Journalist Offers Bite-Sized PR Tips

If reading PR tips in blog items like this takes too long, you should check out Rafe Needleman's ProPRTips. He offers PR tips in bite-sized chunks that look like they came from Twitter.

The reason they look like "tweets" is that, in fact, they are tweets. Needleman started offering his PR tips on Twitter and then decided to post them as a blog too, for those of us not yet into Twitter.

Examples:

A-list bloggers are like angry, spoiled schoolgirls. Calibrate your pitches accordingly.
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It would be good if your product ships before the T-Shirt you gave me wears out.

If you're interested in Rafe's thoughts on this project, head over to Sam Whitmore's Media Survey, where you'll find a podcast with Rafe. BTW, if you're in tech media PR or related areas (and what's not related these days?), check out Sam's top-flight offerings. He provides tech media news, research, analysis and consulting to an impressive PR client base.

Jon Greer

Jon Greer has been analyzing media and PR for more than 25 years. He's been a journalist and a PR executive, and has been a featured speaker for many years at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, and served as Bulldog's Editorial Director for their PR University series of weekly how-to audio conferences.

Jon provides PR services including media relations and freelance writing to clients including start-ups, law firms, corporations, investment banks and venture capital firms. In addition, Jon provides spokesperson training. Learn more about Jon's training programs at The Media Bridge.

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