Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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Presspage

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In this article, we’ll show you exactly how to ace this process. Here are 3 must-have tips on how to respond to media inquiries during business-as-usual to win media coverage. How to build relationships with journalists Cold pitching is a media relations strategy that many PR pros swear by.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 17, 2024

Blogger outreach, link building outreach, digital PR outreach, and affiliate partnership outreach all have their place in the marketing mix. And like them or not, if you are serious about digital PR or starting a link building strategy, you need email outreach. Tip: A tool like Hunter.io

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

Throughout the years, one thing has remained the same: the purpose of a media kit is to act as a one-stop shop of information for a journalist or media source to write a feature on the company. How to get in contact, links to social channels, and the availability for interviews or consultations (if applicable).

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In our post about how to contact reporters , I talked about some specific checks that you need to do when evaluating journalists: Do they still work there? For instance, let’s pretend we were trying to find writers willing to write about a nationwide charity race, like St. So, what does relevancy mean? Jude’s Walk/Run.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

“News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: Take the time to produce content of real depth and value. Provide journalists with the material they’d need to write and publish such a story.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

“News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: Take the time to produce content of real depth and value. Provide journalists with the material they’d need to write and publish such a story.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 19, 2025

Tune in to learn how to appear on podcasts and use them for brand awareness and link generation. Then, here are some for those who are thinking of starting a podcast (or want to know how to make their’s better.) And whether you should write more for the SEO. Could you write from this transcript? Content is a gift!

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

A while ago I posted a video by Rand Fishkin on how to create 10X content- content that is 10X better than your competitors. So how do you know if your efforts are working? The quality of writing and visuals is very subjective. With digital analytics it’s possible to know exactly how effective your content is.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. How to Find Journalists Interested in Your Story There are at least six main ways to find journalists. However, for illustrative purposes, I’ll still show how to confirm.

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Buzzstream

JULY 10, 2024

I met Digitaloft’s founder, James Brockbank, at their Digital PR Summit in Manchester. With his deep SEO background, he can explain technical aspects like Google’s patents while still naturally integrating that into his agency’s digital PR and content strategy without it feeling forced. We are, mate.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Finding great digital PR examples , campaigns and resources takes a lot of work and time. Our State of Digital PR survey reported content ideation as the most challenging part of digital PR. Since Iona and Annie—both PR experts—curate this list, I feel confident they are assembling the best campaigns.

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When I got promoted to SEO account manager at my previous digital marketing agency, besides all the excitement, I knew it would be a new challenge to create strategies involving Digital PR, Content, Design and other teams on top of my usual SEO work. Workload – Estimate how busy a person is before giving them more work.

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5W PR

AUGUST 19, 2019

In the world of public relations, digital PR refers to the online marketing strategy utilized by businesses to increase their online presence and boost their brand. Instead, in order to make the most impact, digital PR uses online strategies such as search engine optimization, influencer outreach, content marketing, and social media.

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Buzzstream

AUGUST 16, 2024

For example, if I wanted to find a journalist who writes about Italy travel tips. How to check if they are still at the publication There are a few easy ways to check if a journalist is still at the publication. How to check their beat “Beat” or “Industry” are used relatively interchangeably depending on the media database.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

See what they write about. 20 years ago, when I started teaching PR courses, the number one complaint reporters and editors had about PR pros was that we’re lazy and we don’t do our homework. Since I now have a blog about PR and technology, I’m on lists like Cision. Do your Homework. Read their blog.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 20, 2015

Writing a press release and posting it on the wire doesn’t get your media coverage anymore. In fact, according to the 2015 Cision Social Journalism Study only 6% of PR pros still do that. This is a marvelous opportunity to connect with them online and discover what they’re writing about or looking for. Go to Lists.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

As you write a pitch, it uses generative AI to build a media list based on the text of your pitches. This concept diverges from traditional PR outreach efforts. 82% of PR pros use generative AI for tasks like brainstorming. PRophet takes a different approach to finding media contacts to pitch.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2017

“The fictions and fabrications that comprise fake news are but a subset of the larger bad news phenomenon, which also encompasses many forms of shoddy, unresearched, error-filled, and deliberately misleading reporting that do a disservice to everyone,” writes Snopes founder David Mikkelson. How to Spot Fake News. Follow me on Twitter.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2024

Using the right tools will make or break your digital PR campaign, and our digital PR agency is using the powerful suite of tools provided by BuzzStream to revolutionize and constantly experiment with our approach to outreach, digital PR, and link building more generally.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

However, it also comes with the unique challenge of delivering results in digital PR on a lean budget. Tips for Doing Digital PR on a Low Budget Based on our chat, here are some great tips for doing digital PR on a small budget. Content led, you know, digital PR. I want to get into this.

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Rock the Status Quo

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Every time you distribute a press release, write a LinkedIn post with their perspective or additional “insider details,” then link to the full press release. Write up what they WOULD have said in the interview as an article, referencing and linking over to the original piece of content. Digital PR'

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PR News

JULY 24, 2017

Reality checked in with me recently when a few parents on my son’s rowing team, knowing my affiliation with PR News, asked me to write the press releases for the club. The post The Epic List of PR’s Daily Challenges (And How to Overcome Them) appeared first on PR News Blog.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The trick to getting good content from an AI service is to learn how to write excellent prompts. Give it an identity to write from, a tone of voice to use, and enough context about the topic so that you get a great response back. Always edit and put your own voice on a piece that’s created by AI. Never use it straight from AI.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 26, 2017

Write good quality content. There are many resources to help you learn how to write your news and content so that it meets Google’s quality guidelines. SMART News is one of them. Rand Fishkin of Moz explains how to create content that will garner the attention of influencers in this episode of Whiteboard Friday.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 7, 2025

With interest in digital PR growing almost 30% in the past few years, we wanted to put together a snapshot of today’s industry, looking at tactics, challenges, tools, and much more. We interviewed over 150 digital PR professionals worldwide between November and December 2024 to give you the State of Digital PR Report for 2025.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 5, 2024

The term digital PR means different things depending on who you ask. We even had an entire podcast episode devoted to the differences between digital PR strategies US and UK with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson. Some people refer to digital PR as content-led link building. But there is a lot more to digital PR.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 30, 2024

So, in this post, well help define reactive PR as it compares to proactive PR and show you how to use it to build coverage. What is Reactive PR? Reactive PR, sometimes called newsjacking, is when you respond to trending topics, events, or even crises. So, thats where reactive PR as a strategy stands out.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 14, 2024

Digital PR can help rankings, organic traffic and more. The term digital PR may differ slightly depending on who you ask. We recently discussed the differences between US and UK digital PR with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson on our podcast. How Does Digital PR Help SEO? More on that later.)

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the years, I tested and used almost every digital PR, blogger outreach , and link building tool available. Below, we’ve collected our favorite digital PR tools that have been proven to help launch successful campaigns. The list is broken down by task. All pricing and features are based on the time of publication.)

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Buzzstream

JUNE 30, 2021

As a journalist, I’ve seen and deleted thousands of PR emails over the years. As a Digital PR, I’ve probably produced all of the above. How to target correctly. With freelancers, this is a little more tricky because we are often freelancing for a range of publications and writing about a variety of topics.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode, I spoke with Hana Montgomery , the founder and managing director of the digital PR agency Shout Bravo. I met Hana at Brighton SEO , and she gave a great talk about running global digital PR campaigns and earning links internationally. It’s how to do it and how to not do it.

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Rock the Status Quo

DECEMBER 18, 2014

SEO Trends for 2015 from Rand Fishkin, MOZ I’ll write a longer post about this in a few weeks, since I’d like to add some ideas to what Rand has to say, but this SlideShare includes some trends that every public relations practitioner should be following. Digital PR'

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Presspage

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In this article, well show you exactly how to ace this process. Here are 3 must-have tips on how to respond to media inquiries during business-as-usual to win media coverage. How to build relationships with journalists Cold pitching is a media relations strategy that many PR pros swear by.

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