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@jbr - I agree about doing proper research.

@samwatts - Yea, there is a lot more competition.

I am falling in love with all your articles haha

Great article!
My own experience so far:
- Providing a press release attached to the email + short summary within the body of the email helps
- Targeting specific audiences first works better
- The more money has been pledged so far, the likelier the journalist is to reply!

Thanks for the points

Thanks for the article! I also found it very helpful to write messages to friends/family/bloggers in advance and save them as drafts in gmail. You can even download the boomerang chrome addon that lets you schedule them in the future so they all go out automatically on launch day... saves lots of time on that busy day.

Andy Patton
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/18 ... party-game

Great article. Any specific advice for getting media coverage for a documentary-based transmedia project? Because we're not a straightforward documentary film, we're having trouble deciding on how to present ourselves to media outlets in a way that's familiar but interesting. Sometimes we find people have trouble wrapping their heads around how we're organized - we have a feature length film, short videos, interactive website, enhanced ebooks, and a campus tour.

Another great article. I wish I had found this forum before I started this campaign. I am playing catch up.

I'm a master at #5, I get rejected on the daily!

On Day 1, I wasn't marketing myself in such a sophisticated manner as this, such as maintaining an Excel spread with contact information acquired off of LinkedIn and such, but I definitely knew how to hustle. Maybe it's cos I have no shame, but I've contacted EVERYONE about my card game that on Kickstarter right now--even videogame publications such Kotaku and Screw Attack. I also threw in a couple emails to the big gaming corporations like Capcom and Konami.

I was lucky enough to make a friend along the way who passed me a list of people to contact in the biz. I spent 9 1/2 hours going down the list, emailing just about everyone on planet Earth, or that's how it felt. But after doing so, my inbox jumped literally by 180 emails in one day (excluding new pledges)! Many--MANY-- of them were flat out rejections, with someone calling me a "tospot" somewhere in there. But it was totally worth it.

Why? Because now I'm building that list. I have an Excel spread I'm working off of. So, this is how you make friends when you don't have friends. Lol. But it's also how you could potentially make enemies, so be careful! The author's suggestions are much safer!

I've been writing to tons of blogs...just waiting to get featured.

I know exactly how you feel! Just stay strong!!