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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.

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PRTech Is Evolving. Is Your PR Strategy?

Deirdre Breakenridge

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. What is it?

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Using Data from Google Tools to Boost Your PR Pitches

Shift Communications

As one of the only public relations agencies that is a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are always looking to see how we can use Google’s tools and programs to strengthen both our PR and marketing teams’ efforts. Here’s a quick overview of how each can help support your PR program. Casey Egan. Marketing Analyst.

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Public Relations Job Trends in Tech and Beyond

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For example, at AirPR it’s all about PR attribution; we show PR professionals exactly how much site traffic results from a specific article or blog post, and how those visitors are interacting and engaging on their websites. In the end, working in PR can be as challenging as it is rewarding.

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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.

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{PR}edict: Predictive Analytics and the Future of PR, Part 4

Shift Communications

There was a dependency we didn’t forecast that we should have known about; we certainly have weather data for the last 50 years and could have built models for a cold summer, an average summer, and a hot summer. Insufficient Engineering. The fourth circumstance in which predictive analytics go awry is in insufficient engineering.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

The difference between SEO and PR continues to blur as more SEO practitioners realize the need for human storytelling, and more PR practitioners quantify their work in SEO terms. This trend will only accelerate as search engines become ever more intelligent. Part 5: Social Media.

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