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Turning PR Stunts into
Successes
Lexi Mills
@leximills
•Consistent truths about successful
stunts
•Talking clients into stunts
•Leveraging Publishers AI to create
PR stunts
•Making impactful things easier and
quicker
AGENDA
Consistent truths about
successful stunts
AGENDA
Full USA and UK
national coverage
Don’t fake it
make it!
Speed
You need
task masters
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Global Coverage
Make the story believable
You need to be able to walk
all the way around it
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The Cost of Gold?
'
The Cost of Gold?
Steven Spielberg, "I like ideas, that you can hold
in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in
twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a
pretty good movie."
“F**k me! I haven’t heard that before!”
•Consistent truths about successful stunts
Talking clients into stunts
AGENDA
Fit stunts into the existing
structure of a clients site
Don’t ask for yes
Ask for consideration
Give it time to boil…..
Start big
Making a big idea
‘reasonable’ is more
effective than making a
boring idea interesting
Images are
critical
Bathroom Sweets
Phase 1 - Outreach: Launch Event,
Embargo Briefings
Phase 2 - Official Launch to UK Media
Phase 3 - Trade and Luxury Media Outreach
Phase 4 - International Media Outreach
Phase 5 - Picking Up the Ones We Missed
Phase 6 - Social Media and Blogger Outreach
Multiphase launches are
game changing!
Overview of Bathroomsweets.com
Resultsto date
• Coverage hits: 133
• High links: 72
• Medium links: 56
• Average DA of linking site: 54
• Broadcast: 3
• Total circulation: 357,545,235
Link details
We only count each unique link on a page, as such if a post
links to the same place more than once this is only counted
as one link.
• High - Links with a DA 40 an above
• Medium - Links with DA 20-39
• Low - We don't count anything with a DA 19 or below
Stunts on a budget
- The importance of knowing your
clients business and product
Micros sites and links
GA
B
C D
E
F
YourDomain.co
m
A
B
C D
E
F
Worse Better
YourDomain.co
m
The very worst!
G
YourDomain.co
m
Don’t sacrifice the integrity of a
stunt for links
“Tickle the public, make ‘em
grin, the more you tickle, the
more you win” - Harold Evans
“I want three times the amount of links and
coverage”
Phase One:
Launch duckling
search in National
newspaper and job
description details
on duck tester site.
Phase Two:
Reveal interview
imagery and
announce
shortlisted
ducklings.
Phase Three:
Announce winning
‘ugly’ duckling via
press media alert,
share details of
owner.
You need a face to story…beyond a duckning Duck
• Duck owner and
‘Gilbert’ the winning
duck.
• Quoted as the owner,
to be shared with
local and national
press.
• Quote and media
alert to be
shared before launch.
Duck project
Total Project
High Links: 18
Total online coverage: 25
Total Online Circulation:
101,432,613
Cook your frogs slowly
Additional imagery provided by ‘butlers in the buff’
•Consistent truths about successful stunts
•Talking clients into stunts
Leveraging Publishers AI to
create PR stunts
AGENDA
over 50% of content has to come from it
This should be
core to your
media strategy!
#theinbounder
Don’t go for gold go for silver
lexi@shift6.org
lexi@shift6.org
lexi@shift6.org
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Results: The campaign built over 66 inbound links with an average domain authority of 41. As
well as 52 inbound links with unique linking root domains.
Alongside TV coverage on NY1 TV News, Cleveland 19, the Discovery Channel Canada,
USA (CBS) 9 News, and Good Morning America on ABC
How to make
impactful things
easier
•Consistent truths about successful stunts
•Talking clients into stunts
•Leveraging Publishers AI to create PR stunts
Making impactful things easier
and quicker
AGENDA
lexi@shift6.org
Journalists Consulting Board
managing journalistfeedback onpress materials, content
ideas,pitches, press invitations, media centres etc.
We anonymise the clients when sending content to
them to review. experts
Media experts
Clients don’t have to believe you
Dr Claire Asher – Academic liaison
Is a professional science legislation
communicator and an active journalist.
She writes for New Scientist, BBC Earth,
ScienceNOW, The Scientist, and Nature News.
She works with us to support relationships with
academics and researchers Academic experts
Speed
Ease
•Consistent truths to successful stunts
•Talking clients into stunts
•Leveraging Publishers AI to create PR
stunts
•Making impactful things easier and
quicker
Summary
THANK YOU!
Lexi Mills
@leximills
Turning PR Stunts into Successes - Lexi Mills @ outREACH 2018

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