Tag Archives: Measurement

To Register or Not to Register? For Press Release Measurement, a Tough Question

Requiring website registration for the sake of good measurement is a trade-off in viewership of your press release content. To register or not to register–a very tough question when it comes to press release measurement

Advertising Value Equivalencies: The Mostly Meaningless Metric with Nine Lives

Advertising Value Equivalencies (AVE) refuse to dissipate even though most PR pros agree they are a meaningless metric. Here’s a couple of better ways to measure.

Free Tools to Enhance Your Press Release Reports

SEO Tip Jar blogger Joseph MIller offers great free tips and tools for tracking your results. Check ‘em out!

PR Peeps Poll: Press Release Views are Most Valued Press Release Metric

The most valued press release metric? Good ol’ fashioned press release views, say 53% if those responding to our PR Peeps poll. Influence has to start somewhere–how about with your press release being seen?

Social Media Analysis: is Twitter Measurement Given More Importance Than it Deserves?

Twitter’s influence may be overestimated, a recent study on social media influence and measurement suggests.

Tips for Measuring Sentiment Analysis: Don’t Let Early Adoption Become Buyer’s Remorse

Before engaging in sentiment analysis for your press releases and branding efforts, consider these tips so that early adoption doesn’t become buyer’s remorse.

You Can’t Measure What It Is You Do Not Value

ROI is as popular an acronym in social media as OMG or LOL are in TXTING. No matter how much you believe in social media, the reality is that management needs to know, what’s the ROI of Tweets in “the” Twitter or Likes in “that” Facebook thing that all the kids are talking about? Kidding [...]

Mayday! Mayday! Monthlong Focus on Press Release Measurement Aims to Answer Questions

Business Wire’s monthlong focus on press release measurement aims to address your “measurement emergencies” with tips and tools to help you figure out what’s working and not with your press releases

Social Media ROI: ROI Doesn’t Stand for Return on Ignorance

My good friend Olivier Blanchard recently released his new book, Social Media ROI, Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization. As he was nearing its completion, he asked if I would write the foreword and to be honest, I was flattered. I agreed to do so under one condition, that I get the [...]

Friday Fast Links: Fifth calls, CSR, name changes and more

Some in the IR community are discussing whether there’s a need for a “fifth call” prior to a company’s annual meeting. Does your organization need an additional call? What does that say about the rest of your investor relations program? Who’s in charge of your corporate social responsibility efforts? If it’s not you, it might [...]