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Business and Finance
1) Entrepreneurs and executives on mental help (Richtopia)2) Media kit: How to create one & Why should you? (Prowly Magazine)
3) Looking for Female COVID-19 Survivors Still Dealing with Financial Implications of Long-Term Illness (Millie)
4) Looking for a woman surviving on unemployment (Millie)
5) How can businesses keep their data secure while their employees are working from home? (Anonymous)
6) Low code mobile development (Forbes)
7) Sales experts, please share your must-learn tricks in the sales world (iSEEit Blog)
8) How do you stay motivated? (www.marpipe.com/marpipe-blog)
9) Impact of COVID-19 on Working Women and Their Careers (EverythingBenefits)
10) Looking for Women-Owned Small Businesses for Gift Guide (The Story Exchange)
11) Expert comment and responses sought on remote working (Dropbox)
12) Seek Credit Repair Companies and Experts (Anonymous)
13) Searching for professionals in the translation industry for business growth tips! (Meet Hugo)
14) Communications expert to discuss differences between UK and US at work (TollFreeForwarding)
15) Can Gap fashion a turnaround during the pandemic (The Wall Street Journal)
16) Real Estate Agents, what is your favorite story about a client? (Agent Advice)
17) Seeking experts on CLEAR MASKS (Salesforce.com)
18) The Real Estate Short Sale Process (FortuneBuilders)
19) Your craziest California real estate transaction during COVID (California Real Estate)
20) Sources and examples for story on Americans getting side gigs in pandemic (Forbes)
21) How have benefits/perks changed since companies have gone remote? (Anonymous)
22) Technology & Business (Anonymous)
23) Effectivity VS Efficiency (Anonymous)
24) How Did Make Your First Million In Real Estate? (Wealth Expose)
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Business and Finance
1) Summary: Entrepreneurs and executives on mental helpName: Derin Cag Richtopia
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bc9p@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Richtopia
Deadline: 7:00 PM GMT - 19 October
Query:
As part of our new Mental Health Series, I am looking for
successful entrepreneurs and executives with experience
overcoming or managing mental health challenges.
Requirements:
An interview with successful people around mental health,
someone willing to open-up publicly and discuss their
experiences to provide helpful information for others.
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Name: Berenika Teter Prowly Magazine
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bdsq@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Prowly Magazine
Deadline: 6:00 PM GMT - 19 October
Query:
Looking for PR practitioners who'd like to share their insights
on media kits and get featured in a dedicated article on Prowly
Magazine.
You can (but don't have to) cover the following: In your own
words, what's a media kit? Is it still necessary for companies
to have one? Where should companies have it (on their
website/dedicated newsroom)? What to include in it? Do you know
any media kit examples that stand out?
Requirements:
PR practitioners only! Please share your insights along with
your name, position, social media handles & one link.
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Name: Brienne Walsh Millie
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be1a@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Millie
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 18 October
Query:
I'm writing a story on women suffering from the long-term
financial, emotional and health impact of COVID-19. Many people
don't recover quickly from the disease. Moreover, they must take
sick days and unpaid leave to recover and quarantine. The
medical bills, even with insurance, must be steep. Compounded,
the disease carries an enormous financial burden.
The story will run in Millie, a publication on women and money
that launched in April. Millie currently has a dedicated channel
on Real Simple's website. Sources can speak to me anonymous.
Requirements:
Must be female and a COVID-19 survivor.
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Name: Brienne Walsh Millie
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be1d@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Millie
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 18 October
Query:
I'm a journalist writing for Millie, a new publication on women
and money with a dedicated channel on the Real Simple website.
I would like to talk to women who have been surviving the past
six months on unemployment checks. How have they been coping?
How has the past six weeks been, without the extra $600 mandated
by the CARES act? What are their feelings about the future?
Requirements:
Must be female and surviving on unemployment checks.
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Category: Business and Finance
Email: query-be7b@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Anonymous
Deadline: 10:00 PM EST - 19 October
Query:
Looking for responses to the question: How can businesses keep
their data secure while their employees are working from home?
Please only respond if you are a CISO, have a role in IT
Operations, or have a role in risk or compliance.
Requirements:
To participate, please respond with your full answer. Overly
self-promotional answers will be ignored-please be reasonable.
Use a headshot 200 x 200 pixels, a brief bio (around 50 words -
overly long bios will be truncated to fit the piece), and a link
to your website and your Twitter link (if applicable). Please
don't attach headshots - it doesn't render correctly on HARO -
instead, use a link to host the headshot image. Thanks for your
participation. Good pitches will be notified via email. Good
luck!
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Name: John Koetsier Forbes
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-beae@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Forbes
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 19 October
Query:
I'm doing a report about low-code mobile development that will
hit Forbes.
- what are the advantages? - how much faster is it? - what
are the disadvantages? - how popular is it now? - are most
hybrid apps made with low-code? - what are some brands who are
using low-code?
Requirements:
Not doing interviews Should be a mobile expert
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Name: Ernest Nah iSEEit Blog
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bebv@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: iSEEit Blog
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 19 October
Query:
Hey there, we're going to write a content piece for the
halloween season centered on tricks every sales professional
should learn in the sales world.
If you're a seasoned sales professional, we'd like to learn
about any trick you think sales professionals should learn to
clinch the deal.
Requirements:
Looking for sales leaders and high performing sales
professionals with 5+ years of sales experience. Please submit
your response in the following format:
Name: Title: LinkedIn Profile: Website link to be credited:
Response (Please answer it complete sentences and keep it as
crisp as possible):
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Name: Brett Friedman www.marpipe.com/marpipe-blog
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-beck@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: www.marpipe.com/marpipe-blog
Deadline: 11:00 PM EST - 16 October
Query:
During the pandemic, it can get hard to stay motivated...
How do you do it?
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Name: Rachel Yancius EverythingBenefits
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bd5n@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: EverythingBenefits
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 18 October
Query:
COVID-19 has had a disproportionate affect on working women and
their careers. We're looking to bring to light this important
issue and highlight the ways HR may be able to support women to
lessen the impact. We asked HR leaders how they can support
their female employees through this and we'd love to hear from
you too.
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Name: Colleen DEBAISE The Story Exchange
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bdr1@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: The Story Exchange
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 18 October
Query:
Inspired by the pandemic, we want to spotlight women
entrepreneurs who sell comfy stuff for our "Home for the
Holidays" Holiday Gift Guide. So if you sell a product (or
service) that would make a great gift for anyone -- from a
quarantined loved one to the coworkers you meet with regularly
on Zoom -- please let us know. More details here:
https://thestoryexchange.org/the-story-exchange-submissions-2020-home-for-the-holidays-gift-guide/
Requirements:
--woman-owned business --product or service must cost less than
$100 --deadline is Nov. 1
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Name: Nick Morey Dropbox
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bdsp@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Dropbox
Deadline: 11:00 AM EST - 20 October
Query:
Hi,
Dropbox is looking for companies, thought leaders, employees,
and freelancers from all industries to wax lyrical on the remote
work experience.
Answer as many of the below questions as you like - the more
answers, more likely to be featured, of course. I appreciate
it's a lot though, so feel free to pick and choose.
Some of these can be answered in terms of what your experience
has been or what you're doing already, but
predictions/future-gazing works too if the responder has
particular expertise.
Along with answers, please provide name, position, headshot, and
company URL info for any sources so we can get you featured.
Also feel free to share any other advice or anecdotes you have
around subject of remote working - happy to review ^_^
We're commissioning our own published report/working hub, and
responses collected from you will frame the stats findings of
the research on our pages. So answers will most likely be used
as overlay/box-out quotes etc., with image/name/position/company
of source.
Still in building phase, but would be great to be building
responses to include when planning the layout.
Thanks!
Requirements:
Questions:
- Does the language/style of your job ads for differ remote work
vs in-house positions?
- How has the recruitment process changed since the adoption of
remote work? e.g. timeline, efficiency, or with chemistry being
a key factor in hiring decisions, the impact of remote
interviews, etc.
- Have you focused on building out more internal processes,
plans, template documents etc. since lowdown?
- How much has changed in the onboarding/new starter process?
- What software and hardware investments have you made to
accommodate distributed teams?
- Any investments directly into your distanced team's home
setup, or sending food/packages or online treats in lieu of
regular office food/ents budget?
- What have been the biggest changes in terms of delegation and
management?
- Any changes in morale?
- How have working hours changed? Any 3am email responses?
- What has been the change in number of remote employees at your
business, and how do you see this developing?
Are staff generally doing fewer days in the office, or would
like to?
Do you have a socially distanced rota so people come in on
different days? What's your setup?
Are you considering downsizing your office? Or losing it
entirely?
Will company car schemes be scrapped? Has this happened already?
For video calls:
- What is a desirable video backdrop? Possibly more
interestingly... what is deemed unsuitable for your work? Is
taking calls from bed appropriate?
- Is it good to have bookshelves in the background? What else
may look good - piano, musical instruments? Do you consider your
video call aesthetic in terms of what it says about you? Do you
care?
- Have you been told you must clear certain things out of view?
Any mishaps with something being spotted on screen that you'd
rather not? Feel free to share - (and if there's anything super
embarrassing/salacious and you want to share anonymously (or not
if you're brave) - by all means, go for it!
- Are children to be welcomed popping into calls, is it a seen
but not heard thing, is there a company policy/ frowned
upon...or are they a welcome addition to lighten another call
that could have been an email? Feel free to give honest opinions
and experience here :) - Have calls broken down with clients
or colleagues due to home interruptions... kids' homework,
deliveries, unflushed toilets?
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Category: Business and Finance
Email: query-be1i@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Anonymous
Deadline: 7:00 PM MST - 19 October
Query:
We are writing an article featuring best credit repair
companies. Send a description of how you can help people with
bad credits and what makes you stand out in the industry.
Please include a website URL and highlight of accomplishments.
Requirements:
Must be a representative from a legit credit repair company.
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Name: Giovanna Ligorio Meet Hugo
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be5g@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Meet Hugo
Deadline: 5:00 PM GMT - 19 October
Query:
Hi! I'm looking for professionals in the translation industry to
share their tips for growing a translation business. This will
form part of a series of blog posts about business growth tips
for a variety of industries.
A paragraph or two would be perfect, and a photo of yourself to
include in the blog post would be great too!
Thanks :)
Requirements:
Must either work for or own a translation company/agency.
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Name: Rebecca Shaw TollFreeForwarding
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be5q@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: TollFreeForwarding
Deadline: 5:00 PM GMT - 19 October
Query:
We've carried out a study looking at differences between
workplace communication styles in the UK and the US. We found
that Brits are more likely to see negative subtext in
communications, while Americans are more likely to take things
literally and positively. Examples include: - 48% of US would
take 'let's do lunch soon' as a positive statement compared to
only 20% of Brits, who were more likely to think this statement
is dismissive rather than a genuine offer. - Americans are more
likely to take 'that's not bad' as a positive, while Brits are
more likely to take it as a negative. - One US respondent told
us "Brits can be indirect and it's hard to know what they are
saying or they can be so polite I don't know what they're really
thinking"
We'd like a short comment (no longer than 150 words) from an
expert giving insight into the differences in communication
styles within the workplace between the UK and US.
Requirements:
Cultural expert, communications expert, or academic with
experience in this area.
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Name: Suzanne Kapner The Wall Street Journal
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be6f@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: The Wall Street Journal
Deadline: 9:00 AM EST - 17 October
Query:
I would like to talk to people who shop at Gap, the retail chain.
Requirements:
I do not want to talk to PR people. I'm interested in talking to
a wide age range, from younger to older people.
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Name: Kayla Conboy Agent Advice
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be9a@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Agent Advice
Deadline: 5:00 PM EST - 20 October
Query:
Please share a brief story (2-3 sentences) about a client that
sticks out in your mind. It can be a time you thought something
was funny, awkward, frustrating, etc. that is memorable. Please
also attach a headshot (with a LINK, not attached), your name,
title, and URL.
Requirements:
Real Estate Professional/Realtor
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Name: Ari Bendersky Salesforce.com
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be9g@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Salesforce.com
Deadline: 11:00 AM EST - 19 October
Query:
I'm looking to speak with experts (medical, psychological,
sociological, human resources, etc) who can speak with authority
about the importance of using CLEAR masks both in the workplace
and everyday life for people who are deaf/hearing impaired; have
epilepsy; ADHD; autism; etc.)
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Name: Taylor Townsend FortuneBuilders
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-be9p@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: FortuneBuilders
Deadline: 12:00 PM PST - 19 October
Query:
I am writing an article on the short sale process, as it relates
to real estate investors. The idea is to provide new investors
with foundational knowledge about short sales. The article is
intended to pique the interest of new investors and give them a
place to start their own short sale research.
I am looking for an expert's opinion on a number of topics: What
is the best way to find short sales in a respective area? How
may investors negotiate with banks on short sales? Any advice
for dealing with financial institutions? What is it investors
find so appealing about short sales, specifically? How long may
it take to acquire a short sale if everything goes according to
plan? In the event of a delay, how long could investors expect
to take buying a short sale? What's your advice for dealing with
owners and banks during the short sale process? What
disadvantages coincide with trying to buy short sales? Why would
investors want to consider avoiding short sales?
Requirements:
Looking for responses from investors, real estate professionals,
or anyone with experience on the subject of short sales. Any
advice you have on the topic would be greatly appreciated.
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Name: Katherine Mechling California Real Estate
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bea8@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: California Real Estate
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 19 October
Query:
REALTORS Registered , lenders, home buyers and sellers: Have you
completed a transaction since March 2020 that was wildly thrown
out of whack by COVID-19? How did you react? Please share your
story!
Requirements:
Real estate transaction must have taken place within the state
of California between March 2020 and today.
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Name: Jennifer Barrett Forbes
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-beaa@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Forbes
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 19 October
Query:
Looking for sources and people to feature for an upcoming story
on the increase in Americans getting side gigs in the pandemic.
Looking for: 1) People to feature who have picked up side gigs
during the pandemic, either to pay the bills or save a little
extra cash. 2) Experts who can talk about the employment
situation, the role of side gigs and part-time work and what to
consider if you get a 1099 side hustle.
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Category: Business and Finance
Email: query-bec8@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Anonymous
Deadline: 7:00 AM EST - 19 October
Query:
What do the new perks and benefits packages look like since
companies have gone remote?
Requirements:
No interviews.
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Category: Business and Finance
Email: query-bec9@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Anonymous
Deadline: 12:00 AM EST - 17 October
Query:
In today's HIGH TECH world, businesses can't grow at a rate of
the competition without the use of some type of modern
technology especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. We would
like to hear from companies, small businesses, tech companies
alike that are using technology to grow their businesses and or
what you offer to help other business do just that.
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Category: Business and Finance
Email: query-becb@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Anonymous
Deadline: 7:00 PM EST - 18 October
Query:
For business owners, CEOs:
Which one is more important in your business?
Effectiveness or efficiency?
Requirements:
Please keep your answers 150 words or less.
Will contact those who's answers will be picked.
Please include links to your photo, bio, and URL.
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Name: Thomas C Thomas Wealth Expose
Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-bech@helpareporter.net
Media Outlet: Wealth Expose
Deadline: 3:00 PM EST - 16 October
Query:
I'm looking to interview real estate experts about the trials
and tribulations of being a real estate agent. 1. When & Why did
you decide to get into the real estate business? 2. What exactly
do you do in real estate? 3. What are some industry quirks that
might demotivate people looking to make a career in real estate?
4. How long did it take for you to make your first million? How
did you do it? 5. With more companies opting for WFH, what is
your opinion on the future of real estate? 6. What advice would
you give to a person trying to break into the industry?
Requirements:
You must be willing to provide a clear headshot and links to
your social media/ website. If we like your profile, we might
ask you to answer a few more questions.
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