Events, Pitching and Publicity - Public Relations Today

Navigating Media At High-Profile Events

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 13, 2022

Industry events. Whether your brand is making a splash at a trade show or an executive is speaking at a conference, professional events combine direct customer contact with press opportunities. If you’re tackling an industry event without a full PR team facilitating outreach, pitching and planning for press interviews can be daunting.

Media

Media Trade Shows Travel Interviews

Building Confidence In Your Public Relations Pitch

The Hoyt Organization

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When making public relations pitches, you need to put across your point and make a connection with someone in less than a minute. That’s why we’ve put together this article on how to build confidence in your PR pitch. Knowing your audience is the first step toward successful preparation for a pitch meeting.

Pitching

Pitching Publicity Meeting Storytelling

6 PR Pitching Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

PR people make mistakes every day, especially when it comes to pitching stories to the media. But in our line of work, we can risk public humiliation for even a trivial error if a cranky reporter decides to post about a bad pitch. One of the biggest errors a PR person can make is timing their pitches badly.

Pitching

Pitching How To Report Radio

Pitch the Media

PR for Anyone

AUGUST 11, 2021

You’ve been ready my posts for years, watching the YouTube videos, and you’re ready to pitch. But the big question I get all the time is, “do I pitch the same story to all the different media outlets at the same time?” He read that entire pitch AND booked her for a segment. Anyone can get publicity!

Pitching

Pitching Media Television How To

What’s next for WaddsCon: May report and future events

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 3, 2021

Here’s a report from the May event and what’s coming up in June. The May edition of WaddsCon covered a range of topics from the COVID-19 impact on client/agency relations to the impact on print, and from measurement frameworks to professionalism in public relations. We’ve raised £1,000 over the past two events.

Report

Report Energy Print Measurement

Pitching Multiple Media Outlets

PR for Anyone

JULY 28, 2022

Here are 5 stories you could pitch to various media publications, all highlighting your expertise but tailored to the unique media outlet. You can see how I used stress as a topic for every pitch, but it works specifically for that media outlet. Last week I gave you ideas to pitch for the rest of the year. PR FOR ANYONE.

Pitching

Pitching Media YouTube Interviews

Pitching the Media – 31 Tips to Start Today

PR for Anyone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I’ve put together 31 tips to pitch the media! Tailor your pitch to each outlet and journalist. Keep your pitch concise and to the point. Know the publication’s style and tone. Show that you understand the publication’s audience. Be timely and relevant with your pitch. No more excuses!

Pitching

Pitching Media Interviews Video

Why Publicity?

PR for Anyone

AUGUST 4, 2022

Watch this week’s PR Tip here: Everyone knows what advertising is but why should they consider publicity? With publicity, someone else is using you and your expertise as the authority and that gives it more credibility. Want to learn how easy it is to get this valuable publicity? Anyone can get publicity!

Publicity

Publicity YouTube Advertising Advertising

Pitch Around Elon Musk and Twitter

PR for Anyone

APRIL 26, 2022

Since they need to get Board approval of the sale, you’ll still have time to pitch around this topic. Happy pitching! Anyone can get publicity! Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www.SpeakfromYourPowerLive.com. Having you pitch the media. PR FOR ANYONE.

Twitter

Twitter Pitching Financial Video

What to Pitch the Media in May

PR for Anyone

MAY 4, 2022

I always like to give my followers ideas for pitching the media. Now that we are into early May I wanted to give you ideas on what to pitch to both national publications and regional publications. It’s important to remember that national publications are 4 months out so in May, we are pitching for October.

Pitching

Pitching Media Financial YouTube

Pitching News Today

PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Anyone can get publicity! Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www.SpeakfromYourPowerLive.com. It’s Christina Daves with this week’s Free Publicity Friday PR Tip. So listen to what’s happening online and use that to pitch your stories. PR FOR ANYONE.

Pitching

Pitching Video YouTube Viral

Back to School Media Pitches

PR for Anyone

AUGUST 25, 2022

Most kids went back to school this week and it’s a great time to position yourself as an expert and start pitching the media! Think outside of the box on what value you can provide related to back-to-school and pitch those stories starting today and for about the next 30 days. Anyone can get publicity! What can you pitch?

Pitching

Pitching Media Insurance Insurance

The Four Seasons of Publicity

PR for Anyone

MAY 13, 2020

When thinking about landing publicity, it should not be a “one and done” approach for your business. In order to be successful, it’s important to plan an annual calendar for pitching the media and have an actual strategy in place. National publications are closed at least four months in advance.

Publicity

Publicity Pitching Television Newspapers

Three Steps to a Killer Media Pitch

PR for Anyone

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Landing in the media is as easy as these three steps to a killer media pitch! Get to your pitch quickly and concisely to make it easier for the journalist or producer to give you the yes! It’s important that your media pitch have something valuable for the audience. Anyone can get publicity! Step 1 – The Hook.

Pitching

Pitching Media YouTube Video

The Importance of Networking in Public Relations

5W PR

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Networking is the lifeblood of public relations. In today’s digital age, where communication has become more interconnected than ever before, understanding the significance of networking in public relations is paramount. Attending networking events Participate in industry conferences, seminars, and webinars.

Publicity

Publicity Internal International Resources

What to Pitch in October

PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

What are you going to pitch the media in October? Pick one of these and start pitching the media today! Anyone can get publicity! Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www.SpeakfromYourPowerLive.com. what you can pitch your local media for the month of October.

Pitching

Pitching Financial Small Business YouTube

Getting the Yes When Pitching the Media

PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How do you get the yes when pitching the media? You pitch them in a way they want to be pitched. You can make their lives so much easier by providing them a pitch that is short and sweet, gets to the point, is easy to read and lets them do a quick scan and know exactly what your story idea is. Anyone can get publicity!

Pitching

Pitching Television Media Interviews

Public Relations Skills

PR for Anyone

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Yes, you can be a publicist… without being a public relations professional. You just need public relations skills. Give them great content in a format they can use on their platform and you will be light years ahead of others when pitching the media. Anyone can get publicity! Be valuable. Show them how valuable are.

Publicity

Publicity Video Pitching System

What Can You Do to Land a TV Pitch?

PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A question I get asked all the time is “What can I do to land a TV pitch?” When you pitch and offer these things to the producer, you are a) showing you understand how television works and b) making their job easier by giving them what they are going to have to dig up. Anyone can get publicity! PR FOR ANYONE.

Pitching

Pitching Television Interviews Video

Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

PR pitches earn a 45% open rate and a 3% response rate; the top metrics for marcom and PR by segment; Europe is more satisfied with PR agencies than the U.S. I’ve taken some time to pour over these and summarize some of the more interesting and less publicized findings for you. So, says Propel, which provides PR software.

Report

Report Publicity Marketing Pitching

How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Public relations is known for being versatile, occasionally glamorous, and, yes, stressful. If you want a product launch to be covered in a top-tier publication, journalists will need to talk to someone who has used the product or can speak to its market value. Some of the pressure we encounter in PR is preventable, however.

Publicity

Publicity How To Agency Product Launch

7 Keys To Executing A Successful PR Event

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The hours and days immediately following a public relations event offer a great opportunity to assess event effectiveness and identify what worked and what could be improved. There are some basic must-haves that clients should expect when a PR team plans and executes any publicity event. Develop clear KPIs.

Pitching

Pitching Survey Video Examples

Tips for Promoting Your Special Event

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. After a year and a half of (mostly) virtual events, many places around the world are offering in-person events, from concerts to lectures to wine fests and sports.

Local

Local Newspapers Sports Video

What Skills Make the Best Public Relations Specialist?

PR for Anyone

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A question I get asked is what skills does someone need to be a public relations specialist. You also need to be able to do a review of your assets (website and social media) and make sure you check out when the media checks you out. “Who writes about [industry] for [publication].” Publicity Plan. PR FOR ANYONE.

Publicity

Publicity Pitching System Small Business

How to Use Public Relations as a Lead Generating Tool

PR for Anyone

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Have you ever considered using public relations as a lead generating tool? Anyone can get publicity! Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www. It’s Christina Daves with this week’s Free Publicity Friday PR Tip. It’s an amazing event. Subscribe HERE.

Tools

Tools How To Publicity Interviews

What You Can Do With a Public Relations Degree

5W PR

AUGUST 23, 2023

A public relations degree offers diverse career opportunities. Public relations specialist PR specialists develop and implement communication strategies to promote and protect client or organizational reputation. They create press releases , media pitches, and coordinate interviews to generate positive media coverage.

Publicity

Publicity Public Affairs Crisis Communications Policies

Social Audio Platforms Public Relations

PR for Anyone

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

What do these platforms have to do with public relations? Anyone can get publicity! Also, check out our next Get PR Famous upcoming live events at www.GetPRFamous.com and www.SpeakfromYourPowerLive.com. It’s Christina Daves with this week’s Free Publicity Friday PR Tip. PR FOR ANYONE. It really is PR for ANYONE.

Publicity

Publicity YouTube Video Groups

Beyond Publicity: What Your PR Agency Can Do

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2019

A startup or early stage company that’s considering a public relations budget may be wondering what PR entails. While winning media coverage can yield immediate gratification, public relations represents a long-term commitment comprising many activities. 8 things PR does beyond media pitching. Leadership events.

Agency

Agency Publicity Media Training Training

How to Build a Stronger Business Through Community Engagement and Event Marketing

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Yet, public relations (PR) and communications efforts have significant potential to bolster a brand. One of the ways to achieve this is by harnessing the power of in-person community engagement and event marketing. What previous event marketing and consumer engagement efforts have been made by the brand, and why did these fail?

Community

Community How To Marketing Data

Here’s How Journalists Want You to Pitch Them

PRSay

MAY 22, 2020

Among them, a clear picture emerges of when, where and how journalists prefer to be pitched. When is the best time to pitch a journalist? When it comes to getting your pitch to stand out in a journalist’s inbox, timing is everything. To that end, most journalists (64 percent) told us that they prefer to be pitched before noon.

Pitching

Pitching Journalism Survey Report

Small Business Public Relations

5W PR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In today’s competitive brick and mortar and digital marketplaces, a strong public relations strategy has never been more important for small businesses. As a result, more and more small business owners are turning to public relations to help raise brand awareness and to achieve their growth objectives. PR Tips for Small Businesses.

Small Business

Small Business Publicity Social Media Web

How to pitch an Op-Ed to The New York Times

Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Originally seen on PRDaily.com Getting your byline in a prestigious publication could be a major win for you or your client. Written by anyone from experts to everyday people, the Op-Ed section often gives readers fresh perspectives on current events and can solidify your client’s position as a thought leader.

Pitching

Pitching How To Guidelines Newspapers

5 Elements That Should be in Every Consumer Product Pitch

OnePitch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Standing out from the crowd is vital in a consumer media landscape that is flooded with product pitches. To capture a journalist's attention, your pitch should have five elements: accuracy, relevancy, transparency, efficiency, and credibility. So even though it's surprising to me that I have to say this, know who you're pitching.

Pitching

Pitching Consumer Trends Viral

CES 2020: How to Make Your Pitch Stand Out

Business Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2019

At our most recent Business Wire Meet the Media event, we brought together Fast Company and Inc. CNET, Digital Trends, Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag, and Refinery29 to share their recommendations on best ways to get their attention, schedule meetings, provide assets and conduct follow-ups during an event as big as CES.

Trade Shows

Trade Shows Pitching How To Meeting

Four Ways to Streamline the Pitching Process

Cision

JUNE 8, 2017

Pitching is an integral part of the PR process and communicators are always looking for ways to build meaningful media relationships for themselves and their clients. Here are a few ways you can streamline your pitching process. publication frequency, last 3 articles written, etc.). Pitching to Canadian media?

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Pitching Print Conference Local

5 Surefire Ways To Generate Quality Content For PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 18, 2021

For PR teams, earned media placements are a key deliverable of a strategic public relations campaign. The findings or data from a white paper can also be pitched out to the media. Many publications and companies have their own podcasts, and there’s a show out there for basically any topic under the sun.

Case Study

Case Study B2B Study Interviews

Getting Publicity in Today's Climate

PR for Anyone

JUNE 4, 2020

We went from months of COVID related stories - and an all consuming cycle of only coronavirus stories to the horrible events that lead to the tragic death of George Floyd in Minnesota and the resulting protests and riots. I have several new clients in the health care space and we had put together amazing pitches related to Covid.

Publicity

Publicity Small Business Leadership Pitching

Advertising vs Publicity

PR for Anyone

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s the age-old question… what is more impactful to a business – advertising or publicity? You might be surprised to learn that it’s actually publicity. #1 1 – publicity is free – advertising you pay for. #2 3 – publicity is what we call “earned media.” PR FOR ANYONE.

Advertising

Advertising Advertising Publicity YouTube

Pitches That Placed: How to Pitch Reports to TechCrunch

OnePitch

JANUARY 11, 2023

On this week’s Pitches That Placed, we’re highlighting a pitch that landed an exclusive in TechCrunch for a brand new report on early-to-late-stage startups. Let’s see why this pitch worked: Let’s take a look at the actual pitch that placed: . The findings were 100% contrarian to the public sector.”.

Pitching

Pitching Report How To Analysis

How To Use Timing For Top B2B PR Results

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 16, 2023

You want to make sure you’re allowing enough time to pitch in advance of a news event, whether it’s something you control or an independent event that offers some borrowed interest to your own story. Editors at most publications make their editorial calendars public months in advance.

B2B

B2B How To Privacy Retail

Business Wire Miami “Playing Ball With the Media” Event

Business Wire

JULY 26, 2017

This event brought together a group of “pitchers” and “catchers” to play ball at the Newman Alumni Center in the University of Miami. At each table there was one catcher, a journalist, matched with several pitchers, PR agencies and private companies, who had the oppurtunity to throw their best news pitches.

Public Affairs

Public Affairs Media Pitching Groups

Where To Find Public Relations Entry-Level Jobs

Doctor Spin

MARCH 1, 2024

Where can you find entry-level public relations jobs? If I were starting today, I’d probably prefer not to wait for public relations entry-level jobs to end up on any of my social feeds. Here’s a list of places where someone might find entry-level jobs in public relations: Public relations agencies. Public affairs firms.

Publicity

Publicity Public Affairs eBook Nonprofit

Public Relations Agency’s Top Marketing & Communications Trends for 2022

Konnect Agency

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s always an exciting time of the year when we get to look back at what trends and tactics were successful, and which emerging practices can be implemented by a public relations agency to make our clients “All-Stars” in the new year ahead. Why You Need A Public Relations Agency To Help You Keep Up With Trends. Hybrid Events.

Trends

Trends Publicity Communications Marketing

Using AI in tactical and strategic applications in public relations and management

Wadds Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2023

AI tools can help public relations practitioners work more efficiently and effectively, but the focus on generative AI content overlooks more strategic and disruptive applications. View AI in public relations and management on Beautiful.ai The focus on generative AI and content in public relations overlooks a much bigger opportunity.

Publicity

Publicity Tools Exercises Ethics

Navigating Media At High-Profile Events

Building Confidence In Your Public Relations Pitch

Trending Sources

6 PR Pitching Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them

Pitch the Media

What’s next for WaddsCon: May report and future events

Pitching Multiple Media Outlets

Pitching the Media – 31 Tips to Start Today

Why Publicity?

Pitch Around Elon Musk and Twitter

What to Pitch the Media in May

Pitching News Today

Back to School Media Pitches

The Four Seasons of Publicity

Three Steps to a Killer Media Pitch

The Importance of Networking in Public Relations

What to Pitch in October

Getting the Yes When Pitching the Media

Public Relations Skills

What Can You Do to Land a TV Pitch?

Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

7 Keys To Executing A Successful PR Event

Tips for Promoting Your Special Event

What Skills Make the Best Public Relations Specialist?

How to Use Public Relations as a Lead Generating Tool

What You Can Do With a Public Relations Degree

Social Audio Platforms Public Relations

Beyond Publicity: What Your PR Agency Can Do

How to Build a Stronger Business Through Community Engagement and Event Marketing

Here’s How Journalists Want You to Pitch Them

Small Business Public Relations

How to pitch an Op-Ed to The New York Times

5 Elements That Should be in Every Consumer Product Pitch

CES 2020: How to Make Your Pitch Stand Out

Four Ways to Streamline the Pitching Process

5 Surefire Ways To Generate Quality Content For PR

Getting Publicity in Today's Climate

Advertising vs Publicity

Pitches That Placed: How to Pitch Reports to TechCrunch

How To Use Timing For Top B2B PR Results

Business Wire Miami “Playing Ball With the Media” Event

Where To Find Public Relations Entry-Level Jobs

Public Relations Agency’s Top Marketing & Communications Trends for 2022

Using AI in tactical and strategic applications in public relations and management

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