20 signs you’re failing at your PR job

Here are the things you had better not be doing.

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Here are those things, broken into four categories:

Media Relations

1. Phone journalists when you know they’re on deadline.

2. Be unprepared for questions when pitching a reporter.

3. Miss a deadline.

4. Spam journalists with the same release, with no consideration of what they actually want.

5. Fail to provide interesting, exciting, and high-resolution images for stories.

Social Media

6. Delete negative comments on blog post or Facebook pages.

7. Focus on numbers, not engagement.

8. Not bother monitoring conversation.

9. Share nothing but links to offers and your own website.

10. Not familiarize yourself with analysis tools.

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