Flack's Revenge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Many wish to continue to write off public relations and kick it to the curb – by coldly saying that the profession and/or its trappings are dead. In addition to that, it is a helpful tool for many journalists who really are asking for more information than a simple, pithy email pitch provides. It is not just us. Well, it is Inc.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 26, 2018

To build a productive relationship with an influencer you first have to cut through the clutter so that your pitch is heard. You need to write a compelling message that’s probably an email that can get through this influencers defenses and encourage them to work with you. What do you write and why? What is your role?

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 14, 2014

As more companies join the content marketing arena, one of the bigger issues these companies face is this: How do we source all this content? Many organizations just aren’t set up to create an ongoing dribble (let alone a firehose) of online content. Yes, these companies have smart marketers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Put more succinctly, your customers know your content before they know your business.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 26, 2019

Any public relations agency today needs nearly instant resources — from details on media preferences to data that informs our pitches and programs. There’s only so much time to spend on routine work like monitoring and measuring, yet these tasks are extremely important to any ongoing PR agency-client relationship.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 22, 2017

Electronic communications have made writing so easy that we don’t put as much thought or effort into the task anymore. At least not to the degree we did when we had to sit in front of a typewriter or hand write a note with a bottle of white-out nearby. Email has made our writing lazy. 2) Words matter in marketing strategies.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 22, 2022

Nearly 80% of marketers are adding press releases to their content marketing strategies. Then, write your press release with that publication’s target audience in mind. If you want to ensure your release is picked up, dedicate time to the writing process. Then, write a fresh release for that publication.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

There’s nothing like a grueling weekend spent unsuccessfully following up on pitches for coverage of a client’s innovative, disruptive, and ground-breaking new technology release to make you start daydreaming of starting your own firm. Not to mention all the conferences and travel you can write off! agency, media and.

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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? What are your pet peeves regarding pitches?

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Creating good content is just half the content marketing equation. The other half is content distribution. First, for many marketers, so much effort is poured into the creation that distribution becomes an afterthought. Read more: How To Promote Your Blog With 107 Content Promotion Tactics.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s also a key reason why blogging and content marketing has become an important tool in the media relations toolkit. based reporters said, “ensuring content is 100 percent accurate is the most important” in their organization. Comment: Content marketers should borrow this hint from reporters in their own work.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public affairs: This involves working with government officials and agencies to shape public policy and advocate on behalf of an organization.”. ChatGPT seems to miss emerging themes if there isn’t a wide body of writing already on a topic. And in B2B marketing it already does. How is technology being used in public relations?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This year, we saw in-house teams get downsized and agency budgets get reduced. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. ” ~ Mark Schaefer , Executive Director, Schaefer Marketing Solutions 18. Audiences know the difference.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the past 12 months or so, I’ve easily reviewed and written about more than 20 such PR surveys from the PR sector (there many more about marketing). Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. Content marketing and media relations need each other.

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Landis PR

JUNE 27, 2022

My career started 35 years ago at a PR agency that specialized in the luxury lifestyle sector. And now I’m happily back at an agency, working with environmental and healthcare clients. While I absolutely love working with journalists to develop and shape a story, I really ( really ) hate pitching. Can you believe it?

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PR Fuel

JUNE 24, 2021

About 69% of marketers with successful campaigns have a documented content marketing strategy. As part of your content strategy, you might consider drafting your own press releases. Writing in a journalistic style can take years of practice. Write in the inverted pyramid style. A Stronger Pitch.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

How many PR agencies consider SEO when they’re coming up with PR strategies for clients? How many PRs write blogs and truly understand how to optimise them for Search? There’s a hell of a lot more to writing and promoting a blog post than bunging in a few buzzwords. D: SEO is all about tactical execution.

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5W PR

MAY 6, 2020

For many marketers, the product, pricing and order pages are critical and indeed they are. But the About Us page is also important because that’s where more than half the respondents to a recent survey by KoMarketing, a social/content marketing firm, said they visit. Only contact information and products/services rated higher.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 10, 2018

A while back a reporter I had been pitching threw me what I thought was an unexpected softball. Mr. Pearlstein is a long-time reporter and editor turned professor says he was looking to write about “well-run company.” Media Relations Ends; Content Marketing Begins. Want an agency partner that can do this for you?

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Cision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Erik Wheater, account executive at Burns360, details his transition from a five-year career in television news to the PR agency life. He reveals how his background in journalism has shaped his view of the industry, his growing appreciation for PR professionals and gives insight into how journalists in the TV industry truly want to be pitched.

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Television Pitching Journalism Interviews 120

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It’s all too easy to write about yourself and your company in a favorable light– it’s your blog after all. Provide value to your readers and keep the sales pitches to a minimum. Marketing Coordinator. Blogging Content Marketing Metrics blogging building audience' Tori Sabourin.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Whether your job is to writing advertisements, pitching reporters, or creating good content, make your customer the hero. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: What Does It Take to Implement Content Marketing Effectively in B2B? Give our services a try.

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Polaris

MARCH 20, 2015

Before Penguin, Google ranked my company either at the top, or near the top, of search results for almost every public relations keyword: Toronto PR firm, Canadian public relations agency, top PR firm Ontario, and on. We won some of those pitches, but still relied primarily on referrals from satisfied customers for most new business.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. 1) The Parallel between Product Placement and Content Marketing. It’s well worth a read as well.

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Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). These posts represent the types of things you might not want to write about again. Which posts received the most negative comments?

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Blogging Strategy How To Writing 69

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

What if what we know in marketing is holding us back? When I left comms agency work for PR technology I felt I had to unlearn many of the techniques I’d built up over 13 years. Why Owned Media is Key to an Effective PR Plan We know that content is important in PR now but can we explain why? It’s free, why not give it a go now?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2017

In other words, the stories he writes must appeal to as many people as possible. I was pitching a story that involved a product that competed with a product his corporate stakeholders commercialized. Don’t miss these related posts: The Shocking Beef about Feeding the Content Monster. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute?

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Journalism Brand Branding Advertising 64

Beyond PR

JUNE 14, 2018

Although leading a PR agency as CEO will always have its fair share of surprises, a member of his team came back from a meeting with a client a few years ago with some particularly ominous feedback. Tisch agrees, describing Argyle’s approach as one of “narrowcasting” and tailoring a pitch. Argyle didn’t just change its name, of course.

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Pitching Content Marketing Ethics Course 45

Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

And, over the past 20 years, with the rise of the digital age , we’ve seen the PR techniques employed by big and small brands alike becoming more abstract and off the cuff in a bid to capture the attention of what is now a hugely saturated market. Write and distribute press releases. Speech writing.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Content marketing is on my mind quite a bit this week, for a variety of reasons, so we’ll use that as our topic. A second client tasked me with building a list of recommended next steps to move their content marketing forward, AND I’ve been working on my own 2015 content marketing strategy for Rock The Status Quo.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

You’ve spent weeks or months pitching a key reporter. Have a skilled PR professional with good interviewing and writing skills interview a customer about trends in the industry or problems they face. The conversation is focused on their market knowledge and expertise, rather than your product. Then your heart sinks. Talk to Us!

B2B 60

B2B Blogging How To Media 60

PR in High Definition

JULY 24, 2019

Plucking out media relations and assigning a PR agency to ‘generate coverage’ is just like eating some cake filling, with no cake. Now social, SEO, content marketing, employer branding and other reputation-building tactics are becoming more impactful, and it’s clear that only having a media relations strategy simply will not cut it.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. His experience sitting on both sides of the table, and a conceivably comparable pressure for clicks, has given him a balanced and long-term perspective on business communications and marketing. And yet, there are problems.

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Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The next agency we hired was a solo PR firm specializing in B2B – a one-person shop. A small agency like this one provides access to creative senior talent at reasonable rates. These experiences have directly shaped the B2B agency I have opened here in greater Atlanta. 2) Agility of a Small PR Agency.

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B2B Corporate Agency Creativity 60

Journalistics

JANUARY 24, 2016

In this age of content marketing we’re living in, it seems like every organization is blogging in hopes of capturing some inbound marketing magic (you can thank HubSpot for that). These posts represent the types of things you might not want to write about again. Which posts received the most negative comments?

Blogging 40

Blogging Strategy How To Writing 40

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Graphic used with permission from The Marketing Companion, a podcast with a co-host employed by Edison Research; see link nearby. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search. Audio in marketing doesn’t just mean podcasts writes David Kirkpatrick for Marketing Dive – The call for audio content marketing gets louder.

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Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 23, 2018

B2B organizations that find content marketing effective are committed to these programs. These organizations have a content marketing plan in writing. Those are among the top-level findings from an annual survey of content marketers by the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs.

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