Biznology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Unlike a few years ago, today everyone at least pays lip service to reaching out to bloggers the same we PR people have always reached out to mainstream media. But I am still surprised that many companies don’t do blogger outreach, even today. Simply put, blogger outreach is scary. Simply put, blogger outreach is scary.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In my humble opinion, modern influencer marketing is traditional public relations pitching corrupted by huge Madison Avenue advertising money. Let’s refer to public relations before the corruption by Madison Avenue. was endlessly generous with the hundreds of bloggers who responded to our outreach of thousands.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last week, I talked about how blogger outreach is scary , and I talked about why this fear exists for most people before they start talking to bloggers. In the five years that we’ve been reaching out to bloggers, we’ve learned just as much about how NOT to pitch as we’ve learned about the right ways.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

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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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2017

We as brand managers, marketers, public relations and communications professionals, and advertisers are just not in the right Twitter — because we’re not just uninvited, we’re unwanted as PR and marketing pros. Recently, on Trevor Noah ‘s The Daily Show, “ Roy Wood Jr.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s fair enough, and surely a common question, and a question we must address close to the beginning of every sales call we make at Abraham Harrison , when we propose blogger outreach to a prospective client. The value comes from penetration, permanence, perseverance, and persistence. The clock is ticking.

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Biznology

JUNE 13, 2017

So, while I need to call what I am doing social media marketing and micro-influencer marketing , what I am really doing is public relations and public affairs — and it’s always been this way. Marketing Uses a Spreadsheet but Public Relations Uses a Rolodex. Done right, it’s old school.

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Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is all according to your preference, but when it comes to a blogger outreach campaign, the decision is never so zero-sum, not nearly so either/or. Do you have the kind of prior relationships with the top bloggers and journalists or do they not know you from Adam? Start small and grow to make blogger outreach work for you.

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Biznology

JULY 12, 2016

A third of my practice at Gerris Corp is devoted to earned media influencer marketing (which I naïvely still call blogger outreach ) and guess what I’ve discovered over the past linear decade? There’s nobody online taken more for granted than bloggers. Bloggers have a lot of baggage. And it’s rarely easy.

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Biznology

APRIL 25, 2017

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. Chris has been volunteering with the local homeless kitchen, Miriam’s Kitchen , for over five years.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Can public relations help make it go mainstream ? Employee engagement surveys aren’t worth much anymore according to one expert, since people are more concerned about survey scores than addressing engagement issues. Is it time to stop measuring engagement ? Virtual Reality headset sales aren’t setting any records.

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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2016

Since 2005, he has blogged at ProPr.ca , and is co-host with Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman of the Inside PR podcast , which, since its launch in March 2006, is now the second longest continuously running public relations podcast. Shel Holtz’s FIR For Immediate Release podcast is the longest continuously running PR podcast.).

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2016

About the panel: Chris Abraham , digital strategist and technologist, is a leading expert in digital: search engine optimization (SEO) , online relationship management (ORM), Internet privacy, and online public relations with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet crisis response.

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Biznology

AUGUST 14, 2018

Back in the day, hosting parties, meetups, and get-togethers for top-local-tweeters and geographically-close bloggers was all the rage. Guess Who I Am. Die Cocktailparty am Goethe-Institut. I hosted a really lovely Washington, DC, influencers-only cocktail party for the gang at Goethe-Institut Washington.

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Biznology

MAY 4, 2017

In this free 30-minute Biznology® webinar, Paul Gillin gives you tips for pitching to bloggers and influencers. Have you tried to get the attention of a journalist lately? Reporters and editors are under unprecedented pressure to produce, while at the same time thoughtfully evaluating scores of pitch letters they receive every day.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

AH sold influencer marketing ( née blogger outreach) since Autumn 2006— twelve-years ago now—and Gerris Corp continues in this tradition. If you have a thumb drive you want to promote via influencer marketing, you’d better have 500 drives-plus-shipping at the ready because that’s success. 50’s a fail. Before Gerr.is

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Biznology

APRIL 3, 2018

Next, you should become a blogger — or at least develop a process to produce blog content since Google adores blogs and seriously understands the architecture and framework of most blog platforms. Well, you first need to build out any sites you already have, including all your companies, foundations and boards.

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Biznology

AUGUST 31, 2015

I rarely accept such invitations, but I had worked with this particular public relations person several times before, and the topic of the conversation did look interesting. There are many more media outlets to follow, and bloggers introduce even more complexity. After brief introductions, the CEO began talking.

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Biznology

JUNE 3, 2014

My specialty is online conversation marketing, online public relations, and online earned media. When you earn people’s attention and when they choose to speak about you, your clients, and your services, then you have a gift that keeps on giving — this is content that lasts well past the campaign and into the future.

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Biznology

JANUARY 18, 2017

It brought journalists and popular mom bloggers to Cincinnati and flung open the doors of its labs and executive offices to answer all their questions. Build relationships with the people who influence your market, whether they be bloggers, journalists, regulators, academics, analysts, channel partners, or even competitors.

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Biznology

AUGUST 28, 2013

Even the most experienced bloggers lack ideas and motivation from time to time. Internet Marketing Blog Business Content marketing Internet marketing marketing public relations social media social media marketing' Blogging is a valuable marketing tool that requires consistency.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The same thing goes for public relations and marketing. We’re personally, by hand, reaching as far down the tech, app, and gadget A-list as possible, reaching hundred of bloggers and social media writers. The relationship graveyard is full of missed connections. My client also has their media list.

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Biznology

MARCH 28, 2017

To the point where these companies, associations, and organizations have and had been afraid of their own shadows, unlike the carte blanche, anything goes, associated with the magical world of being a mommy blogger!

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Biznology

APRIL 5, 2016

Almost three years ago I wrote Blogger outreach is more PR than social media. Remember, if your campaign doesn’t check all the boxes of being a publicity, PR, or buzz campaign, it won’t work as an earned media campaign. Payola, baby! In it, I go through my process and talk about the value of earned media versus paid post.

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Biznology

MAY 8, 2012

Back in the day, when the social mediasphere was smaller and more intimate — maybe just more new — bloggers would let folks know what was going on.

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Biznology

MAY 13, 2016

Look for some free and high quality photo sources for bloggers to add some creative imagery and your chances bump up a few more levels. Make your blog post a list; this significantly increases your chances of going viral. People want to read something that is clear and easy to follow. Don’t make people feel foolish.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I have been doing long-tail blogger outreach since 2006. Chicago Running Bloggers via Instagram. I hope we covered everything — there were so many and not all of our amazing bloggers reported each and every social share with us explicitly. Ten years later, I am still at it in earnest. Real Gluten Free Meals via Instagram.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 13, 2011

However, after re-reading my SMNR post , it wasn’t about technology at all, it was about the collecting and presenting of relevant assets, copy, images, and videos; it was about organizing and branding an ease-of-use “steal all this content, blogger, and please post on your blog” microsite.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2011

Image by quinn.anya via Flickr I am in the middle of guiding some new bloggers over at Marketing Conversation on how to blog most effectively. It is pretty exciting and instructive because there are many things I take for granted. One of the biggest trends I see is internal shorthand. What I mean is that [.].

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Over the last five years that Abraham Harrison has been pitching bloggers on behalf of clients, we have learned a thing or two about how best to reach bloggers, how to engage them, how to get them to carry our client’s message to their readership. Bloggers don’t trust PR firms. But first, the salutation.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2011

I am in the middle of guiding some new bloggers over at Marketing Conversation. What I mean is that my bloggers tend to write based on a lot of assumed context. Sometimes I forget that and it is something I would like to share with you in addition to sharing it with my new bloggers. Image by quinn.anya via Flickr.

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Biznology

JULY 19, 2011

We've worked for a broad spectrum in these five years, from health care and pharma to huge radio astronomy projects; from global non-profits to very specific public affairs campaigns. Social media marketing and blogger outreach and activation can be effective for everything, though it isn't always clear how.

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Biznology

JULY 3, 2012

I just wrote an article , Blogger outreach is earned media PR, isn’t it? wherein I suggested that some bloggers are kinda jerks because they lead any blogger outreach with “here’s my advertising packet.” Bloggers, in fact, are the victims and we digital and PR agencies are the perps.

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Biznology

JUNE 26, 2012

My definition of blogger outreach has always been about acquiring earned media coverage from bloggers and online influencers. My definition–and my assumption–has always been that blogger outreach is public relations and not paid media. I may well be mistaken. ” I quickly responded, “Funny.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Media relations and PR professionals need the right keywords to know how to build more relevant press releases and build better anchor text in them. And bloggers , of course, need to know what words their audiences use to describe their pain points. Of course they all could discover the right words independently.

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Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2013

This can include a long-tail blogger outreach campaign, it should include an A-list influencer outreach, be they on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or wherever. Take your fate into your own hands and get off of that bar stool and walk over and start some conversations with all the folks you want to meet.

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Biznology

JUNE 21, 2016

Once the influencer loses editorial control by virtue of receiving pay-per-post compensation, the campaign is no longer public relations or even marketing, it becomes advertising. A rate card is generally the way a smart blogger or online influencer says no. That’s cool. Earned media influencer marketing is time-consuming.

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