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Copy Outreach Specialist Practical Part
Copy Outreach Specialist Practical Part
Congratulations on making it through the previous steps. Now, we’d love to see your skills in
action. This will require you to do a bit of writing. Rest assured that we’ll only use these samples
to gauge your abilities within this recruitment process. We won’t use the content you create for
anything else.
Below you’ll find a few tasks aim at probing your writing skills.
Please don’t (1) download this file or (2) ask for editing privileges. Instead, click File >
Make a copy. This will create a copy of this task in your Google Drive. Provide your
answers in the new file. Make sure you share it with us by granting access to your
Google Doc to anyone who has the link. Don’t send over any pdfs or MS Word files. Let’s
use Google Docs. In this case, please deliver your answers in English.
Good luck and have fun!
1. Digital PR
Great content is being created every day, but not all of it makes the news.
Take a look at one of our portfolio company’s articles covering newsletter research and
statistics.
We aim to get high-end coverage from:
● INC.com
● Forbes
● Business Insider
Find 2 most fitting journalists for each of the above-listed outlets
● Their name
● Their email
● Their field of expertise/niche
Then, write an email pitch, outlining the key findings of our article - the goal is to get published
or mentioned with the findings from the research.
Suggested reading:
https://www.slideshare.net/lauralhampton/brighton-seo-how-to-get-more-value-from-digital-pr-
laura-hampton
https://www.slideshare.net/AlexCassidy/email-anatomy-how-to-get-top-tier-links
INC
Hillel Fund hilzfuld@gmail.com – Tech blogger/Startup marketer
Shama Hyder shama.hyder@onedine.com – CEO of a new media
communications firm
Forbes
Goldie Chan me@goldiechan.com – CEO of a creative branding agency
Zohaib Hassan Patoli zpatoli@snapwebservices.com – CEO of a growth
consulting firm focused on digital marketing & data intelligence
Business Insider
Erin Greenawald erin.greenawald@gmail.com – Writer and Content maker
Alexandra York ayork@insider.com – Reporter covering entrepreneurs and
business trends
“Hello,
AND
Write your answers to the requests, your answers might be used as a quote in an upcoming
article. (200-300 words per answer)
Try researching the web for some tips.
Suggested reading:
https://ignitevisibility.com/how-to-respond-to-a-haro/