About Just Reach Out
Just Reach Out is a service that connects you with journalists in your niche to help you gain access to other blogs, websites, journals, magazines, etc.
Just Reach Out has helped over 4,000 brands reach out to journalists in their industry. They have journalists you can search through to find your match and will help you to pitch your ideas to them.
This site also features a service that will email you new journalists in your niche that you may want to connect to, or from your search history.
You can even find and participate in Quora and Reddit threads through the platform to gain daily exposure.
How to Use Just Reach Out for Your Startup
To get started on Just Reach Out, you’ll need to sign-up or login. Once you sign-in, you’ll be looking at this:
This is where we’ll start our search for journalists. Let’s have a look at what the keyword Marketing will bring up for us.
The first thing we’ll see is the Journalists. There are three sections, but this is the default tab. In the Journalists section, we can see a list of journalists and you can see their name, their website, what they recently posted, you can favorite them or send them a pitch.
The next section is the Press Opportunities. This tab will list all the writing opportunities of the keyword you searched for. You can see the details of the Press Opportunity and choose if you want to respond.
Last, we have the Quora and Reddit section. If you click on this section, you will see a list of Quora and Reddit questions that are in your keyword search. You can see where the question came from, what the question is, and you can choose to comment on the question.
This makes it easy for you to find opportunities outside of just relying on journalists.
Features
#1: Finding a Journalist
Now you’re ready to get started and you want to find a journalist to suit your industry/niche. Click on the Just Reach Out logo to find your way back to the main search.
#2: Pitching to a Journalist
Pitching to a journalist is usually a challenging task to accomplish. There’s a process for it, when you do it outside of a service:
- Find journalists/bloggers in your industry/nice and locate their contact information.
- Design an email pitch asking them to post your article/write your article, guest post/etc.
- Back and forth – hope they reply.
- Maybe never hear back, maybe you do – finalize details.
- Publish.
With Just Reach Out it’s far less complicated. All you need to do is locate your Journalists in under 5 seconds, run through your results, send an email pitch, wait for response.
#3: Monitor your Response
It’s a worrying feeling to not know if someone has read your pitch or not. What I like about using Just Reach Out is the ability to monitor your responses. I can see if they responded, read it, not read it, etc.
