Writers - Pitch And Win Articles With Tiiny Host

The worst thing about pitching

Writing a good pitch is time consuming. Writers spend a great deal of time researching and composing pitches, and there isn’t even a way of guaranteeing that it’ll be opened by the commissioning editor.?

Other industries have long since made use of business analysis tools to optimise their pitching process, so why should journalists and freelance writers not leverage the same?

Pitching without Tiiny Host

Your current pitching process probably resembles a haunted house packed with the email chains and faulty attachments in place of ghosts and ghouls (I know, because that’s how mine looked).??

You spot an opportunity, research, write and compose your email. Time to hit send so you attach the pitch (if it’s not in the body of the email) and hit “send”. Cue the frantic worry over whether you attached the latest version of your pitch or even put the right name at the head of the email (this probably isn’t your first pitch of the day). You’re fortunate if you get a response and are unlikely to receive meaningful feedback if you do.?

All of that equates to wasted time and effort that isn’t really profiting you.

Optimise your pitch

Imagine there was a way that you could track how many times your pitch was opened??

Tiiny Host is very simple. You drag and drop your pitch to generate a URL that links directly to it. You can then share this with as many commissioning editors as you wish.

So why would you wish to?

Analytics

Peter Drucker once famously said that “you can’t improve what you don’t measure”, so why not put aside your distaste for all things corporate and exploit the value in this nugget of wisdom to win more pitches?

Tiiny Hosts automatic analytics mean you get data on the number of times your pitch has been opened.?

This allows you to generate insights based on which pitch topics perform well with certain commissioning editors.?

The curse of social media

Editors have been all over social media for ages and the writing community is alive and kicking (Especially on Twitter).

The problem is that you can’t share an attachment via Twitter or LinkedIn. Posting a secure, password protected link solves this issue and takes the editor straight to your pitch.

Security

Worried about your intellectual property or someone stealing your pitch??

That’s fine, and it’s also why Tiiny Host allows you to apply password protection to your hosted pitch with the click of a button.

Generating the data

So how do you go about generating enough data to make the endeavour worthwhile? Well, quality is arguably more important than quantity when it comes to data. The latter will take care of itself as you’ll be generating more pitches because sharing them is so much easier with Tiiny Host.

Just follow these 3 simple steps:

1. Drag and drop a PDF of your article pitch to the Tiiny Host homepage.?

1. Name the URL you want to share the pitch under (e.g. “[email protected]”)

1. Click “Launch”

Your pitch is now live, branded and ready to share withcommissioning editors.

As a bonus, you now have a link that you can easily share across your social media channels as well (for those folks that insist on being pitched by Twitter DMs).

Sharing more than one pitch?

That’s no problem either. Tiiny Hosts “Collections” feature allows you to upload multiple PDFs to a single URL and share with multiple editors in your niche.

Optimise and grow

The penny pinchers and consultants are wrong, we’re all human and there’s always going to be an element of “waste” in any activity. If you can’t stop and make yourself a cup of tea every now and then we can’t claim to have progressed from the cotton mills of the Victorian era.?

Tiiny Host optimises the pitching process for writers without interfering with their creative flow. It’s such a simple change, but it’s the simple things that compound over time and lead to the big changes.?