Sentences with phrase «of story pitches»

For a book publicist like me, the world of book promotion gets a little bit harder every time one of our story pitches is brushed aside to make room for a non-story like strange (or not - so - strange, depending on your perspective) cloud formations over New York City.

A book publicist who sends journalists ads in the guise of story pitches or guest pitches risks his or her reputation and stands to burn brides.

I followed your advice and reduced the setup of the story I pitched by two - thirds and lost none of the essential introduction.

Not exact matches

Each news story is labeled with an identifying tag, like «opinion» or «local source,» which Google pitches is a way to «explore different perspectives to gain a well - rounded understanding of an issue.»

How much of that will be story - based and how much will be pitches?

In the category of epic role reversals, the New York Daily News makes big companies pitch to startups and other need - to - know stories from this week.

He gives some tips on pitching your story to a writer and shares info on the growing trend of private wine parties, which is a great experience.

We think it's a pretty compelling story, and, it turns out, it's one that is consistent with the pitch we made a year and a half ago, when we raised our seed round of funding.

find, pitch, and oversee coverage of visuals - heavy stories in the New York area and globally by using commissioned photographers, as well as taking original photos.

The Information published a story in which six women, including Niniane Wang, Susan Ho, and Leiti Hsu, accused Binary Capital Partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances while they were pitching him for a potential investment.

The Wall Street Journal, on the other, hand, ran a story about free services emerging in the midst of growing criticism of the pay - to - pitch model.

«The app story of Xbox One has yet to be written,» says the pitch, «therefore it is entirely possible to find apps down the road that could be of benefit for you and your business.»

Bringing in key investors: Explain how you helped investors embrace your vision for the company; describe four key provisions that create the foundation for a solid partnership agreement; share the stories of three pitches to VCs that went horribly wrong, and how those experiences helped you shape a winning pitch.

Journalists want to write good stories and most of them welcome pitches through cold mails.

The best way to get better press for your business is to pitch a story instead of just asking a journalist to write about your business.

I get hundreds of «press release» story pitches every year and I've probably read about 30 of them, and written about maybe five.

If your company has a mission or an innovative vision, focus your pitch on the story behind the product instead of the product itself.

In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the billionaire entrepreneur recalls the story of the «the beer mat pitch.»

Clay tells the story of a fraudster who paid down - on - their - luck celebrities to pitch his scams.

His yarns about famous and infamous pitches, success stories and burnouts, describe the end of Madison Avenue as a stuffy bastion of WASPiness and the beginning of its golden age.

Some of the most powerful pitches on Shark Tank have resonated because of the story behind them.

It's certainly easier to get attention for more company - focused initiatives if you've built up your own audience on your own property, as opposed to pitching your story to journalists and hoping one of them bites.

The story of how BuzzFeed got from there to here arguably begins with this pitch deck to investors in 2008.

There are many pleasures in this story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest of them, 1 which is that people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny:

Journalists: They'll pitch a story to the photo management media, spotlighting how they've solved the problem of facial recognition for users, and include customer endorsements supporting the product.

I'm going to start my case of why your elevator pitch is your single best marketing tool with a story.

Something to consider with going after local coverage is that it is easier to land than national or large - scale publications and blogs as they have a smaller pool of stories to pull from and are more likely to read and accept your pitch.

While its not unusual to get the bad news bubble stories, recently the pitch of the negative press has increased in its intensity.

They pitched a story to The Wall Street Journal that ran that talked about this cabal of market - manipulating short sellers.

Rupp noted the story of Washington, D.C. - based Village Capital, which eliminated the pitch process entirely from its standard practice.

Our agency's roots are as a public relations firm and in the course of providing media relations services (pitching journalists to write stories about our clients) the goal of being covered in a relevant industry publication was first and foremost.

So — as the final touches are put on Detroit's pitch for Amazon before the complex proposal is due Thursday — we can hope that Amazon might find it appealing to commit to the growth and resurgence of one of America's great stories.

Hosted by President Obama, White House Demo Day will showcase the talents of innovators around the country, as they pitch ideas and share their stories with potential funders.

«Although the global IPO market has yet to fully recover, the healthy level of deal volume and dramatic improvement in performance seen in the third quarter of 2010 indicate that IPO investors are more than willing to participate, given an attractive fundamental story pitched at a reasonable price,» Renaissance Capital says.

Compile a list of relevant media and start contacting them to pitch your story.

(Related: How is it that Don, for telling a traumatic life story in a pitch meeting, gets pushed out of the agency — whereas Ted, for toying with suicide while two clients are on his plane, gets a moderately stern talking - to?)

These types of stories about so - called Christian songwriters get pitched to the media because the reality is that Christianity is losing its numbers of believers worldwide.

It's a slow, but steady decline, so Christian churches are desperate to pitch any kind of positive news stories that they can conjure up to try to distract people from the facts.

This is the age of authenticity (don't pitch people) made compelling by a good story or way of doing business that makes the person sharing it look smart.

At the Pitch - Slam Semi-Finals and Finals Competition at Expo West 2018, these judges will help guide eight lucky brands to hone in on the most important elements of their story and build the perfect pPitch - Slam Semi-Finals and Finals Competition at Expo West 2018, these judges will help guide eight lucky brands to hone in on the most important elements of their story and build the perfect pitchpitch.

C — Wolters gets the start — and still can not hit 1B — Desmond already injured — McMahon is now 0 - 3 with 3 Ks and seems over matched 2B — LeMahieu with another solid game SS — Story moved out of the # 4 spot finally — still goes 0 - 3 but does not strike out at least 3B — Arenado had an off night with a couple Ks LF — Parra — nothing exciting CF — Blackmon hitting 2 HRs — Nazty was the offense tonight RF — CarGo seemed comfortable in the # 4 spot — let's keep him there UTIL — nothing exciting SP — Márquez pitched pretty well overall — 4 walks added to an already ridiculously high number thru 3 games though.

«There's a big radio, and the merengue music was real loud,» Perez — who pitched 9 2/3 innings of one - run ball the next day in his makeup start — told me for a 1990 SI story.

The story of this year's finals is pitching.

Every writer has stories in the back of their brain they plan to write eventually if they can find a gap between deadlines, or if an editor didn't stonewall the pitch, or if a hook would finally present itself.

Despite many stories of how it played out, Jones said he always understood Bryant's pitch to a high school Stabler was simple: «Son, we've got to have you.»

At the same time as the Alexis Rumours, Metro is reporting the story that the Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge may also be looking for a new club as Jurgen Klopp has given him little time on the pitch this season and seems to prefer the likes of Firmino and Origi.

The Americans have played down the state of the pitch, but the images tell a different story.

In SI's first edition of the Nine Innings Column, our MLB staff pitches in stories about the Yankees, Shohei Ohtani, MLB Food Fest and more.

This year the team also plans to have a fundraising auction featuring items donated by past success stories at The Pitching Center and other friends of the program.

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.