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. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. This is a core challenge of data-driven 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

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Fortunately, in the age of social media and digital marketing, we have more tools and resources than ever to understand our audiences, to know how we’re doing. In this example below, how are we doing? To do this, we’ll repeat the same exercise by opening up either a marketing automation system or an email marketing system.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015?

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Cision

JULY 2, 2015

Data measurement is the only way to ensure your business succeeds now and in the future. But as companies start to integrate more involved social media marketing strategies, the number of digital touch points increases, complicating the once simple customer journey and creating more data to analyze and understand.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

At this year’s Social Media Success Summit, I had the opportunity to teach an advanced marketing and communications analytics session. One of the ideas I shared was looking beyond just the data that comes out of the box from tools like Google Analytics, Facebook insights, etc. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

Contrary to popular belief, PR is measurable given the vast amounts of data that are now available to us. Companies such as Iris PR and Vidyard are giving PR professionals and communications experts data sets and analytics tools that help them understand which messages are resonating with customers and prospects.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The world seems awash in data with trends like IoT, wearables and big data dominating the headlines. For a B2B marketer, these headlines can feel very consumer oriented and likely not relevant. That approach, although understandable on the surface, misses a number of undercurrents that B2B marketers will start to encounter.

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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. In the planning stages, you will want to confirm with your B2B tech clients what is considered a win for the PR program.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

In my last post , I covered what for me was a particularly egregious misuse of marketing technology, when a bot promoted a white paper with “Fear and Loathing” in the title on the 10 th anniversary of the suicide of Hunter S. Data-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. But creative thinking is the fuel.

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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. So, what measurable trait helps us determine the effectiveness of PR? The Most Important Metric in PR Today is Branded Non-Negative Search. Measure What Matters. Our brand name is in the search.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It’s a brochure, a cultural touchpoint and an ideal place for not only aggregating content in one spot but also for measuring how effective your efforts have been in wooing prospects to check out your offerings. The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

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. Measurement. What’s the goal?

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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

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. In this post, discover how to optimize your media efforts for all three levels of the marketing funnel. HOW TO BEST MEASURE YOUR PR SUCCESS.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

Marketers, PR Pros, and Advertisers are in a daily battle to remove opinion from decision making and tactical execution. For example, analyzing top-performing posts within an industry will uncover apparent trends. How can all of this be measured and analyzed? The Solution. SHIFT has the solution: SCALE.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. 1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR?

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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. Example words which flag as positive sentiment include like, love, enjoy, etc. Example words which flag as positive sentiment include like, love, enjoy, etc. Here’s another example.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Once we start working with data sets with lots of different variables, many rows, many columns, we lose the ability to discern patterns and connections. We see hidden correlations at work with very large phenomena like weather and the stock market. To find the truth in our data, we must keep going, keep digging.

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Onclusive

MARCH 17, 2021

Many in the industry agree and acknowledge that PR/Communications as an organization is way behind in adopting data-driven ways compared to their colleagues in marketing, finance, customer service or human resources as an example. Why this roadblock shows up?

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

However, one area where video-minded PR professionals fall short is how to measure the success of video communications. The old way of measuring video success was simple, if ineffective: how many views did our video receive? The Video Communications Measurement Funnel. Video Impact Can Be Measured! The Old Way.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

AI Integration in Daily Tasks According to the latest annual McKinsey Global Survey on the State of AI , the most commonly reported uses of generative AI tools are in marketing and sales, product and service development and service operations. 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

AI Integration in Daily Tasks According to the latest annual McKinsey Global Survey on the State of AI , the most commonly reported uses of generative AI tools are in marketing and sales, product and service development and service operations. Data-driven PR Data-driven PR uses analytics to guide PR strategies.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

For instance, in the past, a number of companies were used to having separate public relations departments internally, but these days, those departments are divided into public relations and marketing and both departments have shared responsibilities, especially in terms of any potential negative responses from the customers.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

One of the most common PR measurement questions we receive is, “What is the value of an impression?” Why do we measure impressions? For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on my commute to work. Here’s a simple way to do so: measure how often people search for you by name.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One of the most common PR measurement questions we receive is, “What is the value of an impression?” Why do we measure impressions? For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on the commute to work. Here’s a simple way to do so: measure how often people search for you by name.

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