Comments on: How to pitch bloggers http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/ A (dry heated) group blog from Phoenix, Arizona on public relations, marketing and social media Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:34:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Why personalisation is still key | LitmanLive.co.uk http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-10244 Why personalisation is still key | LitmanLive.co.uk Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:01:21 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1811#comment-10244 [...] How to pitch bloggers [...] [...] How to pitch bloggers [...]

]]> By: Matt Churchill http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-9910 Matt Churchill Wed, 20 May 2009 00:43:45 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1811#comment-9910 Heya, i'm a blogger and a PR - i had a bad pitch last week and i've blogged about what can be done differently, would love to know your thought, thanks! http://geetarchurchy.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/how-to-pitch-to-bloggers/ Heya, i’m a blogger and a PR – i had a bad pitch last week and i’ve blogged about what can be done differently, would love to know your thought, thanks!

http://geetarchurchy.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/how-to-pitch-to-bloggers/

]]> By: Deb Krol http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-9906 Deb Krol Tue, 19 May 2009 19:34:51 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1811#comment-9906 Yeah, on the journalism side of the fence you would NOT believe some of the totally off the mark pitches I'm receiving these days. And when I ask the PR people why they chose me, when my Cision profile is very clear about what I'm looking for, some of them are very snarky and blowing me off [like the guy who said it's impossible for him to sort out the Native American writers from all his other ethnic people on the list and that he would be happy to never send me anything again--well, that guy just lost a writer with good outlets!] while others are obviously just turning over their lists to the interns. PLEASE, PR people, pay attention to your lists. I know it's a pain [from the PR side of my life!] but you'll be making your target writers very happy. Oh yeah, sometimes the really good PR people write me and say "Deb, I know that you don't usually write this but I saw something you did on this subject in X mag and thought you might be able to craft it for your outlets." now THAT is great PR service! Yeah, on the journalism side of the fence you would NOT believe some of the totally off the mark pitches I’m receiving these days. And when I ask the PR people why they chose me, when my Cision profile is very clear about what I’m looking for, some of them are very snarky and blowing me off [like the guy who said it's impossible for him to sort out the Native American writers from all his other ethnic people on the list and that he would be happy to never send me anything again--well, that guy just lost a writer with good outlets!] while others are obviously just turning over their lists to the interns.

PLEASE, PR people, pay attention to your lists. I know it’s a pain [from the PR side of my life!] but you’ll be making your target writers very happy. Oh yeah, sometimes the really good PR people write me and say “Deb, I know that you don’t usually write this but I saw something you did on this subject in X mag and thought you might be able to craft it for your outlets.” now THAT is great PR service!

]]> By: Pat Elliott http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-9898 Pat Elliott Fri, 15 May 2009 20:19:36 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1811#comment-9898 Here's an example of PR agencies behaving badly with blog pitches: http://tinyurl.com/qzvcpx Here’s an example of PR agencies behaving badly with blog pitches:
http://tinyurl.com/qzvcpx

]]> By: Len Gutman http://www.valleyprblog.com/pr-best-practices/how-to-pitch-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-9878 Len Gutman Thu, 14 May 2009 19:20:15 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1811#comment-9878 Frankly if your pitch is not about an Arizona agency getting a new client, hiring a new person, or winning an award, I'm not interested at all. Period. Frankly if your pitch is not about an Arizona agency getting a new client, hiring a new person, or winning an award, I’m not interested at all. Period.

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