Bad Pitch Blog

APRIL 19, 2009

I was fairly taken aback, however, to see someone actually texting a pitch to a well-respected freelancer who laughed all the way to my inbox. Thought I’d share it with you because this is the lowest of the pitches I have seen all year. Notice the funny use of the capitalization for one word – W - instead of the other hotels mentioned.

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Pitching Hotels Tourism Internal 45

Cision

MAY 22, 2015

Several years ago, as my employer welcomed a new crop of interns, the young woman assigned to our group asked me a serious question: “Am I going to have to lie a lot?”. The fact that these activities take place over drinks at a bar or in the corner of a hotel ballroom doesn’t make them any less important. PR people are liars.”.

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Hotels Fashion Ethics Meeting 120

5W PR

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For example, a boutique hotel might share the founder’s passion for design and hospitality, while a luxury resort could highlight its commitment to sustainability and community engagement.  Pitching story ideas, arranging interviews, and providing media kits ensure that the brand is featured in relevant publications and news outlets.

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Consumer Brand Branding Crisis Management 78

Critical Mention

APRIL 6, 2017

In this two-part series, we chatted with the entrepreneur and highly sought-after keynote speaker about the three essentials to pitching media, his unconventional way of preparing for media interviews, his ADHD, love of skydiving and, of course, fake news. I was at a Ritz-Carlton hotel once, where I was running out of toothpaste.

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Social Media Customer Service Hotels Marketing 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

Danielle Whitfield, Media and Public Affairs Executive, Newcastle Airport @daniellemalvina Northern boomerang: brands to Newcastle Christian Cerisola was motivated to move into PR after working for a provincial newspaper and receiving poorly targeted pitches. He described breaking a story about a pornographic video pirating ring.

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Marketing Newspapers Public Affairs Airlines 60

Bianchi Biz Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For example, the cutting-edge CES Connect2Car sessions – the longest running panel series at CES – is hosted by the Mobile Electronics Association and its partners SAE International, COVESA and AASA. The airport, airlines, hotels, rideshare companies – they are all short-staffed. If you haven’t started yet, you’re running out of time.

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Automotive Mobile Software Technology 87

Doctor Spin

MARCH 1, 2024

Hotels, resorts, airlines, and tourism boards may have PR departments or hire PR professionals for communication roles. Advice for Public Relations Internships The Public Relations Intern—A Future PR Superstar? Travel- and hospitality industry. Public affairs firms. Professional associations.

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Publicity Public Affairs eBook Nonprofit 52

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MAY 23, 2023

The largest jump they saw was regarding hotel stays. As you can imagine, this increased demand is driving up airfares on most routes, with ticket prices for international flights increasing by more than 30%. According to AAA data , Europe and Canada are the most popular international destinations.

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Travel Tourism Airlines Hotels 40

PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If your business has a poor employer brand, it can be very difficult to shake off both externally and internally, impacting the talent you can attract. With some time spent doing media training and by through targeted pitching, you can boost your company’s reputation through more than just your CEO and other senior members of staff.

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Brand Branding How To Employee 48

Beyond PR

MAY 18, 2017

One of my clients was a hotel located near an amusement park. As a social media influencer, it kills me when businesses reach out to me without any prior relationship and try to pitch me. Favorite a user’s tweet. Retweet a user. Add the user to a list.

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How To Instagram Social Media LinkedIn 57

Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I first met him when I pitched him for a client, and we soon discovered we both went to Syracuse around the same time and had friends in common and wanted to talk about ethics. The cost of their flight and hotel have got to be covered. We’re doing something a little bit different this week. I’m a bicyclist.

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Ethics Travel Writing YouTube 85

ZudePR

JULY 20, 2016

At home, in hotels, in coffee shops, sports centres, museums, trains, soft plays. My answer was nice, but internally I was seething. And you’ll drastically reduce your time spent pitching for work. #24: Since setting up on my own, I’ve worked all over the place. You name it, I’ve worked there. Click to Tweet. It works for me.

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Digital PR SEO Small Business Blogging 60

Buzzstream

MARCH 12, 2025

The second is where we get some tactical information about pitch strategy, email crafting, and media list building. And to me, the way that you’re talking makes it sound like maybe having that background as a journalist helps you write a better pitch, right? And, uh, you know, my, my time pitching the U.S. Amanda: Yeah.

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Digital PR Agency Journalism Pitching 62

ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

As an editor, I commiserate with other journalists and editors by getting too many spammy pitches and follow-up messages. The root of the problem is always internal. Three – including the New Rules of Marketing and PR – are international bestsellers. She write, speaks, and advises on internal communication.​.

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Writing Social Media SEO Blogging 114

Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Just this morning a colleague at GMA showed us this pitch. As most of the world knows, Smith died in a Florida hotel on February 8, with legal disputes soon following in Florida, California and the Bahamas over where she should be buried and who should have custody of her infant daughter. Start the day off with a story about AN Smith.

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Pitching Hotels Exercises Data 47

5W PR

JANUARY 21, 2020

My day to day was jam packed with on-site and off-site meetings, ranging from tours of LinkedIn and Daily Mail office to internal brainstorms and group meetings. While working with the PHA team to pitch London-based media, the most notable difference was that the U.K. media landscape differs from that in the U.S. – media landscapes.

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Travel Groups Real Estate Newspapers 88

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Consequently, PR and marketing teams will have more flexibility to justify pursuing a coverage opportunity with these contacts, as there’s less full-time staffers to accommodate pitches. Luciana Lima | Vila Galé Hotels. Rethinking internal and external comms. Justin Goldstein | Press Record Communications.

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