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The Plane Truth About Following Up on Pitches

PRSay

I travel a lot for my job and have a lot of travel stories that teach me life lessons. Many PR practitioners let uncertainty they are feeling in their gut creep into their language in the emails they write to media. A kind, unknown fellow traveler had turned it over to the airline. But it wasn’t there!

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Meet the Media: Hannah Lutz, Reporter at Automotive News

Bianchi Biz Blog

Still, a reliable public charging network is critical for those without access to home chargers and for everyone traveling long distances. I never thought I’d write about mayflies or interview an entomologist (an insect scientist) as an auto reporter! I’ll continue to cover this area and charger uptime—a sore point for the industry.

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5 Tips to Pitching Success – When PR Stands for “Personal” Relations

Deirdre Breakenridge

You may have a very distinct idea of what you want to write about as a guest contributor to my blog, or perhaps what your executive might want to talk about on Women Worldwide. Media Media Training PR 2.0 Be flexible in your pitch. Don’t give up so easily. Have a pitch #2 in your back pocket.

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Anchor Your Pitches to Journalists With a ‘Human Angle’

PRSay

This was the classic tech pitch — writing to “introduce” a technological tool that gauges public sentiment on issues and purports to use AI to deliver new and different insights. His pitch was a profile of an up-and-coming minority woman leader who happened to be in charge of the bid. Smart approach. The best thing about this niche?

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Yorkshire’s Top 20 Bloggers

Norton's Notes

Zak Avery writes about everything Beer related, opinion pieces to beer related events and everything in between. A freelance project manager and writer, Jen writes some really informative reviews and advice pieces especially for families, like how to make gardens kid safe and how to label things when moving house.

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How to pitch to journalists during the pandemic

Prohibition

If the product that you’re pitching requires people to be outside to use it, involves travelling or requires multiple users it’s probably not appropriate to talk about. Ask them how them how are, start a conversation, find out what they’re writing about and see if you can actually add value and help them.

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13 lessons I learned from 1,300+ coffee meet-ups over 13 years

Communications Conversations

If each coffee meet-up represents 2 hours of time (an hour for the meeting and half hour of travel/prep time on the back and front ends) that equals 2,600 hours devoted to networking (minimum) over those 13 years. We did a social media training together at Pinehurst–the birthplace of golf in the U.S. Most people can write.

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