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Is Your Press Release or Media Pitch Guilty of Information Overload?

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Media relations and PR pros must heed Godin’s advice or suffer the consequences of being ignored, or worse, getting blocked by a journalist when trying to pitch them. A 2014 study on media usage and ad exposure revealed a typical adult’s daily media consumption was nearly 10 hours. Try to make your pitch in 100-200 words.

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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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Five Critical Points of Blogging & Image Law Every PR Pro Must Know

Rock the Status Quo

PRProChat — Ruth Carter (@rbcarter) September 4, 2014 Many, MANY people who can’t or won’t hire an attorney use Google for legal advice, sleuthing out answers to their questions, sample contracts and more. For works in the public domain, I highly recommend printing or saving a screen capture of those rights.

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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.

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Behind the Headlines With Lauren Kaufman

Cision

We started the relationship with the museum in 2014 on a project basis, organizing a trio of A-list travel writers to visit for feature coverage in target outlets. I have some international clients who believe solely in print media wins and do not put enough value into online outlets and the role social media plays today in North America.

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

2,938 crore (~$473.8M) by the end of 2014. Pitching journalists via phone calls, e-mails, and SMS’ are not the only ways of securing media coverage anymore. Today, simply getting a news release online is of not much value to Indian clients as opposed to a good spread of print coverage. 300 crore (~$48.3M) in FY 2013.

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Monday Roundup: #NovaCOM15

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: “Smart brands have realized that socially savvy women can create compelling stories and content about their products and services, and that they have an interested audience,” said Aliza Freud as she talked about why more brands see women as influencers and more with Cynopsis in the summer of 2014. Top Takeaways From NRF.

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