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Can you please explain very well:

1. How is the effectiveness of public relations best measured?

2. What techniques can be used to quantify success?

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How is the Effectiveness of Public Relations Best Measured?

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The effectiveness of public relations can be best measured by setting in advance the goals for the public relations campaign. Further, it is important to decide whether PR effectiveness should be measured as total entity or effectiveness of individual PR activities (e.g., measuring the effectiveness of specific publicity efforts, or a particular event or trade show activity).

Some of the important measure PR effectiveness are:

Media Content Analysis:
This is the process of studying and tracking what has been written and broadcast. It is called media measurement or publicity tracking research. Its prime function is to determine whether the key messages, concepts, and themes that an organization disseminated to publics via media heave been received by publics. Media content analysis studies take into consideration variables such as these: media vehicle variables, placement or news item variables, audience variables, subject or topic variables, and judgment or subjective variables. Sometimes, when doing media content analysis, organizations may apply weights to given messages that are being disseminated, simply ...

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