Comments on: Friday Q&A: PR for Startups

By: Monica Hobbs

Monica Hobbs — Fri, 05 May 2017 12:29:00 +0000

Great article that I would definitely share.

Working with startup founders I’ve realized that most of them take media coverage and PR lightly and think that they will somehow get coverage by sending emails boasting about their product and that journalist will be thrilled to write about that. That’s why this article is pure gold.

Another great recourse that I’ve encountered recently, that I would recommend to all startup founders is this website with downloadable check list: http://prforstartups.co/
This guide really nails the basics and your article gives great expansion.

By: Dmitry Dragilev

Dmitry Dragilev — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 02:45:31 +0000

Great advice Alex! Love the article you link to here. Great stuff. I published a step by step 7K+ word comprehensive guide with email templates not too far ago: https://www.criminallyprolific.com/pitch-journalist-press/ I gave you an account on https://justreachout.io/ to make this process a breeze for you guys, right?

By: Josh Steimle

Josh Steimle — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:05:24 +0000

As one of those “influencer” journalist/writer/contributors you mention (I’ve published over 200 articles in places like Time, Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, etc.), I get hundreds of pitches each month, and I just want to say that everything Alex says here is pure gold.

99% of the pitches I receive are immediately deleted. Of the remaining 1%, 99% of those are deleted after 10 seconds of reading. What remains are the pitches from people who have followed advice like what Alex gives above.