PR folks, don't be stupid
I get a lot of PR requests in email. Most of them I delete, periodically I consider doing a review or article about it, and every once in a while some PR person sends me something so stupid I just have to respond. This week I got a request to review a new “app for Moms.” This is stupid mostly because they sent it to me at my About.com address—where I write about web design and HTML. If you must send me PR pitches, at least spend two minutes determining if I write in your niche. Now, to be fair, I do sometimes write “mommy blogger” type stuff here, but the PR guy didn’t make any indication that he realized that. But this PR person lucked out. I wrote about their product and got it promoted as a guest post on My Happy SAHD Life. Of course, I suspect the PR person won’t feel lucky. It’s not a review, and if it were a review it wouldn’t be a positive one. Read the article here: It’s 2014, Why Don’t PR People Know?