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Tell Your Story Like You Speak, Keep Pitching, and Earn Media Coverage

PR Fuel

Telling Your Story” Is the Real Trick to Small Business PR. Most small business descriptions include information like who the founders were, when and where the business started, and perhaps a few sentences about the company’s mission and vision. What is the “theme” of your business story?

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

He developed a love of sports and print media at a young age, and set off to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in journalism. Stu didn’t know much about PR, but had a vague understanding of media relations, having been on the receiving end of pitches during his time producing talk shows.

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Old Journalism’s Demise.Good News For Us!

Bad Pitch Blog

Finally: Who will we be pitching? Print outlets have been dying, okay let''s call it changing, for a while. Fortune Small Business drops its entire staff, The Wall Street Journal cuts a variety and Fortune kills off dozens. spending all day pitching old media, you are soon going to be stuck with very little to do.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. The suite was the weaving together of tools Vocus had acquired into a product aimed at the small business market. 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Stop Complaining about Your PR Firm. Here’s How the Media Works

Remote PR Jobs

As a journalist who writes about pretty much everything for pretty much everyone (most recently The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Smithsonian Magazine), all of the above are things I hear on a pretty regular basis. I mean figure out what I actually write about and how, and pitch me something that fits.

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Wendy Glavin and CommPRO Report on the Livestream: Breaking Down the State of the Media in 2017

Cision

You’re seeing this at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and The Daily Beast. Chris Lynch: Is print media dead? There is a new creativity in brand journalism but the feel is brand advertising. Adding relevance and being a resource should be the goal, instead of always try to always pitch something.

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