Delivering A Killer Media Pitch – with Brad McCarty

Brad McCarty, The Next Web, Content, PR / Media Marketing, Traffic

How do you successful pitch the media so they write about your company?

That’s what I asked Brad McCarty, editor of The Next Web, a blog focuses on technology and business news and reaches 2 million unique visitors per month. I invited him to do this interview because he gets pitched constantly at his job and sees both effective and weak promoters.

Brad McCarty

The Next Web

Brad McCarty is a technology writer and editor for The Next Web. Beyond writing, he spends his time working with small businesses (tech-related or otherwise) to help them find the better realities of what they do, then helping them to market those realities.

 

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