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#measurePR Recap (April 2017): Measuring Financial Communications

Waxing UnLyrical

The April #measurePR chat fell the Thursday before Tax Day, so Shonali invited some of PR’s best financial communications pros with measurement advice for everyone—from those just starting out to seasoned pros. The next question went right to the heart of the specialized worlds of investor relations (IR) and financial comms.

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How to Measure the Quality of Your Content

The Proactive Report

Can you measure the quality of your content? The quality of writing and visuals is very subjective. For example, a financial services firm was eager to reach women over 45 in a specific area who are interested in financial planning and retirement. So how do you know if your efforts are working?

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Building a perfect pitch? The story is in the data

Onclusive

Savvy communicators know that there is more to a perfect pitch than simply good writing, and media relations is not just about distributing these stories to the media. This means that pitching must start with the right data and end with measurement. Earning their attention. The post Building a perfect pitch?

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Sales, Pods and Audiobooks: 14 Months On, How’s That UK Financial Independence Book Doing?

ZudePR

On 21 August 2018 I published the first book to translate the US financial independence movement to a UK context. (It’s Well, I am here to report that it’s not died on its ass (what a quintessentially British measure of success, David). It’s important to keep a praise file when you write a bestselling book.

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Plain Language Usually Wins 

Sword and the Script

For example, I’ve been writing a monthly summary of the news from PR technolog y vendors for more than three years now. According to a piece in the Harvard Business Review : “ A landmark experiment by Kristina Rennekamp , an accounting professor at Cornell, documented some of the consequences of poor corporate writing.

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Executive Leadership: Shifting Focus from Outside to Inside

PRSay

As senior-level PR and marketing professionals, we’ve spent much of our careers focusing on appearances — helping clients make decisions about what they should say, wear, do, sell, promote and write. Executive leadership begins, though, with looking on the inside.

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How do you solve a problem like proving the value of public relations to management?

Stephen Waddington

Foster was speaking at the International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) Summit in Vienna. Arun Sudhaman writing in PRovoke urged public relations practitioners not to forget the lessons of the past two years. The public relations function had a good COVID-19 pandemic.

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