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An $8 Billion Lesson in Strategic Decision-Making

PRSay

Starting in 2012, they’d make announcements about big investments from venture funds that valued them around $500 million, and then things would go back to normal. Their press releases, pitches and conversations with journalists mention this aplenty. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here.

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2 Enduring Strategies for These Content-Saturated Times

PRSay

Then in 2012 they took the company public and revenue actually mattered. 2017 — Snapchat went public with a soaring valuation and lots of brands jumped on that bandwagon. Michael Smart teaches PR professionals how to dramatically increase their positive media placements.

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Sorry, Press Releases Do Not Help Your SEO Anymore

Sword and the Script

In 2012, Google leaned on professional press release services to implement redirects that strip the value or find their own sites penalized. As such the SEO pitch has shifted and these posts now suggest: 1) press releases themselves are indexed and searchable, which is technically true, but the statement is misleading in my judgement; and.

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What Are Agency Partnerships? Why It May Be Smart as a Solo PR Pro to Work With an Agency

Solo PR Pro

To the rest of the team, I was just traditional media relations. They asked me to put together a very robust communications plan that included my media relations approach and social strategy and other communication stuff not part of my usual responsibilities. This is when things really started to change. It was painful.

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Journalist Compares a Bad Media Pitch with One That Has a Fighting Chance

The Hoffman Agency

For those who toil on the front lines of media relations, it’s easy to drift into a Jim Carrey-like optimism. PR: “What are the chances that you’ll write about this pitch?”. The primary reasons that journalists ignore PR pitches today is the same reason they ignored pitches 25 years ago: The pitch is generic.

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Look up, don’t look down. Think ‘reputation in the round’

PR in High Definition

A decade after that conversation, during an address at Cambridge University in 2012, Stephen Hawking said, “look up at the stars not down at your feet. I wish I’d known that in 2002 but it was still a useful learning in 2012. Your reputation is not just about the brand, it’s about your people as well. Think ‘more than media’.

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Meet the Media: Vesna Brajkovic, Managing Editor of Heavy Duty Trucking & TruckingInfo.com

Bianchi Biz Blog

At the time, I didn’t find a lot of industry coverage on drone usage in this application, and it was all so brand new to me. The sources I grew to know in the space weren’t fatigued by media questions yet and seemed genuinely excited to share what they know. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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