Comments on: Vocus Pitch: Good or Bad? http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/02/vocus-pitch-good-or-bad.html The Idea Grove is a full-service agency specializing in public relations, marketing and Web design. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SB http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/02/vocus-pitch-good-or-bad.html/comment-page-1#comment-853 SB Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:19:00 +0000 http://www.ideagrove.com/weblog/?p=682#comment-853 I'm a mimosa man, myself, so their targeting was WAY off.... I’m a mimosa man, myself, so their targeting was WAY off….

]]> By: Kevin http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/02/vocus-pitch-good-or-bad.html/comment-page-1#comment-852 Kevin Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.ideagrove.com/weblog/?p=682#comment-852 The question is: did you download the white paper? It clearly achieved its goal of raising awareness...based on this glass of Google Juice we're pouring here.<br/><br/>Overall I'd say that contrived situations like that are risky to use in a pitch to bloggers...some of these folks will get bent as they prefer tea over coffee. It also makes the PR person out to be more of a corporate pinata. You're an agency pinata ;-) so they did not segment the cusomtization of their list/pitch.<br/><br/>But Vocus is ahead of the curve when it comes to the marketing of PR services. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's a compliment or not. The question is: did you download the white paper? It clearly achieved its goal of raising awareness…based on this glass of Google Juice we’re pouring here.

Overall I’d say that contrived situations like that are risky to use in a pitch to bloggers…some of these folks will get bent as they prefer tea over coffee. It also makes the PR person out to be more of a corporate pinata. You’re an agency pinata ;-) so they did not segment the cusomtization of their list/pitch.

But Vocus is ahead of the curve when it comes to the marketing of PR services. I’ll leave it to you to decide if that’s a compliment or not.

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