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Crashing Your Way to Success with New Product Launches: How SHIFT Helped Launch the Ultimaker 3

Shift Communications

New product launches can be hit or miss. It’s easy to give in to the excitement and guzzle the Kool-Aid when a client starts to tell you about the next generation of their product. New products are getting harder and harder to pitch. What’s hard (sometimes) is figuring out how to get the media as excited about it.

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Smart PR: 6 Stories NOT To Pitch Media

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Based on our experience, we’ve identified examples of when NOT to pitch that will help make clearer the line between self-serving nonsense and the stories journalists need. Avoid the following pitches, and make media contacts look forward to your ideas or contact you when they need an assist. A frivolous or irrelevant product.

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Journalism statistics: 7 media relations takeaways from the 2023 State of the Media Report by Cision

Sword and the Script

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. While you don’t have access to their analytics, you still can observe the overall trends. The results found 61% of journalists get 100 pitches a week or more.

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What is Technology PR?

5W PR

Here are some common types of Tech PR and how they’re implemented: Product Launch PR: Focuses on creating buzz and generating media coverage for new product releases, highlighting their features and benefits. This is especially effective for consumer technology products.

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5 Tips For A Successful Media Strategy

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For example, a client of ours, Fractal , which is a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decision-making in Fortune 500 companies, helps its customers to allocate capital, generate new business opportunities, manage risk and develop new products. Make your pitch schedule timely.

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Summer Is A Perfect Time For PR Analytics

Mindful Marketing

September kicks off a very busy PR season – conferences, events, product launches and deadlines galore all take place between September and December. Planning Time – before you finalize that 2 nd half PR plan, be sure you are aware of what your team can improve on – which media pitches are resulting in the best coverage?

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Why a business case may be the missing key to securing your PR budget

Onclusive

This initiative can be anything from a new product launch, to a proposal to increase spend on a branding campaign, or a significant investment with a new agency—to name a few. Think of it as a sales pitch with robust data and justification.

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