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3 Smart Thought Leadership Tips for Entrepreneurs

Waxing UnLyrical

Introduce yourself and your website (if they don’t already know you) and then propose your article idea in two paragraphs or less. I like to frame my proposed topics based on how I can help the blogger’s readers. Some media sites (like Huffington Post for example) don’t require contributors to publish content exclusively.

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What Teaching Teaches Me About Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

It doesn’t matter if we came up with a killer proposal; it doesn’t matter if we have great ideas as we go along (and hopefully, we all do). Image: ingridtaylar via Flickr, CC 2.0. Sure, as we get more comfortable with each other, this might change, but even then, I think the onus is on us (ha! funny alert!) postlink%%.

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Avoiding the Client-Consultant Ego Clash

Waxing UnLyrical

For example, if I say, “That’s a very interesting idea, can you tell me how that will work?”. Second, try as much as possible to bring the proposed action back to their overall objectives. Image: Dunechaser via Flickr, CC 2.0. I try to phrase questions/responses so that they don’t come across as antagonistic. as opposed to.

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The Client Covenant

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: unsure shot via Flickr, CC 2.0. For example : I create extremely detailed rubrics for all the assignments I grade (and their final paper). I don’t care if the client’s budget is _, my proposed plan and budget will be twice that. If we’re really being honest. Student lessons. I’d rather do it my way.”. “I

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Streak: Possibly the Best CRM System for Small Business

Waxing UnLyrical

While it’s now a huge industry, good CRM ( customer relationship management ) is a practice that many of those who are forward-looking-and-thinking PR pros (such as WUL’s own Kirk Hazlett , to name just one example) are meticulous about. magnum via Flickr, CC 2.0. For example, here is one of my pipelines.

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The Pixar Guide to Feel-Good Blogging

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For example, a photography blogger might write a blog post on choosing a new camera, which is a common dilemma for photographers. A blog on writing might include an article on how to pitch editors so they say yes to your article proposal. Photo Credit: Mike Turner on Flickr. That’s value.

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cybersoc.com: 3 types of blog: closed, conduit and participant in the conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

But for the purpose of giving an idea of the different types of blogs out there, each of them perfectly valid in their own way, I propose the following, which you can view as a slide show here : Closed Blogs are, as the image here shows, at the centre of an audience that resembles a closed network. See, for example, the Aitkens wedding blog.

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