Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Don’t Overlook Its Importance When I think of content marketing, one of the primary tactics that comes to mind is guest blogging. That being said, here are a few dozen “do’s and don’ts” to help you in your pitching and writing efforts. Match voice to the publication or blog. Is your goal reach?

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Landis PR

JUNE 6, 2022

As a PR pro, a decent portion of your job involves pitching the media. Your pitch can say a lot about you and your agency in terms of professionalism, so it’s essential to take the time to get it right. Here are some tips to perfect your pitch: Do your research. Here are some tips to perfect your pitch: Do your research.

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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. But how to determine which blogs are me-too, and which are worth your while? After that, the blog world is your oyster! Follow these blogs to increase your PR acumen.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 2, 2023

Short PR pitches – 150 words or less – had a better response rate (5.89%) than long pitches (1.46%) – 500 pitches or more, according to data analyzed by Propel. Short pitches – 150 words or less – had a better response rate (5.89%) than long pitches (1.46%) – 500 pitches or more. We might be all AI-ed out.

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 12, 2023

No matter how the industry changes, one key skill PR professionals need to know is pitch writing. Although you may be able to write a quality pitch by following a format, capturing the attention of a journalist whose inbox is saturated with similar content can be difficult. That you’re pitching, not writing it.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

One of the best ways is to stay on top of key PR industry blogs as well as more general sites that offer a fresh take on business, creativity, and content. Why limit yourself to PR blogs when there’s a whole world of interesting stuff that can offer important information as well as increase specific skill sets? The Cision Blog.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. One way to do that is to look at press releases and compare them to news articles that follow the releases to get a sense of the difference. .

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What would help you to pitch smarter — to better target your media list and pitch journalists the way they want to be pitched? When Jered and his team first launched OnePitch in 2017, it was set up as a kind of “reverse HARO” where journalists could opt in to receive regular pitches.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 10, 2017

This is true for the earned media we generate, the thought leadership content we produce for clients and for our own blog content. Any company blogging today must have a strategy for boosting the visibility of their content and ensuring it is shareable and shared. For a primer on keyword selection for SEO, have a look at this article.

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Cision

JANUARY 27, 2016

If you’re new to the world of DIY public relations, let’s take a look at one of the essential components of your PR strategy: pitching the media. It starts long before the pitch. I had someone comment on my blog recently, asking “how do I find the journalists who cover my industry?” Step 3: Make the Pitch at the Right Time.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 2, 2017

Here are the top 10 tech blogs you need to read to prepare for promoting clients across a range of industries, including IoT, ad-tech, tech products and services and wearable technology. Our tech team recommends this list of blogs for the best information on relevant news, competitive moves, trends, and data insights. Crunchbase.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Pitches can make or break a PR campaign. You could have a contact list brimming with journalists, and a potentially-viral campaign, but if you hit send on a flat pitch don’t be surprised if you fail to get opens or coverage. Getting Pitch Perfect. It’s as simple as that. However, I’ll explain exactly why this is in point 9.

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Ethical Voices

MARCH 9, 2023

Amiga: Ethics of AI Pitching – Thinking about the ethical use of generative AI in public relations and marketing has been consuming every spare minute of my day. Well today, Propel introduced Amiga, an AI tool to draft press releases and customize pitches. Check them out below! It will be looking at this further.

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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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Presspage

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That means the journalists you’re contacting are overwhelmed with pitches; many of them poorly thought out or irrelevant. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Long-winded PR pitches will lose a journalist’s interest almost immediately. Personalize your PR pitches.

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Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 13, 2012

Byline article pitches usually stink. This is because, even if the pitch is targeted, the article is usually included in the pitch. The recipient assumes the article has been sent to several other blogs or media outlets. So when I finally received a good byline article pitch, I was twice as excited.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 25, 2015

As I found editorial success for my agency’s clients, I was able to branch out and pitch radio and television broadcast opportunities. So, as a blogger for the past seven years and a podcaster more recently, here are my five tips for pitching success and how PR stands for “Personal” Relations: Know about me, but know more about my community.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

You won’t get there unless you learn how to pitch journalists with your story. The kiss of death is sending a pitch to editor@yourfavoritepublication.com. Browse articles online and look at bylines. Now that you know who you want to pitch, slow your roll before you send an email. Comment intelligently on their articles.

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OnePitch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What’s the best pitch of yours that resulted in coverage and what elements made it successful? I think our obsession with brevity in a pitch often translates to that same obsession with brevity in a response, but those two are very different things. What information do you always make sure to include in a pitch?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 23, 2017

Public relations experts know that the majority of traffic coming to a blog post comes in the first hours and days of publication. This makes the timely promotion of your blog content critical to its success. Make your blog posts work harder through linking, sharing and more. Although in our experience, mileage varies widely.).

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Onclusive

JUNE 9, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Measure your message pull-through from an article all the way through to conversions on your website and get automatic insights for optimizing your strategy. Set your messaging, write the story. Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 6, 2021

OnePitch recommends reporters to pitch; ResponseSource shuts down #journorequest curation; Meltwater acquires Owler; Critical Mention adds “cast & crew” TV data. OnePitch feature recommends reporters to pitch. In a video tutorial, the company says it will start making recommendations after you’ve sent three or more pitches.

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Rock the Status Quo

MAY 4, 2015

The Differences in Pitch Style & Purpose Are Helpful to Understand I love PR, I love SEO and I really love how well they intersect to grow client reach and conversion. How that pitch is written can be VERY revealing. Why do I write about backlink pitches in a PR blog?

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Onclusive

MAY 19, 2022

In this week’s blog, we’re continuing to review the relationship between different media attributes and consumer behavior, based on our quantitative analysis of the PR Attribution data from over 100,000 earned media articles published in 2021 that covered both business-to-consumer and business-to-business brands across a wide range of industries. “By

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Onclusive

MAY 19, 2022

In this week’s blog, we’re continuing to review the relationship between different media attributes and consumer behavior, based on our quantitative analysis of the PR Attribution data from over 100,000 earned media articles published in 2021 that covered both business-to-consumer and business-to-business brands across a wide range of industries. “By

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 18, 2021

Typically they’re articles or broadcast segments that feature a given company or brand in a positive way. The findings or data from a white paper can also be pitched out to the media. That’s why podcasts should be on every media pitch list. Customer case studies sell benefits. The humble customer testimonial still works.

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PRSay

APRIL 19, 2017

PR pros shouldn’t expect success every time they pitch a story — having three out of 10 pitches result in a placement is considered a good average — but a good PR professional will want to increase his or her chances of success in every way possible. Here are five types of pitches reporters don’t want to receive: 1.

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Rock the Status Quo

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Journalists love to bash PR pros… and some of us give them ample reason, pitching without taking time to manage the due diligence that makes a pitch resonate. If eight out of ten pitches are irrelevant, it’s no wonder that journalists ignore most of their inbox and sleuth out their own resources. This might be why.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Within a single solution, PR teams can research and develop their communications strategy, pitch and manage journalist relationships, measure and analyze global media coverage, and produce world-class reports. Onclusive’s media database has everything I need to build my pitch, all in one place.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Pitching media remains a challenge; Twitter is still a journalist favorite; PR dabbled with generative AI as businesses worried about misinformation Regular readers know I publish a weekly post every Tuesday. Sometimes I write a complete blog post on a report – and other times it’s just a blub. PR Tech Sum No.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Make sure to only reach out to journalists who are within your niche and have written articles on similar subjects in the past. Try launching lookalike campaigns from traffic generated from an article you pitched. Your goal when pitching should be to bring value to the reader. Change the tone. Improve your SEO.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2020

Propel says PR is sending more pitches; Muck Rack adds podcast contacts and broadcast monitoring; several PR tech vendors publish survey results “Welcome to May. PR is sending more pitches during COVID-19 The average PR pros appear to have sent more media pitches during the Coranavirus pandemic than before it’s occurrence.

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Prakkypedia

JANUARY 8, 2023

I recently read several articles centred around public relations in 2023. PR Daily has a terrific list of predictions (and a lot of humour in the article). PR Daily has a terrific list of predictions (and a lot of humour in the article). Above: Photo by Dominique ROELLINGER from Pexels: [link]. You’ve got to laugh!

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

PR pitches earn a 45% open rate and a 3% response rate; the top metrics for marcom and PR by segment; Europe is more satisfied with PR agencies than the U.S. What: PR pitching amidst the continuing media layoffs When: February 22, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2019

As a profession, public relations evokes images of media pitching or crisis management. From blog posts to media pitches, we shift gears constantly, adapting to many different kinds of written content. Media pitches and social posts require writers to pack the most punch into the lowest word count. Bylined articles.

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Ronn Torossian

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Additionally, there are plenty of ways that an ICO can be promoted through public platforms – through blog posts and articles, to speeches at conferences, to pitching the […]. The post ICO Public Relations: PR Agency Strategy for Initial Coin Offerings appeared first on.

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5W PR

JANUARY 1, 2019

Everyday journalists are inundated with pitches from business owners and PR professionals looking to get their products and services features in an article. However, of the many pitches that journalists receive only a selected few make it onto the pages of their media outlet. Go in depth into his or her recent stories.

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