Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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OnePitch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Gabriela Barkho is a Senior Reporter at Modern Retail covering e-commerce, CPG startups, DTC brands, marketing, and consumer VC funding.

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Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 15, 2021

Reaching new people and attracting more consumers is best done through public relations. There are plenty of ways that brands and corporations can land great media placements in big publications and generally get great media coverage, even with a limited marketing and PR budget.

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5W PR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Choosing a career in the fields of public relations or marketing involves navigating distinct professional landscapes. Pitching story ideas to journalists to secure media coverage. Marketing Marketing revolves around promoting products or services, driving sales, and ultimately generating revenue.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The timeless, endless struggle continues: You, the savvy and realistic PR pro, know it’s better to approach fewer targets with more personalized pitches. To them, it’s quantity over quality, like direct marketing. I know you cover new password managers,” is more convincing than “I know you cover consumer technology.”

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Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

This has created both an opportunity and a potential point of concern for professional marketers and communicators who are wondering: Do the benefits of AI outweigh the threats? It can help you generate press releases from keywords or headlines—and even aggregate a list of journalists who might be interested in your pitch.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Yes, that’s right, it’s not just for marketing teams! You can benchmark brand sentiment by topic to understand how consumers perceive your organisation in relation to key social issues such as sustainability, diversity, and data security. If you’re thinking that influencing sits with marketing, you’re mistaken.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 3, 2020

Agency teams are working on their pitches for the Skidz account. You’ll remember that I shared a brief for a start-up focused on the pants market last month. I’m following a team as it prepares its pitch response. Pant savvy consumers want meaningful experiences first and great products second.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Our goal is to disrupt the market for male underwear and become a global brand within three years. About the market There are 20 million men in the UK. Skidz estimates that men change their underwear every two to three days, making the market approximately 60 million pairs of pants per year. Limited data is available.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our goal is to work with companies as an extension of their internal marketing team, and hitting those milestones together makes all the difference. . PR people often plan out pitch calendars months in advance. Feedback on pitches. This past year, our team has supported two IPOs for ad tech clients, with another on the way!

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Public relations vs marketing—what are the differences? Public relations (PR) and marketing are closely related, but few know the differences. Some organisations have Communications Departments for their public relations needs and some have Marketing Departments for their promotional needs.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the past few years, video marketing has become a dominant tool for captivating audiences and expanding brand awareness. Public relations (PR) can be one of the solutions available for marketers and business owners to support their video marketing campaigns. We’ll delve more in-depth into PR and marketing.

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Cision

JANUARY 29, 2016

News & World Report ‘s Consumer Advice section and has been with the publication since October 2015. Below, she gives communications professionals insights on pitching, pet peeves and what stories peek her interest. Do you have any advice for PR professionals pitching you?

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Cision

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In addition to ensuring accuracy, we solicit pitching tips from all of the journalists that we list. Here are a few themes we’ve compiled for pitching one of the top technology sites: CNET. CNET is a multi-faceted consumer technology site featuring some of the most knowledgeable journalists in their niche.

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Konnect Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As we celebrate the spooky season, it’s essential for marketers and PR professionals to avoid falling into the haunting traps that can sabotage their efforts. Mark yourself as “safe” this spooky season and make sure you don’t succumb to these haunting marketing mishaps. Stories are memorable and can set your brand apart.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 15, 2020

First, we looked at budgets, because when cash flow gets tight, some of the first things businesses typically cut are PR and marketing. . Next, we looked at whether the pandemic is having an affect on the frequency of pitches PR professionals send out. Addressing COVID-19 When Pitching. Popular Verticals to Pitch.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020. Marketing Statistics from 2020.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Many B2B tech companies with digital offerings, for example, market products and services worldwide, and they don’t always want to bring on multiple PR firms. Here are five areas to consider when pitching international media. . media and a data resource to keep track of whom to pitch. Language isn’t just about translation.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With PRSA’s Media Relations Certificate Program , senior-level PR and communication professionals will learn to develop media relations campaigns that evoke emotion, inspire change and position organizations as market leaders. Earned media is exactly that — earned — and it’s built on pitching and nurtured relationships.

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Onclusive

APRIL 3, 2019

Shifting from traditional marketing and communications to the concept and model of Performance Storytelling isn’t easy. Norton Lifelock’s CMO Ty Shay recently keynoted AirPR’s Growth PR Conference and shared a roadmap for success in this new era of media, marketing, communications and measurement. . Craft Your Movie Pitch. “I

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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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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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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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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JULY 17, 2023

Communications, public relations, and marketing messaging can be both proactive and reactive, which may be why they seem so pervasive. Information overload occurs when you try to consume too much knowledge or data at once. The news in both your pitch and press release must be obvious. What is information overload?

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In that time, he’s learned how to spot good pitches from a lightyear away. In the consumer tech space, using CRM and the cloud to create interesting services seems more useful than new gadgets. How do you prefer to receive pitches? Can you be pitched via these channels? Harvey’s career started in the U.S.

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Wadds Inc.

APRIL 26, 2023

The agency market has switched from being relatively buoyant at the end of Q3 2022 to a slowdown. Business that in September 2022 would have moved from pitch to contract to delivery within weeks is now taking several months to convert. This is inevitably impacting business and consumer confidence.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

One of the ways to achieve this is by harnessing the power of in-person community engagement and event marketing. You must consider which outcomes best align with the business’s ambitions for growth, market position, or reputation management. Perform a little market research and perhaps build separate event-based personas.

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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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Buzzstream

MARCH 3, 2020

To really bring the podcasting trend into perspective, a recent study from Statista found that, in 2006, only 22% of consumers knew what a podcast was, but by 2019 over 64% of consumers were aware of podcasting. Always link to the professional page of the person you’re pitching (or your own personal page if you’re pitching yourself).

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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!

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Content marketing is on my mind quite a bit this week, for a variety of reasons, so we’ll use that as our topic. A second client tasked me with building a list of recommended next steps to move their content marketing forward, AND I’ve been working on my own 2015 content marketing strategy for Rock The Status Quo.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Gabriel has spent over 30 years as a professional in the communications field, writing about business and education technologies as a journalist and marketing communications consultant. How do you prefer to receive pitches? I do actually read each of the pitches, even though I can’t respond to all of them.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A Q&A on Wedderspoon’s Market Takeover with Taylor Gallagher, Account Director, Consumer Team. So, Wedderspoon brought on SHIFT to help differentiate it and takeover the market during a key push period of cold and flu season. Give us the 1,000-foot view of the campaign? We have amazing clients in the Wedderspoon team.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 26, 2016

As one of the only public relations agencies that is a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are always looking to see how we can use Google’s tools and programs to strengthen both our PR and marketing teams’ efforts. They can also use Google Trends to help dictate the timeline within their pitch calendars.

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Konnect Agency

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The worlds of PR, marketing and communications are ever-changing and rapidly evolving, particularly in the digital era we live in. Four Marketing and Communications Trends Your Public Relations Agency Can Help You Implement Now. Four Marketing and Communications Trends Your Public Relations Agency Can Help You Implement Now.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Gaining and maintaining consumer trust is the goal of every PR professional. Consumer trust is invaluable to brands. However, recent data suggests consumers are growing more and more distrusting of traditional media. Additionally, with the spread of ‘fake news’, consumers are more suspicious than ever.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

In a perfect world, public relations and marketing teams would work together more often to achieve common goals. But let’s be honest: we’re all fighting an uphill battle in reducing organizational drag , and not everyone needs to be in your weekly marketing meeting. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product.

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