Generating media exposure is a powerful way to boost not only your professional profile, but also enhance your credibility and authority in the industry or the profession in which you operate.
But it ain’t easy! Something this week’s expert podcast guest, Darren Slade knows only too well!
It takes a lot of work and smarts to generate positive editorial exposure – just banging out a written press release is not going to cut it anymore, despite what you might see in the movies!
Darren is the group business editor are the Bournemouth Echo, the Southern Daily Echo and the Dorset Echo. He focuses on stories about the business community and entrepreneurs in Dorset and Hampshire in the UK. He’s been a journalist since 1990, so he knows a fair bit about this caper.
In our interview, Darren had plenty of gold to share from his wealth of experience, including:
- The best ways to get editorial exposure, including how, and when, to best reach journalists
- Getting your pitch right, up front
- When a formal press release will work – and how to get it noticed
- Being ‘vivid’ – why small businesses and entrepreneurs can sometimes have the edge over their more corporate counterparts
- Preparing for a media interview
- Why the best story is not always the most obvious one
- Where you need to show up to get the attention of the media.
If you want to learn about dealing with the media and how to get your story ideas accepted by a journalist or an editor, or just get a better handle on how to deal with journalists, you will find this episode immensely helpful.
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