Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. The founder of Moneywehave.com, a personal finance and travel site, simply doesn’t have the time or the resources to shoot video or create infographics himself.

Infographics 54

Infographics Print Video Real Estate 54

PR 20/20

AUGUST 9, 2016

An infographic: The design team has taken the most tweet-worthy stats and created a tantalizing infographic to accompany the eBook and drive social shares. A blog post: Your team has written an engaging blog post, featuring key takeaways and a call-to-action (CTA) to download your eBook.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing eBook Publicity Marketing 40

Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. For example, if you’re using Pinterest images on a blog and driving traffic back and forth in some unique way, this would impress most interviewers. Ideally, with agencies or larger organizations.

Pinterest 52

Pinterest Writing Interviews Social Media 52

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A quick crisp e-mail with images or infographic has a better chance of catching the media’s fancy than long pitch notes or press releases. While print media still has a wide reach in India, the audience is glued online, and frequently seek feedback about product and services from the online/blogger community.

Google 40

Google Trends Community Twitter 40

MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Many podcasts combine the audio interview with text – so your audience can consume your messages in both print and audio form. Podcasts give clients the opportunity to express their personality in a way that infographics, e-books and print interviews seldom do. We get pitches for potential guests who simply aren’t a fit.

Company 113

Company Interviews Print Pitching 113

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Another good idea: draft a simple byline or blog post on “Scary Customer Stories” or “Nightmare Product Launches.” We do an annual Halloween PR blog post that’s always well-received. For example, IoT devices for the home can factor into smart pitches on fall clean-up and prep stories.

Film 180

Film Small Business Pitching Comparison 180

Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hence, this isn’t a typical 500-word blog post with 10 tips to ( insert random PR activity ). Long form blog posts? Read more about FINN’s journey to becoming a lean PR agency in founder Raf Weverbergh’s 3-part blog post. Writing a blog post? Answering an email inquiry about the status of the blog post?

How To 60

How To Software System Employee 60

MaccaPR

MARCH 7, 2016

According to statistics from the American Society of News Editors, print news staffing fell by 65 percent from 2005-2015. As print and broadcast newsrooms shrink, a company’s ability to have its media-worthy content at the fingertips of inquiring journalists has never been so vital. Which leads us to why it’s important to….

How To 48

How To Media Print Real Estate 48

Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

Multimedia journalists are expected to be able to produce or adapt content for an increasingly wider-range of media, including traditional broadcast, print and Web formats, as well as blogging, podcasting (audio and video), social media, and live content platforms (Periscope or Facebook Live for example).

Media Relations 40

Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40

Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

Multimedia journalists are expected to be able to produce or adapt content for an increasingly wider-range of media, including traditional broadcast, print and Web formats, as well as blogging, podcasting (audio and video), social media, and live content platforms (Periscope or Facebook Live for example).

Media Relations 40

Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40

Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

Normally, I dislike cross-posting between Bad Pitch and "my other blog." Then I remembered, you don''t read my other blog. It’s a printed piece (thick stock with an even thicker cover stock). To be clear, I don’t begrudge anyone from creating, and mailing, a printed piece. maybe my Mom reads both?)

Marketing 42

Marketing Print Guidelines Wikipedia 42

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

There shouldn’t be a barrier between the press office and the digital team - media relations people should be running blogs and engaging with journalists via social forms of media such as Twitter,” said Alex Singleton, author of The PR Masterclass. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution.

Media Relations 115

Media Relations Media Print Newspapers 115

Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a solo PR professional, you are an expert juggler — you keep all of your clients, projects, pitches, emails and processes flying through the air at top speed. There are enough project management tools out there to fill up their own blog post — and then some! Tools to find and pitch media contacts.

Tools 71

Tools Infographics Pitching Google 71

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Let’s take the organic traffic from my personal blog as an example. Suppose I extract five years’ data from my blog of traffic from search: This traffic data tells me when my audience is searching for topics of interest that my blog answers. What Would PR Do? What would a data-driven PR agency like SHIFT do with it?

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Analytics Data-Driven PR Data Software 132

Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You can also use this dictionary as a lead tool, if you’re a marketing exec who wants to hire a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning writers for your brand’s blog. A call to action (CTA) is a bit of language in a blog post or piece of content that prompts the audience to do something specific. So let’s get started!

Content Marketing 85

Content Marketing Marketing Media SEO 85

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It was a good pitch. After several unsuccessful attempts, I re-worked my pitch into a blog post and published it on the company blog. This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. The same is true in print. Thread contributed content into blog posts.

Content Marketing 60

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