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Data-Driven PR Campaign Planning: Part 1

Onclusive

An impactful PR campaign can attract positive media attention and influence brand awareness, reputation and sales for your brand for years to come. However, to generate that level of clout, PR campaigns require more than just a press release, media outreach or fundraising event.

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Data-Driven PR Campaign Planning: Part 2

Onclusive

Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign. Measuring the performance of your key soundbytes should be an essential part of your ongoing PR evaluation efforts.

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How to Empower Data-Driven PR Leaders

Onclusive

Last month, AirPR Chief Strategy Officer Rebekah Iliff moderated a webinar panel for CommPRO on empowering data-driven PR professionals. She led a discussion about the traits of the successful PR leader of tomorrow with panelists Jennefer Witter of The Boreland Group, Julia Monti of Mastercard, and KayAnn Schoeneman of Ketchum. Industry Insights & Trends data-driven PR future of PR future of public relations PR leadership public relations leadership

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What is Data-Driven PR? Part 1 of 9

Shift Communications

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. Many PR practitioners rely on intuition, experience, or informal qualitative practices to make decisions. What It Means to Be Data-Driven.

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The Growth PR Playbook

PR and communications now rely on data-driven, real-time, iterative storytelling with metrics that help to manage crises, get ahead of the competition, and impact the bottom line. Learn how to build a Growth PR plan in this Onclusive whitepaper.

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Introducing Dashboards and enhanced reporting tools to usher in a new era of data-driven PR

Muck Rack

Introducing Dashboards and enhanced reporting tools to usher in a new era of data-driven PR

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What Is Data-Driven PR, Part 2: Question Development

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Data Data-Driven PR Public Relations

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 6: Analysis

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Identifiable variables and data sources.

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 3: Defining Data

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Defining Data. Data Sources.

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Adapting to a Data-Driven PR World

Cision

Today more than ever before, communication professionals have the ability to understand their audiences and the channels and messaging that will engage them…and it’s all thanks to data. Data provides brands insights that inform their campaigns and strategies and show what’s working and what isn’t. But this shift to data-driven insights has not been entirely smooth. “PR PR has a strong disregard for data,” says MindShare UK social media head Mat Morrison. “It

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 4: Hypothesizing

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Isn’t data the basis of data-driven PR?

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Embracing the Data-Driven PR Future (And Math)

Shift Communications

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. To explore why this is important, let’s look at an example of how data helps PR get press for clients. Her team receives the data and then releases a study or white paper detailing any notable trends in her client’s industry.

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 5: Testing

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Data Data-Driven PR Public Relations

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 7: Refinement

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. What if we looked at our data more granularly?

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 8: Crafting the Pitch

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Crafting the Data-Driven Pitch.

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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 9: Pitching With Data

Shift Communications

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. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. How to Pitch a Data-Driven Pitch with… Data!

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Data-Driven PR Milestone: SHIFT Becomes Google Analytics Certified Partner

Shift Communications

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. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR. Our platform of choice to help our clients make PR impactful is Google Analytics™.

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Use data-driven PR to boost authority—and media mentions

PR Daily

Journalists have embraced data journalism. The fondness for stories backed by thorough research offers PR teams juicy opportunities. Communicators can land media placements by crafting stories based on data and by producing evidence-based copy that journalists crave. With public trust at record-low levels, data-fueled PR is an effective strategy for gaining media mentions and promoting an organization’s message. Data for the post-truth era.

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3 Multi-Touch Attribution Models for a Data-Driven PR Strategy

Cision

Data-driven PR may sound like a foreign language, but it’s not as complicated as we often make it out to be. As a result, more data needs to be sifted and analyzed to pinpoint which efforts are succeeding and why. Don’t let the volume of data overwhelm you. Instead, make data your friend. Multi-touch attribution models provide PR professionals with insights by evaluating all touch points.

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PRTech Is Evolving. Is Your PR Strategy?

Deirdre Breakenridge

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. Equally as important is analyzing campaign data after it has run its course so that those findings can inform future work i.e., once you’ve garnered media hits, it’s then time to uncover the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the work.

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3 Best Practices For Using Data In B2B PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Media love data. As most PR people know, data offers a powerful news hook in a way that even a product launch or partnership often doesn’t. It can easily feed a story to make it stronger, and data-driven stories can easily be made visual, which adds to their appeal. For B2B companies, this presents a massive PR opportunity. Data-driven coverage can establish a brand as a category expert or leader. Your data only goes so far.

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Top Data-Driven PR Trends of 2016: Interactive Infographics

Shift Communications

In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. Click to view the live infographic and work with the data. Audiences can slice and dice data to find the information they care about most. What does it take for PR teams and organizations to create interactive infographics such as these? They typically require a data analyst to gather, clean, and prepare the data for visualization.

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How to Make Your Brand More 'Data-ble'

Cision

Data-driven PR, social listening and your brand. US Blog

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Building the Plane Mid-Flight: SHIFT’s New Website

Shift Communications

The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect. We are not only the first and only PR agency to stake a claim as a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are doing stuff with data behind the scenes that is wowing us, and our clients, with everything from influencer identification to advanced ROI calculations. We’re also well on our way to embedding at least one data jockey on every Agency team.

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How to Get Comfortable With Data Even If You Don’t Love Math

Deirdre Breakenridge

A Guest Post By Kelly Byrd, PR Engineer, AirPR. With the growth of PRTech options for Big Data tracking and measurement, a knowledge of and comfort with that science has become imperative for leading PR professionals. Being an employee of AirPR , I strongly believe that thoughtful use of data is essential to success. All this Big Data may seem like it’d be a big pain if you’re not a well-versed analytics user, but that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Why CEOs Should Invest in PR Attribution and PR Measurement

Onclusive

So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR? PR and marketing convergence. What smart marketers learned using MarTech and Marketing automation was that their online videos, ads, and email marketing campaigns perform better when integrated with a strong, holistic PR and content marketing strategy. Digital communications attracts and engages customers: What is the New PR? Social media is a game changer, and it starts with PR and communications.

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How to Research Industry Trends Hassle-Free

Shift Communications

The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. Well, first it’s a free media monitoring tool and while other tools may give more analytical data about coverage, they also can eat into a budget. While Twitter isn’t the center of attention when it comes to social media platforms these days, it is the most transparent with its data. along with post content data.

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Beets, Tomatoes…Big Data?

Shift Communications

The chefs are faced with only the data the ingredients provide and their own intuition. First, we observe and take data and insights we find from our “ingredients,” and then we make something cohesive out of seemingly unrelated odds and ends – our finished meal, so to speak. The chefs grab their beets and lamb; we collect our data. As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. So what comes next after the data collections?

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. The 2018 PR Mega-Trends. Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. PR Professionals Blindsided by Rich Media. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully.

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IBM Vision: The Future of AI and Public Relations

Shift Communications

We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. 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. The Data Science Shortage. Data science faces an enormous labor shortage. Public relations will be impacted by data science in several ways.

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How Data-Driven Storytelling Drives PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

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. What we call a “data bureau” – the ongoing release of fresh and relevant information as part of a B2B PR program – can generate strong media interest in the absence of hard news. 5 reasons to embrace data-driven PR. Data-driven pitches win points with journalists.

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Using Google Analytics to Inform your B2B Tech PR Program

Shift Communications

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. We’ve discussed on this blog before how to use a data-driven approach to drafting a pitch , but when that pitch turns into a great piece of coverage for your client, there are data-driven strategies you can take to measure the success of the hit.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

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. The Impact of PR. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. There’s nothing wrong with quantitative data, especially if you want to answer the question, “ what happened? ”. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.

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How To Reach Top-Tier Influencers on PR Budgets

Shift Communications

Given these potential complications, how might we leverage our public relations capabilities to align with or reach influencers on more traditional PR budgets and messaging? This is a modern twist on an age-old PR strategy: by creating awareness in publications that our target audiences read, we help our companies and clients grow. The best PR professionals will never deliver impact if they land great hits in the wrong publications.

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The State of the Press Release in 2015

Shift Communications

The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR. First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Disclosure: The press release sampled data comes from the Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire domains and was collected for the period 1/1/15 to 9/30/15. Data-Driven PR Press Release press release

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The Citizen Analyst Manifesto, Part 1: Introduction

Shift Communications

In the same vein as the citizen journalist democratized media, the citizen analyst is empowered to do independent analysis of publicly available data. Instead of relying on third party analysis in the news, a citizen analyst can pick up the source data and find an answer for themselves, then work with a citizen journalist to shed light on the truth. Our profession is becoming more data-driven by the day; our world is becoming more data-driven.

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How to Build a Data-Driven Public Speaking Program

Shift Communications

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. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-driven PR program. Build influence in advance of and at an event by identifying who you should be talking with and what you should be talking about through the use of data.

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Should you stop using hashtags in social media content?

Shift Communications

This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven approach. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Marketing Social Media StrategyDo hashtags matter? Should social media managers be skipping the hashtag? Before we dig in, a bit on our methodology.

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Opinion Out, Data In

Shift Communications

We trust our guts (and have an implicit bias) that our brilliant idea will work best to meet our marketing goals, rather than trusting the data to suggest what will and won’t work. The solution is simple: opinion out, data in. To make data-driven PR work, we must rely on data, not opinion or instinct, to make decisions and come up with ideas that lead us to success. We start with data from past campaigns, past events and past goals.

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Why automated sentiment analysis is broken and how to fix it

Shift Communications

If you have hours or even days before reporting is due, then perform a human-driven sampled sentiment analysis. Using the data analysis tool of your choice, understand the size of the data you’re dealing with, then calculate how many samples you’ll need to examine. For example, let’s say you’re looking at Twitter data about Starbucks during the last week. Analytics Data Data-Driven PR Metrics Public Relations

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