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ET for an in-depth discussion on the mysteries of media pitching. You heard us: Media pitching. Google “media pitching” and you’ll get a slew of results referencing dos and don’ts, tips, tricks, and best practices. So, for the September #PRStudChat, we brought in the media pitching expert: Michael Smart ( @michaelsmartpr ).
In 2006, we started working with a reputable search company. We won some of those pitches, but still relied primarily on referrals from satisfied customers for most new business. I was no longer working with the SEO company I hired in 2006 so I was on my own. I enjoy writing. Sound too good to be true?
Turns out that PR folk are not the only ones who send bad pitches! As we know, our HR colleagues pitch all day, every day. When they recruit, they’re pitching. When they announce inevitably negative changes to benefits packages, they’re pitching. This from someone at RLM who isn’t as wily as I am. You get the idea.
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Shel Holtz forwarded a blanket pitch sent to him that brings several basic lessons to mind. This is one of the lamest pitches I’ve seen in a long time. This is one of the lamest pitches I’ve seen in a long time. Our first episode premiered on February 15th, 2006, and was downloaded over 2000 times.
Linkfluence was founded in 2006 has 150 employees in seven offices, with headquarters in Paris. However, this month, its agency admitted in writing it pitched this blogger on an announcement using Muck Rack, which, in my opinion, is a competitive product. Its software is sold as a subscription-based service.
New York Times'' Technology reporter Saul Hansell sent us a worse-than-usual pitch that we have been baffled by. Something got us thinking: “Does anyone read what they write?!” So anyway, think about this: Now someone who gets pitched EVERYTHING will have an opportunity to say “Look what I have” on his own blog.
population in 2006 to 33% in 2015 — a current total of 155 million Americans. 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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Pitch Data Studies Data studies have always proven to be great sources of high-quality backlinks, provided the data is interesting and packaged correctly. Once you find your data sources, develop a compelling story complete with findings and some graphics, and then pitch these to journalists via email and/or press release.
From: NSchulhof@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:20 PM Subject: (no subject) Please consider me for a Key Note Speaker at your next event, I am very effective and motivating, utilizing humor and experiences. Tomorrow, worst pitch I received during 15 years of writing the notorious Native''s Guide to New York book series.'
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I started in commercial radio in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2006 at the mighty KEZO, which meant I played a lot of fantastic rock records between the hourly weather and traffic reports! I began writing for 605 Magazine in early 2010 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?
We were dealt into the next bad pitch by an anonymous member of the news media. So we edited the pitch to keep the media outlet’s identity anonymous instead of the person pitching it. I had to forward this pitch to you. All the best, Charlie Bernard - Hmm, this pitch is a tricky one. So WHY does it suck?
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Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012.
I founded Kwittken in 2006, sold it in 2010 to MDC Partners, which is now Stagwell. Then a couple years ago with Stagwell and Mark Penn, I founded a company called Prophet, which is the first SaaS platform for PR people that uses AI to predict media interest, sentiment and spread before you pitch. I’m not a developer.
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In 2006, over 17 million COMPANY savings offers were mailed to consumers through the familiar blue Valpak envelope. The writing sucks and the reason they sent it to Susan Getgood sucks. But we’ll focus on the writing. Put your news hat on when writing news releases, not your copywriting beret. Did we miss anything?
So, I wanted to write about the lessons I have learned from my time in South Africa and how this one experience has helped shape who I am today as a professor. I was pitching the media for our fashion and consumer clients. Did I get this? Absolutely, but I got much more than that from this experience.
Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). “Writing makes me aware. Start a blog because you love to write. He hosts a weekly writing podcast too.
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.
Let’s review his lame pitching to date. Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 11:14:19 AM Subject: LEADING NEW YORK REAL ESTATE FIRM LAUNCHES BRAND-NEW WEB SITE FENWICK KEATS GOODSTEIN LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE User-Friendly Site Features Posting of New Listings in Real-Time plus Comprehensive Apartment Search Data Base - User-friendly AND real-time?
You get one of our coveted Glinda the Good Pitch awards…Kevin, give it to them! I’m told if I don’t write it like that he’ll sue me and stomp up and down! for fabulous press. Here is a story that ran everywhere – before complaints began pouring in. Keep reading. Note the lovely (read catty) Dawson’s Creek reference.
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