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« Previous Next » Main May 11, 2009 Just what is blogger relations anyway? (Warning- long post) Call it blogger relations or blogger outreach or social media outreach. Whatever we call it, the shorthand version is that it involves engaging with bloggers, with programs and promotions that they will wish to share with their readers. I’ve been writing about blogger relations on Marketing Roadmaps for quite a while now, and in my opinion, we are in the midst of a fairly important change.

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Here are my ingredients for the secret sauce of a nearly perfect pitch to a blogger. Without it, it is highly unlikely that you will get even a nibble from a blogger. Make sure that your product or service and pitch match the bloggers interests. And please dont assume that the blogger will connect the dots « Simplicity | Main | BlogWorld Expo and the entertainment industry » 08/13/2008 The secret sauce for the perfect pitch First things first. No matter what wed like to believe, there is no such thing as the perfect pitch.

« Camp Baby Blogstorm | Main | Insanity » 03/21/2008 PR people: do your homework BEFORE you reach out to bloggers As weve seen this week alone, from the Camp Baby blogstorm and other incidents (like inviting Jewish moms to Disney over Passover), it is painfully apparent that many PR firms and reps reaching out to bloggers dont do their homework . This is probably the root cause of the most egregious blogger relations SNAFUs. A poorly written pitch makes you chuckle.

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Conversation Agent « Monetizing Video Online | Main | Anticipate, Stimulate, Welcome, Recover » When is it a Good Idea to Include Bloggers in Your Media Outreach? There are plenty of posts dedicated to how to pitch bloggers. We are way, way past using a standard press release for bloggers' outreach. I give Darren Rowse the gold for starting his commentary with the suggestion that you'd want to comment first and become a genuine and active member of that blog's community before pitching.

chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of What I Want PR and Marketing Professionals To Know August 6, 2008 · Comments Since quite a number of people who swing by my blog are either in marketing or public relations, I wanted to address you specifically for a moment. I’m writing to you as part of this new version of media, one blogger not paid to blog, not working for a newspaper or magazine outlet, not especially beholden to the traditions that have come before.

The Traffic Problem Now imagine that the network is the blogosphere where new blogs spring into existence every day.And as they do, these newly minted bloggers are aspiring to make money. Whatever monetization means the blogger in the long tail settled on, be it Google AdSense or Amazon affiliate codes,it can only work on large volumes of traffic. Since the incentives for individual bloggers ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Company Index Best of RWW Archives Theres No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere Written by Alex Iskold / November 28, 2007 1:05 AM / 98 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » In 2004 Chris Anderson wrote an influential book called