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Measurement… Supplemented

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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. Sales of what?

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Measuring Public Relations Outcomes With Seth Duncan

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“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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Get PR Measurement Off The Island

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Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

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The thing is, despite the ad nauseam posts on SEO for news releases, I discovered this recent report from Schwartz Communications that shows a pitiful 18% of news release headlines are SEO-optimized. A word to the wise In my experience, communication pros these days are, more often than not, wise to SEO in general.

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MeasurePR: The BrandBuilder Edition

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We both like smart measurement. Get Shareaholic test Filed under MeasurePR , Measurement , Public Relations , Social Media | Tags: olivier blanchard , social media ROI , the brandbuilder | Comment (1) Site settings comment help? We have smart dogs , with Chico being his Chief Content Strategist and Suzy Q. “Which happens.&#

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

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Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , Marketing | Tags: google instant , nonprofits , search engines , SEO | Comments (9) Site settings comment help? Mark as read Approve comment Erica, One more point about user behavior: SEO isnt always a zero-sum, one-search one-result game. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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The MetricsMan Comes To #measurePR

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali The MetricsMan Comes To #measurePR August 27th, 2010 Tweet What’s a Twitter chat on measurement without a Metrics Man? I wonder how respondents were thinking about and defining ROI. pts Settings.