Shift Communications

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.

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Onclusive

MARCH 26, 2021

What a few years it’s been for Public Relations. Although PR and communications have always been and will always be about telling company and brand stories and managing reputation, the ways of creating, controlling, and amplifying those stories, in addition to how and when success is best measured, has shifted.

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Onclusive

APRIL 15, 2020

This is a continuation of our April blog series focused on helping communications teams get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. One of these principles explicitly states that “AVEs are not the value of communications.”.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Some public relations professionals have said they entered the field to avoid complex math. As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity.

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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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Today, PR strategy is often informed by data insights. PR teams use data tools and platforms to glean patterns and insight from media coverage, measure audience engagement, and quantify campaign performance. It’s a professional love that fuels personal growth and success and deepens connections in the industry.

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

There’s a laundry list of myths about public relations jobs, one of which is that PR jobs are glamorous. That said, here are 10 PR industry job trends, including some data sourced from the U.S. As of 2014, public relations professionals filled roughly 240,000 jobs. is the top-paying district for PR.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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. This method of measurement does not tie back to business objectives and these softer metrics often do not resonate with the C-Suite.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As part of the AMEC Measurement Week, I’ve been asked to prepare some quick thoughts on how to explain PR metrics to stakeholders and executives. Who should be measured by sales of pies? So Grandpa’s work isn’t without value or quantifiable measurement. How would you measure and quantify that? It’s important.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

One of the core tenets of effective public relations is building the right audience. You don’t need to be as popular as Taylor Swift in order for PR to deliver real results to the bottom line as long as you have the right audience. Do this exercise with your own data! Do you have the right audience? Christopher S.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In a recent post , I suggested leveraging Nielsen’s research in order to create data-driven marketing and communications plans. That’s the front-end work every successful campaign entails, but the data cycle doesn’t end there. This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What’s ahead for the public relations profession amidst a world of disruption? In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. Disruption happens to industries measured in weeks and months rather than years or epochs. The Big Picture. Christopher S.

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

6 Important Trends In Public Relations To Pay Attention To 1. Data And Analytics In the past, many businesses did not measure the impact of their PR strategies. Most brands would publish press releases and other online content and rely on hunches to measure the results.

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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

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. This helps you measure how a campaign or individual piece of content performs. Want to know more?

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Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

We consider it one of our missions to help strip away the fear PR and communications strategists feel when their executives or clients ask for proof that what they’re doing is working. Being a good communicator doesn’t mean you can’t be data-driven. “We Why is this the case?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2016

This week’s roundup takes a look at common measurement mistakes, so you can avoid them before they cause your organization unnecessary headaches. Are You Making PR Measurement Mistakes? Measuring Mobile Marketing Requires Different Metrics. 4 Performance Measurement Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make.

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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. Measurement. However, many speakers still feel unprepared when facing an important event or talk. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017? Just in news publications alone, we saw an astonishing 72 million news stories written in 2016 according to Google News, an all-time high. Better to have 100 hits in trade publications, or 0.05% of the day’s news, than 1 hit in business press.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. PR grows more in demand. Public relations is HOT right now. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros.

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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

JUNE 12, 2017

One of the most common requests I’ve received in my work in public relations is, “ how do we connect our public relations efforts to business results? ”. This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? PR Isn’t Sales.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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 post How to Use Analytics to Build Your 2015 Marketing Plan appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco.

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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. Public relations creates mindshare.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 3, 2015

For the general sports fan, statistics and data have been making their way into the mainstream for some time, similar to how online has brought measurement to marketing in a new way over the past 5+ years. The post Are PR and Marketing Entering the Moneyball II Era? Vice President, Technology Business Development East Coast.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They are most concerned with data that falls into their marketing domain (email, web traffic, social, earned media measurement) and feeding sales as much as possible. Your marketing department likely believes that it is making decisions using data in the best possible way.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

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. GOOGLE ANALYTICS 101: 5 METRICS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS. Here’s how. Lisa Zanchi.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Let’s look at the Spearman correlation between character length and engagement measures such as likes and retweets in the period of September 1-25, when no 280-character tweets were available: Above, we see no correlation between tweet length and likes/retweets. Media and publications. More isn’t better. Consumer technology.

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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. However, you may find that further technologies are needed for proper communications measurement.

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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. However, you may find that further technologies are needed for proper communications measurement.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Creating memorable media experiences through product trial has long been a staple of public relations for food & beverage and related brands. While product trials and demos can whet an editor’s appetite for a story, recipes are rich content that can both maximize PR campaigns and drive measurable business results in multiple ways.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

Naturally, this includes a review of the company’s goals to ensure the program is supportive, trends/topics the client should continue to own, what worked and what hasn’t during the program, and new metrics to measure success. What publications have driven the most traffic back to competitors’ websites? Amanda Munroe.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

How can all of this be measured and analyzed? SCALE is a cloud based software designed to close the data gap when analyzing how well content performs. The result is a comprehensive report of the most successful posts, calculated through quantitative and qualitative data. SHIFT has the solution: SCALE. The Application.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

SHIFT honed in on creating a way to choose a PR strategy based on visible, measurable criteria and a meta-strategic framework. The framework rests on pace and visibility, with pace referring to how fast conditions are changing in an industry, and voice referring to how well a message can be heard in the communications landscape.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

It’s one of the most engaging ways to communicate with an audience, and digital platforms are doubling down on video. However, one area where video-minded PR professionals fall short is how to measure the success of video communications. Let’s look at the video communications funnel today. The Old Way. The Old Way.

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