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Dmitry Dragilev

JustReachOut 2.0 - Build backlinks and get press without a PR agency.

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Getting blogs, publications, and podcasts to feature and link to your website is no small task these days. Our platform has helped 5000+ content marketers promote their brands and get valuable mentions, links, and press all on their own - without a PR firm.

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Dmitry Dragilev
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Hey ProductHunt! I’m Dmitry, CEO of JustReachOut. It's been ages since Ryan Hoover invited me to ProductHunt back in 2013 to help find “awesome products” and hunt them. Back then I was just beginning to realize how hard it is to get links and get featured in the press for most brands and companies. PR firms cost way too much and usually underdeliver. Plus, you can’t always trust link building consultants. While working as a consultant at a startup I did my own link building and PR - the result - we grew from 0 to 40M pageviews per month and eventually got acquired by Google: https://thenextweb.com/socialmed... I built JustReachOut to help content marketers pitch blogs, podcasts, publications, and get featured on a consistent basis every single week. Since we launched, 5000+ content marketers and small businesses as well as well known companies (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Airbnb, and Brian Dean of Backlinko just to name a few) have used our software to get press and backlinks. We have redesigned and revamped our platform and are excited to launch JustReachOut 2.0 with some amazing new functionality: 1.) Podcast search and outreach- search and listen to episodes about your topic of expertise and pitch yourself to be a guest on these specific podcasts 2.) Broken Link Building tool - you can find broken links about any keyword and email all the blogs and websites to fix the link to point to yours all in one click 3.) Pitch Writing Assistance - support from our team of PT Pros to help you write your email pitches and improve them 4.) List Building Assistance - our editors create outreach lists for you along with reasons why you should contact specific podcasters, bloggers, journalists 5.) Stats and data to help you improve your outreach results, for example: “your open rate is only 10%, it should be 50%, change your subject line to be X and send another 10 emails.” 6.) Human verification of every email address for every email you send We also just started offering complete access to my entire PRThatConverts.com course inside JustReachOut platform for every tier plan - these are lessons, best strategies and tactics so that you start generating consistent exposure on an ongoing basis. As a team of only seven people we’re always taking feedback from the community and trying to improve the product and offering. Would love to hear any feedback you have for us! BTW - I LOVE helping folks think through their PR strategies. Share your project here in the comments and I'll give you a few ideas on how you could get press mentions and links to your site.
Ni ✌🏾& ❤️
@dragilev Are there plans available for solo publicists? Those who don't need an additional team member?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@ni_e_sha we have the $199/mo plan, that's the plan mean for solo publicists as well. Most solo publicists want to invite their client to the account to see their work or an assistant to help them do PR, so the one additional team member is usually a must. That's what we've found from the past 7+ years being in business.
Rohit Gupta
@dragilev Hey congrats on the launch! JustReachOut looks a really great product and would resonate with our audience. I'd love to host a deal for you on our marketplace platform and help you acquire a few 1000 paying customers for zero dollars cost to you. Interested?
Ni ✌🏾& ❤️
@ni_e_sha @dragilev Okay this isn't fit for me. I am a solopreneur. I don't have an assistant and I report my results to the my client, not the backend/behind the scenes stuff. Thanks for answering my question.
Ni ✌🏾& ❤️
@ni_e_sha @dragilev ok so I think I am giving in and will give it a try I have a very special PR campaign and time is ticking. Hopefully I like it - it's a true investment!
Pavel Yuriev
Upvoted) We've also launched here today and your tool would definitely be useful for us for yesterday) Wish you good luck! ✌️
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@pavlunchik Haha, thank you sir. Good luck to you as well! And hey it's never too late to start press outreach. Actually, being on PH is a good accomplishment to list as a piece of news about you when pitch podcasters, bloggers, reporters.
Pavel Yuriev
@pavlunchik @dragilev Unfortunately it is not our strong skill) We will try to do everything we can)
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@pavlunchik I'd say pitching press after you launch today is the best way to go about it. Happy to advice/help as you get going. I just did a search in JRO and see a number of opportunities where bloggers need tips on staying fit during pandemic - be perfect for you to just reply.
Pavel Yuriev
@dragilev Didn't get what is JRO 😕 I will be happy to talk with you more detailed and become your client) Please let me know how I can contact you.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@pavlunchik go to justreachout.io and click on "watch demo", it's me who it narrating the demo, it's basic and down to earth. It's 9 minutes long. Watch it and let me know if it's clear after watching it? feel free to click "chat icon" on the justreachout.io website and will out the form - it will go to me.
Justin Clegg
Just signed up on the $199/month plan. I’m hoping the value and ROI is there for us.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@cleggskie Thank you sir. Excited to have you aboard. Just emailed you, I see a burning opportunity for you, someone from CMSWire needs a brand to comment on: How Chatbots Are Improving Employee Experience. Check your email.
Kristin Ides
Ooo, intriguing! Can you tell me a little bit about how this is different than Muck Rack? (Apart from the pricing!) ?makers
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@kristinides Sure. The best way would be for you to watch the demo, just go to the website and click "watch demo", that would show you how we're different and you'll get to see how the platform works and looks inside. It's narrated by me, so it's not one of those flashy infomercial videos, it's pretty simple and down to earth. :) In short - we're built for small businesses to do PR and link building on your own vs. PR agencies and firms to do PR on behalf of their clients. Our service comes with "human verification" of each and every email address and contact information, help to give feedback and rewrite your email pitches, help for you to think through your PR strategy and pitches. All these aspects require a human touch and that's why we're not just the software or a "DB" of press contacts, we actually care what you pitch to press and what type of open rates/response rates you're getting and how to improve your pitches. To be clear - we don't send pitches on your behalf, we just support you as you do the sending so you get results sooner. Hope this helps?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@kristinides any questions let me know, click the chat in lower right
Kristin Ides
@dragilev Thank you for being so responsive! Seems like Muck Rack + HARO + Mention + Moz + a lot more for a lot less!
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@kristinides of course. happy to help. yes we're different from muckrack. watch the video please, will take you 9 minutes but you'll get it right away.
Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
Quite expensive for a freelancer. I rather "just reach out" using email or social networks.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@onreact By all means, no need to use JustReachOut if you have your own system for scoring press and links which works well. Our service comes with "human verification" of each and every email address and contact information, help to give feedback and rewrite your email pitches, help for you to think through your PR strategy and pitches. All these aspects require a human touch and that's why we're not just some "static DB" of press contacts, we actually care what you pitch to press and what type of open rates/response rates you're getting and how to improve your pitches. To be clear - we don't send pitches on your behalf, we just support you as you do the sending so you get results sooner.
Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
@onreact @dragilev Thanks for the feedback Dmitry! So you actually employ human editors and link builders who know how outreach works (because most people don't)?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@onreact we do! we don't do PR outreach on your behalf, but we give you feedback and correct your pitches, help you with your Pr strategy.
Anthony Emberley
This looks awesome! Definitely bookmarking for our future launches!
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@anthony_emberley Thanks. Curious to see what yo got cooking re: newco to save founders. Being one of them "founders" always interesting to see what's out there.
Anthony Emberley
@dragilev would love to tell you more! Feel free to DM me on twitter (@anthonyemberley) and we can go from there. Congrats on the launch!!
✎ Andrew Warner
The founder is unbelievably responsive. I love this company
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@andrewwarner Aww thanks Andrew!
Abel Grünfeld
Looks sweet. I'm gonna start experimenting with this next week.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@abelgrunfeld Thanks. Checked out what you do, correct me if I'm wrong, and I very well may be, but Riverside.fm seems similar to Zencastr and similar apps, no? Looks neat! You know - pitching yourself to be on tech podcasts (or anything you're an expert in) and having the host see your pitch and discover what you do might be a good strategy for you. Best case - they'll have you on the podcast and sign up for your app, worst case they'll check out your app and will know about it. You must have thought about this already.
Abel Grünfeld
@dragilev Thanks for thinking along, appreciate it a lot. It's similar to Zencastr but Riverside also supports up to 4k video recording and live streaming. Definitely good input that connects to some of our plans. If you have a specific podcast in mind where we should be on, feel free to let me know. Anyway, thanks again and best of luck with your amazing venture!
Varun Singh
Looks promising. Will check out the demo.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@varunimnu Thank you. I tried to click on your LinkedIn url on PH profile but it said it was a bad URL, same with your Twitter name, so no idea what you do. But if you fix those, happy to take a look, provide ideas about how to approach PR.
Ben Jacobson
@dragilev Congrats on the launch. Looking good – some powerful new features in here!
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@osbennn Thank you sir! Just took a look at our about page... You doing much PR these days?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@osbennn well then, jump in, the water is great! justreachout.io
Simo Elalj
Congratulations for the launch! We just launched last Thursday Notion Automations , and would be curious to see hear your ideas on getting press mentions :)
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@simoelalj Congrats on the launch, holy moly 647 upvotes, you must have had an amazing launch! Watched your demo video on PH, haha, you had be surprised for half of the video, I was curious why you're bringing out negativity about it being slow, and how you can't integrate the product with anything, lol. and then I you got me, I saw the reason why. I love APIs of any kind, and Zapier is amazing, so any integration with them is usually and amazing added bonus. I had not hear of Notion before either, so will check it out. So for you I'd do two things, looks for queries journalists are putting out about "remote work" and how it has changed and respond to them, For example: Need: Effective Remote Working Tips For: Soup.io "I am looking for best remote and unique remote working tips." and there are a ton of these every day, simply answer these. The other thing is pitch yourself as a guest to podcasts, for example this podcast is looking for guests: The Nextep Remote Podcast is an interview style show devoted to anything and everything to do with remote work. The host is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lech.... Regardless if you sign up with us, I'd work these two channels to get going if I were you.
Max Prilutskiy
Sounds like a great tool for mid-size companies
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@prilutskiy Max - 100%! We have LOVED Typeform throughout our journey building JustReachOut over last years. Used the product quite a bit before actually, our "request demo" button used to be all Typeform actually. Now we built our own since we needed triggers and deeper integration for marketing automation. But we still use you guys, and refer people your way. Anyway - would be an honor to have you give us a try and join brands such as HubSpot, Pipedrive as our customers.
Svetlana Yurkevich
Amazing product. Totally worth a try, if you're building an outreach strategy.
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@svetlana_yurkevich Thank you. It's been a long time coming but definitely worth the wait.
Chris Brisson
Huge fan of JustReachOut and Dmitry's product. Really helped us land some great press over the years. Plus, Dmitry sure knows to make PR work to drive up search rankings. Flossin' season!
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@chrisbrisson thanks for the kind words. Everyone else reading this - just google "sample text messages to customers" and you'll see a kick ass blog post from Chris at SalesMessage which ranks #1 for this term - this was just one of the PR campaigns Chris ran with JustReachOut. Just shows you the power of defining a goal for your PR initiative and marching to the orders to get it!
Elizabeth Eddy
This is super interesting to me--- especially as a founder of a new tech start up with a background in PR. A couple questions came up (1) How does the journalist aspect differ from using HARO, for example? 2. How do you manage the linking portion for brands with a common word as a name (ours is Lantern and it is a google alerts nightmare)? The email addresses is a HUGE benefit- tracking emails and where journalists are working when they move about regularly is so tough.
Andrew Gazdecki
Congrats Dmitry!
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@andrewgazdecki Thanks, great to be here!
Matthew Arevalo
Interesting work. I wonder if this would work well for our patent pending platform and products: http://pins.ar
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@mattarevalo it all depends on content/data/insights/news you have to pitch to blogs/publications. Do you have any? You can always pitch yourself as a guest on a podcasts and answer press opportunities without having these things.
Paul Burke
Already using HARO. What is the additional value for JustReachOut?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@pburke24 Watch https://justreachout.io/#demoVideo it should be clear the difference between HARO and us. Podcast outreach, journalist outreach, broken link outreach, etc - we're a bit different.
Tatyana Gazizullina
Oh, very interesting and useful idea! Is there trial?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@zizzzu we don't have trials but happy to refund you in first 30 days after you sign up if it's not a fit!
Andrew Bondarenko
Upvoted! Any PR ideas for the Oculisa (oculisa.com)?
Dmitry Dragilev
Maker
@andrii_bondarenko I just took a look at the website, looks like it's just a placeholder for "coming soon"? I'd say responding to journalists asking for experts to comment on something is a good idea for you (press opportunities search) also Podcasts outreach is a good idea. Check how both work on the homepage- just click "watch demo".