-- Updated Mar. 15, 2018 -- We scrubbed this short-and-sweet list of event gatekeepers at World Economic Forum, TED, Financial Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, TechCrunch and Vox Media. We'll add to this list as time goes on.
-- Updated Feb. 22, 2018 -- As tech media has shrunk, so has the number of sites that produce product reviews. Here's a list of the edit brands that still do them. We skipped the Mac and Android titles. But do let us know if we missed any must-pitch outlets.
-- Updated Feb. 22, 2018 -- Below is a list we adapted from Jeremiah Owyang but with some of our own ingredients thrown in. They are in no particular order and tend to favor web site KPIs.
Never have our subscribers shown so much interest in paid opportunities. So here it is, the SWMS Google Doc on paid opps in tech media, including Tier 1, IT, healthcare, fintech and security titles. We've listed 64 publications so far. We'll add titles and categories as requested.
Continuing with our 2018 focus on tools, here's a rundown on eight of them that can help tech PR and marketing pros. Some you know, some you may not. We're always on the hunt for new tools to publicize. Please share your insights with us on SWMSTweet and in your SWMS Slack channel.
When Axios launched in 2016, its founders described its goal as “smart brevity,” or more colorfully, as “Twitter meets The Economist.” Take a look, for example, at Sara Fischer’s most recent Media Trends newsletter and you can see that Axios has succeeded. Observe the form, not necessarily the substance.
TechCrunch editor-at-large John Biggs spoke with us last week about Tech4Reporters, a tool designed to help busy reporters understand the technology they’re writing about. It’s a tool John funded himself and he gives it away. Why? He wants journalists to have access to tech experts who don’t expect positive publicity in return for their insights.
Courtesy of insights editor Liz Webber, here's a sample of the monthly newsletter than Entrepreneur sends to its contributors. It focuses on tips and tricks and guidance from those who already do it right.
Entrepreneur has more than 800 contributors and its doors remain open. You can write occasionally or every week. Find an audience and editors will promote you from “guest writer” to “contributor” and finally to “VIP contributor” if you make the all-star team.
Occasionally a client may ask, "What's the big picture in B2B tech editorial?" If you're lucky, that is. Usually they're waiting for your deliverables. But every now and then it helps the client-agency relationship to go have the proverbial beer and discuss what's happening in B2B edit, in the seams where it's hard to notice.
You might think of Dion Hinchcliffe as a ZDNet contributor, but he’s also an analyst at Constellation Research. And this month he produced a superb 34-page report for “The New C-Suite” that every B2B PR pros will enjoy reading, and can use to help build relationships with clients and reporters.
This might be the year one or more of your clients decide to rebrand. You could go to beat reporters who cover the company, but it's unlikely they would write about the rebranding as such. For this job you'd need a marketing-minded reporter. Here's a list of candidates, fresh as of Jan. 2018.
