The reason I post this is not to have everyone go all angry-villager on the company. Please stand by for a demonstration of relevancy.Īnd then I tweeted to to let them know that one of their VPs just sent me an email referring to me as “a fucking bitch.” And many, many of my 164,000 followers replied and retweeted in the most clever and hysterically awesome ways imaginable. Public relations? Am I on Candid Camera? Because I’m kind of baffled. “You should be flattered that you are even viewed relevant enough to be pitched at all.” Don’t be offended, you started theĬursing game so maybe we should all just laugh it off and plan not to work together The livelihood of any journalists business. To be pitched at all instead of alienated PR firms and PR people – who are actually Pitching but maybe you should be flattered that you are even viewed relevant enough
We will do a better job to research who we are Again, I should’ve been less harsh – but I also feel like your email To go out of your way to be snarky and rude is a little A simple “I don’t cover this, no thanks” or “Please remove” Jose: I get it and I was out of line by saying that however you put way too much effort I don’t know what I expected, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this: Understanding (and working with) the unique personalities of the veryīloggers they’re trying to reach out to. We’ll remove you from the list.” In fact, many PRĬompanies have turned this entire thing around and sent really hystericalĮxchanges to me, which I’ve used to promote their great work in Sending that thing out to PR people for the last year and this is theįirst time I didn’t have someone respond with either a laugh, or with a Mailing lists you have me on, rather than just one.Īlso, I apologize if you were offended by my email. This out so you can delete this *ahem* “fucking bitch” from all of the Plus, you’ve sent me this form letter TWICE today. My blog has nothing to do withįashion, the Kardashians or pantyhose…none of which I understand, to be Sort of thing in a quick and painless way. I made that actual Wil Wheaton collating paper page to combat this very Ridiculous pitches involving celebrities using products. With the importance of public relations companies doing research before If you’ve read my blog you would know that a great deal of my blog deals The “Best of luck to you” one, which was much more honest and cutting, Unless, of course, you decided that “What a fucking bitch” wasĪ great response from a public relations company. This is sort of why “reply all” doesn’t usually work well forĬompanies.
I sort of felt bad for the guy (as I’ve accidentally fallen victim to the reply-all trap as well) and I considered just cowing down and remaining quietly chastened by this man, but then I remembered that this isn’t the 18th century and that I’ve never taken a high road in my entire life. I wasn’t going to respond, as she did have a point, but then a VP of the company (Jose) hit “reply all”.
For the most part, my blog is supported by people. That sort of email might be threatening to a blogger who makes a living by getting advertisers who go through PR companies, but I’m not, and (as far as I know) neither are most people. We’ll make note of this email in moving forward and remember if we have any advertising opportunities with any of our clients not to go through you. We send certain pitches out to people so they have the chance of getting more hits on their page. I got a response from the woman who sent the original email: Me: And here’s a picture of Wil Wheaton collating. “The Kardashian’s once again show they are right on trend, and this is on (sic) Mommy’s are all going to want to follow.”Īs I do with all unsolicited form-letters about celebrities-doing-shit-no-one-cares-about, I replied with my usual, simple response: I got a form letter email pitch (more than one, actually) about a Kardashian sister being spotted in pantyhose. I know I just posted a few hours ago, but I’m posting again because you all know how dedicated I am to writing about PR pitches (both good and bad) and this one just can’t wait.
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