Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-influencer marketing is one of the services that sets my agency, Gerris Corp , apart from other Digital PR firms. Most firms focus only on outreach to A-listers. In my humble opinion, modern influencer marketing is traditional public relations pitching corrupted by huge Madison Avenue advertising money.

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Onalytica B2B

JULY 8, 2015

Public relations is not what it used to be. At Onalytica we have been looking closely at the transformation of PR as we know it. Our vision is to evolve media relations into influencer relations professionals by managing relationships with hundreds of key influencers rather than just journalists. Twitter Handle.

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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. It’s no wonder PR professionals are frustrated. Cutting through the noise has never been harder, but some PR pros manage to do it consistently. Find out what they do right and what too many PR pros still do wrong.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. Effectively connect with bloggers and other key online influencers in your industry? Which online tools are most helpful for PR pros?

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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. Done right, both social media engagement and influencer outreach are personal, person-to-person.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Last week, I talked about using the long tail of blogger outreach –the idea that you can’t pin your hopes for most public relations efforts on only the A-list bloggers. For blogger outreach to work, over and over, you need to be endlessly generous and endlessly appreciative.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A number of ethical, white-hat link-building strategies can be used to accomplish this, including broken link building, guest posting, and outreach campaigns to show people your incredible content. 2) Outreach platform. Recommended Group: B2B Bloggers Boost Group. 7) Digital PR. What is a link-building service?

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2017

Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). And since I am in PR and marketing, I might have personally taken myself off the invite list based on my past bad behavior. Can we even?

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. And as any blogger can tell you, PR pros understand this, as witnessed by the incredible increase in blogger outreach “pitches&# from corporate PR departments and firms over the past two years. How Is PR Changing?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2012

What is the distinction between “traditional” public relations (PR) and online / interactive / social PR? One part of the confusion stems from the fact that in PR, as in many other crafts, the tools change and advance but the fundamental skills required remain the same.

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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. PR gets people and understands the value of keeping love alive.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

there was Abraham Harrison , my first digital PR agency. AH sold influencer marketing ( née blogger outreach) since Autumn 2006— twelve-years ago now—and Gerris Corp continues in this tradition. The RFP was for a year’s social media strategy consulting. 50’s a fail. Before Gerr.is

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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

JULY 26, 2016

Back in January I had the honor of being a guest on Shel Holtz ‘s premier PR podcast, For Immediate Release. It must have gone well because I was back on a panel of PR professionals yesterday , joining Shel, Zeno Group EVP Frank Eliason , and Cision SVP Heidi Sullivan. So why aren’t PR people doing it yet?

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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? Just how do you pitch a blogger? We know folks at the top tech blogs, so we give them first bite. It has to do with whether a blogger is. Don’t play favorites.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

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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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2016

A couple Sundays ago I met up with Joseph Thornley , Lynette Young , and Shel Holtz on video Skype to record episode 15 of Shel’s industry-trusted and industry-respected PR podcast, For Immediate Release , AKA the FIR Podcast. Have PR practitioners benefitted? So, it was an honor to be included.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Zapier recently did something similar in its blog when they were ready to launch new product functionalities. Notice how Zapier links to a sign-up page in the blog. A guest post on a high-traffic blog can send you hundreds of subscribers overnight and continue sending traffic your way long-term. Let’s go over some.

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Biznology

JUNE 3, 2014

Either you’re smart and willing to keep it alive, in conversation, online on YouTube for the spots, or on a blog somewhere for the print work — or you feel compelled to keep on throwing money at it ad infinitum, because contextual ads, banner ads, etc, only last as long as you write checks.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The same thing goes for public relations and marketing. Here’s a secret: all the best PR men and women are really persistent. I’m doing a big influencer outreach right now on behalf of a technology startup. In addition, my staff is doing a long tail outreach, including upwards of 4,000 influencers.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 22, 2014

If you’re like me, you spend a good amount of time scrolling through content marketing blogs for advice and suggestions that will give your content a leg up. I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for any blog title that begins with the words “How-to” or “Tutorial.” Don’t get stuck reinventing the wheel with your content marketing!

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NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 22, 2013

We tell you how to organize your content, and will recommend new content if needed, especially with blogs. We understand Google+ and how to get your pictures shown on search engines when you write blogs. We are Public Relations Managers. That being said, we are proof-readers. If we have to, we will write as well!

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Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2011

Jason runs his own consulting agency, Social Media Explorer , which is also a very popular social media blog. Blogger outreach. Blogger Outreach. PR companies need to get familiar with what a blog is about and pitch content or ideas that fall into that window. Building a customer base.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. Pitching bloggers and print journalists are somewhat similar, but in the end, they can be very different things. Bloggers are on the move, writing about what comes to mind on a daily basis.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. The reality is, there’s never been a level playing field. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline.

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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. And the words enriched all related social outreach.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

PR behemoth Ketchum (the PR agency of record for ConAgra) caught it’s foot in a bear trap of its own manufacture recently, when it thunk up and perpetrated a bait and switch blogger outreach program. Bloggers Are Not Reporters. Bloggers are also typically not full-time writers. Read the blog every day.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Are you suggesting that any use of software or databases to help organize and scale your social outreach is invalid? Thanks for the insightful blog post. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. And of course product improvement ideas are important. Im Jay Baer.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 18, 2013

In many ways, the world of PR has become a lot like the world of marketing automation: regardless of your question, one tactic is always the answer. Alright, here''s how to change how you think about PR, your company, and how the two relate. Write a press release. Hired a new executive? Write a press release. Be remarkable.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 29, 2013

Secure a blog column on a critical e-zine website? If not, it’s time to kick up your PR skills a notch or two. The PR industry continues to shift like Tony Stewart at a Daytona race, and it impacts EVERY area of our job: pitching, monitoring, placements, bylines and media relations. Image via BigStockPhoto.com.

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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.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 26, 2020

A communications agency is just that, a team of copywriters, bloggers, journalists, photographers, videographers, designers and anyone else who is ready to communicate your business’s values through content. Think of these folks as the masons forming the foundation for your marketing outreach. Public relations agency.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? Inspired by Jay Baer blog post, “The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life” [link] #assnchat [link] KiKi L’Italien #assnchat is on in 7 min…topic?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Then it became social media marketing, then blogger outreach, then digital PR and digital marketing. And, who knows what digital PR and ORM will be called in the future? Another example is a service I offered which cleaned bad search engine results off of Google. I called it defensive SEO then defensive search.

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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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ClearVoice

APRIL 19, 2022

Businesses take advantage of this by regularly publishing blog posts, videos, and other informative content in a bid to position themselves as reliable sources of valuable information. But as online content continues to grow, making your content and brand stand out from other businesses requires an effective public relations or PR strategy.

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