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Transcript of Public Relations Measurement
October 21, 2011
Measuring Your Public Relations Success –
Decoding Views,
Variables,
and Value
Presented by TC Public Relations
What Are You Measuring?
By 2013, public relations spending will be up to 8 billion dollars, which is a 55% increase from 2008, according to the annual Communications Industry Forecast by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS).
The $8 billion figure – cited in an Economist article on the vitality of the industry – contains $3 billion that will be spent on word-of-mouth marketing, which includes social media outreach.
Does it matter to measure?
KPM
What you did (e.g. reach and frequency)
What they thought (e.g. engagement)
What they did (e.g. traceable support)
Finding the Key Performance Metric (KPM)
Finding the Clues for Views
Value
Owned Media Earned
Media
Paid Media
Three “currencies” to value
CEO Development Director
Communications Director Public Relations Specialist
MISSION
Survey
“Believers”
“Agnostics”
“Atheists”
Targeting the media
Tools
How do you get a reading?
Google News
SocialMention – Seventh-Day Adventists
Search
Facebook Search
The Report
D – What are the results?I – Who got this done?
S – What was the process? C –Why done this way?
Report that Centers on
KPM
Executive summary
List of measurements
ROI based on measurements
D – What are the results?
Participation
Sentiment
Influence
I – How was this done?
Steps taken
Methodology
Coordination
S – What was the process?
Facts and Figures
Data and Statistics
Accuracy
C –Why done this way?
Overview
Directives for time period or assignments
Research directive and discovery
Proactive and reactive messages
Analysis of results
Report Recap
Focus points of coverage/conversations
Best example of KPM results
Weighted value for “share of voice”
Shining examples that justify efforts
Report Recap
Lessons learned
Recommendations for the future
Supporting documentation◦ Inventory of coverage◦ Sample quotes from the media/comments◦ Packaged coverage◦ Dashboards from metric services
Report Recap
A 2008 study of news stories in U.K. newspapers found that more than half contained mostly PR material. A study in the Columbia Journalism Review found that more than half the stories in an edition of The Wall Street Journal “were based solely on press releases.”
USA Today
What’s the opportunity?
Name one takeaway from today’s program
Points to Ponder
Tom Ciesielka312-422-1333