Sarah Evans
The best tips from participants in the training session Jennifer Gosse (@jennifergosse) and Sarah Evans (@prsarahevans) gave at #evoconf in July 2012.
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After the hard work of getting a media placement is done, it actually isn't. Add tasks like: thanking the writer on their site and via email, adding large placements to your email signature line and website, etc...
Journalists, bloggers and online influencers spend their time outside the "inbox," so you should, too. If they're active online, consider a tweet, private message via Facebook or even a Pinterest pitch.
Part of the power of collaboration is that it forces you to interact with others. When more people are added to the mix, the more essential it is to have a strong relationship. Focus on relationship tasks throughout the collaboration process.
We live in the age of Pinterest, Fancy, Instagram and the like... As my friend Jason Kinzler says, "If your idea of PR is sitting in front of a desk and opening a Word doc, you're seriously out of luck." What images can best help tell your story?
Setup free PinAlerts in seconds, and
receive email notifications whenever
someone pins something from your website.
Get familiar with ifttt (@ifttt) (www.ifttt.com). Set up recipes to alert you via text message, phone call or email when media make a specific action (e.g. blog post).
When your friends make the news, we make sure you know. Newsle tracks news about your friends and professional contacts across the web. You'll never miss an important story about someone you care about.
It's tough to eliminate the word busy from your lexicon, but you might want to consider it. Productive people are the ones getting things done (#gtd) and the "busy" often don't remember how they spent their time.
To monitor and collaborate via Instagram, use Statigr.am (or Hootsuite) from your desktop. Create lists of bloggers, journalists and influencers.
Connect
Collaborate
Condense
Communicate
If you need to work with more than one person or have a task with a lot of details, use Tracky to get it all done.
