Comments on: Pitching? – How to get blacklisted by me http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/ Invisible people have invisible rights Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Thoughts on Communications in Ireland » Blog Archive » Some likely changes to the PR industry! http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-914495 Thoughts on Communications in Ireland » Blog Archive » Some likely changes to the PR industry! Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:51:23 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-914495 [...] commenting over time, tracking through RSS feeds, researching them through the various methods Damien Mulley mentions all takes time.  To short circut this some PR companies just added blogger email [...] [...] commenting over time, tracking through RSS feeds, researching them through the various methods Damien Mulley mentions all takes time.  To short circut this some PR companies just added blogger email [...]

]]> By: FrankFullard.com » The Marketing Power of Blogs http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-842392 FrankFullard.com » The Marketing Power of Blogs Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:15:06 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-842392 [...] pitches.  Please add your own”.   It would seem that the problem is not confined to the US. Damien Mulley, one of our best known and widely read bloggers, is so cheesed off with the situation that he has [...] [...] pitches.  Please add your own”.   It would seem that the problem is not confined to the US. Damien Mulley, one of our best known and widely read bloggers, is so cheesed off with the situation that he has [...]

]]> By: Sabrina Dent http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-837495 Sabrina Dent Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:13:37 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-837495 You forgot my favourite: "We'd like a glowing review of this product you've never tried and we're not going to give or loan to you. K thx bai." You forgot my favourite: “We’d like a glowing review of this product you’ve never tried and we’re not going to give or loan to you. K thx bai.”

]]> By: Barry http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-837063 Barry Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:54:56 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-837063 Great post... Great post…

]]> By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » FindaRestaurant.ie get it right http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-836850 Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » FindaRestaurant.ie get it right Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:11:41 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-836850 [...] may want to subscribe to my site using a feedreader or email. Thanks for visiting - Damien.So my Blacklisting post got a lot of attention, here’s an example of getting it right when approaching bloggers or [...] [...] may want to subscribe to my site using a feedreader or email. Thanks for visiting – Damien.So my Blacklisting post got a lot of attention, here’s an example of getting it right when approaching bloggers or [...]

]]> By: Daragh O Brien http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-836707 Daragh O Brien Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:48:20 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-836707 Read in a business management book a while back that if you can't sum up your entire corporate strategy in 20 seconds you don't have one and are doomed to fail (think it was Execution by Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy) If you take 12 paragraphs to explain the product/company to someone you're looking for help from then, as Damien says, you're fucked - and you'll have no idea what the dinner and movie were like that got you there. And as for the presumption that you're in Dublin - I hear that (as a Wexican - Dublin born, living in Wexford - south of the border). Sometimes I think people forget that trains and roads run both to and <em><strong>from</em></strong> the Capital. "Waffler... yer only a waffler" as a former Taoiseach once said. Read in a business management book a while back that if you can’t sum up your entire corporate strategy in 20 seconds you don’t have one and are doomed to fail (think it was Execution by Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy)

If you take 12 paragraphs to explain the product/company to someone you’re looking for help from then, as Damien says, you’re fucked – and you’ll have no idea what the dinner and movie were like that got you there.

And as for the presumption that you’re in Dublin – I hear that (as a Wexican – Dublin born, living in Wexford – south of the border). Sometimes I think people forget that trains and roads run both to and from the Capital.

“Waffler… yer only a waffler” as a former Taoiseach once said.

]]> By: Damien http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-836592 Damien Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:50:34 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-836592 @adam If I'm wrong, fair enough but my experience has been people telling me in exact words "No you're wrong, it will work, we know this" and this would be in areas I would feel I'm more of an expert in than these people that are getting into "the next big thing". I just don't bother getting in an argument with morons after that. @Jonathan I actually wrote that last week after getting yet another awful pitch. @Maz I'm thinking of doing classes on that too. Oddly I can only do these posts when I'm in a good mood. @LizEMcG The day did end in a Y. @zee Not until I sign over ownership of the Awards to someone else @adam If I’m wrong, fair enough but my experience has been people telling me in exact words “No you’re wrong, it will work, we know this” and this would be in areas I would feel I’m more of an expert in than these people that are getting into “the next big thing”. I just don’t bother getting in an argument with morons after that.

@Jonathan I actually wrote that last week after getting yet another awful pitch.

@Maz I’m thinking of doing classes on that too. Oddly I can only do these posts when I’m in a good mood.

@LizEMcG The day did end in a Y.

@zee Not until I sign over ownership of the Awards to someone else

]]> By: Darragh http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-836147 Darragh Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:20:57 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-836147 Oh to have the need to write such a post. Is it wrong that I'm slightly envious? Great post though, fair play :) Oh to have the need to write such a post. Is it wrong that I’m slightly envious?

Great post though, fair play :)

]]> By: gimmeaminute http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-836096 gimmeaminute Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:31:16 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-836096 Do not become so filled with your own self-importance that you explode Meaning of Life-like all over the laptops of your readers. Do not become so filled with your own self-importance that you explode Meaning of Life-like all over the laptops of your readers.

]]> By: connector.ie» Blog Archive » Connecting with Irish Bloggers http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/comment-page-1/#comment-835981 connector.ie» Blog Archive » Connecting with Irish Bloggers Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:38:25 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/11/pitching-how-to-get-blacklisted-by-me/#comment-835981 [...] - Since posting, Damien Mulley has added this new hotlist of tips on how to get blacklisted by him. addthis_url = [...] [...] – Since posting, Damien Mulley has added this new hotlist of tips on how to get blacklisted by him. addthis_url = [...]

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