I'm back at Fortune's success desk after 3 weeks off honeymooning and am planning 2025 interviews & features.
🔎 I’m looking for leaders to talk to me about their journey to the top, unusual advice for young aspirational workers and top tips for up and coming founders or CEOs.
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@SavvyCarlisle@stephpitera This is a great idea! One thing I've always done with mentees or direct reports when I'm teaching them more about pitching is to give them bad pitches to fix, and to explain to me what was "bad" about it.
@nickeubanks Thought leadership PR strategies, adding NEW value to existing online conversations, and bylines. I'd say digital PR, but these are the specific tactics I'd use.
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And who else should I talk to? What should I look at?
Email: [email protected]
Hello #freelance writers! As we look to fill out our editorial calendar through the rest of the year, I am once again humbling requesting your @Thrillist pitches for travel stories. These can be sent to [email protected]. What are we looking for, you might be wondering? (1/)
@SophieBrannon Hi Sophie! Happy to help -- please shoot me a DM or respond here. I'm US-based but have 5 years of experience supporting UK agencies and their teams.
All the best either way -- excited to see what you do.
@ichbinGisele Any thoughts on why this is happening more and more often? I know AI is likely part of the problem, but the problem seems to be a recipe not just an ingredient.
I’ll:
- Only pitch newsworthy items
- Spend hours researching
- Write 10 subject lines & choose best one
- Hyperpersonalize for the journalist
- Get feedback from team members
- Only submit when I *know* it’s compelling
- Coach the client to nail the interview
TL;DR
PR is hard.
@RickyDPR I think your approach with first-person narratives with internal data for digital PR or link building is really interesting too. I'd be curious to know more about how you set those pitches and stories up!