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How to Pitch Like a Journalist
How would you like to get free publicity for your business on the local news? Would you like to see your local newspaper write an article on your product or service? It is possible to get on the news, you just have to learn how to pitch a story that is "newsworthy." It's not as complicated as it sounds once you learn How to Pitch Like a Journalist.

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How to Pitch Like a Journalist
How would you like to get free publicity for your business on the local news? Would you like to see your local newspaper write an article on your product or service? It is possible to get on the news, you just have to learn how to pitch a story that is "newsworthy." It's not as complicated as it sounds once you learn How to Pitch Like a Journalist.
Want to Be A PR Success story? Think Like the Media
Want to be interviewed by Oprah, CNN, People, Time, the New York Times and other media outlets? Don’t pitch what you think is interesting. Create, develop and pitch stories that meet the media’s needs. Put yourself in the place of the various editors and producers. Discover what it is they need and pitch those stories.

Executives and Elevators Perfecting That Pitch
If you’re an executive, you probably already know the value of a powerful ‘elevator pitch’; that thirty second dazzling display of verbal brilliance designed to deftly sum up your position, your product, your qualifications or your company. Y But how do you keep your pitch fresh and focused. What do you leave out? What do you highlight? Here are some tips about perfecting that business pitch.
When to Pitch Reporters & Producers
When is the best time to pitch reporters or producers? Should you pitch your story idea in the morning, afternoon, or after the reporter files his story? There are better times to pitch your story idea which can be the difference between a successful or failed PR strategy.
Selling Your Story Idea
Everyone knows the best salesman is the person who believes soundly in his product. This is why you must be absolutely convinced that your story idea is newsworthy before you pitch any journalist. Here are a few tips to help you bring focus to your idea so it sounds more news worthy.
Pitch the Story, Not Your Book
Pitch your book and you have a certain number of stories and media hooks. Pitch yourself, your life experiences, your anecdotal stories and your book and you’ve suddenly broadened the bulls eye…
Pitch More Faster Read Versus Listen
As part of our Do More Faster book tour, we’ve been having a pitch session each day called “Pitch More Faster.” During the hour, we hear four pitches that are five minute each and give direct feedback / suggestions on the pitch itself (not the content or the business, but the pitch.)
How to Write an Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is just what it sounds like, if you stepped on to an elevator with a potential investor and new that you had 7 floors before he got off, what would you tell him about your business? Here are a few guidelines as you create your elevator pitch.
It's Re-Election Time! Get The Picture?
So while everyone was thinking about the brave troops who finally capped Osama Bin Laden the other day, I was also thinking about whether or not they had a 71-Quebec out there with them on that mission (that's Army Talk for "journalist," or at least it used to be). I guess they must have, because this week's big news is President Obama's decision not to release the photos that were taken of Dead Terrorist Number One. So since the global paparrazzi corps was busy sobering up in London after Will-'n'-Kate, and since civilian "journalists" only take pictures of car chases and tornado damage (when they can squeeze those things in around their grip-and-grin work at the White House), any photos that existed had to have been taken by some hard-working military journalist....
Hey, Maybe This Will Win An Award!
Tell you what: those national news-media folks in America are awesome. I know, right? I mean, when I was a young aspiring journalist (I think it was during the Taft administration), they made us report boring stuff, like facts. It must be much more fun to be a journalist these days, when the industry has evolved beyond all that....
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