Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Not surprisingly, social media gets the most attention with 80% of respondents indicating they plan to do more with it in 2010. That’s certainly important but it’s just one tactic; there are a lot more opportunities to explore. Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We need to understand the current media landscape: What journalists need today, how best to work with them, where the opportunities lie for PR news material — and what that means for Press Releases. How does this affect the way we write a press release? Fast forward to 2010: 79% of adults use the Internet.

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SocialFish

JANUARY 11, 2011

As a quick wrap-up to 2010, here were the top SocialFish blog posts of the year (based on Postrank score, which measures pageviews, RSS views, comments, tweets and retweets, shares, Buzz, bookmarks, clicks, trackbacks etc.) The Art of Creating a Social Media Press Release. in chronological order. Community Management Resources.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here are my 10 top posts of the year by pageviews: The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases. The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season. The press release buzzwords post is the most popular post I have ever done by any measure. 10 Practical Twitter Tips for Publishers.

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Kikolani

APRIL 28, 2010

Nominees for Best SEO Blog of 2010. How to Write Better Press Release Headlines. Nominee for Best Search News Blog of 2010. Nominee for Best CRO/Conversion Blog of 2010. Nominee for Best Social Media Blog of 2010. Nominees for Best Blog for Bloggers of 2010. Daily SEO Tip. Stay on Search. GrokDotCom.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2011

Social media news releases have lots of advantages, and what’s not to like? While multimedia content can be added to any press release, SMNRs are much more likely to incorporate images and video. But the data is certainly encouraging and it is good to see evidence that social media press releases are performing well.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season by Adam Sherk on September 15, 2010 With a new football season under way I thought I’d take a look again at the NFL teams that have attracted the largest following to their official Twitter profiles and Facebook pages. (..)

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 1, 2011

Twice in the past year I’ve covered the most overused PR buzzwords and marketing speak and press release buzzword abuse. Now admittedly the best antidote for marketing speak in press releases is to explain things simply in clear, direct terms and let the media professionals take it from there.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent. Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips. Also a special mention for a post from 2010 that continues to bring in considerably more pageviews than anything else: The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 31, 2011

Besides these blogs, our press release got picked up by Marketwire, BizJournals and MSNBC. The press release and its coverage gave us the most calls from recruiters. While this might seem very facetious, the net effect of the press release was negligible or even useless directly. Like this post?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 13, 2010

I receive a lot of press releases by email — and unlike past actions of deleting them, I have lately replied to my senders and asked simple questions to enlightening responses. That’s why we wanted to inform you about a new study that will be released in the next days. I don’t see that in your email. AUSTIN, TX.,

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

Press releases – Write and publish a press release online every time your company does something remarkable. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc.,

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall by Adam Sherk on January 20, 2010 Today The New York Times made it official that they will be introducing a metered model starting in 2011. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I’d also like to give a shout-out to my press release buzzwords post from 2010 which continues to do well. My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports. It pulled in the second most pageviews of any post this year. Thank you search referrals! Have a great 2013.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 8, 2014

January 2010: [link]. Don’t Issue a Press Release Like IGXE Internet Gaming Exchange If your website is banned in the Google search engine. Mark Jackson, from Vizion Interactive, has been very vocal over the years about what he has deemed to be “deceptive” practices from TopSEOs.com. August 2008: [link].

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The Marketing Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

47 pm Facebook & India Jump to Comments This is a statistical post, which collates data from various blog-posts, press-releases and news sites. of Facebook users in India have grown from 1,561,000 in March 2009 to 7,809,800 in March 2010 marking an astronomical 400% rise. Some pointers YOY Growth – No. growth in India.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As many of you know, I started the #measurePR Twitter chat back in 2010. Why: Social media strategist and author of SMART News: how to write press releases for the digital age Sally Falkow joined us for this month’s (December 3) #measurePR chat. Happy Monday! PR Measurement – What to Measure.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Articles need to be “objective news” to lead a story cluster (op-ed, satire, press releases and subscription content are not eligible to lead clusters). Amit August 9, 2010 at 4:57 am Hi Adam, Great coverage and nicely written points from the video! Adam Sherk August 9, 2010 at 8:42 am Thanks Amit.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I guess you have to admire the automated attempt to transition from enterprise social media strategies to buying NFL replica jerseys: And at least the advertisement was well targeted to me since I’m interested in press release optimization and I’m a fan of PRWeb. It really is an epidemic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Further, it’s “simply unrealistic&# for him to tailor his press releases to bloggers, and it’s “close minded&# for bloggers to expect this of him.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

by Adam Sherk on July 13, 2010 Being the savvy, well-connected PR pro that you are, you just helped bring about a great piece of editorial coverage in a major media outlet. Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Sean @CommAMMO Adam Sherk July 20, 2010 at 11:51 am Good points Sean.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. Jeff Melissa August 31, 2010 at 10:10 pm Indeed a worthwhile read. Might be interesting to investigate.

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Josh S Peters

JUNE 8, 2010

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » TwitterSays winners TwitterSays winners Written on June 8, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 0 Comments - Leave a comment! A copy of I Need a Killer Press Release, Now What??? (A

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Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Throughout 2010, it has been estimated that about 700 companies emerged in the daily deal market and. Daily coupon fatigue is settling in. With Facebook phasing out its daily deal offers, Yelp scaling back its own, and Groupon still working towards an IPO, there are a lot of questions regarding the daily deal industry.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Tip #14: Dirty Secret Every now and then, press releases work. Yes, writers hate blind press releases. Among the ones I liked, here are a dozen that stood out: Tip #7: Don’t thank me When you thank me for a good review, I get suspicious. I think I must have missed something and let you off too easy. You pitched me.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

And, the Huff-Post press release states that $300 million of that will be cash. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc., The big talk of the day is the AOL acquisition of Huffington Post.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. You can read all about that here , here , and here.

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Josh S Peters

MARCH 16, 2010

Written on March 16, 2010 by Josh Peters in ORM , SEO , Social Media , Strategy 1 Comment - Leave a comment! Also, If you need to get something out remember, a properly optimized press release can go a long way. What’s THE most important part of Online Reputation Management (ORM)? Need something good spread out wide?

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Proactive Report

MAY 6, 2010

After hearing for years that the press release is dead, it was refreshing to hear them say it most certainly is not dead – in fact reporters need information from us more than ever. Q1 of 2010 shows an even bigger jump Newspaper companies drew unprecedented 74.4 Media Relations in 2010 . Print is on its last legs.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Alicia Keys knows how to do it.

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 17, 2012

The full press release is below. In 2010, a chance encounter at the Miami International Airport between Marin (now based in NYC), and LAI bass player Jose Rafael Torres led to a conversation about the band’s 20-year anniversary, which took place in 2011. La Casa del Ritmo, A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles”.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Understanding user behavior in 2009 helps you to grow your audience or customer base and increase engagement in 2010. Gives me some great ideas and ways to plan on increasing engagement in 2010 and beyond. vanessalopez January 6, 2010 at 6:25 am Thanks a lot for sharing this very useful tips and advice with all of us.I

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Proactive Report

MAY 6, 2010

After hearing for years that the press release is dead, it was refreshing to hear them say it most certainly is not dead – in fact reporters need information from us more than ever. Q1 of 2010 shows an even bigger jump Newspaper companies drew unprecedented 74.4 But they need much more than just a traditional press release.

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