Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

Spoken words and video must match, so reporters either have to write/talk to the video or find a video that matches what they’re saying. Performance isn’t typically an issue in print — using prose to tell a compelling story is. Along with my duties for BCN, I do a little freelance writing.

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Meeting Media Print Enterprise 98

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 4, 2017

How hard is it to write some short articles on a subject you know well? Understanding what the decision-makers want before you begin writing is a major timesaver. Many prefer to receive a pitch and an outline first, though some will look at a completed article right off the bat. Write for the audience.

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B2B Guidelines Writing Pitching 136

PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

Determine the chronology of your business story before writing it. The language, idioms, and examples you use in your business story will likely vary depending on whether you’re writing for million dollar home buyers or Kindergarten teachers. Simple Advice: Write Like You Speak, Reporters Will Listen. Just write like you speak.

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Pitching Media Small Business Writing 40

Cision

MARCH 29, 2016

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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Retail Pitching Print Writing 120

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Consider the following: Demand for media attention is high: Most top-tier writers now receive 100, 250 or 500 pitches a week for 5 story spots. Treat subject lines like you’re a copywriter at a big ad agency and you have to write a killer headline for a new ad. My pro tip: Write 10 subject lines for each pitch.

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Media Relations Pitching Media Report 100

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Universal Information Systems pitches itself as a “concierge service” for all things media monitoring. The product name and press release position the tool as a writing assistant of sorts, “to create initial draft frameworks for press releases and outreach communications.” Social media tools offer AI to write social media posts.

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Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

Bad Pitch Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

People sometimes ask us why we out our own on The Bad Pitch Blog. Our traffic logs show that bad pitches get more traffic than our how-to articles. When a pitch is outed, it’s being cached in Google…multiple times…as people pass these stories around like joints at Woodstock. We tell our bad pitches when they’ve been outed.

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Pitching Case Study Print Blogging 68

Bianchi Biz Blog

JULY 25, 2022

As lead editor for Work Truck , I am responsible for content planning for both print and digital, feature writing, news reporting, manage our brand’s social media efforts, eNewsletters, event planning, and am also the content technical lead, helping with editorial technical and SEO efforts. If I’m not reporting I’m flying.

Meeting 93

Meeting Media Journalism Education 93

Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Pushing products in your pitches won’t gain you any media coverage. If you want journalists to respond to your pitches, you need to explain why your news is important and relevant. Adriana Stan, public relations director at W Magazine, says being empathetic to the contacts you are pitching is the key to winning them over.

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Fashion Pitching Journalism Social Media 120

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2023

First is the new “PR Assistant” which will allow “PR professionals to draft press releases and personalize pitches.” The second is an enhancement to its AI Writing Assistant, first unveiled a couple of months ago. That assistant helps to write social media content but now includes an integration to DALL-E. Fair enough.

Software 123

Software Pitching Ethics Privacy 123

Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Sure, budgets are smaller, print is moving to digital-only and some high profile journalist moves out of the industry have made headlines. Journalists have complained for decades that there aren’t enough good media experts in PR who can write or sell a quality story, understand the journalist and get the pitches right.

Media Relations 50

Media Relations Measurement Report Media 50

PRSay

AUGUST 12, 2016

For those who work in sports and entertainment PR, there are many areas of our practices we should be evaluating from how we pitch media in the social media era, to crafting captivating press releases, packaging media stories and effectively communicating our messages to the right audiences in real time.

Storytelling 60

Storytelling Social Media Sports Strategy 60

Marketwired

APRIL 12, 2016

In its 2015 study , Edison Research showed that podcast consumption grew from 11% of the U.S. This harkens back to the early days of television when the hosts or the actors you were watching would pitch the product themselves. While listenership of podcasts is still small, that audience gets increasingly larger each year.

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Advertising Advertising Television Radio 100

Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

How we pitch different audiences with BuzzStream. As with other media sectors, the best thing to do first is try to identify the right person to contact and figure out what they write about. This is where CAD designs and 3D printing come in handy and play a crucial part in outreach as one of our topical areas of interest.

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Fashion Pitching Tools Resources 48

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

He has also been a marketer and accepts an occasional commission for business writing. It used to be that one would study the works of people who had been giants in the field and who had become so through the strength and success of their work. Know a PR, marketing or sales leader with compelling ideas fit for print? Far harder.

Journalism 61

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

When I built a case for creating it, I focused on showing how the site would be a greater asset to our institution than the internal print publication I managed. By switching to a blog we saved printing and distribution costs. But that was the case even with the internal print publication… unearthly, jaw-dropping amounts of it.

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Blogging How To Print Facebook 68

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Source: 3 Studies Branding and Marketing ).

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Survey Marketing B2B Study 178

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. As opposed to paying for advertising, PR pros earn media coverage by pitching stories reporters want to write, and readers want to see.

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Agency Internal International Pitching 192

Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Is the person writing someone with experience in the topic? Could you see this content in a printed magazine, encyclopedia, or book? Tip: Some studies have found obtrusive ads can negatively impact brands. But your time is better spent writing better content. Here are some ways to build new content for pitching.

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How To SEO Google Examples 71

Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 29, 2009

Please clip them to your fridge and study over your morning latte. Write a short message on each topic rather than one long message on several. 7 Read Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style before you write another email. 11 Assume that whatever you write in an email could be printed on the front page of Gawker.

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Writing Print Groups Pitching 45

Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 The announcement pitches this as enabling “PR agencies to sell robust guaranteed placement packages to their clients.” Meltwater case study. Muck Rack case study.

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Software Case Study Advertising Advertising 121

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 9, 2018

Several studies suggest businesses plan to invest in public relations in 2018. This is easy fodder to write a blog post on the same topic from a different angle and yet also weave in the story you worked so hard to earn. I suggest writing different headlines and freshening up the copy with new data where applicable.

Media 98

Media B2B Groups Conference 98

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We analyzed the entire B2B content marketing landscape, talked to experts, and broke down case studies from companies like Google, Microsoft, HubSpot, and more. If you prefer to view a PDF version of the report that’s easier to print, we’ve got you covered here.]. Here are the five biggest trends you need to know. [If

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B2B Content Marketing Trends Marketing 85

Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Pitches can make or break a PR campaign. You could have a contact list brimming with journalists, and a potentially-viral campaign, but if you hit send on a flat pitch don’t be surprised if you fail to get opens or coverage. Getting Pitch Perfect. It’s as simple as that. However, I’ll explain exactly why this is in point 9.

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Pitching Writing Digital PR How To 164

Doctor Spin

JANUARY 27, 2022

According to a recent study , 41% of all sick leaves in the Swedish communications industry are mental illnesses. I have been working with PR every day since 2005 (and studied PR at the university between 2000-2005), but I rarely know for sure if the press release I just wrote will take off. We don’t. Burnt to a crisp.

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Publicity How To Industry Study 52

Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 17, 2021

I work out of my home and call my freelance writing business Baxter TechWrite. Today, the majority of articles I write are for Transport Topics , but I have also worked on four different Confidence Reports for NACFE , the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. Hence my desire to write such a piece.

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Meeting Automotive Engineering Media 65

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

OnePitch has set out to be a pitch broker between PR pros and reporters. PR pros can submit pitches to OnePitch through an online template that includes required fields and character limits. It walks you through a series of steps to choose the right categories and tags that help describe the content of your pitch.

Marketing 63

Marketing Pitching Corporate Tools 63

The Proactive Report

MARCH 16, 2016

Q1: The Track Maven study showed that while content publication and distribution from brands and companies is up by 35% engagement is decreasing. That would be like writing a story headline that has nothing to do with the content of the story but is just clickbait based on whatever Google Trends is saying is out there.

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Infographics Video Case Study Print 100

The Proactive Report

MARCH 16, 2016

Q1: The Track Maven study showed that while content publication and distribution from brands and companies is up by 35% engagement is decreasing. That would be like writing a story headline that has nothing to do with the content of the story but is just clickbait based on whatever Google Trends is saying is out there.

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Infographics Video Case Study Print 100

PR Fuel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Writing just might be the most important skill you can have. It doesn’t matter how many reporters you know or how unique your story angle is, if you can’t write a compelling press release that instantly sucks readers in, everything else is meaningless. Unfortunately, too many press release writers never improve their writing skills.

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Writing Report Education Company 45

Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

First, Writing Skills. No matter what you’ve heard about all that sexy social media stuff, you still need to know how to write in PR. Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. Second, Internship Experience.

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Pinterest Writing Interviews Social Media 52

Bad Pitch Blog

MAY 20, 2010

We’ve been receiving more than a few pitches from Jennifer on behalf of Retrevo. And for this she’s getting a good pitch seal of approval from the Bad Pitch Blog (we used to call it Glinda the Good Pitch, but how cool is that, really?) Before we post her pitch, we asked Jennifer a few questions.

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Pitching Fashion Report Twitter 49

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. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution. As a result print circulation has fallen dramatically.

Media Relations 115

Media Relations Media Print Newspapers 115

Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

None of the top 20 UK agencies participated in the recent PRWeek pay gap study. The New York Times printed the article in full. The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media. It works to be fair.

Industry 153

Industry Publicity Agency Community 153

Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

Meanwhile, a media company like Hearst might publish a feature article in the print edition of Esquire magazine, and the sole “point” of that article might be “make the reader feel like they really get Chris Evans.” ” To many, injecting a CTA into a piece of writing is to sully the art form. ” Why?

Content Marketing 111

Content Marketing Marketing Media SEO 111

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It was a good pitch. After several unsuccessful attempts, I re-worked my pitch into a blog post and published it on the company blog. This new trend some were calling content marketing had the hallmarks of a soft and subtle pitch. The same is true in print. Re-write white papers as long form contributed articles.

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Content Marketing Publicity Marketing Television 60