Tweet We’ve all been there before as PR professionals. When you’re having one of those days – or even weeks – when you just can’t get a hit in the media. It sucks. And it also can allow self doubt to creep in. I’ve been there more times than I care to share. It sucks, no doubt. But, in my latest installment for Muck Rack, I offer some reasons why you aren’t awful at your job and why you just aren’t having a good day pitching. You can read it here.
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Tweet I regularly write for the popular PR and media site Muck Rack and I have a lot of fun doing it. I had written an article a while ago for other public relations professionals on three things they should do before they pick up the phone and call a jounrnalist to pitch their story. You may or may not find it informative. It just got picked up by the website PR Daily, and you can read it right here.
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Tweet There was a recent dustup in the PR and media community recently when the co-founder of HQ Trivia flipped out on a Daily Beast reporter and threatened to fire his popular app’s host if that reporter ran an interview they had just done with them. Yeah, it was a whole thing. You can read more about it and the lessons learned from my latest article on Muck Rack.
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Tweet I’ve been writing for Muck Rack for almost a year now and I love it. They not only let me vent about various PR-related irritants…they encourage it. For whatever reason, there are a couple of people that like to hear me rant about things that clients, media and/or fellow PR professionals do on a daily basis. Come to think of it, maybe I should be more positive and spend more time reinforcing good behavior. I’ll do that next! But, now is not that time. This time, I’m complaining about annoying email behaviors. Check it out and let me know […]
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Tweet Yes, I agree with the majority of people that think 2016 was awful and we need to move forward to 2017 as soon as possible. But, I like to look at the positives of 2016. First and foremost I got a daughter. That alone wipes out just about everything else bad that was the year 2016. But, another thing I’m really happy about with our current calendar year is that I started writing for Muck Rack. I get to offer my opinions, thoughts and advice to a very large audience of public relations professionals and media members. I really […]
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Tweet I had previously written two articles for Muck Rack on what PR bosses should stop doing. I wasn’t trying to slam the boss, I was just trying to offer some helpful reminders of operational strategies that just don’t work. However, if I’m going to write that, it’s only fair that I look at it from the other side of the coin as well. I’ve been on both sides, and I know that certain employee behaviors can be maddening as well. So, Muck Rack recently published my article on three things that PR employees should stop doing. I’ve gotten good […]
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Tweet I was pretty excited at the chance to contribute to Muck Rack, perhaps that biggest media and public relations website. Back in July, I wrote my first article about phone pitching tips for PR professionals. I guess it did really well, because it made Muck Rack’s top three articles for the month of July. PR Daily also must have thought it did pretty well too, because they recently picked it up and ran it as well. Good stuff, glad it did well!
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Tweet I mentioned before that I was asked by Muck Rack to write a two-part series on things PR bosses should stop doing. It’s not to rag on the boss, but just to offer some constructive criticism. Part one of that series is right here. The second installment went up today. These articles seem to be performing pretty well in terms of social shares, so there should be more on the way. Stay tuned!
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Tweet You might remember us talking about my byline in probably the top website for PR/media folks called Muck Rack. I offered phone pitching tips for PR pros and it performed quite well. As of this posting, my article has 40 shares on Facebook and 150 shares on LinkedIn. I thought that was pretty good, but apparently it’s really good. I saw a tweet yesterday from @muckrack announcing that my article was one of the top three for all of July! And what’s neat is that one of the other three was written by my good buddy Nicole Fallon Taylor […]
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Tweet I’ve been much more active lately sharing phone pitching tips with other public relations professionals. I actually get quite excited about it. It’s something I love to talk about, but so few of my regular friends would care to hear about it. So, when I find a willing audience, I get excited to share. Thusly, I was excited to offer three of my better phone pitching tips to the good folks over at Muck Rack. It ran today and you can read it right here.
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