existential email subject line has me staring off in the distance re: cars
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A journalist letting the public relations industry know how they can do a better job—one tweet at a time. Send us your PR friendly suggestions/angry gripes!
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Dear PR peeps who slide in my inbox asking for coverage. My name isn't Danielle.
Thanks!
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If I don't get a PR pitch in the next hour about how Facebook would be better off ranking news trustworthiness using the blockchain, I will be extremely disappointed.
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Dear PR people, your emails that begin with the words "interview suggestion" rot my socks.
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nothing says "totally great and well-thought out PR stunt" like winding up with a picture of Dear Leader above a message saying "error" all over the Internet
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If you ask what my deadline is and I say my deadline is ASAP, then... No. There is no more specific time. I regret to inform you that I cannot give you a drop-dead deadline. The drop-dead time is now, or as close to now as possible. 🙂
XOXO,
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Registered for CES but didn't go to CES but I still get all the CES pitches so it's grrrrrreat.
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Dear PR person: Nope. Nope to the idea that I need to schedule an interview with your client so he can "talk me through" his latest product launch. #prfail
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Dear PR people: happy new year! please stop pitching "deskside" meetings. there's no such thing as a deskside meeting. no reporter has ever done a deskside meeting. everyone in the newsroom would be annoyed. expunge the term from your pitch strategy. happy new year
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In daily PR pitches of the day...
"Dear Alana,
It’s divorce season! According to legal experts, January is most popular time of year for Americans to file for divorce."
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Dear PR people,
Maybe don’t send emails to my personal email when I have a work email that should be very easy to find...
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Dear PR people: Cut it out with the cryptocurrency pitches, OK? I don't think I've ever written about them, and have no plans to in the immediate future.
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Selections from one of the most annihilating PR emails I received this year, just under the wire
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A reminder: no one wants an email from you until next week. Even if they are back at their desk today.
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Don't send me fidget spinners as a gift for a review then ask for them back
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An editor friend at a lifestyle website who will remain nameless politely declined to review some cutting-edge thingamabob that some start-up sent her.
The PR flack's response: "Well, if my parents were still alive I would definitely get one for them."
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CES pitches are like weeds — you delete a bunch and then twice as many spring up in their place
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New, bad trend in PR: Tiered embargoes, where you offer a story under embargo to multiple outlets with different times.
This is a bad idea. Don't do this, flacks and hacks.
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A PR company sent me cookies with 2017 pop culture trends printed on them in that photoprinted sugar frosting. There's a #MeToo cookie
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Hi [NAME],
I see you’re on the list to attend CES.
Would you like to see our non-functioning demo of a product we hope to launch in Winter 2019 that’s not on your beat and definitely won’t ship? We’re in the Sands Expo basement toilets.
Hope you’ll cover!
Thanks,
PR person
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. Don't send me a press release and then refuse to make your people available. It happened twice this week. Is this acceptable behavior now?
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#DearPR from MSL. Don't send send mails to journalists saying "we want to orchestrate a story around..." We are not here to make music with you. Find yourself an ad agency for that.
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Hey PR people, a surefire way to get my attention for a press release is to start the body of the email with:
"Dear xxxx,"
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Dear PR person, do not send me an email to see if I'd be interested in you sending me an email with details about your company. That's wasting both our time, okay thanks! 🙄
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Work note: This is why I don't quote publicists' statements about not commenting on "rumor and speculation" when asked to comment about reporting they don't want to acknowledge. No comment is fine. twitter.com/Lucas_Shaw/sta
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Grant me the confidence of the publicist who just addressed me as "Mags" in a pitch.
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Dear PR Company: I think you mispronounced "consulting" as "pick your brain" and I'd be happy to send you my rates. #FreelanceLife #JustSayNo
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