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How Contributed Articles Can Boost Your PR Program

Garrett Public Relations

Initiatives like product launches, customer wins and new hires have traditionally been popular topics for press releases. One option is to pursue contributed articles. The post How Contributed Articles Can Boost Your PR Program appeared first on PR Consultant Garrett Public Relations Columbus/Worthington OH.

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How To Use Timing For Top B2B PR Results

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Anyone who has represented a business product or service knows that delivering the right message at the right time – or failing to – can make or break the success of a PR campaign. By knowing and following these timelines (and deadlines), PR folks can pick the perfect time to pitch stories.

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Public Relations Review

PR for Anyone

She pitched it to her editor who loved it too and they wrote an article about me. Instead, when I heard camouflage was a new fashion trend for women, I took the camo Sock-It that was originally designed for men and coupled it with a hot pink Strap-It and created a “new” combination that appeared to be a new product launch.

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What journalists need from PR pitches

Presspage

That means the journalists you’re contacting are overwhelmed with pitches; many of them poorly thought out or irrelevant. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Personalize your PR pitches.

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PR Lessons From Twitter

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

However, no one can advise PRs better on how and what to pitch reporters than… reporters. Journalists love to take to Twitter to offer up best practices or, more likely, let off steam about the terrible pitches that clog their inboxes on a daily basis. Their style is sometimes brutal, but the advice is priceless.

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Journalism statistics: 7 media relations takeaways from the 2023 State of the Media Report by Cision

Sword and the Script

When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. Make it clear who or what you are pitching. Draw a correlation between your pitch and their prior coverage. 34% said they have included surveys in their” articles in the last year – “more than twice the number who said the same the year before (16%).”

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How To Get Media Coverage When You Have No News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

One skill of a great PR team is in generating opportunities to keep an organization relevant and visible, even in the absence of hard news like a new product launch or a CEO change. Their preferences for inquiries also vary from wanting a short pitch to asking for the complete piece. You’re only as good as your last story. .

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