Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The phone has become an underused tool Double spaced press releases for edits and notes Printing at a dedicated workstation from disk, documents shared via hard copy Sharing a dial-up modem and email address between the whole office Photocopying, posting and faxing press releases Printing and collating press kits for an event An embargo was an embargo (..)

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PR is more measurable than ever. Today, the outcomes of a PR program are more measurable than they’ve ever been, thanks to a concerted effort by the industry, but also to digital tools. One digital business service has found that business profitability coincides almost perfectly with peaks in web analytics driven by earned media.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Many digital savvy marketers will point out in lieu of such a question, a variety of web metrics are inherently available through tagged-links, analytics and marketing automation. 5 Categories of PR Metrics Pros Should Measure. At a minimum the question ought to be asked: On every web registration form.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Brand Visibility in 2024 “The only thing I’d really be thinking about is, can I get my brand name next to more mentions of the words and phrases I want to be associated with all around the web.” Set measurable goals and start tracking right away. Rand Fishkin. Don’t wait till the end to discover that it didn’t work.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

PR is more measurable than ever. Today, the outcomes of a PR program are more measurable than they’ve ever been, thanks to a concerted effort by the industry, but also to digital tools. A glowing review (or unfortunate video interview) can blow up on social platforms in the time it takes to say, “call the PR firm.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 1, 2014

The other day, a friend of mine pinged me into a Facebook conversation about whether or not PR pros should use AVEs when measuring their work. Digital Reach, however, tracks links shared across the web , which captures a global sense of viewers, instead of a small sample of users. Will Digital Reach Improve the PR Measurement Drumbeat?

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Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI put AI in the hands of anyone with a web browser. Please do not cut and paste or upload documents to any web-based tool without checking its data management policies and asking yourself whether you trust the vendor. This is powerful in planning, measurement and decision-making.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 17, 2020

good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization. General Mills is using Zoom to interview execs on key COVID-related topics. Let’s look at a few of the more prominent examples.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

Seeing a client’s interview in a key publication is still a quintessential public relations win, so PR pros spend a lot of time perfecting media pitching. But once we get a “yes” to a pitch or interview request, it’s no time to sit back and relax. Check our earlier post for best PR tips on media interviews.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 9, 2017

In a recent interview, Steve Barrett, Editor-in-Chief of PRWeek sat down with Cision CEO, Kevin Akeroyd to talk about the future of PR, communications and the technology that will move the industry forward. The interview covers topics that include: What metrics should be measured in PR to convince the C-suite? 00:01:15-1#.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 30, 2024

Metrics such as web traffic, page views, bounce rates, time spent on the website, and SEO ranking, all rely on PR tactics. That example is less quantifiable, but brand recognition also can be measured through polling and surveys. Other ways to measure brand recognition is through share of voice in media or on social media.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

According to PageFair , use of ad blockers grew by 30 percent in 2016, accounting for 11 percent of web users and more than 600 million devices. PR outcomes are measurable. Today, the outcomes of a PR program are more measurable than they’ve ever been, thanks to a concerted effort by the industry, but also to digital tools.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In my last post , I shared three ways to bungle your product launch and touched briefly on preparing your executives for media interviews. 1) They think an interview is just about answering questions. In the majority of media training sessions I’ve done, the spokesperson plays “ping pong” with the interviewer. Source: giphy.com.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It reminded me of the awesome power of crowdsourcing and the social web. One person chimed in and said, essentially, “just go out and do great PR – you are wasting your time trying to measure.” The Complete Guide to Dashboards – The Measurement Advisor. The Inquiry. So I kept looking. Digging Deeper.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Annual marketing salary survey shows remote interviews and shorter hiring process have become the norm as a consequence of the pandemic The was a cartoon going around the business world a few weeks ago that asked “who led the digital transformation in your company?” CEO CTO COVID-19 In the cartoon, the correct answer is COVID-19.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 19, 2023

So how can you maximize your web content to reap positive business results? Use these interviews to share not only product or service expertise, but company values and community outreach efforts, as well. ? Pro tip : Repurpose quotes and information from these interviews for simple and effective social media quote cards.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 15, 2021

They don’t want to spend a chip furnishing customer interviews for marketing content because they’d rather save those chips to close a deal. Social media is shallow and lacks depth and while analytics are useful and important – successful writers obsess over analytics – it doesn’t provide the context that an interview does.

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Norton's Notes

JULY 29, 2015

I have been interviewing PR practitioners from all over the world as part of my interview series called 20:20 Vision. The concept of these interviews is that I ask each practitioner 20 questions about themselves and they give us a brief glimpse into their working lives and what makes them tick.

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Cision

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Q: How do you measure “share of voice”? Steve: While we recognize there are a number of ways, with increasing levels of sophistication associated to measure share of voice, at Sodexo we use a very basic ‘brand mention’ method to establish our baseline. Steve: This is both a good and difficult/situational question.

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Norton's Notes

MARCH 21, 2017

This is an interview I did with the guys at Vuelio for their Blogger Spotlight section after I was kindly listed in their top ten PR bloggers for the third year running. How do you measure the success of your blog? I used to measure my subscribers really closely, back when I started in 2007 I used to use tools such as Feedburner.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. It’s pretty good.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# He then said, “The second way to measure offline business outcomes is to use primary research.

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Norton's Notes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As you are probably aware over the last few months I have been interviewing PR practitioners from all over the world as part of my interview series called 20:20 Vision. The first interview was with Arik C. We’ve had a measurable impact on their business and we love working with them. Develop your strategy. Implement it.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this installment, I interview Frank Strong, Founder & President of Sword & Script Media, LLC. So, what businesses need the most is marketing strategy and the fundamentals – audience identification, positioning, messaging, distribution and feedback or measurement – haven’t changed even as tactics have evolved.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2023

By leveraging radio’s engaging audio format, PR can create memorable experiences through compelling interviews, entertaining segments, and carefully crafted brand messaging. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey and found that 44% of adults prefer to get their news from TV, while 34% prefer the web, 14% prefer radio, and 7% favor print.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, let’s say you’re writing social media posts or landing pages for the email marketing platform, ConvertKit : You can use review mining to write high-converting, hard-hitting relatable messaging or when you don’t have the budget or resources to conduct one-on-one interviews. Customer Interviews.

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

I’ve had experience with agencies where I’ve produced great work, but there was no real way to measure it. As the web has evolved and we’ve started to understand where things come from and how they affect a business’ growth, that has started to evolve. What are your thoughts on having a proxy measurement? How do we change that?

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Tip of the month: “Take someone in finance to lunch and learn how you make money ” This is just one of the amazing tips from the Queen of metrics Katie Paine in this interview on PR News. Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Johnny Vance , who leads partnerships for Meltwater, said the combination of Blackbird technology and Meltwater’s data will allow “customers to better manage their brand risk by understanding the key narratives that are having the biggest impact on the conversation surrounding their company in the news and across the entire social web.”

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 10, 2017

It’s easy to identify a trend in hindsight – the web is littered with post-trend analysis breaking down why or how something happened – but the question remains: how do you get ahead? An old video interview with Jeff Bezos, which has recently resurfaced on the social media , is a reminder that underscores just how visionary he really was.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It can also involve data -driven strategies, such as driving lead generation, maximising reach, and measuring the success of distribution strategies. By using data-driven insights, tech PR professionals can create effective campaigns that deliver measurable results. 3d hands holding a cell phone and pointing to the screen. neon lights.

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 24, 2015

So he asked her during his interview to describe her daily hair regimen. Your objectives should give you real outcomes against which you can measure the success of your initiatives. You can measure if web traffic to a particular landing page increased because of a video campaign. Those are your key messages.

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Flack's Revenge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I first learned of Stone Temple and their great work in SEO and digital marketing through an acquaintance, and interviewed CEO Eric Enge for a post on Maximize Social Business awhile back. What impact have they had on your business and/or web or social footprints?

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Of those, we’ve interviewed 40+ vendors with combined funding of more than $1 billion. In this post, we’ve listed all AI-powered vendors we’ve interviewed to-date, a list of 43 tools in total. Sitecore is a software development company providing web content and customer experience management solutions. Personalization.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

In the interview, Lisa shares her insights on content marketing and discusses some of the interesting findings from the Marketwired survey results. Last but certainly not least…measure! And if you’re not measuring, how will you know…?) Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my travels around the web in those days, one of the legal marketers I’d consistently run into was Larry Bodine. He started his web and marketing consulting business in 2000 after working 9 years as the marketing director at Sidley Austin , LLP in Chicago. Larry is my guest in this latest interview in the Off Script series.

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 13, 2017

RecUp is an app you can use to record right from your phone–I’ve had great luck with this in recording a few episodes of the Talking Points Podcast (including this interview with Cydney Wuerffel ). But, don’t forget about setting up podcasting outposts across the web at places like SoundCloud.

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