Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 12, 2015

PR pros are “ tech testing ” by rolling up their sleeves and learning how to develop infographics with the help of tools including Piktochart and Vizualize.me. From website traffic and social media analytics to interesting sales trends about your customers, the data you have may help you to pitch interesting story angles to the media.

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Landis PR

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blog courtesy of Brianne Miller, LCI. I also think it’s wacky when I get asked to publish an infographic. When I was little, I always wanted to write for People magazine. What advice do you have for PR people who want to pitch you? . Landis Communications Inc.’s Our audience thrives on problem-solving solutions.

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Presspage

JUNE 4, 2019

For instance, Disney, discovered its audience – not the children watching their programming, but their moms – was looking for resources on parenting and a place to connect, so the company made the decision to purchase the online magazine and blog Babble , where it could control the content without making it a direct sales opportunity.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Jesse Ventura’s face out of 5,000 pounds of ice cream, which was covered by Time magazine and CNN-TV (and led to a total sell-out of Kemps’ ice cream). When I was young and ruthless, I asked Dave if I could help his agency – then called Mona Meyer McGrath & Gavin – pitch the Bachman’s garden center chain as a retail client.

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Marketwired

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is post 1 of our 5-part #CreativePR blog series. Our spring blog series will dive into this topic. When you can, offer high resolution photos, videos or infographics. Far too many press releases and pitches fail to include these points, which affects their impact—and chances of being read.”.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

It might mean providing quick tips in a video or on an infographic. It may be a literal space like a billboard or a section of a newspaper or magazine page. For example, you might put up a recipe for “Town’s Best Barbecue Sauce” on your blog. PR Tips How To Pitch to a Publication.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 4, 2017

Subscribers are more likely to convert , but if your content is heavy on pitch and light on value, no one is going to subscribe. How to Generate Media Referenceable B2B Customers with a Blog. Blog post: 44%. Just producing more white papers or blog posts may not be the right answer. 3) Challenges of B2B lead attribution.

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The Hoffman Agency

JULY 26, 2017

In reality, the success rates of our efforts don’t always match the regularity of our outreach — on a few occasions we’ve even found our pitches being passed over, or worse … ignored. Publications often keep an eye out for varying types of content, so tailoring our pitches to different media outlets will up our chances for scoring coverage.

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PR Fuel

JULY 5, 2020

Instead, they should read like an article you can read in the newspaper or magazine with timely, relevant information that would interest readers. They can also include photographs, media, or infographics depending on the topic. You can create longer blog articles based on any number of these details. Concise Conclusion.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

A lot has changed over the last 12 years — Forsythe is now director of editorial video at McClatchy — with many newsrooms, including McClatchy’s, wanting their journalists to shoot video, find photographs, incorporate infographics and more into their work when they can. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches.

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PR Conversations

JULY 5, 2017

He/she is behind organization’s press releases, feature articles, blog posts, success stories, official statements and speeches. Noticed an interview with the rival’s CEO in a well-known magazine? Communicators pitch journalists story ideas, offer expert knowledge on a range of industry-specific questions.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Campaigns might involve pitching a quote from a thought leader to a journalist writing about a related topic or creating and pitching content highlighting data from a commissioned industry survey. Traditional PR may encompass online media but mainly focuses on newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV.

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Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. For example, if you’re using Pinterest images on a blog and driving traffic back and forth in some unique way, this would impress most interviewers. Ideally, with agencies or larger organizations.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

With such a huge chunk of the audience online, it becomes increasingly important to reach them outside of the traditional ways of communicating (newspapers/magazines/TV/radio). A quick crisp e-mail with images or infographic has a better chance of catching the media’s fancy than long pitch notes or press releases.

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MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Podcasts give clients the opportunity to express their personality in a way that infographics, e-books and print interviews seldom do. Finally, podcasts lend themselves to depth and nuance – Which PR opportunity would your CEO prefer: a two-paragraph quote in a magazine article or a 60-minute wide-ranging podcast?

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Rock the Status Quo

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Journalists love to bash PR pros… and some of us give them ample reason, pitching without taking time to manage the due diligence that makes a pitch resonate. If eight out of ten pitches are irrelevant, it’s no wonder that journalists ignore most of their inbox and sleuth out their own resources. This might be why.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Aside from the well-deserved round of congratulations, it occurred to me the acquisition is an indication of a maturing industry for content marketing, which of course includes blogging. The Blogging Gutenberg . The last 10 or 15 years have brought a vast array of tools for publishing blogs.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Another good idea: draft a simple byline or blog post on “Scary Customer Stories” or “Nightmare Product Launches.” We do an annual Halloween PR blog post that’s always well-received. For example, IoT devices for the home can factor into smart pitches on fall clean-up and prep stories.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

Having served as the executive editor at Money Magazine, Magnarelli’s journalism experience gave her an advantage. If you only produced blog posts before, maybe scaling means starting to create visual content like infographics and video. “I said, ‘What do you want to get out of what we do?’

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PR Fuel

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The more you foster these types of relationships, the more successful you will be when you pitch. 7 Tips for a Better Pitch. Successful PR people know that pitching is a science. Here are 7 simple tips you can put to use today to improve your pitches. You need to personalize your pitch.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 7, 2016

If you’re already creating content for the masses — whether an infographic, video, case study, blog post, white paper or e-book — view the newsroom as an aggregator. One example is series of blog posts and videos with infectious diseases specialist Dr. Pritish Tosh discussing the Zika virus, a mosquito-transmitted infection.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct. Public relations practitioners have more places to pitch stories but they’re likely to be working with journalists that are overstretched.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You can also use this dictionary as a lead tool, if you’re a marketing exec who wants to hire a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning writers for your brand’s blog. A call to action (CTA) is a bit of language in a blog post or piece of content that prompts the audience to do something specific. So let’s get started!

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Let’s take the organic traffic from my personal blog as an example. Suppose I extract five years’ data from my blog of traffic from search: This traffic data tells me when my audience is searching for topics of interest that my blog answers. What Would PR Do? What would a data-driven PR agency like SHIFT do with it?

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It was a good pitch. After several unsuccessful attempts, I re-worked my pitch into a blog post and published it on the company blog. This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. Thread contributed content into blog posts.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. whose lively “ Ad Blockers: An Uncertain Threat ” blog post is a must-read. They don’t block influencer blog posts, or emails, or sponsored white papers.

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