Email Outreach in PR
The
most important way to rise above the email masses – we send roughly 269 billion of them each day – is
to make them personalized and individual. No one wants to respond to an email
that was very clearly sent to dozens of other people too.
To combat that, never, ever send the exact same email
to more than one person, and remember these three little words: research,
research, and research.
The Perfect Pitch
Every good pitch has at least three things in common: a hook, a clear call-to-action, and an
irresistible value proposition.
The Hook
Your hook is the angle you’re pitching. Generally speaking, PR pitches
to journalists and influencers have either a news peg –
connected in some meaningful way to a current topic or story – or a time
peg – connected to an upcoming anniversary, date, or event.
The
Call-to-Action
Any email – or landing page or social media post, or whatever – has one
specific action you want your reader to take. A pitch isn’t any different.
Value
Proposition
The most important element of a successful PR pitch is the value prop.
It’s here that you make clear why they should cover this story, how it connects
to some larger topic or issue, and why it would benefit their readers,
followers, and publication.
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