PR clients asking for my media contacts

briankennedy32 · ‎02-21-2020

People looking for PR work that ask for examplesof your media contacts in job posting. I am compelled to flag such people to the admins. But I'd rather just remind fellow PR freelancers to realize that if this person gets 10 people to send 25 contacts - well that's a hell of a list of contacts that they just got for free. Be careful. These are our contacts. I will not send even after an initial conversation.

a_lipsey · ‎02-21-2020

Brian K wrote:
People looking for PR work that ask for examplesof your media contacts in job posting. I am compelled to flag such people to the admins. But I'd rather just remind fellow PR freelancers to realize that if this person gets 10 people to send 25 contacts - well that's a hell of a list of contacts that they just got for free. Be careful. These are our contacts. I will not send even after an initial conversation.

I've never had a PR consultant actually share their list with me. They will report how many contacts they sent to and the publication/outlet, but until they get a hit, they don't typically give me actual contact info. To me that's a blatant scam that they want to just steal your contact list - which is a terrible strategy anyhow because just sending pitches to a list of contacts they never networked with is sort of pointless.