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Earned media influencer outreach is alive and well

Biznology

The real reason why, however, is that this campaign is a hybrid A-list and long-tail campaign. I know I have been a little dark-hearted over the last few years when it came to earned media outreach and how it’s been corrupted by ubiquitous bought-and-paid-for reviews, essentially pro-company advertorials.

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Influencer marketing is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration

Biznology

Last night I had the honor of dusting off my trusty old long tail earned media blogger outreach deck and updating it for the new world of earned media influencer marketing for the lovely Brigitte Winter and her Georgetown School of Continuing Studies students. B-D-List (the mid-section of the long tail often asks for money).

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Earned-media micro-influencer marketing master class

Biznology

Explore the long tail (there are millions of people blogging, sharing, and posting online – and PR tends to pile on the same 100 “influentials.”) “We want you to take 50 million of us as seriously as you take one reporter from The Wall Street Journal ” (#83 of the 95 theses from The Cluetrain Manifesto ).

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Blogger outreach is earned media PR, isn’t it?

Biznology

Long-story-short is that my long-tail strategy for blogger outreach, influenced heavily by the Cluetrain Manifesto , digs much deeper than just the top-50 or even to top-600 bloggers; in fact, my strategy doesn’t care anything at all about Klout , Compete, Google PR, or even page views or age of site.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

Under his regime of “creative confrontation,” Schmertz applied a number of innovative and controversial tactics including: Introduction of modern-day advocacy advertising, or “advertorials,” which first appeared on the OpEd page of the New York Times in 1970. Masterpiece Theatre Mobil Oil Corp.