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The State of PR Measurement

The Proactive Report

At the PR News Measurement conference last week in Washington DC I was disappointed to discover that 70 percent of the attendees surveyed prior to the event had not heard of the Barcelona Principles. Here the other key findings from my survey: 74% are measuring their results. – don’t know what to measure.

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Measuring Results Across the Customer Journey

The Proactive Report

Measuring awareness. Measuring interest. In this part of the journey, you’re looking for return visits, downloads, time on site, video views and traffic to goal pages set up specifically for building interest. Measuring conversion. Measuring advocacy. Analytics comes into play once the content is out there.

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3 Digital Tools That Improve PR

The Proactive Report

The biggest advantage digital tools give us is the ability to track and analyze our work and show value from our results. The custom PR Measurement Dashboard in Google Analytics was created specifically to help PR practitioners get started with analytics and tracking the results of their work. Follow me on Twitter.

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Social Media Strategy Template

The Proactive Report

Download the PDF of the Social Media Strategy Template here. No wonder then that there is so much discussion about how to measure results and reluctance on the part of the CFO to fund programs that have no strategy or defined metrics. Set measurable goals that align with the overall business goals. Meritus Media Inc.,

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The Wildfire way of measurement in PR

Wildfire

So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. Back in the pre-digital era before we could track the most intricate of details of PR, that reputation was probably fair.

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PR Tips and Hacks for a Small Business

The Proactive Report

The PR campaign goal was to reach 10,000 women in this area with an annual income of more than $100,000 and create awareness of the company and their services. They created a Women’s Guide to Retirement Planning booklet – available for download. And they paid $500 a month for strategy and measurement.

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Social Media Strategy Template

The Proactive Report

Download the PDF of the Social Media Strategy Template here. No wonder then that there is so much discussion about how to measure results and reluctance on the part of the CFO to fund programs that have no strategy or defined metrics. Set measurable goals that align with the overall business goals. Meritus Media Inc.,