Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 25, 2006

Our next bad pitch plays off Richard’s example below and will be known as the UNVITATION , thanks to Seinfeld. Reading this pitch was charity enough thanks. We’ll explain why it stinks at the end. But my favorite is the silent auction benefiting an anonymous charity. "If More to come. Much more.'

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 23, 2006

The 16-year-old Kennedy High School student has performed at numerous City events, including the 2005 Mayor''s Prayer Breakfast and Flag Day celebrations. From there, we''ll remind everyone that a news release does not double as a pitch. Too many facts can turn your pitch/news release into an act of desperation. Seacrest-style.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 19, 2009

Case in point comes via this pitch sent in confidence by a major non-profit health organization dedicated to saving lives from a life threatening disease. SIG FILE - Off-Target Ire The anonymous tipster writes: I received the pitch below a few minutes ago, and knew I must share it with you. However you CAN pitch death.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 20, 2006

The following pitch was so bad, it inspired several bloggers including B.L. Note: Bad Pitch Anonymization is in all UPPERCASE BOLD type. Thanks, FIRST NAME FIRST NAME LAST NAME for COMPANY ONE PHONE NUMBER - Why is this a bad pitch? Ochman and Colin McKay. It also inspired this blog. Hope this will be useful to you.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

During my college years I contributed stories to the student newspaper and interned at a couple local news outlets in southwest Ohio before graduating with my bachelor’s in English-Journalism in 2005. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? Know your audience. That works both ways. Any pet peeves with PR people?

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Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Long one here, so bear with me: October 2005. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you? If you’re offering me a source, have a few different angles in mind and offer them as part of the pitch; “My client, Jane Smith, is an expert in X, and she can comment on A, B, C, D….”

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PR Conversations

APRIL 27, 2017

Originally launched in Spring 2007, PR Conversations broke new ground by envisioning and introducing an international, collaborative PR blog concept under the initial guidance of Toni Muzi Falconi who had founded the original root-blog (tonisblog) sometime around 2005.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 28, 2007

This blog was created because we got tired of reading one editor after another call out the minority of our hard-working industry for bad taste, poor writing and lazy pitching. Can you say this about every one of your last 12 media pitches? Since 2005, Buse has won 19 national PR awards and eight local ones.

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Bad Pitch Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

We were cleaning out the archives and found our back story –- how the Bad Pitch blog was born. Cue squiggly lines and narrator’s voice… - The seeds for the Bad Pitch Blog were planted in 1995 when the book “Toxic Sludge is Good for You,” used some specific events to discredit the entire public relations industry.

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Mindful Marketing

MARCH 7, 2016

Founded in 2005, March Communications is an award-winning communications agency that brings together technology PR, digital marketing and social media to foster growth for our clients. This week I am working on a few new business pitches for brands I would be very proud to work for. What do you miss about the UK?

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Shift Communications

JUNE 4, 2015

Staffers who aren’t quite profitable from across the organization can be corralled and pitched together to get their firm’s “revenue by PR professional” up. But they still have an audience to serve and no reporter worth her byline will take a weak story pitch, even from a friend. Media relations alone doesn’t cut it.

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Wadds Inc.

MARCH 19, 2024

I pitched a research proposal that has become the basis of a PhD study to my co-editor of Exploring Public Relations and Management Communication, Prof Dr Ralph Tench, at Leeds Business School. Prof Dr Betteke ven Rule nailed it in an essay in 2005 ‘ PRofessionals are from Venus, scholars are from Mars ’.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

I was most recently an anchor/reporter at WHO-TV in Des Moines, from 2005-2016. But, in general, reporters don’t want a product pitch on a press release. At Life Time, I spend a good chunk of time pitching stories to media across the country and Canada. I covered everything from politics to health to natural disasters.

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Bad Pitch Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

In 2005, nearly 90 percent of every dollar of revenue raised was available for investment in DISEASE research, care and education programs. tags | public relations | PR | media relations | media | good pitch | bad pitch | bad pitch blog | writing | news release' No magic, just brevity.

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PR Conversations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In an agency setting they are become the A-team who get put forward for every pitch. Calculating a demography for public relations is incredibly unreliable, but data for 2004/2005 suggested two percent of PR practitioners in the UK work in small consultancies or self-employed.

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Doctor Spin

JUNE 28, 2022

I’ve been training spokespersons and pitching their stories since 2005. How to train a spokesperson? Being a camera-shy introvert, I’ve got a profound respect for anyone prepared to step out into the spotlight.

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 2, 2006

PR People Unite and let''s stop pitches like this from a) coming to reporters and b) immediately being forwarded to us with Can you believe someone did this, Richard?" So, folks, meet my Bad Pitch of the month, so far. Clearly this pitch has some legs and I need to spend more time watching informercials. No commenting.

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Doctor Spin

JANUARY 27, 2022

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. I don’t know if the pitch will result in a full-page article or not. We don’t. We seldom know anything for sure.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 7, 2016

According to statistics from the American Society of News Editors, print news staffing fell by 65 percent from 2005-2015. This content-rich newsroom will build the bona fides of your experts and give you a single, robust page to share with reporters when pitching a story. Adobe (pictured below) has a great template.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 12, 2017

After the success of Graffiti, director George Lucas was in demand, and he started pitching his next venture, a science fiction movie called “Star Wars,” to Hollywood studios. In 2005, the beverage giant was a major sponsor of Formula 1 racing. A Fourth Model: Marketing as Profit Center.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Writing media pitches for data-led stories or studies is very different from writing a media pitch to promote the launch of a new product, service, or event. Maybe you’re wondering what your pitch should include. Or are you struggling to figure out how best to structure your pitch? What is a Media Pitch?

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Prowly

JUNE 27, 2024

To have better results when pitching, you might want to start by targeting smaller, relevant media outlets and see where it gets you. Women’s Health Following the success of Men’s Health, Women’s Health was launched in 2005 and enjoys millions of readers across the globe, with the magazine currently sold in 25 countries worldwide.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 11, 2006

PRESS RELEASE [IF YOU CAN CALL THIS A RELEASE, SAYS RL] For Immediate Release Press Contact: Susan Carskadon October 18, 2005 Tampon, Not a Pad: Feminine Hygiene’s latest Innovation in 50 years Ontario, Canada – Just like other women, Francine Chambers used to plan camping trips and vacations around her period. Billion in 2001 (expected $2.7

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Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 26, 2006

This pitch might remind you of Sex in the City. It reminds the Bad Pitch blog of Clueless. From: NAME Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:09 PM To: FRIEND of BPB Subject: Long time no see Hi, I''m just getting around to organizing all of the business cards and contacts that I''ve collected since Thanksgiving 2005. Don’t I know you?”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 25, 2017

In PR a failure could be characterized as a campaign that never caught fire, a pitch that fizzled or a relationship that went badly off course. ” And we’ll never forget it because the 2005 stunt by Snapple happened just a few blocks from our office. Can You Head Off PR Failures? The giant (melting) Snapple popsicle.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 20, 2016

And sure, the PR world has adapted the way they pitch and work with the media. And, I don’t hear about a ton of PR people pitching Buzzfeed (or, maybe I’m just hanging out with the wrong PR people; what I hear much more about are paid placements within Buzzfeed). Media create news differently now. Media are different.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 17, 2015

That percentage has doubled since 2005. In the PRWeek 2014 Agency Business Report example, one has to also wonder about the senior leaders the PR agencies themselves are pitching as “PR leaders” to be represented in industry publications. PR agencies aren’t above reproach, either.

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