The Proactive Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Frame your PR measurement around the goals of the business or campaign and keep track of your results. Data and measurement has become an integral part of PR reporting today. Nonprofits probably have different success measures: donations, funding or other support may be their priority. PR Measurement Tips.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Rather than simply provide MQLs, they are responsible for driving measurable customer acquisition and sales. However, for those brands and clients looking for deeper measurement, it’s essential to work with a PR partner capable of exploring the impact of media placements – and using it inform future strategy. WHAT’S MEASURABLE.

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Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2024, solo public relations professionals must adeptly navigate the digital landscape, leveraging data-driven strategies while contending with economic challenges. Tools like Google Analytics, BuzzSumo, and Brandwatch offer in-depth insights into audience behaviors and trends.

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Cision

JUNE 1, 2017

The only way a PESO model can give PR pros a seat at the executive table is to measure, measure, measure. Without measuring your PESO activities’ effectiveness, you don’t know where to focus. What publications are bombing with our audience? Here’s a starting point for your measurement activities.

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The Proactive Report

MAY 1, 2017

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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Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The impact of AI on public relations is set to be transformative for public relations practice,­­­­ but it will demand updated practitioner capabilities. We have almost certainly underestimated the medium to long-term impact of AI on public relations. It was rapidly followed by Anthropic Claude 2 and Google Bard.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Last week, SHIFT and NATIONAL Public Relations (SHIFT’s parent company) had the honor of representing the public relations world at the Measurement For Growth Google Analytics™ Certified Partner Summit. How often do you use Google Maps (or equivalent traffic and mapping apps) on your daily commute?

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2024

Yet a new study by Bain and Google brings something new to the conversation. The results suggest there are three marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than their peers: they experiment with marketing often, they think about marketing measurement more and they do more marketing in-house. >>>

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Prohibition

APRIL 18, 2023

Measuring the success of your PR activity can be difficult, as results are often more tricky to quantify than traditional advertising and marketing campaigns. So how do you measure the success of your PR efforts? Working with PR experts can help you achieve maximum coverage in your target publications to portray your key messages.

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The Proactive Report

MAY 1, 2017

If you, like many other PR folk, are still a bit in the dark about how to set goals for a PR campaign, what to measure and how to track success, we;ve created a new PR Measurement Dashboard in Google Analytics. You can download and use the PR Measurement Dashboard. A workbook to help you figure out what to measure.

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The Proactive Report

APRIL 12, 2018

What News Release Measurement Used to Be. Back in 2011 news distribution service, Businesswire, asked 280 PR practitioners with this question: “What is the most important measure of press release success?”. How to measure News Releases in 2018. Measuring Earned Media. Use Google Trends to see this graph.

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PRSay

APRIL 23, 2024

When trying to demonstrate the value of their work, “One of the biggest challenges that PR professionals have is that we measure outputs instead of outcomes,” Gini Dietrich said. When we looked at the model in 2020, we realized there were things in it like Google+ and Vine that no longer existed,” she said. “We It is amazing.”

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 13, 2016

“Without standardization of measurement practices in the PR industry, Public Relations professionals won’t know how to quantify a campaign’s impact. One theme has become clear, however: measurement is getting more refined, and audience engagement and response carries the most weight. It’s free.

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The Resolution Blog

MAY 24, 2017

The award winners are all leading the way in modern PR measurement but when we saw that Smoking Gun PR from Manchester, UK won two awards we had to get in touch and find out their secrets. Great evaluation case of an original PR campaign and a good example of how research can help define and measure outputs and outreach.”

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Onclusive

MAY 24, 2017

In layman’s terms, Fletcher’s work allows us to solve a pretty itchy problem: the problem of proper PR measurement. Gaining a stronger understanding of the data science behind PRTech can show you how PR data is harnessed to help you achieve your public relations and communications goals. Articles in their raw form aren’t measurable.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Integration with Google Analytics for referrals. Google Analytics (GA) can tell PR how much referral traffic is coming from earned media mentions.

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The Resolution Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

But, despite it being a big no-no, it has been a struggle to shake it off completely simply because we haven’t found another way to measure the monetary value of coverage. Let us introduce G-AVE (or, in layman terms, Google Advertising Equivalent Value). not just the publications you’ve managed to secure coverage in.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 23, 2020

A study shows PR and communications can improve measurement with a little more effort; here’s a look at the metrics most commonly cited Measurement and proving value is the top challenge facing PR and communications , according to the 3 rd annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020. So, how are communicators leveling up?

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

During our INBOUND15 talk on How to Measure the Value of PR in the 21st Century, one audience member raised this fascinating question: “How do you measure understanding, and where does it fit in the PR funnel?” In Google Analytics, three metrics hint at understanding. Site search usage. How often is site search used?

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2015

I can prove it to you now with Google Trends. Now we have our example campaign let’s get started: Go to Google and search for ‘Trends’ & click on Google Trends at the top of the results. You can also add additional search terms to look for correlation in how the public searched. An example.

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The Resolution Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

So many PR measurement gurus talk about the benefits of Google Analytics. Once you do you can measure how well you're doing. Let’s start with the basics: See if your online coverage drove traffic: Fire up Google Analytics for your site or client you’re working on. Cmon Google. Ask for report access.

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The Resolution Blog

JULY 20, 2017

You can get answers to this stuff with Google Analytics. In my experience many PR teams (both in-house and agency) just don’t get given access to Google Analytics accounts. If XX site has Google analytics set-up we would like to use a tool called AnswerTheClient.com. An email template to ask for Google Analytics access.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 14, 2019

Measuring results begins with the discovery process where you identify the problems they are trying to solve and agree on how you will track the solutions you propose. What you measure and report on will vary depending on the client, but there are guidelines that will apply to all. This is a key element of PR measurement.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We talk a lot about measuring PR on this blog and as a reader, you know that not all PR tactics directly impact the bottom line. If you don’t already have measurement tools and dashboards in place, these questions commonly asked by clients and brand management alike can be a good indicator that it’s well past time to get started.

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The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When we created coveragebook.com, our aim was to try and gain the most accurate impact measurement as possible for online PR coverage so we felt; Views. Google influence. Link count within PR coverage is another key element to measurement. Social interaction. would be the perfect mix for the modern PR professional.

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Shift Communications

JULY 18, 2016

Public relations professionals often make mention of the concepts of earned, owned, and paid media. Ignoring paid media is a capital mistake; doing so ignores a body of strategies and tactics which complement and enhance the power of earned media and public relations. Advertising Measurement. Measurement Pre-Requisites.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While this is increasingly self-evident, many brands continue to struggle with how to measure the effectiveness of their digital PR campaigns. There are several different metrics brand managers, digital PR pros, and marketing reps can use to measure the performance of a digital marketing campaign. Brand Mentions. Site Traffic.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Public relations and data analytics used to be worlds apart. In the old days, most PR measurement consisted of soliciting opinions directly through surveys and indirectly by measuring behaviors based on opinions, like buying or voting. Measurement focused on outputs instead of outcomes, or efforts simply went unmeasured.

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The Proactive Report

AUGUST 8, 2015

Of all the new digital skills PR pros need to learn, measurement is perhaps the most important. Unless you know what to measure, and how to measure it, you’ll never be able to show the value of your work. Measurement is the path to a bigger budget. It is a numbers game. Don’t miss this chat.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. Want to accurately measure PR?

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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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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

So, I consulted Google Trends. The service enables customers to convert “their press release from PR Newswire into a digital media asset that can be…placed across paid publications.”. The market for public relations platforms is estimated to have grown 15% in 2021 to $5.5 You can the results nearby. Cision US Inc.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

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Onclusive

JULY 7, 2021

That’s why it’s important to measure whether your messaging is resonating—internally and externally with stakeholders including employees, management, customers, partners and the media—and how your messaging is influencing actions. Measure how much. SOUNDBITE PERFORMANCE: Why message resonance is important. Your message matters.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 10, 2019

It’s a powerful example of modern marketing and public relations. A growing third-party tool market exists to monitor conversations in the public area of the web and networks such as Twitter. There’s an over reliance on Twitter for insight in marketing and public relations because it is easily accessible and in its native form is free.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We’ve discussed on this blog before how to use a data-driven approach to drafting a pitch , but when that pitch turns into a great piece of coverage for your client, there are data-driven strategies you can take to measure the success of the hit. Step 1: Ask for access. Step 3: Check for links.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

First up: PR measurement lets communicators speak the language of the boardroom. As public relations evolves to include data analysis that measures campaign results, communicators might be reluctant to embrace these new tools that have not traditionally been part of the profession. 17 livestream on PRSA’s LinkedIn page.

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