OnePitch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Read below for the entire interview with Megan: . 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.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’ll never forget driving to Petersen Publishing Company some 50 miles from my home and pitching three articles to Lee Kelley, editorial director at the new Hot Rod Specialty Publications Group. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? He offered me a job as feature editor on the spot.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

What is preventing us from looking for and pitching media on these stories year-round? To address that this pitching strategy may lack significance or longevity outside of that cultural observance link, we should be looking for and pitching media on other aspects of these stories.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When your company secures an interview with a major media outlet, you may feel the urge to celebrate. Just don’t let your executive or chosen company spokesperson arrive to the interview unprepared! Read below as Brad offers tips that will help anyone who conducts or prepares others for media interviews.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Special and mid-term elections at the local level, like last week’s contests in Virginia and New Jersey offer more relevant lessons for PRs. PR lessons from local and regional elections. ” The spokesperson is untested, the product is in beta, or the pitch hasn’t matured.

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Onclusive

JUNE 7, 2017

If you own a local clothing store, listen to your customers: What do they want more of? Which pitches do they overlook? This week, we’re taking a look back at our most popular journalist interviews to remind our own loyal following of what the customer wants: facts, data, and highly relevant, niche stories.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

Find creative ways to make the standard announcement. Yes, real news and announcements merit media coverage on their own, but creative storytelling tactics can make a bigger splash and leave a more lasting impression. Here are some PR lessons we gleaned from some of our favorite Instagrammers. Appeal to the imagination.

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Cision

JUNE 25, 2015

Click here for your free “10 Media Pitching Do’s and Don’ts” tip sheet now! This tactic can be especially effective for garnering local press (Think: Local company earns coveted spot on prestigious Inc. If it was a major interview, consider a behind-the-scenes look about how the coverage came to be.

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Landis PR

APRIL 25, 2022

As the one-year anniversary of the crash approached, we interviewed Luke, created a pitch package with b-roll, put together a media list that covered local media, Texas media and media that covered the crash and helped CNS develop a case study for their website.

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Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 18, 2022

Pretty much all day I would watch movies, and then I’d go into the editing room and take bits and pieces of the movies and come up with creative promotions to get people to watch,” she says, adding that she loved the job, even though it was very challenging. I said, ‘Harpo — isn’t that Oprah?’ She even got to be on the show a couple of times.

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Cision

JULY 20, 2016

In this interview, Rachel discusses why you need to build trust with the media, how to create a global communications campaign and how to drive conversations on social media. I was living in Cleveland, working as a production assistant at one of the news stations and quickly realized I needed a job in a more creative and exciting atmosphere.

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OnePitch

APRIL 5, 2022

She’s held numerous roles with the publication since 2014 and prior to that was an investigative reporter for several local news organizations. During the episode, Adrienne starts off by telling us about her role as executive editor, her thoughts on cold pitches, her advice for sources approaching journalists, and more.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The endless media pitch calling and subsequent rejections were exhausting. Client Turnover — can lead to instability and the need to perform new business pitches constantly. Perhaps the best way to learn about agency life and a particular employer is to set up informational interviews with current and past employees.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

10 Fundamentals for Successful B2B Media Interviews. Second, PR needs to think about the video elements – and I don’t mean pitching video – but rather the capacity to be interviewed on video. If you write a newsworthy press release and pitch it to the right people at the right time, your chances of coverage go up.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I covered everything from town politics, police, fire, education, town budgets, and local happenings in the community. I love getting creative in the kitchen and entertaining for family and friends. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Editors are busy and flooded with emails and PR pitches all the time.

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PRSay

MAY 23, 2018

An added bonus for you: Trade outlets aren’t inundated with pitches like their high-visibility counterparts, so it’s easier to get your pitch in front of the right eyes. The unique audio format of podcasts provides opportunities to creatively reuse content in ways you couldn’t do with written articles.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Each member of the team has a particular hit that they are extremely proud of purely based on the fact that good old creativity, industriousness and smarts resulted in a hit that wowed the client and broke through. So when a colleague and I pitched a local McDonald’s news story, little did we know what was to come. Take a look….

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2016

To pitch broadcast, you need to be resilient and smart about how you make your case for coverage. Pitching broadcast media takes time and often requires multiple rounds of emails and phone calls. So, prepare and plan for these moments in a thoughtful and creative way to get your client quality air time. Where can media film?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

It’s also nice to see programs like this where engineers have the opportunity to be a little more creative with their designs because they know the end result is for demonstration purposes, but could help lead to future solutions. We like to hike, play board games, visit our local breweries. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

That includes our creative director, writers, industry and content partners, numerous marketing and PR professionals, and readers. Our creative director Alex Hartman joined me for the press days at Motor Bella. I did that for a fair number of years, covering the local music scene and any big national acts making a tour stop in town.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 5, 2022

That’s because the kind of work I wanted as a sole practitioner was no longer strictly found in pitching and placement. Sometimes it might make sense to use your inexperience in an industry (and of course, willingness to learn through research, interviews, etc.) to your advantage to break into a new niche. We want to hear from you!

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. For a daily beat reporter, our stories had to have a local tie. If you can pack your pitch into 140 characters, do it.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 3, 2017

Consider panels, webinars, guest-teaching at local schools and more. For events or capturing the CEO in an interview, try VSCO for professional editing and filters for IoS and Android. Also helpful, turn these lists into visuals via Pinterest or some other site to store creative output. Break out of your reading rut.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

In this interview, Neil discusses his background as a journalist, what it’s like working in the technology industry and the changing role of the media. Instead, they pitched me on a position they had open. What are you most looking forward to in your new position as media and content director at Blanc & Otus? Rapid Fire Round.

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Initial interviews with their communications team revealed the Centre was up to some interesting things: • How researchers are making plants more tolerant to drought. • Local TV, radio, newspapers, and trade magazines all conducted interviews and ran stories in response to our ideas. #2 Consider Crayola.

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

My role was to keep the startup founders’ strict two-minute elevator pitches flowing — for three hours — which worked out to roughly 17 presentations/hour, including interstitials! The second was a bit more in the weeds: “Play-to-Earn: Creative Ways to Make Money.” It bowed on the Content-Makers Stage with an SRO audience of 1000+.

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Mindful Marketing

MARCH 7, 2016

This week I am working on a few new business pitches for brands I would be very proud to work for. The English approach to creativity mixed with a bit of cynicism. I really miss Sunday lunch in a local gastro pub and of course the ease of traveling to other nearby countries. What do you miss about the UK?

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Ethical Voices

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When I was a senior in college, I was in a market research class and we were working with a local small business in Washington, DC, that was trying to do restaurant deliveries to students. Part of that was interviewing people at a metro stop and getting their takes on this. We agreed to do a market research project with them.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

KPIs included local media interviews, toolkit downloads, and increased engagement at local chapter levels #measurepr. Universities should teach Writing, Pitching, Attention to Detail, Measurement (of course), and… How to deal with Rejection. Image: Jeff Sheldon via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Tis the season for public relations ‘ best and brightest to wield creative wit and savvy strategy in the name of meaningful holiday media placements. And, despite the calendar, digital media seem to publish holiday-themed news until the 11th hour, so it’s almost never too late to pitch a good idea. Look back at learnings.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 20, 2020

Think Tinder meets pitching. Simply upload your pitch on the app to connect with interested journalists. Just like on Tinder, or any dating app, journalists will swipe right if they feel your pitch is a fit for them. Once ‘matched’ a chat will open and you can work together to set up that interview.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 27, 2016

Targeted email invites for demos or interviews are another place to promote your press kit link. Take the time to then research your local client base through social media monitoring and industry circles to uncover if any of them will be attending the show. Be creative when live-tweeting from the event.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It can be time-consuming to plan media outreach for local and national networks, cable news, podcasts, streaming television, public radio, and social-only video; however, a satellite media tour (SMT) can help. When done right, they can be creative and compelling. “There is a lot of creativity and value to be had in media tours.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Note: see my interview with Tom here – Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script No. Note: see my interview with Sophie here – The Interim CMO as Change Agent; Off Script #19: Sophie Shiatis. Note: see my interview with Ted here – Over-reliance on Marketing Automation Depreciates Leads; Off Script No.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 30, 2021

As one of the only chances you have of getting your campaign seen by a journalist, subject lines are arguably the most important part of a pitch. We’ll start with the most important aspect, which is crucial to your pitch standing a chance of getting picked up. It’s also crucial to understand sectors when pitching pieces.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. Image: Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr, Creative Commons It’s why I wrote about networking with a twist a while back.

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