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Why Social Shares Are Key to Pitching Media

Cision

” In magazines in the signature line and on television next to the anchor name, you’ll often find their Twitter handle. Many television programs (even national media) have even started using Facebook Live while they are on-air to attract an online audience. I started tweaking my pitch to include my social media numbers.

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Pitching News Today

PR for Anyone

Is there a viral video on Tik Tok that you can be the expert saying why it’s something you should or shouldn’t do? So listen to what’s happening online and use that to pitch your stories. Here’s a video I did on this: It doesn’t get any easier than this. See my story in the video about Steve and what he did.

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What to Pitch the Media in May

PR for Anyone

I always like to give my followers ideas for pitching the media. Now that we are into early May I wanted to give you ideas on what to pitch to both national publications and regional publications. It’s important to remember that national publications are 4 months out so in May, we are pitching for October. Have some fun.

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TikTok Trends

PR for Anyone

I’ve shared posts about newsjacking before where you take what’s trending online and pitch around that. See what’s trending and pitch your expertise around that. I’ve seen multiple stories on television with experts talking about what TikTok is talking about. That gives them an instant audience.

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How to Develop Good Social Listening Techniques

PR for Anyone

When you can pitch yourself as an expert on a topic that is trending online. The media is regularly covering trends that are going viral on that platform. ” Give the media shareable content by using what is already trending somewhere online and make sure you include that in your pitch as well. We pitch the media.

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How to Pitch Social Influencers

Cision

Millennials know when they are being pitched and teens are identifying more with top YouTubers than conventional celebrities ( Variety ). Brands, recognizing this shift in popularity, are including stars from YouTube, Vine and Instagram in their television commercials. It’s simple. That is why this is so exciting for PR.

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Should Consumers Smile at Guerrilla Marketing?

Mindful Marketing

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing Millions of baseball fans were recently watching televised games when they were unexpectedly hit by a pitch! I threw that question to one of Murray's teammates who pitches.