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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

He started Impact Players in 2009 and hasn’t looked back since, saying, “I couldn't be happier being a solo practitioner with my own business, calling my own shots, getting credit for my work and doing all the things you sometimes can’t when you work for somebody else.”. “I My niche is still media relations.

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15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

I write back, saying yes, I would like to do an interview with So-And-So. Sometimes, they could be writing/managing completely different properties. There is nothing – nothing more irritating that being pitched a story… without the “pitchee&# being very clear about which media property it is being pitched for.

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How to Create an Editorial Strategy for Your Blog – Part One

Journalistics

These posts represent the types of things you might not want to write about again. When I started Journalistics in 2009, I was still actively involved in media relations as a core component of my job heading up marketing for a startup technology company. Some might call me old-fashioned when it comes to media relations.

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How To Become A Public Relations Star

Waxing UnLyrical

To land a position in the PR course at RMIT, students need to sit a test to ensure that they have the necessary general knowledge , writing skills and linguistic motivation to be a PR grad. I have recently started writing my own blog about being a PR student as well as current affairs. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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From Couch To 5K: Why Lindsay Allen Runs

Waxing UnLyrical

She has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, an executive speechwriter, and a media relations professional. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Will you help her reach her goal ? Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5

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What My PR Degree Would Look Like Today

Waxing UnLyrical

I finished my masters degree in PR and corporate communication at the end of 2009 – only 19 months ago. Media relations: Yes, it is important for you as a communicator to be able to identify and connect with new media influencers, but the ability to build relationships with traditional media remains a vital PR skill.

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Muck Rack Aims to be an All-in-One PR Tech Platform for Media Contacts, Outreach and Monitoring [PR Tech Briefing]

Sword and the Script

Muck Rack background and overview Muck Rack got started largely as an experiment in 2009. Social media was still relatively new back then, and Muck Rack began as a place for reporters to find each other. Nobody watches the media like the media, and Muck Rack grew up facilitating media watching.