Comments on: 5 PR Pitches: The Good and Bad http://marshallk.com/5-pr-pitches-the-good-and-bad Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Danny Wong http://marshallk.com/5-pr-pitches-the-good-and-bad/comment-page-1#comment-138817 Danny Wong Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:24:19 +0000 http://marshallk.com/?p=462#comment-138817 Hi Marshall, I'm manage a startup and do all of our marketing and PR. Still a university student, without much of a background in PR, just specialize in SEO and tailored everything else around what I know. Because you're a writter / blogger / journalist. I'd like to ask you: how can startups make a good pitch? if they don't have any newsworthy events going on, isn't their concept / goals good enough? To give you a little perspective to why I ask these questions: my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com). We do custom dress shirts and are at the crossroads of tech + fashion + consumer interest + individuality (that's a lot of +'s). We have a dress shirt application (http://www.blank-label.com/dress-shirts-style/home.aspx) that allows consumers to design their own dress shirt. I'm not a heavily experienced marketer. Can't really conceptualize and implement newsworthy ideas, so is our application enough? We do re-iterations of it on a pretty frequent basis too. Is it of any importance if we made our 3rd release in the 7 weeks we've been live? I am very interested to hear your thoughts. Cheers, Danny Hi Marshall,

I’m manage a startup and do all of our marketing and PR. Still a university student, without much of a background in PR, just specialize in SEO and tailored everything else around what I know.

Because you’re a writter / blogger / journalist. I’d like to ask you: how can startups make a good pitch? if they don’t have any newsworthy events going on, isn’t their concept / goals good enough?

To give you a little perspective to why I ask these questions: my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com). We do custom dress shirts and are at the crossroads of tech + fashion + consumer interest + individuality (that’s a lot of +’s).

We have a dress shirt application (http://www.blank-label.com/dress-shirts-style/home.aspx) that allows consumers to design their own dress shirt. I’m not a heavily experienced marketer. Can’t really conceptualize and implement newsworthy ideas, so is our application enough?

We do re-iterations of it on a pretty frequent basis too. Is it of any importance if we made our 3rd release in the 7 weeks we’ve been live?

I am very interested to hear your thoughts.

Cheers,
Danny

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]]> By: the Best and Worst of PR Pitches « Beck Bamberger’s take on CEO interviews, PR, and more http://marshallk.com/5-pr-pitches-the-good-and-bad/comment-page-1#comment-44895 the Best and Worst of PR Pitches « Beck Bamberger’s take on CEO interviews, PR, and more Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:39:50 +0000 http://marshallk.com/?p=462#comment-44895 [...] the Best and Worst of PR Pitches This is a great blog post by Marshall Kirkpatrick, detailing some of his pet peeve with PR folks. In the end of this detailed blog, Marshall gives his tips for PR people pitching him. [...] [...] the Best and Worst of PR Pitches This is a great blog post by Marshall Kirkpatrick, detailing some of his pet peeve with PR folks. In the end of this detailed blog, Marshall gives his tips for PR people pitching him. [...]

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