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Inside Podcast Promotion

Marketwired

population in 2006 to 33% in 2015 — a current total of 155 million Americans. This harkens back to the early days of television when the hosts or the actors you were watching would pitch the product themselves. While listenership of podcasts is still small, that audience gets increasingly larger each year.

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Bad Business to Business Pitches

Bad Pitch Blog

Bad pitches are like snowflakes. And our next pitch is in the danger zone as it represents the second time this person has pitched Canuckflack. As a result, he/she might also become the second person outed on the Bad Pitch blog. We usually fillet consumer pitches here. No two suck alike. They work three months out.

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Junk Mail, Junk News

Bad Pitch Blog

In 2006, over 17 million COMPANY savings offers were mailed to consumers through the familiar blue Valpak envelope. Read your news releases and pull anything that would sound odd or too good to be true if printed in a news story. The blue envelope might be branding, but it reads like a sales sheet not a news release.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. While that’s arguably true, depending on when you start the timeline, the reality is there were several more involved in the formation of the company as it stands today.

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Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script #29: Tom Pick of Webiquity

Sword and the Script

He’s been an independent consultant since 2006 and helps B2B companies with online marketing. Early on, I worked at a printing technology company where we had a big poster on the wall that said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” Pre-Internet, that was because print ad space was so costly.

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Retrevo’s Good ‘n Plenty Pitch

Bad Pitch Blog

We’ve been receiving more than a few pitches from Jennifer on behalf of Retrevo. And for this she’s getting a good pitch seal of approval from the Bad Pitch Blog (we used to call it Glinda the Good Pitch, but how cool is that, really?) Before we post her pitch, we asked Jennifer a few questions.