The Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

It’s not enough to sign up for HARO and get Cision and pitch, pitch, pitch. Since I now have a blog about PR and technology, I’m on lists like Cision. I get the most bizarre pitches that have less than nothing to do with what I write about. Get the Digital PR Tips newsletter every Monday morning.

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Doctor Spin

MARCH 1, 2024

Some marketing agencies offer PR services alongside their marketing offerings, providing opportunities for entry-level PR roles. Digital marketing- and social media agencies. With the rise of digital PR and social media marketing, agencies specializing in these areas often hire entry-level PR professionals.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Either way, using tools and technologies to aid your marketing strategy has never been more impactful than in the age of AI. In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. Meltwater is a PR platform with approximately 400,000 contacts.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Either way, using tools and technologies to aid your marketing strategy has never been more impactful than in the age of AI. In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. Meltwater is a PR platform with approximately 400,000 contacts.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 17, 2020

From pitches to landing coverage and everything in between, Digital PR can be done without a single tool. This tool has myriad features and uses, but I predominantly use it for both ideation and to assist with pitch-writing. Finding inspiration for ideation can be incredibly tricky. Prospecting.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As Bill Bergman wrote last year in Mediapost Agency Daily, “ … digital marketing is continually in motion; changing and evolving daily with small and unnoticeable technological advancements.”. But this digital tool also brings special temptations for PR practitioners, social media influencers and bloggers.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In public relations, we call this: Digital PR ( blog posts ) For some organisations, it matters what the general public thinks about certain issues. This often happens when there are big launches or significant technological advancements. This is where marketing and public relations “cross swords.”

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Learn more: Investor Relations (IR) Digital PR (Sometimes referred to as “Digital Communications,” “Online PR,” or “Online Communications.”) “Online public relations can enhance visibility and build relationships with the public, promoting organizations and products through dialogic communication.”

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary ( PR Tech Sum ), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision. 3) September 15, 2014: Visible Technologies. 3a) October 14, 2014: Cision Name with Vocus Technology. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

At the beginning of every new month, I take a look back and the news and notes stemming from the software developers that make tools for PR pros. I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. Do you remember the last time you needed support from a technology provider?

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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ZudePR

JULY 20, 2016

I don’t know what the figure is for Glasgow PR firms, but I imagine it’s similar. Here are 28 top observations from MY first 28 months as a solo digital PR pro (just in case you ever need them ). You Should Read This If: You’re c onsidering setting up your own (in my case solo) PR firm. Digital PR is an ill-defined term.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

Just like every other industry, the trends in public relations can be influenced by a variety of things such as technology, preferences from the customers, expectations from employees, and more. This gives public relations a great opportunity to make impactful decisions for the target audiences. Disinformation.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 The announcement pitches this as enabling “PR agencies to sell robust guaranteed placement packages to their clients.” PR tech news mentions.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s the monthly PR Tech Sum rounding news and links from the world of PR technology. Innodata said it began providing “AI data annotation services to another Silicon Valley technology giant.” These allow PR to “showcase earned media coverage in customizable, branded digital PR measurement reports.”.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether you are doing blogger outreach, digital PR, link building, or even sales, these 12 techniques can help identify the missing piece of the puzzle. They typically use a mix of public data, crawling technologies, and databases to find and verify email addresses. I like this approach because it is straightforward.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

You can also collaborate with other publishing partners such as journalists, editors and PR agencies instead of just pitching your content to them. Taral Patel is a PR Executive at PRmention , a Digital PR Agency helping businesses get more visibility through their targeted digital PR strategies.

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

An Apple media kit from 1993 even included physical slides showcasing their newest technologies. Media kits used to be presented following a pitch at a press conference or other large event, but starting in the early 2000s, the best practice shifted to individualized pitches via email.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Most of what I did wasn’t a secret: I read what reporters wrote before pitching, developed subject lines that got my emails opened, and use a strong lede in all my pitches. There was one aspect of my success that was different: I wrote long pitches. This is contrary to 99% of all PR advice that says short emails are best.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 21, 2024

If you aren’t reaching the correct person, a media pitch , no matter how good, will not matter. According to Muck Rack’s 2024 State of Journalism Report , the top reason for rejecting a pitch (73%) is the lack of relevance to their coverage area. Not personalization, timing, or pitch length; relevancy is the main driver of success.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 13, 2023

Press releases serve as an ideal foundation for creating engaging blog posts, infographics, or videos while providing valuable insights into products/services offered by businesses/organizations involved in digital PR activities. Remember, not everything will work perfectly the first time around.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

The idea for this post came after I was experiencing a growing sense of frustration late last year due to the distractions inherent in my job as a digital PR (distractions I would wager the majority of people reading this post will be familiar with). Like many of us who work in digital marketing, social media is the #1 distraction.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

What’s ahead: Map your PR team workflow. Invest in automation and technology. Hence, this isn’t a typical 500-word blog post with 10 tips to ( insert random PR activity ). Reasons: Team has no overview of who is getting pitched. Coverage isn’t secured as initial pitches aren’t being followed up.

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