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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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Meet the Media: Cristina Commendatore, Editor in Chief of FleetOwner

Bianchi Biz Blog

As chief editor, I lead all FleetOwner’s content planning efforts for both print and digital. I covered Hurricane Sandy in Connecticut in 2012. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Editors are busy and flooded with emails and PR pitches all the time. Stick to the keep-it-simple principle.

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Data-Driven Storytelling – The PR Gift That Keeps on Giving

Barokas

Best days to pitch. Last summer, mobile shopping app Ibotta reached its $100 million milestone, meaning users had received $100 million in cash-back rewards since the app launched in 2012. And that was in just the first few weeks!

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Data-Driven Storytelling – The PR Gift That Keeps on Giving

Barokas

Best days to pitch. Last summer, mobile shopping app Ibotta reached its $100 million milestone, meaning users had received $100 million in cash-back rewards since the app launched in 2012. And that was in just the first few weeks!

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

The print edition of the New York Times alone reaches more people than the Huffington Post, so great newsrooms can still live in this digital environment.” How can brands take a stand and stop their over reliance on pitching media via traditional PR efforts? ” 5.

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Client Taps Paid Media to Lure Pay for Performance PR

Bad Pitch Blog

But a pitch from a Boston-based agency**, on behalf of throat lozengeer Pine Brothers, caught my attention. The top tier of rewards focus on print publications. To be honest, this pitch wasn''t going to become a story at first; it was poorly-written. The issue with lozenges? No matter what the flavor is, they suck.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

For those who work in sports and entertainment PR, there are many areas of our practices we should be evaluating from how we pitch media in the social media era, to crafting captivating press releases, packaging media stories and effectively communicating our messages to the right audiences in real time.