Measurement

Organization: Shell Oil Company Agency: Burson-Marsteller; Penn, Schoen & Berland Timeframe: 2006 – 2007 When Shell Oil Company undertook an 18-month face-to-face campaign to build public understanding of energy issues, research and measurement quickly became… Continued

By Mark Weiner A study sponsored in part by the Institute for Public Relations and The Arthur Page Society revealed that, while executives who fund PR programs desire measurement to gauge performance and ROI, they… Continued

Measurement is the bread and butter for communications executives, as this professional population is constantly on the lookout for tangible ways to quantify their efforts and, in turn, get buy-in from the powers that be… Continued

By Rick Gould In the PR agency business, consider a recessionary period to be any point when your operating profit drops below 20% of the top of the line. It may sound harsh, but there… Continued

In more than 20 years of delivering media analysis programs to major companies, organizations and PR counsel, it has always been, and still remains, a puzzle as to why media analysis research seems so little… Continued

Excerpt from Just-Published Guide to PR Measurement It’s the bane of any public relations professional’s existence.  How do you make clients and superiors – or  the decision makers who hold the purse strings – understand… Continued

When Henry Ford first started to produce his Model T cars, he used to say that you can have any color you want – so long as it’s black.

Deliver significant media awareness…cut through the frenzied media clutter in a fun and buzz-worthy way…deliver media splash and an emotional connection.

I recently had a conversion experience. No, it wasn’t religious! It was, instead, related to the PR measurement world, and to my new-found faith in my fellow practitioners.

A common childhood retort comes to mind when contemplating the state of one’s corporate reputation: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."