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How to get press without a PR agency

Hosted by Press Club

When
5:30 – 8:00 PM
Where
Mission
Format
Matchmaking, Networking and Roundtable / Workshop
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​Currently fundraising or product launch coming up? Want to announce your $5m seed round so you can attract customers, partners, and early hires?

​We got you 🤝

We're Press Club, and we help founders land press.

​Weida didn't want to pay $10k for a PR agency, so he locked in and spent a week sending 200 cold emails to journalists. It worked, and he landed Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and six other outlets.

In this workshop, we'll talk about exactly how to find those 200 targeted journalists, how we've consistently achieved a 10% response rate (compared to the industry average of 0.5%), and the step-by-step process of how we've landed our clients on Forbes, TechCrunch, and Axios.

​5:30 Doors open (food will be served!) 6:00 Talk begins 6:45 Q&A 7:00 Mingle 8:00 Doors close

Our sponsor: PassRight supports international founders and top global talent in securing U.S. visas and green cards, specializing in O-1, EB-1A, E-2, and EB-2 NIW pathways.

This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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