Bad Pitch Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Turns out that PR folk are not the only ones who send bad pitches! As we know, our HR colleagues pitch all day, every day. When they recruit, they’re pitching. When they announce inevitably negative changes to benefits packages, they’re pitching. This from someone at RLM who isn’t as wily as I am. You get the idea.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

I started in commercial radio in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2006 at the mighty KEZO, which meant I played a lot of fantastic rock records between the hourly weather and traffic reports! I began writing for 605 Magazine in early 2010 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Bad Pitch Blog

MAY 20, 2010

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.

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Marketwired

APRIL 12, 2016

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 Pitch Blog

AUGUST 1, 2006

Shel Holtz forwarded a blanket pitch sent to him that brings several basic lessons to mind. This is one of the lamest pitches I’ve seen in a long time. This is one of the lamest pitches I’ve seen in a long time. Our first episode premiered on February 15th, 2006, and was downloaded over 2000 times.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JUNE 25, 2007

New York Times'' Technology reporter Saul Hansell sent us a worse-than-usual pitch that we have been baffled by. Something got us thinking: “Does anyone read what they write?!” So anyway, think about this: Now someone who gets pitched EVERYTHING will have an opportunity to say “Look what I have” on his own blog.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 4, 2015

Staffers who aren’t quite profitable from across the organization can be corralled and pitched together to get their firm’s “revenue by PR professional” up. But they still have an audience to serve and no reporter worth her byline will take a weak story pitch, even from a friend. Media relations alone doesn’t cut it.

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Bad Pitch Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Let’s review his lame pitching to date. Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 11:14:19 AM Subject: LEADING NEW YORK REAL ESTATE FIRM LAUNCHES BRAND-NEW WEB SITE FENWICK KEATS GOODSTEIN LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE User-Friendly Site Features Posting of New Listings in Real-Time plus Comprehensive Apartment Search Data Base - User-friendly AND real-time?

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 14, 2022

I founded Kwittken in 2006, sold it in 2010 to MDC Partners, which is now Stagwell. Then a couple years ago with Stagwell and Mark Penn, I founded a company called Prophet, which is the first SaaS platform for PR people that uses AI to predict media interest, sentiment and spread before you pitch. I’m not a developer.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 27, 2007

Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Randy Salas has sent us two bad pitches. 4) There''s more, including all the typos and the fact that there was no reason to send the release to me since it pertains to nothing I write about. In keeping with the pitch style above, we’ll help Randy put some meat on these bones. How kind of her.

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Bad Pitch Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The Bad Pitch Blog is awarding Glinda, our good pitch badge of honor, to The Morris + King Company for turning ProfNet’s value add into a publicity opp for their firm. Nov 17, 2006 05:00 PM 1. Nov 01, 2006 12:11 PM EST(America/New_York) -- Here’s why it’s smart. bad pitch media PR ProfNet public relations'

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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 15, 2006

Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:54:22 -0400 To: prblog@yahoo.com From: " AGENCY " AGENCY@AGENCYNAME.com > Subject: News: NAME Joins AGENCY NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: FLACK NAME FLACK PHONE FLACK EMAIL NAME Joins AGENCY BETHESDA, MD- August 15, 2006- NAME has joined Bethesda, MD-based AGENCY as an Account Executive and Copy Writer.

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Karen Freberg

MAY 19, 2017

So, I wanted to write about the lessons I have learned from my time in South Africa and how this one experience has helped shape who I am today as a professor. I was pitching the media for our fashion and consumer clients. Did I get this? Absolutely, but I got much more than that from this experience.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 2, 2007

In 2006, over 17 million COMPANY savings offers were mailed to consumers through the familiar blue Valpak envelope. The writing sucks and the reason they sent it to Susan Getgood sucks. But we’ll focus on the writing. Put your news hat on when writing news releases, not your copywriting beret. Did we miss anything?

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 25, 2006

From: NSchulhof@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:20 PM Subject: (no subject) Please consider me for a Key Note Speaker at your next event, I am very effective and motivating, utilizing humor and experiences. Tomorrow, worst pitch I received during 15 years of writing the notorious Native''s Guide to New York book series.'

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Bad Pitch Blog

JULY 7, 2006

We were dealt into the next bad pitch by an anonymous member of the news media. So we edited the pitch to keep the media outlet’s identity anonymous instead of the person pitching it. I had to forward this pitch to you. All the best, Charlie Bernard - Hmm, this pitch is a tricky one. So WHY does it suck?

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 9, 2006

Your first introduction of a client to the media should not necessarily even be a pitch (there are always exceptions). Yeah, the Bad Pitch blog is always telling everyone to hurry up and wait. But keep in mind that heeding our mantra drastically cuts down the cycle time of your first, second and third pitch. I’d love to talk.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JUNE 19, 2006

Just when you thought we were all Bad, here''s Glinda the Good Pitch. Glinda is a badge of honor bestowed on some of the good pitches we get. Instead the Gold Group helped Oxfam capitalize on a unique donation from actress Keira Knightley—a Vera Wang dress she wore to the 2006 Oscars. BPB: What was your social media angle/pitch?

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). “Writing makes me aware. Start a blog because you love to write. He hosts a weekly writing podcast too.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

You get one of our coveted Glinda the Good Pitch awards…Kevin, give it to them! I’m told if I don’t write it like that he’ll sue me and stomp up and down! for fabulous press. Here is a story that ran everywhere – before complaints began pouring in. Keep reading. Note the lovely (read catty) Dawson’s Creek reference.

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