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Christine Haas Shows You How To Avoid The Black Market of PR

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Wes Schaeffer
June 12, 2017

To Get Great News Coverage, You Must Humanize Your Story

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PR Tips you’ll learn in The Sales Podcast…

  • There’s a new trend to getting published by paying Inc, Entrepreneur, etc., but it’s the “black market” of PR and media

  • Newspapers are cutting corners and cutting staff, so their former staff are now guns-for-hire since they know how to get you coverage, you can pay them to get published

  • This is contributing to the fake news issue

  • There is still room for quality stories

  • If you can feed a story in every element to a reporter, you’ll have a greater chance of getting published

  •  Call the reporter with a story, a client ready to be interviewed, and a B-roll

  • Know when to pitch

  • Look for trends

  • Look for “victims” so you can humanize your story

  • Give the reporter a “day in the life” story

  • This gives you a contact with the reporter

  • This is a perceived endorsement when you get covered in the media

  • This can happen the same day

  • If you’re bi-lingual, look to UniVision and Telemundo

  • Just keep “feeding the beast”

  • Compliment reporters when you like their stories with “Feedback” in the headline

    • I have a perspective

    • I have a local client doing that

    • Can we chat for 5 minutes to see how this angle might work for you?

  • You don’t have to be a “news veteran” to have them bring you into the study

  • Take the time to develop a connection

  • This is a similar process for radio

  • Listen to talk shows

  • Be neutral on hot topics if it will hurt your business

  • Reporters are still easy to reach because they need hot tips and leads

  • Call the main line and ask for the newsroom or the assignment editor/manager and say that you’re calling about a news story

  • “I was trying to reach Joe Smith, would you mind putting me through to his cell phone?”

  • This type of coverage is evergreen

  • Ask your media coaches about their success rate. Press Releases and email blasts don’t cut it.

  • Don’t propose on the first date

  • Go meet these reporters and put a face to a name

Links Mentioned In The Sales Podcast

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