PR Tips: What Bloggers Want
PR misses the mark when it comes to pitching bloggers. It’s a complaint I’ve heard over and over again in almost every blog-centric interview for MarketingSherpa’s Fame newsletter.
Complaints range from how much bloggers hate receiving cut-and-paste press releases to how often the press releases are off topic. I think this confirms the conclusion: PR isn’t about pitching press releases any more. It’s about building relationships.
How do you build good relationships with bloggers? Here are a few simple tips:
-Read the posts written by the blogger you’re pitching to
-Send two- to three-sentence pitches that tell bloggers why you think the information is important to them
-Include a link to the online press release
-Make sure you can provide all the resources the blogger needs, including specific sources, stats, and photos
-Contact them only when you have new information you know they will find interesting
If you really want to win the heart of a blogger, give them an exclusive or tell them you’re pitching 10 of their competitors with the same news up front so they don’t find out after the fact and get angry because they would have altered the angle for their blog had they known.
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