The Anatomy Of A Media Pitch – From Idea To Publication
If you’ve ever wondered how a successful publicity effort goes from idea to media pitch to publication, let me give you a little glimpse of the process behind the scenes. Just recently one of our print campaign managers, Ashley Pontius, announced that she had...
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What Can Go Wrong With A Tweet?
It’s so easy these days to sit down with your laptop or your phone, whip out a tweet about whatever pops into your head, and post it for all the world to read. And if you scroll through social media platforms you will see plenty of people doing just that, apparently...
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I Wish I Had Done This Sooner
As our team sat down for a brainstorming session this week, talk gravitated toward exciting news for one of our clients. We had arranged an interview for him in a national newspaper and he was elated. It was just the latest in a string of successes for him. “I wish I...
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How To Respond When The Social Media World Gets Unpleasant
Most of you are fully aware by now that social media plays a significant role in building your authority as a thought leader and expert in your field. One of social media’s great advantages over traditional media is that you get to control your message to an extent...
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How Small Publications Can Play A Big Role In Your Publicity Efforts
I don’t believe I’m going out on a limb (well, at least not too far out) when I say that nearly everyone recognizes the giants of journalism. Such venerated (and at times vilified) publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and...
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In Search Of PR Success? Think About The Media’s Needs, Not Yours
When you have a great company or book that you want to promote, it’s easy to get so caught up in how things look from from your perspective that you start to think: “The media will want to talk to me the moment they hear about this!” I’m sorry to report, that won’t...
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The Advantage Women In Business Have With Being Interviewed In The Media
Men and women both regularly experience successful publicity campaigns, promoting their position as authorities in their fields by being quoted in the press, interviewed on the air and building a following on social media. But (sorry, men) I think that women often...
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What To Do When Media Successes Are Quickly Followed By Media Failures
In the publicity world, nothing quite matches the excitement of landing not just one great media hit, not just two, but a whole series that follows quickly one right after the other. Such extraordinary success can trick you into thinking: Hey, this publicity and...
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The Time And Toil That Lie Behind ‘Instant’ Media Success
Have you ever heard actors or singers who became “overnight sensations” explain that their success didn’t happen overnight after all? Instead, it was the result of lots of toil, along with years in which they languished in obscurity before – after much persistence –...
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Don’t Ignore The New Names In The Media Landscape
I’ve shared in the past how excited our team gets whenever we score a big media hit for one of our clients. What’s interesting these days is the changing nature of some of those hits. Certainly, the New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other...
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