Press releases are one of the most impactful tools in a PR toolbox, but how you approach them can mean the difference between great coverage and a waste of time and money. Just because most journalists agree that press releases are a top priority when looking for trusted sources doesn't mean all press Read more

Are you sending a ton of emails and waiting for responses? We’ve all been there. Unanswered emails can quickly become a complicated mess of variables. Is the subject line not grabbing them? Does the data need to be more compelling? Did I reach out to the wrong person? Is my email not grabbing Read more

With email outreach, you get out what you put in. If you don’t put the time and effort to personalize your email outreach, you will most likely get little to no results. Like in link building, quality beats quantity with email outreach. You don’t need 1,000 emails to get ten mediocre results. Read more

You may have noticed more spam in your inbox lately. One major spam cause is senders not properly employing email authentication, leaving room for spammers to invade inboxes for phishing schemes. So, Google and Yahoo have introduced new requirements to reduce spam and protect recipients from malicious Read more

You’ve heard carpenters are only as good as their tools. Or is it that a good carpenter never blames their tools? Either way, using tools and technologies to aid your marketing strategy has never been more impactful than in the age of AI. In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and Read more

I set out trying to write a post about creating a successful survey campaign from start to finish. After bouncing a few drafts back and forth, I realized that I was putting the most time and effort into the ideation phase. So, I decided to slash two-thirds of my original post and focus solely on Read more

Within Digital PR there are different types of tactics and formats used for creating content, each designed to achieve links and brand mentions. These different digital PR tactics range from surveys, commentary and quick pieces of data analysis through to large scale interactive campaigns. However, Read more

On the 23rd March, Boris Johnston took to television screens across the UK and the words “we must do more, you must all stay at home” rang across the nation. Our lives as we knew them changed. Our industry as we knew it changed. For many agencies, this was a time of significant growth Read more

They may comprise a mere 10 to 12 words, but these words hold plenty of power. As one of the only chances you have of getting your campaign seen by a journalist, subject lines are arguably the most important part of your media pitch. As a journalist, I’ve seen and deleted thousands of PR emails Read more

That Digital PR Campaign has been done before - can you do it again? Thoughts on why remakes and remixes fail, and how we might alter our approach to these types of campaigns. This post originally started out as a talk called Difficult Second Album Syndrome which I gave at Drink Digital earlier Read more