Presspage

AUGUST 5, 2020

Combining the powers of email marketing with an attention-grabbing PR pitch is a winning approach when it comes to major campaigns. A targeted email pitch allows you to reach a wide audience of journalists in an instant, whilst making sure it’s relevant to their ‘beat’ List segmentation done right. Final thoughts.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. It was a very humbling experience.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Of course, it’s still possible to be published on the opinion page of a prestigious national newspaper, but the topic must have broad national or international relevance. Plus, since journalists at these pubs dive more deeply into industry topics, a mention or focus on your brand helps educate those you need to reach. .

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

Gannett’s flagship brand, USA Today, has reinvented itself over the past five years to stay relevant to its increasingly mobile-focused readers. Once you’ve established that, then pitch a reporter, he continues. They found a way to bring what was happening at the time into their brand,” she says.

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Ishmael's Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

While the Internet has commoditized news announcements, what appears in publications still impacts a company’s brand and reputation. That’s why I was intrigued when I heard that Muck Rack (in cooperation MDC Partners) surveyed a cross section of journalists — newspapers, magazines, trade publications, etc. — Do your homework.

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PR Insiders

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Anyone who’s tried their hand at promoting a brand through PR can tell you that grabbing the media’s attention isn’t always easy. Each day, newspaper journalists, as well as hosts and producers of TV and radio talk shows, scroll through a never-ending barrage of email messages, many of which they no doubt delete without reading. […].

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

“Nail the elevator pitch.”. AirPR sat down with Mika and discussed unique communications strategies, moving from journalism to PR: AirPR: Tell us about TMI and how you help brands and organizations gain visibility and manage reputation. Mika: Nail the elevator pitch. Today, Mika runs TMI (The Mas Ink), a boutique PR firm.

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PR for Anyone

APRIL 23, 2020

Journalists are pitched…. Don’t pitch what everyone else is pitching. Use that expertise, not to pitch a story around your expertise but pitch something going on in the world that you can then position yourself as the expert to talk about it. Our latest pitch is relating to coronavirus. Be different.

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PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

On April 27, Bloomberg published an inaccurate, one-sided piece titled “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffet Sees Newspapers Dying.”. As the article noted, billionaire investor Warren Buffet sees the traditional newspaper slipping away. We all do, but it’s wrong to link the entire change in the media industry to the PR profession.

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PR for Anyone

APRIL 9, 2020

This means there is room for you to pitch your product, service, brand, or expertise to those publications whether you are related to coronavirus or not. If you are looking to land on television or be featured in a daily or weekly newspaper, your likelihood goes up when you tie the story to the current condition with coronavirus.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2016

Your brand may have a good story, but if you’re not catching journalists’ attention with your pitch, it won’t get covered. Journalist Sharon Ward Keeble stresses the importance of providing value and detail when pitching your story. What is the most memorable pitch you’ve received? Want to get more media coverage?

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Media monitoring involves systematically tracking and analyzing media content (such as news articles, social media posts, and broadcast segments) related to a specific brand, industry, or topic. Media monitoring tools scan various sources (print, online, social media, TV, radio) for mentions of specific keywords or brands.

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PR Insiders

MAY 7, 2021

A store advertises its Memorial Day sale with a mammoth two-page newspaper spread and the store’s foot traffic either goes up or it doesn’t. PR is about building your brand and your authority over time. When we talk about the media, we think of newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio. Case closed. PR doesn’t work that way. .

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Cision

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These SMB (small and mid-sized businesses) and mid-market companies are in a unique situation when it comes to brand outreach and consumer attraction. On the one hand, they can and should be pushing niche interest and audiences in their brand-sphere, as the likelihood of pickup will be stronger with a local connection.

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PRSay

JANUARY 19, 2017

the number of pitches they send out) with working hard at their jobs. Here’s the thing—most of the pitches I receive for Spin Sucks are ice cold. If you’re sending cold pitches to journalists without building relationships with them first, you’re wasting your time. If only it were that simple! Amplify Their Content.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over the summer I had the opportunity to interview Eugina Jordan, currently the CMO of Telecom Infra Project, for our sister brand Design World’s diversity profiles — a collection of profiles highlighting the stories of women and minorities in engineering. What advice do you have for PR people who want to pitch you? Use people.

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PR Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

Anytime you seek to promote your brand through media coverage, you probably have a target audience in mind. But regardless of that ultimate audience, your first audience is always the editors, reporters, TV producers or others who receive your press release or pitch. So, a pitch that arrives on Monday right around 10 a.m.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

As the face of our brand, I am responsible for traveling to industry events and networking with our readers, advertisers and others. I have been in journalism or PR for 25 years — I went to Boston University for journalism and upon graduation, I worked as a business reporter for a local daily newspaper on the outside of Cleveland.

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PR in High Definition

MARCH 26, 2020

There’s no question that the media landscape has changed significantly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak – outlets are providing daily online live feeds, newspapers have stopped physically printing and reporters from all over the world are covering the stories and situations from every angle possible. Journalists are stretched….

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Cision

MAY 3, 2016

Journalists can see right through your mass emails – and they’ll ignore you if they suspect you aren’t tailoring your pitches. Karen Paff, senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations, recommends doing your research and learning as much as you can about the journalists you target before you pitch them your story.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

At the time, I didn’t find a lot of industry coverage on drone usage in this application, and it was all so brand new to me. By the end of my junior year I was running the paper, and one of my stories got picked up by a local newspaper. Once I graduated, I had to make the choice: newspapers or trade pubs. Have a reason.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. Shared Media. Shared media is also known as social media.

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PR Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

Assisting the media is also a great way to help yourself when you’re trying to promote your personal or business brand. Once you’ve sent a pitch, a press release, or an article to a journalist, should you follow up if you don’t receive a response? Your pitch could have become lost in their clutter of email. After all, who knows?

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You may have noticed that the “calendar” section in your neighborhood newspaper, online newsletter or event site is starting to populate with things to do. Are you hoping to drive brand/company awareness? For additional pre-event news, we created and pitched two pre-Safety Summit announcements: . Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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5W PR

MAY 4, 2022

As blockchain technology continues to gain popularity across different industries, journalists are becoming overwhelmed by the number of pitches they get from companies in this space. It is one of the ways to control the perception of people about a brand. However, despite all the new technology, traditional media shouldn’t be ignored.

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Cision

JANUARY 19, 2017

To make your voice heard, use strategic, targeted pitching techniques and broadcast authentic stories that will resonate with your audience. With today’s media being so fragmented and competitive, what works better is strategic, targeted pitching of interesting media angles to select journalists. How do you measure that success?

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Cision

AUGUST 28, 2017

We polled PR and brand experts to get 10 amazing tips you can use to improve your press release headlines. Envision your press release on the front page of a newspaper to determine if it’s newsworthy or not. Write as if it Were a Front Page Article. Does the headline grab attention? If not, it probably needs some work.

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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2020

When we began this decade, many local newspapers had at least 10 more pages of non-syndicated content than they do today. Organic reach on social media was also still possible for brands. And people still faxed pitches! If that doesn’t take your breath away for a minute, I don’t know what will. Highly-targeted story angles.

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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 ). ” Run an ad in a newspaper and it needs to be labeled as an ad.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 22, 2022

You can boost brand awareness, website traffic, leads, and sales. Explore media outlets outside of newspapers, too. Create the Pitch. Before you can distribute press release materials, you need to create a pitch email. Your pitch will encourage journalists to publish and distribute your release.

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Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For example, a well-known e‑commerce brand invested heavily in link building, believing it would drive its online presence and increase sales. As a result, the initial burst of traffic rapidly resulted in more people developing unfavourable relationships with the brand. But as the digital landscape evolved, so did PR.

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Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Before you pitch a journalist, you must think about how your story adds value for your audience. Rich Oppel, senior advisor for media strategy and management at Crosswind Media & Public Relations, says brands will successfully land media coverage when they can combine their needs with the needs of journalists and their readers.

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Konnect Agency

AUGUST 2, 2022

A thought leadership strategy can help to establish and identify a unique expert leader for your brand to create content that can separate it from other brands within the industry. This PR strategy involves creating powerful ideas, thoughts, and opinions to help build credibility for the brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 30, 2021

Here are five pitch ideas for when there is no news that can work particularly well for B2B PR campaigns. . We do this through a meet-and-greet pitch. In this type of pitch, we introduce the new officer and explain what their new role is at the organization, highlighting their accomplishments in past roles. Meet and greet!

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PRSay

AUGUST 9, 2019

You could optimize a news release, and Google News indexed it just the same as an article from a real newspaper! 2017 — Snapchat went public with a soaring valuation and lots of brands jumped on that bandwagon. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here.

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Doctor Spin

MARCH 1, 2024

Newspapers, magazines, television stations, and online media companies may have entry-level positions in their PR or communications departments. Startups and small businesses may hire entry-level PR professionals to manage their communications and promote their brands. Corporate communications teams. Media outlets. Marketing agencies.

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Cision

AUGUST 17, 2016

Could it be on a news site or in the newspaper? Brands get this idea that they must publish X releases a month, but I say don’t do that unless you have the news to support that aggressive a schedule. You can also send a press release to a journalist, but do so as part of a carefully-written pitch. Amplification.

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