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Land Stories

PR for Anyone

I made so many mistakes when I first started pitching. I didn’t realize there was a system and a calendar to pitch the media. I was pitching national magazines a few weeks before I wanted to appear in them. I pitched holiday gift guides in November. Lots of pitching failures led me to figure out the system.

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Tell Your Story Like You Speak, Keep Pitching, and Earn Media Coverage

PR Fuel

And since you’re pitching news, doesn’t it make sense to follow the pattern set by the publications you’re targeting? Here’s a good exercise. Every Pitch is a Learning Experience. With today’s journalist shouldering more responsibility than ever before, it’s essential that you master the art of pitching stories.

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7 Media Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse of their Mindset

Sword and the Script

The report didn’t break out numbers for the remaining challenges of “fake news, blurred lines between editorial and advertising, and issues around freedom of the press.”. Second, PR needs to think about the video elements – and I don’t mean pitching video – but rather the capacity to be interviewed on video.

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Behind the Headlines With Brandon Puttbrese

Cision

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. For a daily beat reporter, our stories had to have a local tie. If you can pack your pitch into 140 characters, do it.

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Start-Up Advice from 22 Solo PR Pros

Solo PR Pro

My advice would be that the fastest and least expensive way to generate leads is to speak locally through workshops.Chamber of Commerce. Local colleges partnerships. He was the art director at an advertising agency and not even the person who made the decisions about marketing/PR, but he introduced me to the people who do.

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Confusion, Technology and Talent in Marketing; Off Script #26: Frank Pollock on Fundamentals and What He’s Learned from Working in CPG

Sword and the Script

As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. When I talk to my friends who market local or regional businesses they imply that big brand marketing is easy because of large budgets and tons of resources. Today he’s on his own.

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10 Ideas to Simplify Your PR

Cision

Facebook, for example, has vacillating organic reach, and constantly tweaks their advertising options. Twitter is is another example where the advertising product and the user product will most likely change in the next few months. Whether this is explicitly evident or not, we tend to make decisions and to work at a local level.