across social listening tools or you might have even delved into the world yourself. Social listening might sound like it’s just a social media tool – but it is much more powerful than that! So, when paired with PR activity, it takes your content to the next level!

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The Resolution Blog

MAY 11, 2018

‘Dirty data will kill your PR results’ Webinar recording covers: What dirty data is & how to clean it How to organise your tracker How to uncover golden insights How to use excel & tools to save you time Webinar originally went out live on Tuesday, May 8th, 2018. An ebook on the digital future of public relations.

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5W PR

MARCH 19, 2020

Additionally, in the past few years, thanks to social media, it has become easier than ever for PR pros to keep track of what the public is thinking or talking about when it comes to particular brands. It’s also important to keep track of what that audience is saying when a brand isn’t directly promoting a product or a service.

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The Proactive Report

MARCH 13, 2015

As the digital world continues its headlong rush into the future, with new tools and toys popping up all the time, managing a brand’s social media program has become a very time-intensive activity. Sally Falkow is a veteran of the PR industry. It takes hours to do it all manually. Host: Sendible.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Not according to the 65 percent of brands who say that their success with content marketing is a direct result of a documented strategy. Your content team must include someone with an eye for good design who can use the slew of new tools available to make interesting graphics, social posts, videos, and Instagram Stories.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Spin Academy | Online PR Courses Public Relations vs Marketing Public relations (PR) and marketing are essential components of an organisation’s strategy to promote and sell its products or services, but they focus on different areas and have distinct goals. Public Relations is typically taught under Communications.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 21, 2024

In fact, for most digital PRs, they are a necessary part of their digital PR toolkit. Up-to-Date Lists Ask any digital PR professional, and they will say you need to update your lists if you want to utilize them successfully. Curating your media list solves this.

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The Proactive Report

MARCH 13, 2015

As the digital world continues its headlong rush into the future, with new tools and toys popping up all the time, managing a brand’s social media program has become a very time-intensive activity. Sally Falkow is a veteran of the PR industry. It takes hours to do it all manually. Host: Sendible.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 18, 2021

That means that the people you come in contact with – in person or online – will already know who you are and have an affinity for your brand. PR fills up the top of your sales funnel. It does this with great content, brand stories and by building trust. All these actions are PR functions.

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5W PR

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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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

Media kits are an excellent way to introduce the brand to people who may be unfamiliar with it, such as influencers, event attendees, journalists, or prospective clients. While a media kit is a collection of information about the brand, not all media kits will look the same. In March 2020, digital newsroom designer pr.co

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Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Both TBL and ESG are frameworks to measure the sustainability of a company, and each play an important role in event planning. The Evolution of Event Sustainability Just as measurement tools are advancing, sustainability at events has evolved from the days of putting out recycling bins and hoping for the best.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Perhaps they don’t have an internal brand ambassador program of any kind ( a what? ), and they are terrified at the very THOUGHT of giving employees online freedom and autonomy. Consider ways to expand editorial placements with personal branding campaigns for c-suite leadership and your subject matter experts !

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5W PR

MAY 10, 2021

Public relation professionals utilize data and facts to influence public perception about an individual, company, or brand. Proof of PR campaigns. ? Proof of PR Campaigns. It’s not easy to measure the results of a public relations campaign that you conducted orally through a news channel. Bottom Line of Data in PR.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Photo courtesy of Pixabay Over the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world of marketing by storm as it has emerged as a powerful, rapidly evolving tool for automating content creation and other marketing-related tasks. And we’re all feeling the pressure to embrace these tools. billion in 2021.

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The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

New tool ‘Automated Insights’ could be a game-changer for our future PR work-flows. Watch our video to find out how to make your PR coverage more visible on Google. Use this tool to take any PDF and make it editable in powerpoint. Free tool: visualise multi-channel reports in Google Analytics.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2023

Television , with its visual storytelling capabilities and wide viewership, remains a powerful tool for conveying messages to a mass audience. The captivating nature of television programming attracts viewers, allowing PR pros to deliver impactful narratives and brand stories that resonate.

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