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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.

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Adapting to a Data-Driven PR World

Cision

Sites like PRSA , PRWeek , AMEC and Cision offer informative resources that can guide communicators on everything from which metrics to use to how to implement them. An Abundance of Data. There is more data available to communicators today than there ever has been. But all that data can be overwhelming.

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How to Research Industry Trends Hassle-Free

Shift Communications

Why is this important and how does it impact the bottom line? For starters, we’ll explore not only why we should be dedicating time and resources to research industry trends but also how to do it completely hassle-free. Don’t just perform traditional PR, use data-driven PR ! Lisa Zanchi.

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How to measure the quality of your audience

Shift Communications

I’ve downloaded my list, randomized it in spreadsheet software, and then sampled the first 50 or so people: Here, I’m at roughly a 40% on-target audience. The post How to measure the quality of your audience appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency | Boston | New York | San Francisco. Christopher S.

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How To Reach Top-Tier Influencers on PR Budgets

Shift Communications

How To Find Influencer Media. How might we go about determining this? Using custom-built software, we extract out the publications from this corpus of links to find what catches our influencers’ eyes and compels them to share. Fortunately, our influencers have already done the hard work for us by sharing what they read.

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New SHIFT Webinar: Getting Started with Google Data Studio™

Shift Communications

It’s now available to marketers and communicators globally, and it’s a potent new tool for the data-driven PR practitioner, communicator, or marketer. Learn what Data Studio is, how it works, and how to build your first dashboard in our new, free on-demand webinar. What is Data Studio?

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{PR}edict: Predictive Analytics and the Future of PR, Part 2

Shift Communications

As such, if our data is corrupted, filled with junk, or flat-out wrong, our predictions will simply magnify these errors. To prepare for predictive analytics, we must clean our data as best as possible. Compatible Data. Most predictive analytics software and systems are based on open-source libraries and technologies.