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Tell HN: PR for Startups

22 points by vonnik 13y ago

Hi Hacker News, I'm going to give a talk on "PR for startups" next week at Runway, 1355 Market St., San Francisco. It will start @2PM on March 12th and run for 90 min to 2 hours. I'm a former New York Times reporter who's been working in PR for the last six months. The talk will focus on what reporters need to write good stories. If you can give them that, you're much closer to getting press. Please email me at chrisvnicholson@trycelery.com if you would like to attend. The talk is free, but space is limited. Hope to see you there! ~Chris www.trycelery.com

300bps 13y ago
Any chance of a web broadcast either live or recorded?
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  I'm adding my support for this question by replying since OP cannot see my upvote.
- omervk 13y ago
  Thirded. I'm from Israel and would love to watch this online.
rhgraysonii 13y ago
Seconding 300bps's motion. I'd love to watch a stream but sadly am located on the opposite side of the US. Sounds like an awesome talk though. Good luck!
BorisMelnik 13y ago
yes please I "3rd" the notion I would like to see a web broadcast. Will donate!
TezzellEnt 13y ago
Thanks for opening this talk up to the HN community Chris. Like others have commented before me, is there a possibility to stream this event over YouTube? I think that this will be an awesome talk and hope to make it, but if I can't - I'd love to still hear your advice.
vonnik 13y ago
Hi folks - I'll talk to Runway about webstreaming this and get back to you. Thanks for the suggestion.
650REDHAIR 13y ago
As a PR professional what do you think of startups like PressFriendly.com?
- vonnik 13y ago
  As an industry, PR is broken. One of the reasons is because PR is responsible for delivering outcomes that are outside of their control, namely stories in the media. Only journalists control that. Some PR firms have really knowledgeable, well-connected people working for them, but many are spinning their wheels. While I haven't worked with Pressfriendly directly, I'm in touch with its founder Joel, and I think there's lots of room to improve how PR works.
timhj 13y ago
Fourth for a stream/webex please!
petervandijck 13y ago
Sounds great! My 0.02c from having had some (tiny bit of) exposure to the press: - it's great if your story fits in some bigger story/theme that they write about. - it's great if you have numbers that relate to the bigger story that others don't have (so they have to mention you to use that number in their story). - make time anytime for the reporters, they're busy.
- vonnik 13y ago
  Those are good rules to live by, Peter.

22 points by vonnik 13y ago

300bps 13y ago

Any chance of a web broadcast either live or recorded?

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
I'm adding my support for this question by replying since OP cannot see my upvote.
omervk 13y ago
Thirded. I'm from Israel and would love to watch this online.

rhgraysonii 13y ago

Seconding 300bps's motion. I'd love to watch a stream but sadly am located on the opposite side of the US. Sounds like an awesome talk though. Good luck!

BorisMelnik 13y ago

yes please I "3rd" the notion I would like to see a web broadcast. Will donate!

TezzellEnt 13y ago

Thanks for opening this talk up to the HN community Chris. Like others have commented before me, is there a possibility to stream this event over YouTube? I think that this will be an awesome talk and hope to make it, but if I can't - I'd love to still hear your advice.

vonnik 13y ago

Hi folks - I'll talk to Runway about webstreaming this and get back to you. Thanks for the suggestion.

650REDHAIR 13y ago

As a PR professional what do you think of startups like PressFriendly.com?

vonnik 13y ago
As an industry, PR is broken. One of the reasons is because PR is responsible for delivering outcomes that are outside of their control, namely stories in the media. Only journalists control that. Some PR firms have really knowledgeable, well-connected people working for them, but many are spinning their wheels. While I haven't worked with Pressfriendly directly, I'm in touch with its founder Joel, and I think there's lots of room to improve how PR works.

timhj 13y ago

Fourth for a stream/webex please!

petervandijck 13y ago

Sounds great! My 0.02c from having had some (tiny bit of) exposure to the press: - it's great if your story fits in some bigger story/theme that they write about. - it's great if you have numbers that relate to the bigger story that others don't have (so they have to mention you to use that number in their story). - make time anytime for the reporters, they're busy.

vonnik 13y ago
Those are good rules to live by, Peter.