Positive results mean everything when budgets are slim. Increased revenue, decreased spending, an influx of volunteers, a boost in advocacy or any combination of those things can help a PR professional state bis or her case for funding outreach initiatives.
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Measurement and Analytics Certificate Program
Each Wednesday for 6 weeks, the Measurement and Analytics Certificate Program goes well beyond simply measuring the effectiveness of communication. You will also learn how to build research into the beginning of your planning process in ways that are fast, easy and inexpensive. At the end of communication campaigns that involve audience behavior changes, you’ll be able to calculate the marginal ROI on your organization’s communication investment.
Calculating the ROI on Your Communications
Half-day workshop: Conducting research and measurement can be a lot simpler than most communicators think, and often doesn’t require a survey of any kind. Using timing correlations or pilot/control groups can isolate the exact amount of impact communication had on behavior change, which lets us calculate a credible ROI for the incremental financial value we have added to our organization’s bottom line.
How to Link Your Communication to Organizational Strategy and Measure its Impact
In this two-hour workshop, you will learn the difference between communicating about an organizational strategy and communicating in a way that actually fulfills the strategy. You will use a step-by-step process for engaging your executive management in communication planning in a way that feels like other, logical business processes they are comfortable with, and makes it easy to know what to measure.
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Calculate the ROI on Your Communications
Angela Sinickas explains ROI for nonprofits to Yvette Boysen: “To calculate ROI, you need to be able to connect communication inputs with an output of changed behavior.” Nonprofits may also be to calculate the ROI in terms of the benefit to society.
Online vs. in-person event satisfaction surveys
You’ll get a higher response rate from the paper survey in the room than asking those people later to answer questions online. I’d also ask questions that identify to what extent the event improved people’s knowledge of the topics covered, changed their opinions about the issues, or influenced their likely behaviors.
InTransition 123: Talking to Angela Sinickas about how to measure communication with numbers
This week on the InTransition Podcast, David Pembroke talks to a ‘legend of the communications business’ Angela Sinickas.
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How research can simplify strategies
Complex strategies often lead to complex communication — which is less likely to make sense to the employees who will need to implement the strategy. Research can identify simpler ways to achieve the same goals.