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Four (of the) Worst Practices for Pitching Bloggers

Webbiquity

Influencer marketing has become a key component of PR and web presence optimization. Brands that are successful at pitching their news and stories to bloggers increase their online presence, gain credibility, and score those coveted “earned” backlinks that Google values as a factor in search rankings. ” Perfect!

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All about earned media micro-influencer marketing and more on the Through the Noise podcast

Biznology

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital: online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy , social media marketing, and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet crisis response. Our low overhead allows us to gladly serve startups, publishing, nonprofits, and associations.

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PR / Media Pros Should Stand Firm on Requiring Quote Approvals

Marketing Craftmanship

The practice of requiring journalists to submit on-the-record quotes for approval by a source in advance of publication has long been a sore point between the media and the PR profession. Quote Approvals Lower the Risk of Media Burn. They also bring their own points of view…so they will be selective in how they quote sources.

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PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision

Webbiquity

Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. Both provide PR and social media professionals with extensive capabilities for tracking and growing media coverage of their organizations or clients. They were friendly, knowledgeable, and training was customized to our needs and around our schedules.

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How to pitch a blogger

Biznology

So last week, I told you how NOT to pitch a blogger in your PR outreach, so it raises the pregnant question of what exactly should you do? But because we so so many people who are afraid of blogger outreach, due to the scary situation that others have blundered into, I wanted to walk through our process to show you how it’s done.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client?

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inbound marketing training for free

The Effective Marketer

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0