New York Magazine writer Lindsay Robertson (on her Tumblr no less) describes the "Do's and Don't's of Online Publicity." These parts stood out to me (in bold):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE means FOR IMMEDIATE DELETE to any blogger with any influence. Period....
Pick eight blogs
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She told me her secret: she only publicizes to eight blogs. She picked the eight blogs that covered her client's subject, TV, that she liked the most on a personal level, read them religiously, and only sent them only the content she thought each blog would be into. While the rest of the publicists in her company were sending out mass emails to everyone, hoping to get bites from Perez Hilton, Gawker, HuffPo, or wherever, this publicist focused on a lower traffic tier with the (correct) understanding that these days, content filters up as much as it filters down, and often the smaller sites, with their ability to dig deeper into the internet and be more nimble, act as farm teams for the larger ones. A site can be enormously influential without having crazy eyeballs, because all eyeballs are not equal. MANY times - I would say almost every time, that I posted one of her client's items on my site, they were linked back within hours by the big guys, who probably would have tuned her out otherwise.
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