What I am reading:
We keep saying the PR industry needs serious therapy (a few of our articles are listed at the end of this post). Here’s another example of the near constant entertainment we get from PR professionals. We’re out of pithy titles. From now on we’ll just number them.
This one was a nice welcome email to our newest hire, Evelyn Rusli. It’s a normal pitch email from a normal PR firm. The funny part is the chain below the pitch, where the sender forgot to delete the internal discussion about how to pitch us.
They went with the “typical techcrunch email format” with a twist: “go with more of the social network aspect.” I often wonder if PR firms even test the products they shill. I’m pretty sure most of the time they don’t.
Thank you, PR Flack #1, for this brief moment of levity in an otherwise hectic day:
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