Post on 25-May-2015
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Efficient Media Relations3 x 3 Power Tips
Dr. Armin SieberFleishman-Hillard Germany GmbH
Berlin
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3x3 Power Tips
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1. Extend your reach
• Be proactive• Stay tuned: 4 x 3 networking rule• Show up where your target groups are
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2. Discover your story
• Don‘t talk about nuts and bolts – tell a story• Learn what journalists are interested in – and use their editorial
calender• Make the most of a story
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Discover your story:Learn what journalists are interested in
• News value, actuality• Utility for the reader• Use examples to illustrate the facts
• Numbers and figures• Benefit for the client
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Discover your storyExample: Editorial Calender
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Discover your story:Make the most of it
• Find different story angles• Approach different target groups• Use different genres (interviews with clients, with experts, case
studies, by-lined articles, quotes)• Use different formats and various tools
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3. Create great coverage
• Use your clients: Nothing is more convincing than a satisfied client• Use your experts: Journalists love to talk to experts• Use independent evidence: make the journalist your allie
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Create great coverage:Use your client
• Set up a customer base • Retrieve existing customer• For interesting new customers: clarify PR utilisation from the
beginning• Clients need to become tangible• Meaningful numbers and figures (investment, impact, ROI)• Benefit for the rentee
• Ask for PR-reference • Ask for figures
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Create great coverage:Create your own expert community
• Define experts• Training• Messaging • Media Training
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Create great coverage:Use independent evidence
• Refer to 3rd party experts:• Research• Associations• NGOs
• Provide surveys• Set up your own study