Comments on: Bad Pitch Rants- as Plentiful & Predictable as- Bad Pitches http://doughaslam.com/2009/04/08/bad-pitch-rants-as-plentiful-predictable-as/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bad-pitch-rants-as-plentiful-predictable-as Gischeleman: "To Create With the Mind" Mon, 07 May 2012 14:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stuart Foster http://doughaslam.com/2009/04/08/bad-pitch-rants-as-plentiful-predictable-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2290 Stuart Foster Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:11:40 +0000 http://doughaslam.com/2009/04/08/bad-pitch-rants-as-plentiful-predictable-as/#comment-2290 I think some people are always going to suck at their jobs or not be experienced enough to know that they are sucking. You rarely here about an upper-echelon person colossally effing up. Granted it happens, but bloggers usually aren't the only ones that do the complaining about it. My recommendation to a new PR person just out of college or still in school? Find some high profile bloggers (but those that you think will write you back) and ask them straight up how they like to be pitched. Make it clear that you aren't pitching, and you will be surprised at the relationship that could form. Earnestness and respect are still hugely successful. I've heard honesty is pretty awesome as well. I think some people are always going to suck at their jobs or not be experienced enough to know that they are sucking. You rarely here about an upper-echelon person colossally effing up. Granted it happens, but bloggers usually aren’t the only ones that do the complaining about it.

My recommendation to a new PR person just out of college or still in school? Find some high profile bloggers (but those that you think will write you back) and ask them straight up how they like to be pitched. Make it clear that you aren’t pitching, and you will be surprised at the relationship that could form.

Earnestness and respect are still hugely successful. I’ve heard honesty is pretty awesome as well.

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