{"id":5937,"date":"2019-02-26T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newswire.com\/blog\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:10:07","slug":"what-should-happen-after-sending-out-your-media-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newswire.com\/blog\/what-should-happen-after-sending-out-your-media-pitch","title":{"rendered":"What Should Happen After Sending Out Your Media Pitch?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After sending out your media pitch, you may\nnot hear from the recipient. This may happen specifically when it\u2019s one of your\nfirst attempts and you don\u2019t have a relationship built up with your media list\nyet. Journalists and other writers get a lot of emails each day. It may take a\nfew days to get to yours \u2013 or it may not even make it in front of their actual\neyes because of email filters they\u2019ve set up to weed out blanket emails!<\/p>\n\n\n

\"email-press-release\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, you did your research really\nwell, personalized your media pitch to each individual that you sent it out to,\nand followed up politely. If you did, and if your pitch is enticing and\nnewsworthy, you will hear from that journalist or writer and they\u2019ll want to\nknow more about your pitch or just agree to share the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you don\u2019t hear anything back? What can you do?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t\ntake it personally.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Okay, this is easier said than done; but\ndon\u2019t take it personally. The chances are high that you aren\u2019t getting a\nresponse because the targeted contact didn\u2019t think it was newsworthy for their\naudience. Another reason may be that they haven\u2019t even seen your proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touch\nbase to follow up, but don\u2019t be annoying.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

You never know if other news stories are\ngetting pitched to them or something else entirely is going on. It can be\neffective to follow up your original pitch, after a few days to a week, with a\n\u201cDid this email get buried in your inbox?\u201d type of email. Don\u2019t be annoying or\naggressive in your follow-up. just let them know that you hadn\u2019t received a\nresponse, but that this pitch is still available for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose\ngood follow-up times.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Coming off of a weekend (Mondays) or going\ninto a weekend (Fridays) aren\u2019t great times for PR pitches. Using times during\nthe middle of the week are much better for media pitches, as journalists and\ninfluencers tend to have more freedom in their schedules during the week (as\nlong as there are no major stories out there that week). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try\npitching your story from a different angle.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

If you believe that your story would be\ngood for that news outlet, from that writer, and for that audience, try a\ndifferent angle for the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure you have the right contact.<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Using LinkedIn or Twitter, make sure that the contact you have is the absolute right person to be pitching to for that outlet. Maybe the contact from your list has moved on to another news outlet or changed their audience slightly and they\u2019re no longer the right person. While this should have been covered in your research, it\u2019s common to miss something when people start switching around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call us today to speak to one of our PR specialists: 1-800-713-7278<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After sending out your media pitch, you may not hear from the recipient. This may happen specifically when it\u2019s one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[1218,1189,800,132,1151,905,1153,1217],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-online-visibility","tag-media-connections","tag-media-contacts","tag-media-outreach","tag-media-outreach-tips","tag-media-pitch","tag-media-pitch-best-practices","tag-media-pitching","tag-sending-media-pitch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Should Happen After Sending Out Your Media Pitch? | Newswire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your media pitch has been sent out. What happens now? 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