Sword and the Script

JUNE 30, 2021

Following a tumultuous year, 80% of PR and comms professionals say organizations place a greater value on comms, according to the 2021 JOTW Strategic Communications Survey. Karen and Shonali were part of a group of six contributors to the survey and report. Making an effort to measure is half the battle.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2019

In a Muck Rack survey of 800 communicators, ranging from boutique agency coordinators to chief communications officers at global brands, 72 percent said that the top challenge they face is “measuring business impact,” with the second most prominent challenge (at 65 percent) overcoming the “lack of quantifiable measurement.”

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2024

The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Successful B2B software companies think hard about marketing measure Measurement has long been an Achilles heel for marketing. >>> Need an extra pair of hands?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve taken some time to pour over these and summarize some of the more interesting and less publicized findings for you. The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems. That’s according to a report by Muck Rack based on 193 survey responses from marketing and PR professionals late last year.

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Agility PR Solutions

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The post ESG in practice: Companies are setting environmental goals, but measurement remains a challenge appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. The new […].

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Axia PR

APRIL 20, 2021

Jason Mudd, CEO and Managing Partner of Axia Public Relations, earned a Measurement Master certification. With this certification, Mudd is now an expert in measurable objectives, survey research, media analysis, data validation, web analytics, search engine optimization, integrated dashboards, and reporting communications results.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It also surveyed 1,500 respondents in the U.S. That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” That’s measured by asking respondents to rate trust on a nine-point scale from “distrust” to “neutral” to “trust.” 57% are neutral about trust in NGOs.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 15, 2021

That’s my take on a survey by Typeset and Mantis Research. The survey found: just 33% of business marketing writers make calls to customers; just 35% conduct surveys; and. The survey puts some data behind a long-standing problem in B2B marketing. Really dive into industry surveys. Need an extra pair of hands?

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Stuart Bruce

MARCH 28, 2018

Public relations strategy, planning, measurement, evaluation and crisis communications emerge as key skills and knowledge areas in the 2018 State of the Profession survey from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 25, 2020

We presented a sampling of the findings – along with analysis – from the 3 rd Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020. Here’s the recording: Also, see these pieces related to this year’s survey: PR Measurement: How is Communications Proving Value?

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Institute for Public Relations

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This summary is provided by the IPR Measurement Commission. Muck Rack explored how PR professionals measured success in 2022. A survey of 805 PR professionals was conducted Oct. 11–22, 2022. Key findings include:1.)

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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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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why earlier in 2021, Agility PR Solutions surveyed over […]. The post Pitching the media: How do you measure up to global standards? appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. But even as PR professionals have been forced to adapt to business unusual, some things remain the same.

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5W PR

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the fundamentals of public relations is tracking and monitoring the opinion of the public. Additionally, in the past few years, thanks to social media, it has become easier than ever for PR pros to keep track of what the public is thinking or talking about when it comes to particular brands. Surveys and Focus Groups.

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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. Katie Paine got the same result in an informal survey of attendees at the 2017 PRSA Northeast District Conference, PRXNE.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about earned media strategy and measurement! While you can find this out directly from them via interviews and surveys, it is also very important to let the past behavior data inform your strategy (what they say they will do is different from what they have actually done in the past). Elizabeth Barrett.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2019

That’s why 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , which was conducted in collaboration with Ned Lundquist for the second year in a row and polled 223 communicators, included three questions about measurement. Those questions were aimed at finding answers to these questions: Are PR pros trying to measure the effects of their work?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

How do you measure PR results? These are just a few of the questions on the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey questionnaire. The survey will take just a few minutes to complete. You can find the survey by accessing the following URL: [link]. Three years ago, we teamed up to begin fielding this survey.

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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?” The survey polled, 2,400 senior managers (U.S.) Try our services.

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Cision

MAY 23, 2016

Data is essential to successful public relations now and in the future, but 53 percent of professionals still find measurement to be their biggest skills gap. Use Customer Surveys. Customer surveys will help you find the answers. Customer surveys will help you find the answers. Start A/B Testing.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 24, 2022

A fundamental public relations problem lies at the heart of public relations practice. “We People don’t often understand what we do, and we don’t help ourselves,” said Chris Foster, CEO, Omnicom Public Relations. The public relations function had a good COVID-19 pandemic. The public makes no such distinction.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 1, 2024

Only 20 percent of the 600 leaders surveyed said they plan to cut back on DEI in 2024. Most strikingly, 44 percent say they plan to increase existing DEI initiatives or create new ones. Forty percent view understanding and promoting diversity and inclusion as among the most important leadership attributes for those in their position.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 9, 2016

In my first New York public relations job, one of my tasks was to sort and tally the stacks of client publicity clips that came in from the clipping service. That was how we measured the PR team’s performance – by counting the publicity clips our work generated. So, how should we measure PR outcomes?

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Cision

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Read on to learn more about how PR can bring measurement into the digital era. At Origami Logic , we recently conducted a survey of marketers with Brand Innovators and the results showed that companies innovative in the area of marketing performance measurement are striving to get a cross-channel perspective of campaign performance.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2021

I’ve spent the past few weeks breaking down the survey results from the 2021 JOTW Strategic Communications Survey ( overview , challenges and the media relations struggle ). This week I paused to catch up on reading several other surveys of interest to PR and communications. Below are some of the findings that stood out for me.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 6, 2022

Public relations practitioners fall short of the expectations of a profession. It’s a limiting factor for public relations to realise its potential as a management discipline. There is no barrier to entry to working in public relations. This analysis is based on survey data supplied by practitioners.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Respondents of the 2022 JOTW Communications Survey identified “cutting through the noise,” as the top strategic comms challenge. Multichannel Presence: “Too many priorities” was the second-highest strategic comms challenge in the 2022 JOTW Communications Survey. You can then link any resulting coverage to your outreach activity!

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Respondents of the 2022 JOTW Communications Survey identified “cutting through the noise,” as the top strategic comms challenge. Multichannel Presence: “Too many priorities” was the second-highest strategic comms challenge in the 2022 JOTW Communications Survey. You can then link any resulting coverage to your outreach activity!

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The Edelman 2023 Future of Corporate Communications survey found that half of respondents see themselves as strategic advisers to or partners to their company’s leadership … © Stuart Bruce - Future of Corporate Communications study finds CCOs investing more in technology was first published on Stuart Bruce's Stuart Bruce the PR Futurist (..)

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Stuart Bruce

APRIL 3, 2019

The UK’s CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) has published its latest State of the Profession Survey. The top 10 takeaways for PR professionals are: … The post Top 10 takeaways from the CIPR State of the Profession survey 2019 appeared first on Stuart Bruce.

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Wadds Inc.

MARCH 22, 2023

Deloitte study identifies organisational listening, stakeholder mapping and relationship management as critical advisory roles The rise of the public relations function within organisations during COVID-19 is well reported. The term public relations itself is often rejected because of its association with publicity and spin.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. What is public relations?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One of the comments I saw recently on Twitter about public relations was that some folks consider PR and its impact to be immeasurable. Virtually everything in marketing, advertising, and PR is measurable. The statement, more accurately worded, is that not everything is worth measuring. Invest in measurement for that.

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The Proactive Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Two-thirds of the CMOs polled in the 2017 Marketing Performance Management Benchmark study said the pressure to measure value, impact, and contribution is growing. Enterprise marketers plan to ramp up their spending on analytics technology a stunning 83% over the next three years, according to the latest CMO Survey out of Duke University.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2017

We hear all the time how important public relations are, but are there reliable methods to gauge its effectiveness? Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message.

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Agility PR Solutions

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Virtually all respondents in a new survey (98 percent) believe customer attention metrics will drive value for their organizations by improving mobile advertising outcomes—but less than half feel confident in their ability to measure granular mobile ad metrics.

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