8 days ago by franchisepr

Heidi Stevens / Chicago Tribune BlogHer Blog Fort Star-Telegram / Fort Worth Star-Telegram ThisNext Blog Christina Giannantonio / Star-Ledger Vik Jolly / Orange County Register Chris MacIas / Sacramento Bee Elizabeth Maupin / Orlando Sentinel Sherri Osborn / About.Com Dropjack Blog

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9 days ago by franchisepr

Here are the top ten of a long list of the most influential writers, reporters, and bloggers covering consumer electronics in December ‘09 and January ‘10: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Peter Svensson Martyn Williams Cecilia Kang Andrew Berg Don Clark John Sutter Ryan Kim Sumner Lemon Mark Milian A ...

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54 days ago by prworkbench

A new free online tool was added to your PR Workbench this month: Pitch with Me. We have seen many new media relations tools and apps launched this year claiming to be more useful than the rest. Most of these are just more of the same: new ways to blast out PR Spam, SEO “experts” who think they know ...

PR Workbench by Jack Monson - jackmonson.com · 3 references

56 days ago by Lisa Barone

Not unlike many others in my line of work, I get a lot of pitches. Lots of emails from people who think it would be AWESOME if I covered their new product release, their new tool, the birth of their first child, or maybe even mention their stagnant blog. Trouble is that most of the pitches hitting m ...

Outspoken Media - outspokenmedia.com · Rank: 13,759 · 242 references

78 days ago by Chris Abraham

A couple weeks ago Ed Zitron reached out to me to ask me some zany and personal questions about both me and also my habits as an A-List blogger, since I blog for Marketing Conversation, AdAge Digital Next, SocialMedia.biz, and this one, of course. I enjoyed answering these questions but, as my frien ...

Chris Abraham - chrisabraham.com · Rank: 40,843 · 220 references

81 days ago by prworkbench

I’ve been working on a research project for the past few weeks regarding the pitching of bloggers. I’m reaching out to thousands of bloggers on behalf of the MatchPoint application for PR pros to gauge their interest in receiving pitches, news, notes, and social media news releases from MatchPoint’s ...

PR Workbench by Jack Monson - jackmonson.com · 3 references

85 days ago by katekotler

I was thinking about the fact that a lot of PR professionals do not know how to pitch bloggers. They tend to use the same tactics and strategies in doing so that they normally use with news or feature writers for print/online publications. Generally this doesn’t do well to translate into coverage fo ...

Kate Kotler - katekotler.com · 2 references

120 days ago by Bill Seaver

I’ve been reaching out to bloggers to promote things for my clients for a few years now. One of the biggest changes I’ve seen in the last two years is that it is more common find bloggers who are contacted regularly by companies than when I started. In early 2007, a lot of bloggers I was talking to ...

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138 days ago by Yvonne

This Monday and Tuesday I was in NYC at the OMMA Global conference. My good friend Kevin Burke recommended me to a Mommy blogger panel (it was a discussion on the topic; being a mommy blogger wasn't critical to the discussion - knowing about them, was) My fellow panelists were outstanding women blog ...

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142 days ago by Jessica Smith

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Now that I play on both sides of the street, an independent blogger and a public relations practitioner, I’m often hyper-aware of what pitches the teams I’m on are sending and who we’re sending them to. With that said, it probably comes as no surprise that I can’t h ...