The Public Relations Blog

When it comes to media relations, what defines success?

For some, success might mean securing a story in a household-name publication or landing a coveted national broadcast spot. Those achievements are exciting. But they’re not the only — or even the most meaningful — measures of a campaign’s success.

Our PR firm’s process for reporting public relations campaigns

Strategic communication requires consistent evaluation. To evaluate, you need reporting methods to know if your audiences are consuming your messages and how your messages have affected your audiences over time. PR professionals frequently use real-time reporting methods like dashboards or live monitors so teams can listen and immediately react, acknowledge, or adapt to their audiences.

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PR is a measurement sport, and you must embrace numbers to prove your success and be competitive.

Many people think of public relations as just crisis management and a simplified form of marketing. For decades, people with an interest in marketing went into PR because they didn’t like math and didn’t want to talk about numbers. This is a common misconception about PR and what PR professionals actually do. PR has many aspects – a main one being that we want to increase visibility and awareness of your company and brand. This can persuade consumers to purchase your product or service and spread your company’s name.

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May 2022 – Use Data Decisions for Your PR

Today’s audience is more savvy than ever with myriad options at its fingertips to compare options. Strategic corporate communications teams are leveraging insights gained from big data to evolve their strategies and cut through the noise to reach their audience more effectively than ever.

Communicators are making better use of the data fetched from the frequent measurement of their endeavors

If we’ve learned one thing from Ragan’s Communications Benchmark Report, it’s that upon evaluating the potency of their work, communicators are more impressed with their endeavors in 2021 than they were the previous year. 

The numbers tell a similar story, as 52% of the respondents rated the state of their internal communications as good or excellent compared to only 41% of respondents in 2020.

Monitor your website traffic and gain actionable insights with Google Analytics

Websites are a phenomenal way to present your brand to your target audience. It is a one-stop destination to share your company’s vision and mission. Thus, it is vital for you to thoroughly track and analyze your website and its traffic.

Google Analytics is a popular analytics tool to gauge the nuances of your website’s audience. These include their behavioral patterns, response to the web pages, and the varying trends over time. Let’s dive into what Google Analytics is all about and what kind of data it provides.

How to know if your PR campaigns are financially successful

Are your campaigns really profitable? How can you prove that your marketing campaigns were of value?

Calculating the return on investment (ROI) determines if you’ve been making a profit from your public relations campaigns and helps you identify which PR exercises yield the most buck.

This article discusses ROI on PR campaigns, how to calculate it, and challenges against a perfect ROI calculation.

Three essential tools to evaluate your PR campaign’s success

Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating your corporate communications and public relations campaigns will allow them to evolve and improve. Assess your current strategy to determine if it’s working or if you need to take another approach. 

If you have an unsuccessful campaign and you don’t know because you never measured it, how can you call your company successful? You need to put in the work and measure, monitor, and evaluate your tactics to see if it’s successful and providing an ROI.

Use data to prove the effectiveness of your public relations work.

Traditionally, some people believe it’s difficult to prove how successful a PR campaign is due to a lack of hard data showing how well the campaign worked. However, times have changed. With modern measurement techniques, PR campaigns now have data to back up claims about how successful a PR campaign was.

Data gathered from a PR campaign is vital to any public relations plan. It shows the proof of value for public relations efforts. Hard data lets you, your clients, and other departments visualize what worked and what didn’t. if someone higher up in your company asks for proof for how effective a PR campaign is, data will give them exactly what they want.