PitchEngine’s Sweet Deal for Agencies: 5 Clients, 1 Flat Rate

April 15, 2010 By Des Walsh

PitchEngine announces new Annual Agency Plan with special deal now

This time last month at SXSW PitchEngine Founder and CEO Jason Kinztler was “pitching the Pitch™ ” – outlining the new PitchEngine platform to be launched next month.

Today, PitchEngine, which provides software that enables businesses and organizations to effectively package stories and share them with journalists, bloggers, and other influencers, announced a special pre-launch deal for agencies.

And as regular readers will know, my company represents PitchEngine for Australia and New Zealand.

Key points of the Agency Plan story are:

new plan enables agencies to subscribe for one flat rate for up to five clients at a time
through April, the Annual Agency Plan is just US$1,989 for up to five clients
plan includes complete release archiving and embeddable newsrooms for up to five clients
clients to also have access to an entirely new suite of features PitchEngine plans to announce next month

The new features include:

flexible release dates
supercharged search and social optimization
enhanced analytics and more

Once the new platform is launched, the Agencies taking advantage of this pre-launch $1,989 offer will be able to lock in their rates for at least the next full year.

After April 30th, the plan will run at US$199/month for up to five brands.

The full release, with follow-up details, is here.

Naturally, I will always welcome direct enquiries about PitchEngine, especially for Australian or New Zealand based agencies or other businesses – contact details here.

Filed Under: PR 2.0 Tagged With: Pitch, pitchengine, PR Evolved

PitchEngine Asia

August 6, 2009 By Des Walsh

As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine.

Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China and the greater Asian region, was the announcement of a number of new services via PitchEngine Asia, including the launch of a new translation service to enhance the reach and impact of social media releases produced on the PitchEngine platform.

Together with the announcement of a new partnering agreement with Reuters China, which will enable the provision of a value-adding service to obtain much greater distribution for any PitchEngine subscriber going into or already in the China market.

For a quick scan, here are the key points in the media release on these and related developments (points lifted from the social media release, of course!):

PitchEngine, Inc., opens Asia office, launches new site
New partnership with Reuters China delivers unprecedented distribution to PitchEngine users
SMR translation capabilities include 12 languages
PitchEngine offers SMR distribution via Baidu, the third largest search provider

The full release is here – there is a button to click so as to see the release in full screen mode.

PitchEngine Adds Global Translation Services

Filed Under: Business, China, Social Media Tagged With: Australia, Baidu, New Zealand, pitchengine, PitchEngine Asia, Reuters, social media release, translation

PitchEngine for Australia and New Zealand

July 10, 2009 By Des Walsh

The main news for my company and me in the past week was the announcement of my appointment as social media release PitchEngine’s Manager for Australia and New Zealand.

The announcement was, of course, via a PitchEngine social media release. A feature of the release is that it came not from PitchEngine HQ in the USA, but from Guangzhou, China based company CFM which is the base of operations for PitchEngine Asia. The full release includes a link to a 14 minute conversation about the announcement, between my Guangzhou-based colleague, CFM Chief Exec Lonnie B. Hodge, and me.

You can also read the full release from the box below: note the “full screen” button for greater ease of reading.

Having spent hours in the past, constructing social media releases manually, I really love the ease and speed of the process with PitchEngine, as well as all sorts of other great features. So representing PitchEngine in my part of the world is a pretty cool thing to be able to do.

(More about PitchEngine, in a recent post on my Thinking Home Business blog)

If you have any questions about how PitchEngine works and how it might help your business or organization, please ask – in the comments or, more privately, on the contact page: if I don’t have the answer I’ll make sure we get an answer from someone who does.