In
1970s, who would have thought that email will become a basic necessity for the
generation of today? Even the never-ending popularity of social bandwagon has
not ruled out the dominance of emails in our lives. Every single day, we
receive hundreds of promotional and formal emails on an average from tons of
companies and individuals. Now, think about the inboxes of journalists! Ever
since the industry of PR sprung up, journalists have long been peeved about
their inboxes that are barraged with pitches and press notes. The reason?
Because consultants in PR companies in Delhi
approach journalists on the email requesting them to quote their clients,
publishing articles in credible newspapers and magazines.
Do
journalists skip all those pitch emails or revert to just a few of them? After all, PR people deep in heart always
expect a response from the journalists, but reverting to every email is not
possible for journalists either, especially when most of them are not relevant
to journalist’s area of interest. In such a case, what a PR officer or person
should do? If the journalists won’t respond, how will they be able to
communicate a brand? The key to grabbing journalists’ attention and convincing
them that their story is relevant to the readers and worthy of publishing is
crafting a boilerplate pitch interesting and up to date with accurate facts and
figures. PR agencies in Delhi and all across the globe, journalists
collaboratively work to create great media content that would be useful for the
readers and society as a whole.
How to craft PR
pitches that make your media stories land up to the world famous magazines and
newspapers:
Personalise the
pitch to start the conversations
It’s
not a good idea to copy paste the same pitch to every journalist as it forms really
a bad impression. Try giving a standard pitch a personal and friendly touch by
calling the journalist with the name, telling them that you recently read his
story in xyz newspapers and what encourages you to approach him. It makes
journalist realise that you have done your homework and you really want only
him to publish the story exclusively. Nowadays, Public Relations
companies in Delhi have realised the fact that an automated email sent to over
100 journalists will do no good to you if you send one story to a reputed
journalist.
Don’t quit pitching journalists, take a pause
instead
Strengthening media
relations is a cautious job when one inapt word or a small action can damage
the entire network. If a journalist does not respond to your pitch for even a
month, you must not ceaselessly drop follow-up emails to them as it frustrates
them. This does not mean that you should completely stop pitching them.
Journalists work under a lot of pressure and on tight deadlines, and when they
notice that you stopped reaching out to them the moment they stopped replying,
your relations with them may get dented. They don’t want you to reach out to
them only when you need them and stop when they skipped your email. If you’ve
been sending them pitches that might not interest him, take a pause for a few
days or weeks, research on the content type they write and news they cover, and
then pitch again with some stories that they can’t reject. That’s the art of
managing relations with journalists.