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Bloggers send more than a few emails asking to be removed from a media list, we also send emails to PR people to tell them why a pitch doesn’t work for their blog – and perhaps what might work in the future.I rarely receive a response from these notes – which is unfortunate and yet telling. But ...
We're all looking for something to take us to a better place-workwise, that is.How do we do that? Follow trends.When you’ve got one example, it’s a “noticeable situation.” When you’ve got two examples, it’s a fact. And when you’ve got three examples—welcome to a trend. A trend is som...
Last week, I had the blind luck to present right before Artie Isaac at SummitUp. If you don’t know Artie, you should.Artie Isaac co-founded SpeakerSite and the Young Isaac Agency. ...
Earlier this week one half of The Bad Pitch Blog kicked off SummitUp -- an event packed with great content, including presentations from Bob Garfield and Chris Brogan.The Bad Pitch Blog took advantage of this quality time to ask a few folks about how to improve the pitch...
I'll get right to the point: PR is not the dark side any more.As a reporter for a plethora of publications in the hard-to-remember '80s, I do recall titters from my colleagues when I defected to PR. I had to make more money and I couldn't cope with holier-than-thou editors...
We're always trying to tell more compelling stories...delivering messages that get our point across credibly and effectively with our target audiences.It's one of the reason research and hard numbers(regardless of the sample size) tend to make big news.When creating messaging to tell a story,...
It’s your first week on the job and you’ve managed to find the coffee, remember your cube neighbor’s name, and find your office without getting lost in the maze of hallways. But what about the job you were hired for? With...
Our latest good pitch comes from Tamara Gruber with Red Giant Consulting (alas, no relation to Macgruber, we checked)...
I’ve been hearing a lot of people tell me they won’t do anything gutsy: Friends advising me against certain actions cause someone might react poorly (as if anyone’s paying attention); colleagues warning they think everything should be on pause while the economy recapitulates; partners saying no to...
Creativity is almost impossible to define. According to consumer-insight researchers at Lucid Incorporated, every person recognizes he or she has it, but its meaning varies widely...
In her book, "am*BITCH*ous," Debra Condren says career-oriented women have to fight to get any work-life balance. Women, she claims, are constantly fighting to maintain separate personal and professional lives. Women feel there has to be a sweet spot...
The Bad Pitch Blog is pleased to leak announce tell you that Peter Shankman’s crowd sourcing secret weapon, Help a Reporter Out (HARO), has retained RLM Public Relations as their public relations agency of record. ...
One of the more frequent questions asked of the Bad Pitch blog is “what’s the difference between pitching journalists and bloggers?”We used to assume that the main difference was that pitching bloggers requires hyper-customization. And ...
Here are some quick links to help you with your pitching efforts -- they all focus on writing. Don’t read into that though.1) One Word One Word.comOne word, sixty seconds. ...
