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What PR Teams Love Right Now: Valentine’s Day Edition

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Data-driven decisions hit the sweet spot Data-driven decision making has radically changed marketing, and its use in PR is more than a flirtation. Today, PR strategy is often informed by data insights.

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Advanced analytics: position, velocity, and acceleration

Shift Communications

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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Why PR Pros Need The New Google Analytics™ Demo Account

Shift Communications

The marketing and PR industry responded with a collective yawn. From our perspective as a Google Analytics™ Certified Partner, every marketing and PR professional should be jumping up and down with excitement. For training videos and webinars. Training Videos and Tutorials. Four reasons: For sales pitches.

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PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap

Shift Communications

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. We started to notice the move towards more widespread marketing technology adoption in our client base in the last 18 months. In order to arm our staff with the necessary skills we designed our Marketing Technology Immersion program.

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Top Public Relations Trends in 2018: Introduction

Shift Communications

As AI technology improves, reaching individuals at scale will be possible, and PR practitioners must adapt their integrated strategies to maximize success. Part 4: Search Marketing. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully. Influencer Marketing Train Keeps Picking Up Speed. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Connecting PR To Business Results

Shift Communications

If conversion is the problem, fix that with better sales training or better marketing. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. We cannot substitute quantitative data for the qualitative process of asking our customers why they behave the way they do.

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A Traditional PR Pro Take on Analytics

Shift Communications

Yes other PR peeps, I said it – analytics. 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. are also key.