Tag Archive: Public relations

Six Steps to Running a Successful Blogger Outreach by Monica O’Brien

But… but… blogger outreach doesn’t work anymore, right?

Actually, like most things in life, it depends on how you do it. The landscape for social media and blogging is constantly changing, and most bloggers with any sort of clout have received a mass email or press release that was completely off topic.

It doesn’t have to be that way though. Here’s the six step process I use for blogger outreach, that gives me astronomically higher success than most outreaches that PR firms will run for you. You can get great blogger outreach results (I’ll share mine at the end) in 3 months or less using these steps:

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Help a PR Pro Out Toronto – Job Listings #happo #happoTO

Today sees a very cool event called Help a PR Pro Out, or HAPPO. Initiated by Arik Hanson and Valerie Simon, its aim is simple – to connect PR jobseekers with agencies and businesses with PR positions available.
I’m honoured to be part of the “team” that’s bringing HAPPO to Toronto, along with PR guy supreme [...]

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Why I Want to (And You Can) Help a PR Pro Out

There’s an event taking place on Friday February 19 called Help a PR Pro Out, or HAPPO. Organized by two people I’m proud to call friends, Arik Hanson and Valerie Simon, the aim of HAPPO is simple and does exactly what it says on the tin – helps a PR professional out.
Specifically, helps a PR [...]

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Never Mind the P, Just Get the Relations Part Right

There have been a lot of new definitions and suggestions coming to the fore over the last 12-18 months about what PR stands for. The traditional version is Public Relations, and has been since as long as anyone can remember.
However, solid PR folks like David Mullen suggest it should be People Relations, as does online [...]

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Shit is Still Shit No Matter How You Dress It

Okay, that’s a pretty bold title, and it may put some folk off, but sometimes you have no other way of saying something without diluting it.
I was watching a conversation unfold on Twitter the other evening about public relations, and why a lot of the PR industry is in disarray.
While the “bloggers and journalists don’t [...]

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How Long Do You Let Your Brand’s Reputation Suffer?

You’re a public relations professional or agency. How are you monitoring your brand and those of your clients?
You are actually monitoring, right?
I ask on the back of an interesting story regarding Michigan-based PR firm Tanner Friedman and their current lawsuit regarding a fake Twitter account.
Back in January this year, an account was set up on [...]

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How PR and Bloggers Can Help Each Other

There’s been a lot of talk about the relationship between the public relations industry and bloggers. I’ve written about it in the past as have others, yet still there’s this feeling of a barrier between the two mediums.
As someone on both sides of the fence, I can understand each side’s views.
Yet I can also see [...]

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There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity – Right?

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There’s an old saying that any publicity is good publicity – but is it? True, a discussion about your company or business means that at least people are talking about you but is there a limit as to how far this should go and be accepted as a good thing?
A client approached a [...]

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