Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Unleash your inner Public Relations geek

Unleash your inner Public Relations geek

Public relations needs more geeks.
It’s a new world of SEO, SEA, SMM, PPC,..
Can you keep up? It’s time to get your PR geek on.

Follow along for an overview of hacks to the PR workflow:
- Project management
- Email
- Pitching
- Outreach
- Keeping an overview
Published in: Marketing

Transcript

  • 1. Unleash your
 inner PR geek
  • 2. #MORE
 GEEKS Public relations needs
  • 3. SMM SEO SMA CONTENT MARKETING INFLUENCER MARKETING COMMUNITY BUILDING SOCIAL LISTENING There’s..
  • 4. Canyou keep up?
  • 5. Timeto GET YOUR 
 GEEK ON
  • 6. LET’S HACK Project management Email Pitching Follow-up Tracking results Bringing it together
  • 7. BTW,
 wejust publishedafree ebookaboutthis Get it now 〉
  • 8. Whythis presentation? We’re a team of geeks that build PR software.
  • 9. Project management
  • 10. PRteams CANLEARNALOT FROMSOFTWARE BUILDERS Takethis KANBANboard
  • 11. Here’sadigitalexample:
  • 12. Checkthis5-minguide Looks cool. 
 Worksextremelywell. ! It’s an efficient, collaborative way to manage projects.
  • 13. Thisisthesoftwareweuse:trello.com ✔ Intuitive ✔ Flexible ✔ Reduces email 🚫 Can get messy
  • 14. OurownPRagencyprefersa morestructuredtool:asana.com
  • 15. ! ✔ Low and high level tasks ✔ Transparency for clients (they see what you do) ✔ Removes need for email ✔ Templates for faster, better work asana.com
  • 16. Email
  • 17. 2143 Auch!Butrecognisable,
 isn’tit?
  • 18. 0 Would’nt youlove this?
  • 19. 0 Abitofprocess andsoftware canhelp 
 Trytheinbox0 approach
  • 20. Thise-mailadd-on workslikeacharm: ! ! ! BOOMERANG ! ! Throw away e-mails and return them when you need
  • 21. Pitching
  • 22. Offering a story to an influencer… PITCHING =
  • 23. 49 … together with 
 other people.
  • 24. Because,onaverage,
 ajournalistgets Source 〉 over 50pitchemailsperday
  • 25. make yours
 count
  • 26. In2015 there’s no excuse
 todobadpitches
  • 27. Find relevant contacts Know their needs Pitch visually 1 2 make Sure to
 3
  • 28. You can find all influencers online:
  • 29. GEEKS are here! But don’t fear, A hard part can be
 finding their 
 e-mail address
  • 30. Guess email addresses 
 with an Email Permutator
  • 31. Guess email addresses 
 with an Email Permutator (it makes a list of emails)
  • 32. Install a mailbox add-on like Rapportive
 to check which one works More tricks
  • 33. STOP Before you pitch,
 make sure you know what’s on your contacts’ minds
  • 34. Find them on social media
 with MailMatch
  • 35. Follow them on social media Read their updates every day ✔ Build multiple lists ✔ Keep them manageable ✔ Interact ✔ Combine strategic & conversational msgs
  • 36. Also read their articles subscribe to updates of digital articles
 in Feedly
  • 37. Pitch visually
  • 38. We process visuals 
 60,000 times faster
 than text
  • 39. 9.7x 7.4x+ + + 4.3x 1.8x = Attachments, soundbites, charts, interactive,… Multimedia content gets viewed 
 a lot MORE 9.7x
  • 40. Send
 visual pitches (that load fast) prezly
  • 41. An example multimedia pitch
 with Prezly
  • 42. More on pitching in this quick slide deck:
  • 43. Follow-up
  • 44. In software sales,
 If you follow up with web leads within 5 minutes, you’re 9 times more likely to convert them SPEED
 MATTERS Source 〉
  • 45. Use the DRY principle of software design:
 Don't 
 Repeat 
 Yourself The same applies when selling stories:
 Follow up fast
  • 46. Save time with canned replies shared by the team 
 with Yesware
  • 47. Anticipate replies by tracking the responses to your emails
 with Yesware
  • 48. In sales,
 80% of non-routine sales occur only after at least five follow-ups PERSISTENCE
 PAYS OFF Source 〉
  • 49. When reaching out to multiple people, 
 you can save time with automated sequences ✔ Define a small, specific list of contacts ✔ Create sequences of emails ✔ They automatically get sent if the contact didn't reply ✔ It feels like manual follow-up, but it isn't
  • 50. It’s possible to set this up
 with Outreach
  • 51. You can share sequences with your colleagues, tune emails and measure the succes of different templates and sequences
  • 52. Tracking results
  • 53. bad
 at proving their value PR have always been

  • 54. With digital analytics tools there’s no excuse
  • 55. There are plenty of ways to measure Outputs & Outcomes
  • 56. Your first step?
 showing reach with coverage books Outputs
  • 57. Keeps the junior PR’s busy:
 Repeat X times: 1) Go to site. Take screenshot. 2) Paste in Powerpoint. 3) Look op domain value in Opensite Explorer. 4) Paste in Powerpoint. 5) Look up social shares in Buzzsomu. 6) Paste in Powerpoint. Bye bye afternoon.
  • 58. Do this in minutes with Coveragebook ✔ Screenshots ✔ Estimated views ✔ Estimated shares ✔ Domain authority
  • 59. Outcomes Have a website? Track goals 
 in Google Analytics ✔ Sign up to a newsletter? ✔ Download information? ✔ Fill out contact forms? ✔ Buy direct from the site?
  • 60. Example conversion funnel Completearticle
  • 61. Google Analytics can be overwhelming Keep it simple. 
 Present the info you need in a spreadsheet
  • 62. HowtobringGA datainGoogle sheets Example automated content spreadsheet
  • 63. Bringing it together
  • 64. With so many moving parts, how do you keep
 the overview?
  • 65. Over 150.000 teams use It’s the fastest growing B2B software ever.
  • 66. Use it to ✔ Collaborate remotely (chatbox) ✔ See team activity (link other software) ✔ Look up things (search, archive) We haven’t sent emails internally since 0
  • 67. Pull in social activity And decide who’ll follow up
  • 68. Listen to conversations And decide who’ll follow up
  • 69. Display todo’s This are notifications of our content calendar in Google docs
  • 70. Display progress This is a notification from project management system Trello
  • 71. Search in your history Easily retrieve decisions you made or files you shared
  • 72. Display progress This is a notification from project management system Trello
  • 73. Integrate own software Example where we look for press releases from clients
  • 74. HACKING Project management Email Pitching Follow-up Tracking results Bringing it together
  • 75. Spread
 the word: Tweet now
  • 76. Check prstack.co More TOOLS?
  • 77. Presentation by Prezly The CRM for PR pros Get a 15-minute demo ✔ Better understand your contacts ✔ Publish your stories online and on social media ✔ Alert your contacts with quick multimedia emails