Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Making up Metrics I was recently on a conference call with a respected nternational measurement organization and a new member of the group was explaining how she’d been pressured by her CEO to put a dollar value on her efforts. “So There should be a special place in measurement hell for people who make up bad metrics.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. The resurgence of internal communications Internal communications is one of the hottest areas of contemporary PR. Time served is the typical measure of competence of PR.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 23, 2015

Janet Fouts , who founded Tatu Digital Media , read this post – Scale Content Marketing: Employees are the Secret – and invited me to a Google Hangout to discuss it (She previously produced The Friday Hangout , a regular weekly show with Steve Farnsworth and Adam Helweh ). How to Energize the Enterprise for Content Marketing.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We get that annual planning is a beast, and marketers everywhere are wrought with expectation and reporting woes. You need an actionable, original marketing plan —driven by purposeful planning and backed by data—to truly gain executive buy-in. 7 Tips & Tools for Marketing Strategy & Performance. Marketing team.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Our Measurement Vendor Selection Guide begins below. It is designed to be used along with Paine Publishing’s: 8 Quick Tips for Finding the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor Checklist for Picking the Perfect Communications Measurement Vendor , and No Bullsh*t PR Measurement Glossary for what’s what.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 20, 2021

She works for a B2B tech company that “doesn’t believe marketing” but she knows they need it desperately. And I don’t think any competent marketing expert that’s being honest can. If I threw all my effort and attention solely in her marketing problem, I could move the needle move a bit, but it would all be for naught.

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Presspage

JUNE 23, 2021

Internal communication flows It’s important to set up transparent information flows between team members. External communications Just like internal audiences, external ones – clients, partners, shareholders, and media – must receive the same core message, but tailored to their needs.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As the fall leaves change and a bit of Minnesota snow starts to appear, with it comes the next year of planning for corporate marketing, agency and communications professionals. As you begin your 2020 marketing planning and budgeting, consider these four tips: 1. Round 2: Updated forecast means updated marketing budget.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

But B2B businesses aren’t changing the way they plan and shape their marketing strategy quickly enough, and are left feeling the effects of staying behind the times. In fact, 47 percent of B2B marketers close less than four percent of marketing-generated leads. Measure to Learn. Plan to Succeed.

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Cision

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Nobody can deny that market share is a crucial metric for business success. When we marketers ignore it, we confuse shifts in industry demand with the results of our own actions. Still, market share obsession can also afflict us with a kind of tunnel vision. Focus On Your Core Market. Leverage the “Underdog Effect”.

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PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

This] is the year of power to the people,” says Valerie Di Maria, principal of the communications and marketing firm. Whether you are an impassioned employee or a socially conscious consumer, internal and external audiences are making their voices heard as never before.” Brands are beginning to over-rely on data and measurement.

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 20, 2016

It shows the continuing importance of intangible assets as a percentage of market value and how existing accounting rules have proved inadequate to report effectively on intangible assets and thus bridge the gap between market value and book value (which represents undisclosed intangibles).

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Every month when I go to write this PR technology summary, I’m surprised at just how many new tools and features are being brought to market. This month was no exception, and perhaps because many of the launches were timed with annual PRSA International Conference which wrapped up recently. What sort of data? This stuff is expensive.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The proliferation of marketing channels, apps, mobile devices, social networks, and content has given consumers more choices and greater control while increasing complexity for marketers. We want to help simplify and optimize the marketing planning process for your business. Step 1: Complete a marketing assessment.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For a B2B marketer, these headlines can feel very consumer oriented and likely not relevant. They are most concerned with data that falls into their marketing domain (email, web traffic, social, earned media measurement) and feeding sales as much as possible. Data is Just for Consumers and Science Projects, right?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 20, 2018

As the landscape stands today, I tend to be more bullish on augmented reality (AR) than virtual reality (VR) in B2B marketing. That fits more readily into the modern marketing and sales dynamic, which is still highly dependent on conversations and relationships. Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Video.

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Presspage

JUNE 23, 2021

Internal communication flows It’s important to set up transparent information flows between team members. External communications Just like internal audiences, external ones – clients, partners, shareholders, and media – must receive the same core message, but tailored to their needs. Metrics: New contacts added (measured monthly).

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2020

While a problem solver can be productive in almost any organizational structure, communicators often find themselves reporting up through marketing channels. Most respondents with communications or PR responsibilities report to the head of marketing (41%) according to the 3 rd annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 21, 2020

In the agency market there are opportunities that have been created by COVID-19. Work without boundaries Any market that previously relied on geographic proximity has been disrupted by COVID-19. Regional agencies have access to global markets and talented freelancers are building virtual teams to tackle projects.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Even conglomerates with million-dollar marketing budgets will fail if they disregard audience research. So, why do so many companies—from startups to enterprises—skimp on it? Content marketers often have difficulty getting executive buy-in for customer research. Best for: Companies with a tight marketing budget.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 27, 2017

What does it take to implement content marketing effectively in a B2B organization? It’s not an easy question to answer broadly because: a) every team has its own dynamics; b) every organization has constraints and limitations, and c) every vertical market has its own unique characteristics. 1) Hands on marketing leadership.

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

At times, working in a marketing department can feel like being on trial. HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound Marketing annual report asked marketing teams about their top challenges. The primary reason I’ve seen inbound marketing programs get squashed is not lack of resources, lack of data or lack of success, but lack of buy-in.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

At the same time public relations has become elevated as the eyes and ears of an organisation not just in the public sector as means of public engagement, but in corporate communications, internal communications, and marketing. The influencer marketing tool market is burgeoning. Tools serve two purposes in PR.

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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. 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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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketing conferences have shaped my top team memories. To share the knowledge wealth, below is my list of the 20 coolest marketing events in 2020 (coming to a venue somewhere in the U.S.). Social Media Marketing World. Discover the best social media marketing techniques from the world’s top experts.”. Tech industry.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 24, 2016

However described, PR and Marketing is awash is data. This mindset ignores more cutting edge analysis such as customer journeys, and even more “traditional” marketing funnel aspects related to PR. Data could uncover underperformance in key areas or significant blind spots that PR and Marketing “should” have identified.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2020

SM: I look at our challenges in two ways: internal and external. Internally, we were faced with disparate technology systems and metrics that made it hard to create a baseline and goals for our team. It’s not always as cut and dry as say, gathering leads and tracking them through to conversion like marketing.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. Sometimes you can use UTM tags to measure an incremental online action attributable to PR, but truly measuring behavior change (sales, votes, donations) is very difficult. Firmographics are like demographics about businesses.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Below is an excerpt from the new book, Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit , written by Joe Pulizzi ( @JoePulizzi ) and Robert Rose ( @Robert_Rose ). Does What We Know Hold Us Back in Marketing? In each case, some part of their marketing and/or sales process was broken.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s too much, too fast and too convenient for enterprises motivated by profit. to push real-time, actionable alerts to market-moving news as it breaks. Let’s say you’re a software company with dozens of competitors in each of your markets globally. Out of respect, yesterday, I did not publish. My instinct?

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 31, 2019

Copyright law will challenge monitoring market, landing pages and newsrooms, AI and jobs, this week’s Comms School, exploring half-baked ideas, and a research powerhouse. Campaign landing page and web newsroom tools Access to the corporate website is a battleground in large enterprise organisations. I’ve signed u ??

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Fraudulent press releases go out on two major wire services; IR comms platform Q4 has $100M IPO; internal comms tech strives to overcome email deluge; Innodata CEO talks up AI in Agility PR on an earnings call. The stock price jumps, and the bad actors sell the stock before the market realizes the news is fake.

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PRSay

JULY 6, 2016

Ninety-five percent of communicators measure their public relations efforts, but 53 percent list measurement as a top skills gap. When it comes to PR measurement, there are too many variables involved, and you’ll never be able to account for everything. So how best to understand the impact of your efforts and measure success?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2019

After working on Welcome to the Machine: A Primer on AI for Marketers (coming later this year), for almost a year now, I can offer you some quick insights that may help. Newer AI tools deployed by influencer marketing firms are taking engagement measurement a step further. Or worse, that AI will end civilization?

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Beyond PR

MARCH 1, 2018

These are questions that enterprise marketers and their communications agencies have been asking for generations. Seventy-five percent of communications professionals believe the industry must do a better job of measuring impact and proving value. The people doing the measurement say it needs to get better. Enter Impact.

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Media Measurement Enterprise Television 73

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

I asked co-founder and COO Jered Martin about pricing for the new model and here’s what he said: “We are launching our pricing plans starting in September and will offer four tiers: free, beginner, professional, and enterprise. There is little doubt Cision is the dominant player in the market today.

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