Sword and the Script

APRIL 19, 2022

Some 94% of 2,547 reporters responding to an annual survey by Muck Rack say email is still their preferred way to receive pitches, but anyone that works in PR knows that a journalist’s inbox is a very competitive space. 13% accept pitches on Twitter – and those that do tend to make this clear in their Twitter bio. Humanize it.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

 3.    Institute Brand Guidelines to Navigate your Communications  . Developing brand guidelines will ensure consistency across all marketing channels. Editorial Guidelines: Establish writing standards to ensure consistency across content. Internally, get company-wide buy-in before the public announcement.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When you invite internal and external subject matter experts to contribute to your content marketing program, it’s important to have guidelines for them to follow. Want to write for Cision®? Will you accept content from anyone with a good pitch, or would you prefer them to be experts in your field? Headline writing tips.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

considering international relations, have caused Communications professionals to be evermore careful with comms content. More internal comms. Being asked to do more internal communications and business communications usually left to other departments like HR, finance.”. More internal comms. political, socio-economic, etc.)

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Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

They are as follows and are based on those internal discussions, as well as on outside perspectives, including the PR Council Guidelines on Generative AI. How we don’t: to write press releases, talking points or other materials that are not already in the public domain. For a fun exercise, ask ChatGPT to write your bio.

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Shift Communications

MAY 17, 2023

They are as follows and are based on those internal discussions, as well as on outside perspectives, including the PR Council Guidelines on Generative AI. How we don’t: to write press releases, talking points or other materials that are not already in the public domain. For a fun exercise, ask ChatGPT to write your bio.

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Publicity Guidelines Training Transportation 78

Tribe Builder Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Producing high-quality, effective pitches is extremely time-consuming and difficult for a single in-house PR manager to handle. It’s not just coming up with a pitch, it’s being able to come up with the larger story and hooking your product, service or expertise in with it. Just for the pitches. Relationships.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The endless media pitch calling and subsequent rejections were exhausting. Client Turnover — can lead to instability and the need to perform new business pitches constantly. During the summer, I had the opportunity to work as a public relations intern in the clean energy space.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Then, email that website to point out the broken link and use that as a jumping-off point to pitch them your site or content. Creating and Pitching Content Who is it best for? Then, internally link your content to your money pages. Then, use a tool like Buzzstream to pitch your content to your targets.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Brand strategy teams set mandates around key messages by creating a boilerplate, message card, branding guidelines and so forth. PR’s job is to pitch and secure stories that align with the brand, as told through third-party endorsement. But then there’s PR, which is commonly treated as a different mechanism altogether.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Associated Press (AP) style guide provides guidelines for writing press releases, ensuring consistency in language, formatting, and punctuation. PR professionals often pitch op-eds to media outlets to showcase their clients’ expertise and perspectives. How Do You Pitch the Media ? Technical Aspects of PR 15.

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Flack's Revenge

MAY 17, 2018

Scott Shane writes: “The old rules say that if news organizations obtain material they deem both authentic and newsworthy, they should run it. ’ Asked if he had any guidelines in mind, Mr. Pozen demurred. ‘I think this makes the ethical calculus for journalists much more complex.’

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 20, 2017

You’ve two weeks to pitch. Ten days in and we’ve had almost 20 pitches for the CIPR’s anniversary project, covering a wide variety of topics. The most frequently asked question is what should I write about? All pitches will be reviewed on merit and in the wider context of the book. I’ve had some great conversations.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Even some white hat link building strategies rub against Google’s spam guidelines if builders don’t properly check websites for quality signals. 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.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most PR practitioners quickly learn that the wall protecting editorial integrity from the influence of paid advertising can be, like the Pirate Code , “more of a guideline than an actual rule.” In both cases, succeeding in a pay-to-play world means managing internal expectations.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It’s worth pointing out, that even while these statistics were published in 2020, many will have utility as benchmarks and best practice guidelines for years to come. The deluge of PR pitches. Pitch proof points with claims. billion ,” according to a new report from Burton-Taylor International Consulting.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

I oversaw corporate communications for Anchor Gaming – a publicly traded slot machine developer – before the company was sold to International Game Technology in 2001. During my journalism career, I can’t count how many times someone in PR pitched me on a story that I had already written or had nothing to do with my beat.

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Ishmael's Corner

JUNE 8, 2015

Surrounded by crystal waters, a sea of yachts and the lingering aroma of freshly baked bread, I never anticipated entering an intellectual coliseum during my time at the International Cannes Film Festival in France. In public relations, this lives in the art of pitching. 2) Know Your Audience.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Then, email that website to point out the broken link and use that as a jumping-off point to pitch them your site or content. Creating and Pitching Content Who is it best for? Then, internally link your content to your money pages. Then, use a tool like Buzzstream to pitch your content to your targets.

Examples 62

Examples Software Pitching Tools 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Then, email that website to point out the broken link and use that as a jumping-off point to pitch them your site or content. Creating and Pitching Content Who is it best for? Then, internally link your content to your money pages. Then, use a tool like Buzzstream to pitch your content to your targets.

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Examples Software Pitching Tools 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

My hope is that companies will take a step back to consider how focusing on using their unique voice in their PR and marketing efforts will help them stand out from those utilizing generic AI-generated content and pitches. Clear and present AI “A renewed focus on and commitment to internal communications. Audiences know the difference.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 9, 2018

1) Share the news internally. Maybe that means an email to the executive team, the sales team, or publishing a link to an internal site like Yammer or Slack. This is easy fodder to write a blog post on the same topic from a different angle and yet also weave in the story you worked so hard to earn.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Writing is thinking, but more than that its the application of thinking; it transforms a passive activity into an active one. The venerable email pitch. “92% 92% of journalists and influencers prefer email pitches.”. 16) Pitch in the morning. . 37% of publishers are not in compliance with FTC guidelines on native ads.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 14, 2014

They know the brand guidelines. Quick access to internal subject matter experts. That is, your internal resources may not always be the most qualified to handle content development. They may not understand how to write for an online audience. They understand what you’re trying to achieve at a 10,000-foot level.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The company positions the profile access as a way to help boost the relevancy of pitches a reporter receives. Besides being able to unsubscribe (or subscribe) to all pitches, a journalist can unsubscribe from a specific company that spams them with irrelevant story pitches.”. 9) OnePitch analyzes 1,000 pitches for trends.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What I wasn’t initially anticipating within the field is the creativity, anticipation and thrill it entails when conceiving campaigns, writing pitches and landing links. However, ‘brand’ usually comes first with clients’ internal PR and marketing teams. I’ve discussed the value of expert commentary for journalists in this piece.

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PRSay

MAY 18, 2016

In June, we saw AMEC upgrade its 5-year-old measurement guidelines to Barcelona Principles 2.0. An internationally sought keynote speaker, her writing has appeared in Forbes, CIO and VentureBeat, as well over 500 authored blogs.

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PRSay

APRIL 19, 2016

To translate this for communications purposes, if the brand is using billboards or other outdoor signage, try finding local bloggers in that neighborhood and pitch them a story or some custom content. Create a small editorial guideline around the interview time and write Pulses for a few days before the interview, and after.

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MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2016

Example: RTI International undertook a study that examined Twitter posts about e-cigarettes between 2008 and 2013 to gain insight into how companies were selling and promoting the product, as well as the locations where people use e-cigs the most. Engage Publishers as Opinion Leaders. patients) and industry trends (e.g. a decline in X).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

When I built a case for creating it, I focused on showing how the site would be a greater asset to our institution than the internal print publication I managed. But that was the case even with the internal print publication… unearthly, jaw-dropping amounts of it. So pitching the merits of going paperless was a no-brainer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck January 27th, 2011 Tweet In the genes? I can’t tell you how many pitches I received that were so bloviated, they would have made Alec Baldwin jealous. And that was it.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. 13% say not following brand guidelines. Consulting firm Burton-Taylor International published a report finding annual spending on PR “media intelligence solutions” grew 14.7% It takes an average of 4 hours to write in 2022. billion in 2021 .

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