{"id":1836,"date":"2008-08-29T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:17:32","slug":"know-bloggers-pitching-preferences-avoid-me-too-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/know-bloggers-pitching-preferences-avoid-me-too-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Know bloggers&#8217; pitching preferences; avoid &#8216;me too&#8217; emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Publicity Hound needs a media database of journalists, including contact information and pitching preferences.<\/p>\n<p>During my teleseminar series on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Create a Media Plan<\/a>, I explained all the details you need to gather, like when they&#8217;re on deadline and the time of day or week when they prefer to be contacted.<\/p>\n<p>That list should also include bloggers you want to target.\u00a0Don&#8217;t assume that deadlines for journalists and bloggers are similar. Many bloggers post as soon as they start their day, and sometimes very late at night.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what David Kiley, senior business correspondent at Business Week, mentions in\u00a0this interview\u00a0about pitching with with Bulldog Reporter&#8217;s Brian Pittman:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/davidkiley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1837\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" title=\"davidkiley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/davidkiley.jpg\" alt=\"David Kiley, Business Week columnist\" width=\"91\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Always help us find a way to move the story forward.\u00a0For example, I really like it when somebody says, &#8216;I saw something you blogged on and here&#8217;s a detail or fact that wasn&#8217;t quite right&#8217; or &#8216;Here&#8217;s an angle you haven&#8217;t covered yet.&#8217; If you email someone like me something like that and it&#8217;s not too self-serving, chances are that we&#8217;ll look at it and end up doing a subsequent post. But we can&#8217;t do that when it&#8217;s just a &#8216;me too&#8217; thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article offers additional tips for working with\u00a0A-level business journalists like Kiley. You can also read more tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to pitch bloggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Publicity Hound needs a media database of journalists, including contact information and pitching preferences. During my teleseminar series on How to Create a Media Plan, I explained all the details you need to gather, like when they&#8217;re on deadline and the time of day or week when they prefer to be contacted. That list\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/know-bloggers-pitching-preferences-avoid-me-too-emails\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-1836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-pitching","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41486,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/41486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}