OnePitch

APRIL 14, 2022

Within this interview, we break down real examples of how she landed top-tier coverage, what worked, and her tips for replicating it for your own pitches. Read below for the entire interview with Cortney Williams: 1.) What’s the best pitch of yours that resulted in coverage and what elements made it successful?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I know PR professionals with degrees in journalism, mass media, English, business communication, marketing, sports and more. 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.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

PR measurement has long been an outcast in marketing dashboards. Over the years, companies have almost created coping mechanisms for accepting weak PR reporting – either not measuring PR at all or relying on basic awareness metrics, like percentage increase of coverage and sentiment. By Seedepth. We hope so!

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ISEBOX

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

They interview their clients and staff and will educate, entertain and inform with their content. 4) You don’t measure. 5) You don’t network or pitch. And when they launch their story, they know all the perfect tools (Like HARO and Hootsuite) and apps to distribute content and measure for maximum impact.

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Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

The differences are less significant than what, at least in a good newsroom, they all share: a commitment to enduring journalism values that include accuracy, timeliness, balance, relevance, importance, emotional impact, counter-intuition, enterprise. Decision Time Nears for Mega Measure: FASTER Bay Area. Oh, where to start?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 2, 2018

As Generation Z attends college and begins to enter the PR workforce, what better time than the present to reflect on how measurement has been taught and implemented by two generations prior. They let me take hold and run with social media, campaigns and the like where I learned early the value of measuring and evaluating #measurePR.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Freelance journalism is harder today than it was years ago. Yet, Erik’s perspective isn’t only limited to journalism. I suspect many of the award winners wouldn’t hold up if their effectiveness was tested and measured. Unfortunately, a lot of content marketing has become plain marketing as an only slightly veiled pitch.

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Journalistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It was pure magic the first time I read an article in print that was the result of a story I pitched. Back then, if you called enough reporters, you would eventually find a couple willing to listen to your pitch – and perhaps one or two that would write a story. This is nirvana for a media relations professional. So how can you do it?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck January 27th, 2011 Tweet In the genes? I can’t tell you how many pitches I received that were so bloviated, they would have made Alec Baldwin jealous. And that was it.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 5, 2019

Tailored pitches have always been the key to success in media relations. Adding SEO and social data to pitches adds huge value for time pressed journalists. Views are the most common measure of success for publishers. Use insight about a publication and its audience as part of your pitch. #3 Here are the headlines. #1

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Hamill spoke about his 24-year career as the infamous Batman baddie and how it helped prevent him from being typecast into hero roles. Throughout your content experiment, measure the outcomes. Remember what got you here.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In addition, this same disruption – led by the 2024 election, the speed of misinformation and continued economic uncertainty – will require a strong measure of GRIT. Performance marketing has led the community to this wild notion that B2B marketing should only engage in measurable tactics. Audiences know the difference.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 3, 2020

For example, rule number four states : “Podcasters may use HelpaReporter.com to source interviews for their podcast only if the podcast is hosted on their own website, with an Alexa ranking of one million or less.”. f) Measuring Kevin Akeroyd’s legacy at Cision via PRWeek and Sean Czarnecki. 6) Quick hits in PR technology.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It helps you understand what a journalist feels like when you start receiving completely off-topic pitches. Last week on BNET, I talked about the two critical elements of the perfect media pitch ; the subject line, and the first paragraph of the email. Once you’ve been blogging for a bit, you’ll start being pitched.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t going to talk analytics or measurement ( Chuck Hemann , K.D. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Rhonda, and has a strong track record in media communications, both “old” and “new,” with organizations such as Vonage and the Wall Street Journal Online. So what does this all mean for you? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Maxim Behar

MAY 31, 2021

The world-renowned PR expert Maxim Behar was interviewed for MeTV , the first Indian / South Asian TV Channel from Australia, by Sukruti Narayanan, the MeTV Director of Public Relations and Business Growth. But I was such a big fan of journalism, so I became a correspondent, travelled all over the world and met a lot of people.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

It included email (iContact), press releases (PRWeb), media relations (HARO), and social media (North Social and Engine 140), bundled in what was pitched as an easy-to-use and all-in-one product. Sources: GlobeNewsWire , interviews with people familiar with the decision and a sales product demo). 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. New LinkedIn research found that only 4% of digital marketers are measuring return on investment six months into a campaign or longer. Tom Pick | Webbiquity LLC. 29: Tom Pick of Webbiquity. 16: Ted Seward.

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Cision

MARCH 23, 2016

Every day, journalists receive tons of pitches from communication professionals just like you. Brooks Wallace, account manager and media specialist at Hollywood Public Relations and part of the PRSA Boston Leadership Team, says continuing to follow up after sending a pitch, even if it’s a no, is how she finds success for her clients.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I studied journalism with a few PR courses sprinkled in between at St. After graduating, I lived abroad in Paris and Seoul and landed gigs to write for expat magazines, manage social media platforms, photograph events and interview professionals. If an editor didn’t want to talk about one product, I could easily pitch another.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

Each month Off Scripts interviews someone with a fresh perspective on marketing – details on how to get involved are at the bottom of this post. Second, almost everything is now measurable. See these related interviews: Key Considerations in Choosing a CMS; Off Script #28: Matt Garrepy. PR, marketing, sales and journalism.

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Victorious PR

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Now, PR is tough to measure, but here is what Jared Curry had to say: “She has genuinely helped my business tremendously and my personal brand. In Authority Creator, Your team will learn HOW to craft the perfect foolproof narrative, How to discover your brand voice and tone, How to craft the perfect pitch, (Plus who to start pitching to!!)

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Their content marketing and brand journalism has not yet evolved to a place where they are comfortable letting employees take the spotlight, allowing independent voices to ring out with options, truth and expertise. How can you measure success of the long-form posts? Once approved as final, you would then log in (as them) and post it.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 15, 2021

Why PR is finally getting its share of SEO budgets - Angharad Planells, head of client success, Radioactive PR PR unleashed: why the value of PR is being recognised by organisations in 2021 - Koray Camgoz, director of communications and marketing, PRCA Please follow this link if you’d like to pitch to present at a future event.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Biden’s Build Back Better Act included several measures to support EVs — including a controversial expansion of the EV tax credit — but the package, as is, remains stalled in the Senate. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. “Value is subjective: it’s impossible to measure the value of a public relations programme until it’s been running for a while (and even then it’s still hard). “Almost 10 years later, what are some measurable outcomes from participating in PR Conversations?

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Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2020

Propel says PR is sending more pitches; Muck Rack adds podcast contacts and broadcast monitoring; several PR tech vendors publish survey results “Welcome to May. PR is sending more pitches during COVID-19 The average PR pros appear to have sent more media pitches during the Coranavirus pandemic than before it’s occurrence.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this article I explore how smart public relations practitioners are putting search at the heart of their campaigns and seeking followed links from the media sites they pitch. Engagement with news brands online is messy and tricky to measure. It’ll give you an invaluable steer on how to pitch and which journalists to approach.

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Cision

MAY 11, 2015

New ways to accurately measure and track PR’s value. The Zimbabwe native received her bachelor’s in print journalism from Claflin University, and later received her master’s in communication from Johns Hopkins University. ​​ How do you innovate PR? The proliferation of owned media. Media’s evolving landscape.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

Though a lot of media still relies heavily on anecdotal evidence like interviews, opinions, or criticism, marketing lives and breathes data. This gamification of a company’s own website is also a hallmark in data visualization journalism like the stories on FiveThirtyEight. Ideation just means pitching or brainstorming.

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