Shift Communications

JANUARY 4, 2016

In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. We marketers and communicators have killed the infographic. Nearly 20,000 times per day – and in a sampling of those tweets, they’re almost entirely from marketers. Christopher S.

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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. Simply put, attribution shows how PR efforts are helping a company achieve its business objectives.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The MarTech and AdTech revolutions have forever changed the way marketers work and measure their success. The methods they use to attribute business achievements and even revenue back to marketing efforts have given birth to bigger budgets and new skills. Fortunately, we now have two major tools at our fingertips: data and insights.

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Also, it allows professionals to employ the right PR strategies when it matters most. Now that we are in the fourth quarter of 2023, it’s time to ask yourself if your PR strategy is up-to-date with the latest pr trends and technology. Today, companies expect more from their PR departments.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. Heck, just keeping up with the news is a challenge, never mind closing the gap on technological skill sets you need to execute effectively. So, how in this wave of ever changing technology do we keep our heads above water here at SHIFT?

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Certainly, you can look downfunnel and see how many closed deals you’re getting in your sales CRM, but if your website is broken or your retail staff are surly, you may not see the results you want no matter how good your PR is. Vice President, Marketing Technology. For that, we’ll turn to our stalwart, Google Analytics.

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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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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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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. In this post, we’ll explore numerous free tools readily accessible at our fingertips across the world-wide-web. along with post content data. Wikipedia Top 25 Report. Google Trends.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

petabytes of data. The data available to PR professionals and marketers today has the potential to answer so many questions, but the problem is: lots of people don’t know what to do with the data they have. Collecting and analyzing data doesn’t have to mean combing through pages upon pages of spreadsheets.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Measuring the the success of programs by the numbers is quickly becoming the standard in PR and marketing with access to so much data. The trouble with having lots of data is determining which to use and how to determine the metrics of success. The book then covers objectives, channels, KPIs, and tools.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Google Data Studio™ made a splash when it was first revealed to Google Partners in 2015 as a potential solution for client reporting and dashboards. 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.

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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. Let’s parallel that to PR and marketing. Vice President, Technology Business Development East Coast.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the spring of 2015, SHIFT launched its cutting-edge Marketing Technology Immersion (MTI) program to help the agency develop a better understanding of SHIFT’s data-driven approach to communications and client services. We Have a Marketing Technology Team For a Reason. Establish Client Goals First.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Thanks to technologies like cloud computing, ubiquitous Internet access, mobile devices, and machine learning, the pace of change will only increase. As the dominant form of communication becomes rich – meaning audio and video – the PR profession is at serious risk of missing key trends if tools and vendors fail to adapt.

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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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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

APRIL 1, 2016

April 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Cloud-based computing and artificial intelligence represent the future of content creation, distribution, public relations, and marketing. SHIFT Vice President of Marketing Technology Christopher Penn said, “HAROLD provides SHIFT with limitless scale. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? Public relations is a tool for building awareness and trust. PR Isn’t Sales. Public relations is not a tool for selling things. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

With a little training on how to view baseline metrics, the tool can do wonders for a PR program and a PR professional. And here content syndication, another marketing tool to amplify eyeballs of earned media placements, steps in to boost ROI further. Analytics Marketing Technology analytics'

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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. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Using tools like Facebook’s Crowdtangle social monitoring platform, we digested over a million tweets. Some observations we noted: Marketing and PR aren’t making significant use of the new character limits. Vice President, Marketing Technology. B2B technology. Consumer technology. Methodology.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Imagine what a timesaver this will be for companies as they tackle GDPR compliance in the next year, one of the most important changing regulations in marketing and advertising. Every industry will need data scientists; every company will need access to data scientists or data science tools in order to remain competitive.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A second major area of focus for the CDO is data governance, especially with massive changes coming to data regulation such as GDPR. IBM SVP James Kavanaugh explained that three pillars were required to drive maximum value from digital transformation efforts: Agile technology infrastructure, to better adapt to changes.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

While the ultimate goal of marketing is to transform members of said audience into a more deeply interested group – one willing to engage and potentially do business with us. In this post, discover how to optimize your media efforts for all three levels of the marketing funnel. Senior Marketing Strategist. Lisa Zanchi.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

An astonishing amount of mindshare has been devoted to influencer marketing this year. Interest in influencer marketing is at all-time highs, and based on Google searches for the topic, there’s little indication that interest will flag. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

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. As such, we must ensure our data is in compatible formats so that as little conversion/manipulation is required prior to import.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Public relations, a communication-driven field, can and will continue to benefit from this futuristic tool. By definition, it’s the “statistical discipline of predicting what’s likely to happen based on existing data.” How Does Predictive Analytics Apply to PR? Marketing Analyst. What is Predictive Analytics?

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Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

In 2015, Google released its Customer Journey to Online Purchase insights tool and there was much rejoicing. Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. What if a company’s data doesn’t exactly map to the generic model? Chel Wolverton.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

First, in any reputable SEO tool, we’ll find a list of searches by month for our brand and many variations on it: We keep a monthly log of branded non-negative searches broadly from SEO tools, to judge how effective we are at reaching the overall audience, whether or not they click on any search results. Measure What Matters.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

” when you read about the emergence of a new technology, a new tool, a new idea. We discovered GDELT, while powerful, isn’t ready for the average PR practitioner to use. Querying the multi-terabyte database requires the use of tools like Google BigQuery. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? For those brands and professionals who do not engage machine learning technologies in their work, they will see their relative share of voice decline. Dark Social and Influence. However, we also see the content shockwave at play here.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Predicting PR Job Searches. Using our predictive analytics tools, we forecast that the time when jobseekers in the PR industry will be most active in all of 2018 will be the week of January 14, 2018: Above, the forecast for the search term “public relations jobs”. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s becoming more fashionable to claim that your PR and marketing is “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean? It means we evaluate our situation honestly, using the most unbiased tools at our disposal. This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2015

A citizen analyst is more than his data, more than her tools. Anyone can regurgitate data. And tools can give us the major points in our story, a rundown of what’s happened. Our role is not to explain what happened, as tools like IBM’s Watson Analytics can do that quite capably. But they are not insightful.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

s team should arm themselves with the proper media monitoring tools to help cull coverage and track the conversation, enabling the execution team to react to course changes in real-time. Sysomos is a tool that can be used to track online discussions around specific terms and phrases associated with the crisis. Now that G.W.

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