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Topic: Do you announce a new gig?
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| socialite | Posted – 8/11/2007 7:31:38 PM | show profile | email poster Hi - I'm a freelancer and I was just awarded a big assignment/beat for a national women's magazine. I'm curious what the protocol is to notify my PR contacts about my new role. Is a mass email announcement appropriate? |
| JimmyG | Posted – 8/13/2007 11:14:13 AM | show profile If this is the kind of ongoing assignment that depends on PR people pitching you, or at least sending you releases on a regular basis that you're not already getting, then by all means send out a blast of emails. In general it's a good idea for freelancers to update their industry and PR contacts once a year or so if they've picked up new and/or bigger clients. It can also backfire as I found out one time when I was on staff at a consumer mag. When I decided to update my contacts on what the magazine was doing editorially and what its deadlines were I actually started getting fewer invites to industry events. One reason was that the PR people then figured out they could skip inviting me in March for a preview of a product that would well be on the streets in time for publication in September, when I'd be covering it. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 8/13/2007 12:42:36 PM | show profile I kind of do a general notifier every six months -- what I've written for lately, what I'm working on, links to fun articles -- amongst people that it wouldn't hurt to build my legend among. I like to do it in a casual, understated sort of way, sort of by-the-way... and how are you? I tend to be leery of things that sound too cemented or grandiose -- in part because, as we all know, things can change ... |
