5 PR Topics For Which There’s Always Room for More Tips

Judging by how many articles are published by PR pros across the world on certain themes, you’d think there is no more room for more advice on those particular topics. And that’s where you’d go wrong. There are certain aspects of communication and marketing where there’s never too much information! People seem to either have a short attention span, have issues remembering what others have already explained, or simply cannot make the connection between tips and how they apply to real-life cases.

So here’s a few PR topics that all public relations practitioners should discuss and write about:

1. Press releases

When to send them, who to send them to, what to write about and how to structure them. Yes, I realize how much these themes have been debated and I know how Google works (the search engine part), but I still see plenty of news releases where “Press Release” is used as a headline, where the information makes no sense or when they are simply releases about nothing.  Continue reading

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Sometimes Pitching Your Story Is a Bad Idea

There are moments when a certain story simply takes over the world. Or a country, or a city or a small town. The scale really does not matter, the effect is the same: every media outlet will cover that major event. It’s a journalistic rule you learn in the first year of journalism school. If something is really big, it takes over and becomes the most important piece of news, regardless of anything else.

Such events are the royal wedding we’ve just had, big elections, the earthquake in Japan, or Osama being killed. For a longer or shorter stretch of time, they have the spotlight and no one can compete. And it’s not just lifestyle magazines or political newspapers that cover them! Tech blogs and magazines will talk about the Twitter user who live tweeted the attack on Osama, financial newspapers will analyze the cost of the royal wedding or analyze the impact on foreign markets a natural disaster has. Travel outlets will talk about the travelers taking over London or the travel warnings issued after the Osama bin Laden death.  Continue reading

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