I have tried to avoid some of the annoying tics I see on some other blogs such as name dropping and obsessing over the blog and its relative perch in the scheme of things. Just the same, I think it is important to note that Flack’s Revenge has achieved a milestone, as it (along with my contact profile) was apparently just added to Cision’s MediaSource media tracking database this week.
And this, after I just added them to the PR Death Watch list last Friday. Interesting timing, probably just a coincidence.
Well, I actually really should thank them – they do not seem to be dead at all, judging from my traffic logs, which show a definite spike this week, from lots of new people coming from the service. Maybe Cision wanted to show me that they don’t just track the A list blogs by adding FlacksRevenge. I was obviously wrong, Mea Culpa, and thanks Cision folks.
My summary on the service is pretty accurate and blissfully short on details such as lots of contact info. Having said that, I did receive my first pitch, which is a watershed moment for FR, I suppose.
Anyway, it is a surreal experience, knowing that so many PR eyeballs are ogling my blog like some cheap piece of fruit. I wrote a post last year called I am in PR, Why Should I blog? Another reason that I did not mention back then is that blogging gives PR people a taste of what it is like to walk in a journalist’s shoes. (Tom Foremski listed more good reasons in this post). And getting listed in MediaSource and starting to get pitches really completes the picture for me.
Time to put on my Sunday finest and finally move forward on some planned improvements (such as chucking the vanilla Typepad blog design template for something more interesting) if I want to keep some of this newfound attention.
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