News media interviews offer business leaders an opportunity to position themselves as industry experts. Take advantage of such occasions.
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Media training is not about attempting to memorize a script of lines you may or may not believe in. It’s not about stifling your opinions. It’s not about cleverly sidestepping questions, which most people realize you’re doing anyway. It’s not about hammering your critics with hyperbole and overused cliches. It’s not about analyzing your body
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Social media can play an influential role raising your profile. However, the relationship with such marketing tools can feel like a rocky one. Social media reminds you of birthdays for people you don’t know or care about. It reinforces nobody cares about something you think is funny or interesting. You infer someone behind the social
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We recommend companies, after providing media interviews, send a follow-up email to reporters which politely reviews the key points discussed. This is our attempt to help improve reporter accuracy, which too often is absent from journalism.
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During editorial meetings, when I pitched stories impacting senior citizens, producers and managers often dismissed me like the elite might turn away from a commoner who walked into the wrong room. Someone might sarcastically snap back, “We know. Everyone has a grandmother,” a snarky rebuttal to previous arguments that younger viewers actually care about older
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My Dad is not a public speaker. However, you don’t need the skill of talking eloquently before crowds to ensure words carry weight and wield influence. Many times when life’s building frustrations pushed me closer to whichever metaphorical edge that might have applied at the time, my Dad’s slower delivery of wisdom successfully provided the
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The national news is often nothing more than identifying good local stories and retelling them with higher production value.
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Even a short medical video requires lengthy planning and conversation.
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp80DfHgJ8k[/youtube] For a video, we sometimes need an extra shot we just don’t have. And occasionally that shot should show something outside. We attempt to take each step to shoot ourselves any video we need to tell a story. But if purchasing stock video is our last resort answer, we try to choose well. Here’s
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