Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 1, 2014

PITCH submission comes from Lindsay Bell, the fabuloso content director over at Spin Sucks. There is a certain irony that, as PR professionals who earn a living based on our pitching skills, our own industry blogs are smothered with a constant deluge of bad pitches. We also run a popular eCommerce marketing blog.

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Cision

AUGUST 19, 2016

“If you want your pitch to be noticed in a flood of product releases, know when to send it,” writes Anna Marevska in our recent blog post How to Pitch Holiday Gift Guide Editors. Inform your pitches by following the listed lead time and deadlines. Need more tips on crafting your holiday pitch?

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Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

This has created both an opportunity and a potential point of concern for professional marketers and communicators who are wondering: Do the benefits of AI outweigh the threats? It can help you generate press releases from keywords or headlines—and even aggregate a list of journalists who might be interested in your pitch.

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Mindful Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing Millions of baseball fans were recently watching televised games when they were unexpectedly hit by a pitch! A veteran marketer and an up-and-coming rookie argue the call.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Through the years, the PR and comms fields have been attractive landing spots for journalists with their writing and storytelling skills and media prowess. Journalists have excellent communications skills, such as writing and the ability to speak clearly and concisely. Many of the most successful PR executives were former journalists.

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PR Fuel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Did you know about 83% of small businesses believe in the effectiveness of a digital marketing campaign? If press releases are not part of your online marketing strategy, you could be missing out on many business opportunities. You can benefit from professional press release writing services if you’re nee to press releases.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2023

The survey found: 57% are crafting pitches; 48% are writing copy for social media; 48% are writing press releases; 44% are using it for research; and 25% say they are using it for strategy and planning. How does PR’s use of gAI compare to marketing? Of those that are using it (that 28%, presumably) – how is it being used?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, videos and marketing go hand-in-hand. For marketers, this means one thing: jumping onto the video marketing bandwagon is no longer a nice-to-have strategy– it’s mandatory. Among all those video marketing strategies, public relations (PR) remains an underrated one. Today, at least 91.8%

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2023

When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. Make it clear who or what you are pitching. Draw a correlation between your pitch and their prior coverage. Takeaway: Journalists are checking to see what’s hot with readers and writing more of that.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

“Nail the elevator pitch.”. I came to the name after incorporating my initials — ‘MAS’ is Spanish for ‘more’ — and ‘ink’ references pen-to-paper; writing your story to build and manage your communications. AirPR: With PR as a focus, you have included marketing and advertising into your agency. We keep things simple.

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PR for Anyone

MARCH 24, 2020

Now is the time to up-level your marketing plan by adding in free publicity. She pitched it to her editor who loved it too and they wrote an article about me. Did you invent a new product, write a book, or win an award? Those are their sponsors and they pay for the advertising. Make your business newsworthy.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

In a perfect world, public relations and marketing teams would work together more often to achieve common goals. But let’s be honest: we’re all fighting an uphill battle in reducing organizational drag , and not everyone needs to be in your weekly marketing meeting. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product.

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PR for Anyone

MAY 24, 2022

They aren’t used just for news anymore but have become a marketing tool. Find who is writing about your industry and reach out, show your value, give them information before you start pitching to them. Once upon a time, yes, a press release meant something and only solid news stories were sent out.

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Flack's Revenge

JULY 11, 2018

The pitch is delivered, building to a crescendo – the “a ha” moment in which the idea comes into focus. Most who are familiar with the concept of a Big Idea know it from the world of advertising. Usually delivered via the pitch, the big idea captivated agency clients and brought each episode to a climax. Or maybe Dracula.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. Writing is thinking, but more than that its the application of thinking; it transforms a passive activity into an active one. We are after all forever students of marketing. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you’re launching a new product or service, it therefore makes sense to include blogger outreach in the marketing mix. If your product falls into a niche, blogs are a terrific way to get the word out to your target market. On the other hand, independent bloggers rely on advertising and sponsors to make a living.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. The next is about an emissions study with some colorful graphics.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Last week, I attended MarketingProfs B2B Forum, a place specifically geared to educate business-to-business marketers. I decided to compile five of the best quotes from the forum for some B2B marketing inspiration. Many times we do ‘much of the same’ in our marketing campaigns. Register today!

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 31, 2020

Buyers were taking in content before talking to sales even before the Coronavirus hit; now is a great time to double down on content marketing Today is the last day of the first quarter of 2020. When I think about that statistic in today’s context – this is another moment for true content marketing. Here are their answers: 1.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 14, 2021

In many cases they support a path to a market leadership position. A fundamental impacts of well-conceived PR program is differentiating from the competition; impact that advertising and marketing cannot do with the same potency. Plus, in today’s employment market, B2B companies are always fighting for tech talent.

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Recently our Chicago team invited Jessica Wohl , Food and Restaurant Reporter at Advertising Age , into its offices for a Lunch and Learn with the media team. Jessica shared her career path that led to her role at Ad Age, a publication focused on the marketing and media community. [By Alex Hoag].

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution. Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for a publicly-traded company that developed and sold software to the PR market. Did you know?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked a whole bunch of smart people for their marketing predictions or PR predictions for the next year. And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In 5) Marketers will slow down.

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PR for Anyone

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you can pitch yourself as an expert on a topic that is trending online. The more people they have paying attention to their outlet, the more advertisers they can get and the better it is for them. You could even add that in your pitch when you send it in that “Hey, this is buzzing online. We pitch the media.

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PR Fuel

JULY 5, 2020

Although social media and content writing has its place, these methods are better at reaching consumers instead of news organizations. Read on to learn how to choose the best press release writing service for your business, and how you can tell the difference between good and bad press release writing! Writing a Press Release.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 3, 2017

There are many public relations industry blogs that offer know-how on everything from crafting brilliant media pitches to perfecting presentation skills. We like to follow bloggers who are superior writers, and straight shooters, and whose posts are free of jargon and sales pitches. To improve writing. Bad Pitch Blog.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 30, 2017

How to Pitch a Data-Driven Pitch with… Data! The final part of data-driven PR is to use our data, analysis, and insights to identify who would be most receptive to our pitching. Suppose we take our pitch about SEO, about how trust and linking have a relationship. Who should we pitch this story to? Just anyone?

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PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I was watching Good Morning America last week and saw a story that just resonated with everything I share and write about related to newsjacking and “celebrity sells” when pitching the media. Remember to think about what medium you are pitching. That helps when you pitch too, to show them the visuals.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I’ve known Lin Pophal for years through her work as a writer for eContent , HR Executive , and others; have pitched her client stories and my own thought leadership topics (I’m in her eContent story on content curation tools ). Is it interesting to get pitches? Is this a sign of the future of PR (and journalism)?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 14, 2023

Former PR agency leader is a building software product focused on improving PR pitches with two different types of artificial intelligence I’ve started to use ChatGPT to rewrite and suggest alternate headlines. In 2010, he sold his agency to an advertising holdings company for an estimated $10-$15 million.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

PR professionals balance these media types to maximize brand exposure and credibility: Paid Media : Content promoted through advertising (e.g., What is Influencer Marketing? Influencer marketing involves collaborating with individuals (influencers) who have a significant following on social media or other platforms.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

But to the marketing and communications worlds, the reality is that it has been used in various forms for years, having started gaining momentum around 2015. For the last several years, marketers primarily used AI for data analysis and predictive modeling. To the average consumer, AI likely snuck up like a mysterious, unknown entity.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We typically interview the prospect and based on the outcome of the discussion, gauge the odds of winning the business, determine how to budget and staff for the pitch and roll the dice on a positive outcome. It also provides opportunity for those just starting out in the business to flex their writing muscles.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. As opposed to paying for advertising, PR pros earn media coverage by pitching stories reporters want to write, and readers want to see.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 11, 2023

While PR probably isn’t writing public communications about trade secrets, you should be cognizant of obvious dangers. AI input optimization could evolve into a marketing specialization in the same way SEO did. The company says, “AMIGA offers advanced research and writing capabilities including generating pitches.”

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