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What Journalists Want: How to Write Better Press Releases

PRSay

We’re still employing the “inverted pyramid” of the printing press to compose them, we’re still using them as corporate equivalent of vanity plates for our websites, and we’re still sending them to journalists’ inboxes with a deep, self-serving hope they will magically turn into detailed coverage of our companies.

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Writing What They Don’t Want To Read: Bad News In Print

Waxing UnLyrical

Let me just say first that I’m writing this with the certainty that one of you PR pros will fly out of nowhere, tackle me to the floor, and pin me there with a stern lecture straight from your training about how to do this. Writing What They Don’t Want To Read: Bad News In Print. But here goes.

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Who Needs a Style Guide?

Ronn Torossian

Motorists who once used printed road maps now have GPS that verbally directs them to their destination. Alexa now replaces the need to write to-do and shopping lists, remember to catch the weather forecast on the 6 pm news or set the alarm. But brands that don’t have their own style guides sometimes find themselves […].

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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. Fact-checking for my content marketing stories is just as essential as it is for my editorial work,” said Anna Dimond , a journalist, content creator, and producer. Why accuracy in content marketing is important.

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Out-of-Work Writing Talent Means Huge Opportunity for Brands

PR 20/20

The following is an excerpt from Joe’s new book, Corona Marketing: What Marketing Professionals Need to Do Now to Survive the Crisis. It includes 13 strategies marketers need to employ now. Nonmedia companies, who in some cases had robust print custom magazines, began to lay off portions of their content teams.

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

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

One of the ways to achieve this is by harnessing the power of in-person community engagement and event marketing. You must consider which outcomes best align with the business’s ambitions for growth, market position, or reputation management. Perform a little market research and perhaps build separate event-based personas.

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5 Benefits of Media Relations

Landis PR

For example, if a trusted blogger writes that this product is really great – do you believe that writer or the marketing-speak on a company’s website? Targeting audiences PR pros have access to audience statistics on almost any media outlet – digital/print/broadcast/social media/influencers.