Cision

JUNE 16, 2015

It frustrates me when people tell me their marketing or PR isn’t working. If you don’t know what you want to happen as a result of your marketing or PR, how can you get upset when it doesn’t happen? So What Do I Need to Measure? Modernize your PR measurement with our free tip sheet. That’s when they stare at me blankly.

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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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Cision

MAY 11, 2015

While the setup and maintenance is more involved than the initial set-up of Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager has the power and versatility to measure your PR activity with a lot more detail. Using out-of-date measurement techniques? Get tips for replacing AVE with modern PR measurement tactics in our free tip sheet!

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Business Wire

MARCH 7, 2017

Serena Ehrlich, Director of Social and Evolving Media, Business Wire The following is Part II of Business Wire's article providing a closer look at influencer marketing and how it can help you amplify your message. This section covers working with influencers, measuring your success, and maintaining the best communications for your brand.

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Polaris

MAY 14, 2015

I often refer to Grammar Girl (or my handy Canadian Press Style Guide ) to avoid common pitfalls of punctuation, capitalization and other grammatical fundamentals. Rid Your Writing of These Annoying Grammar Mistakes. I’ve been working hard to eliminate the passive voice from my writing. I’m not actually that good with grammar.

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Solo PR Pro

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These plans are the backbone of the success of your communications plans, so every PR solopreneur needs to know two things: how to create a rock-solid PR plan and what to do before and after writing it. And don’t forget to secure your client’s confirmation with the details in writing! Put your genius on paper — write the plan.

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NewsWhip

MAY 16, 2024

Blazing Speed Newsrooms want to be competitive to detect interesting breaking stories and social discussion, as well as being at the forefront of cultural moments and references. When the news is breaking right now , journalists need to feel confident they have the very latest information before writing up or chasing down a story further.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The data brands have collected from these interactions has allowed marketers to fine-tune their marketing tactics, and how they talk to their customers. But here’s the thing: Marketing budgets are increasingly shifting to focus on content marketing and other efforts that can show a concrete return-on-investment.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There’s a misconception that marketing a business is always time-consuming. If you know where to put your efforts, it’s completely possible to handle the essential marketing tactics in five hours or less a week. Writing Press Releases. Write a few articles a week and schedule them in advance. Social Media.

Marketing 120

Marketing Comparison eBook Social Media 120

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 14, 2024

Overall, social media accessibility allows businesses to tap into new markets, increase their customer base and boost sales. Closed captions are ideal for use in accessibility measures. Here are some best practices for writing your social media content in plain language: Choose active voice rather than passive.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

PR professionals use this data to assess sentiment, measure reach, identify emerging issues, and adjust communication strategies accordingly. How Do You Measure Media Coverage? Measuring media coverage involves quantifying the impact and visibility of PR efforts. What is Influencer Marketing? What is User Experience (UX)?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public relations professionals create and maintain a positive image for their organization, often through the use of marketing, branding, and communication strategies. How is public relations different from marketing? Public relations (PR) and marketing are related, but they are not the same thing. It’s not a bad take.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 22, 2024

We looked for sites with clear signals that they accepted guest posts, such as post titles and URLs with the words “contribute” or “write for us.” Methodology After compiling our list based on the sites’ guest post lists, we also added our own sites by using Ahref’s Content Explorer. There is some overlap between the sites and categories.

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Cision

JANUARY 5, 2017

Sometimes, despite our very best efforts to write down our goals, we tend to skip over creating a documented PR content strategy. Luckily, the PESO model makes it easy to define an effective plan, and ensure your content will produce measurable results. How will you measure your results against your goals? SMARTER goals.

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Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

Digital marketing success is fueled by creating great content and building a targeted audience, but there’s a third piece missing from that equation—ignition. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. It comes from the transmission of content. Social media professionals agree.

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Marketing Television Handbook Web 239

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 29, 2019

. “Strategy” is a word that’s thrown around a lot by PR and marketing professionals, and its meaning is often diluted. Many confuse it with tactics, but those refer to the concrete activities or actions we take as we follow the strategy. Market research comes into play here, but so does focus.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

Write “good” content. You could develop a content marketing strategy , but that doesn’t mean that it will be a good strategy, or that it is related to the corporate goals in any meaningful way. What I want to do in this post is to identify 11 content marketing mistakes that you should avoid. Use images.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2015

Leah Fein-Roque , who specializes in tech PR and digital marketing understands the Snapchat appeal personally: “I have a 21, 19 and 16 year old using it mostly for everything including texting. As you can imagine, Snapchat measurement is not straightforward. ” Of course, a lot of this can be measured. Views on Snaps ( V ).

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Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Content marketing has the power to turn your brand into a driving force in your industry, but with so much competition in the marketplace, how can you ensure that your content makes an impact? Gini Dietrich, CEO of Arment Dietrich and author of Spin Sucks , recently took the time to answer a few of our biggest questions on content marketing.

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NewsWhip

APRIL 27, 2023

The AI-enabled product also works to understand your preferred writing style, offer you suggestions, and provide feedback on correctness, style, tone and more. Hootsuite Hootsuite changed the way marketers manage multiple social media accounts. This enables you to measure the impact of your work and optimize your earned media efforts.

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Tools Communications Pinterest Analytics 78

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 3, 2015

A lot has been (and continues to be) said about measurement, but when you’re in the market for measurement strategy, it’s always smart to revisit some classics. Eight Great Myths Of Social Media Measurement. Communication Planning: Measurement Comes First And Last.

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Cision

MAY 26, 2015

The challenge has always been to (meaningfully) measure the impact of Facebook activity to your business objectives. Let’s explore what they are and how they can help to measure Facebook’s impact to a business. A helpful way to think of why these are such effective is to think about why we we want to measure things.

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Facebook Analytics Measurement Google 120

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In the time I spent in-house for a global company and focusing on marketing to lawyers, one of the questions I’d consistently hear in the course of work from attorneys was this: There’s so much noise in marketing, how can I tell what is real and what is snake oil? 1) What are the top challenges facing law firm marketers today?

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In a recent post , I suggested leveraging Nielsen’s research in order to create data-driven marketing and communications plans. Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. How has the space changed since then?

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Sword and the Script

MAY 7, 2019

It commands about 90% of the market share. Non-key word anchor text: Sword and the Script Media writes about public relations. Media coverage brings an element of third-party credibility that other forms of marketing cannot. Here are some publications and DA numbers at the time of this writing: The Wall Street Journal : 94.

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Google Banking Engineering Web 135

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Content marketing is blending the functions of marketing and sales to the extent, marketing has lost its focus on creating demand. That’s my take after listening to Tom Webster evolve a concept over couple of podcasts on The Marketing Companion and finally rendered in a more polished format on Mark W. by Frank Strong.

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Content Marketing Marketing Measurement Writing 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

However, the problem is, there are networking equipment makers that refer to routers, fiber optics and soft switches as “comms tech” so the terms can get muddy. Its founders – Dan Gaynor and Shann Biglione – have impressive backgrounds in PR and marketing. Previously it referred to itself as a “decision augmentation solution.”

Publicity 85

Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

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.&# “PR outcomes usually refer to any end results of the communication campaign.

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Measurement Publicity Web Analytics 77

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

As such many of the PR tech vendors have brought features to the market for this purpose. Talkwalker characterized the product as “social measurement and audience insights software.” This created demand for better tools to reach the originators of these potential new sources of persuasion – and to track any coverage that might follow.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 26, 2020

As a marketing agency, how should we respond? What is the appropriate role of marketing in the midst of a crisis? One of our core tenets is the belief that marketing can make brands “more human.”. Those companies you’re marketing to are all run by people. Is there one? At PR 20/20, we believe there is.

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Crisis Marketing Healthcare Resources 92

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2019

For businesses to remain competitive, a significant effort in achieving marketing automation is required, as the gains to consumer interactions and experience, and company productivity and profit are many to be had. Analytics is a prime example of how marketers and businesses can benefit from automation. Feature #2: Email marketing.

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Marketing Web Software Technology 67

Landis PR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s an analogy, of course, but I’m writing this while anticipating lunch, and hunger is more powerful than the keyboard. Here at LCI, we work with clients who need to directly tie their marketing spend to lead generation/sales. But a placement on a fairly low-trafficked blog almost crashed their website with referred traffic.

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Newsfile

JUNE 28, 2023

Utilizing the 7 best ways to accomplish media monitoring will help increase the success of your press release and your overall PR and marketing efforts. In addition, conducting media monitoring will help position you as a leading public relations or marketing professional. What Is Media Monitoring?

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Media Analytics Radio Google 52

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.

Publicity 90

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photobombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. The Fiji Water Girl photobombing stunt, according to BrandWatch, generated a staggering 98.9

Marketing 78

Marketing Viral Consumer Agency 78

Stuart Bruce

MARCH 8, 2017

This makes no sense as it impossible for a senior PR practitioner to be truly ‘strategic’ if they don’t understand the role that measurement, evaluation and data analysis plays in shaping strategy. In 2017 basic photo and video production should be a core skill, just as integral to public relations excellence as writing is.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 9, 2024

Writing a white paper is the heavyweight bout of content creation. Here are some tips for writing a white paper, from choosing a topic to sharing your content with the world. Write an outline While you might be able to wing it with a blog post, long-form content like white papers require more planning.

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