ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Regular “touch-base” calls are a PR agency staple. A PR agency is typically brought on to do more than secure media coverage. If a brand is new to PR or unfamiliar with the ins-and-outs of media relations, it’s time to walk through key items like announcement strategies, timelines and anticipated results.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Here’s a commonly overlooked opportunity for building relationships with media: Help them with stories you didn’t pitch. Another example: An agency pro was working with a transportation writer. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Georgia Tech to help their media relations teams reach new levels of success.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

PR people are nearly always involved in setting up these briefings, and at our agency, we always staff them as well. Not only do you want your spokesperson to succeed, but creating a friendly relationship with a journalist will pave the way for future pitches. But to a less experienced PR person, this role can feel awkward. Follow up

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Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Hiring an agency can seem pretty cool – having a dedicated team of professionals promoting you and your business all day sounds nice, right? So when is the right time to hire a PR agency? There are a plethora of tools to make it easy until you reach the pivot point to needing a full blown agency. That depends.

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PRSay

JULY 17, 2018

The most important thing I do in my business is pay very close attention whenever I speak with a Media Relations Master. One such throwaway line I heard a Media Relations Master say recently was, “I just make sure I get out of my office and go out and visit with people.”.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 16, 2018

Agency teams may think they’re in constant touch with clients as the emails fly back and forth, but that’s not enough. Misguided media relations strategy. Lack of preparation for a media interview. Some CEOs and others in leadership positions shun the idea of media training.

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Prohibition

APRIL 24, 2020

Be clear and concise when pitching to journalists during the pandemic. If the product that you’re pitching requires people to be outside to use it, involves travelling or requires multiple users it’s probably not appropriate to talk about. Be mindful and sensitive towards the situation.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In the PR agency world , after weeks of fine-tuning messaging, crafting stories and pitching reporters, there’s no better feeling than landing a top media interview for a client. It signals that the overall public relations strategy is on the right track. Referring to other media interviews.

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PRSay

APRIL 2, 2020

Journalists are being bombarded with pitches, both related and unrelated to the COVID-19 crisis, so now is not the time to be mass-pitching anything. You should be extremely selective and strategic with who and what you pitch. Share some positivity. That doesn’t mean that you should be sitting on the sidelines either.

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PRSay

MARCH 18, 2020

Whether you’re a health-care organization wondering about messaging or a brand trying to find a home for an unrelated story during this time, here are some tips for PR pros to successfully navigate this current news cycle: Know that this isn’t pitching as usual. Remember to keep your messaging useful, newsworthy and strategic.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2017

When considering an agency to handle reputation management and media relations for a company, consider these signs as indicators of the need to boost PR efforts. Intrepid PR strategists pitch an editor a trend piece on new IoT security or other products and voila, a round-up story with five or six brands appears.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Continue crafting pitches around links to the virus, or if you’re working with an unrelated topic altogether, then be sure to give it the best possible angle to break through to the outlets you’re targeting. And I think it would be great for communicators and people in media relations to be mindful of that as well.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PR professionals often reach out to journalists and other media representatives with information or news about their clients or organizations that they believe would interest them and their audience. Otherwise known as “pitching,” the goal is to secure media coverage for the client or organization.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PR professionals often reach out to journalists and other media representatives with information or news about their clients or organizations that they believe would interest them and their audience. Otherwise known as “pitching,” the goal is to secure media coverage for the client or organization.

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Brand Branding Training Viral 52

Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PR professionals often reach out to journalists and other media representatives with information or news about their clients or organizations that they believe would interest them and their audience. Otherwise known as “pitching,” the goal is to secure media coverage for the client or organization.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Don’t forget: If you are pitching an embargoed story you need to be responsive and have experts available in advance when the media inquiries start pouring in. You don’t want to play favorites.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 21, 2018

I also handle proactive and reactive media relations in the “mid-Atlantic” region of the U.S., which involves pitching story ideas like back-to-school and holiday shopping, but also handling stories about incidents in our stores. Before joining BBY, you worked at four separate PR agencies. from Chicago to Washington D.C.,

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Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

Here are some examples of the tactics used to try and achieve the objectives of the public relations discipline – but do note, as the digital world continues to enhance and infiltrate our daily lives, we anticipate that these tactics will continue to adapt and change in the future, just as they have done over the past 20 years and beyond.

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MaccaPR

MAY 23, 2016

After college I transitioned to a job at a life science marketing agency in Chicago and am now helping healthcare clients with their communications strategies here at Maccabee. According to the 2016 Trust Barometer published by agency Edelman Health, the general public’s trust in healthcare in the U.S. What does that mean?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

Staffing agencies sell “solutions.” The entrepreneur has to conceive, pitch, and close while keeping the train on track. But when it comes to marketing as individuals—personal branding— I see the root of the problem we see with start-ups: generic pitches. Tech companies start calling themselves “idea incubators.”

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Media relations hinges on the relationships that we create and maintain with the press. After being a professional journalist for more than four years, I recently left the field to pursue a career in public relations. Know who you pitch. said his newsroom receives countless email pitches every day.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

It encompasses strategic communication to build and maintain positive relationships with the media, stakeholders, and the general public. Media Relations: Establishes and maintains relationships with journalists and influencers to secure media coverage and positive exposure for the tech brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Compared to digital marketing and advertising, which has only become more automated over time, our methods — particularly the generation of earned media — are exquisitely inefficient. Even top PR and media relations professionals need to refresh their methods with new tools and technologies. Use new tools.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 18, 2019

I think everyone has a skill that best suits them; for me that’s media relations. You also do a ton of media relations-TV work in town. And, what’s the one tip you’d give other PR/media relations folks for getting their clients more TV appearances? Who are some of your clients?

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PRSay

JULY 30, 2018

I remember when I got to the point where I pretty much maxed out all the local media coverage we could get. Shop around for a PR agency to do it for us. She encouraged me to take on national pitching as a short-term project. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here. But guess what my solution was?

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Marketwired

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Creative PR means thinking outside the box—so while I believe in using traditional tools like a press release or a media pitch, make sure you get a bit creative by constructing your written communications as follows: Start with visuals: Visuals are becoming increasingly important in PR. Wouldn’t you love to pitch a story like that?

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I handle our media relations, whether it’s local consumer news or national industry pubs, I work to build relationships and create partnerships that can help enhance our brand. This includes strategy, pitching, building talking points, media training staff and distributing through applicable channels.

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