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From Pitch to Published.
10× your media wins in 90 days.

The only PR program co-taught by the co-founder of one of the world's leading digital PR agencies and a tier-one journalist with bylines in Business Insider, NBC, Investopedia & PayPal.

Lifetime updates included
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Chris Panteli
Chris Panteli
Linkifi
The Operator
Sakshi Udavant
Sakshi Udavant
Journalist
The Insider
The same system Linkifi runs on client work Co-taught by a working tier-one journalist 10 modules · 6½+ hours · lifetime access
10×
The reply-rate goal the system is built for
10
Modules, co-taught
6½h+
Of recorded lessons
$687
In bonuses, free

Outlets our instructors have written for — and won coverage in

Business Insider
Investopedia
PayPal
NBC Universal
Reader's Digest
Chicago Tribune
The Independent
Forbes
TechCrunch
Entrepreneur
Fast Company
The Wall Street Journal
Inc.
Bloomberg
Business Insider
Investopedia
PayPal
NBC Universal
Reader's Digest
Chicago Tribune
The Independent
Forbes
TechCrunch
Entrepreneur
Fast Company
The Wall Street Journal
Inc.
Bloomberg
2
Instructors, both sides of the inbox
7
Tier-one outlets in Sakshi's bylines
10
Co-taught module videos
6½h+
Total runtime
$687
Bonus value, included free
∞
Lifetime access + updates
The truth about PR

Why most pitches
get ignored.

Journalists aren't ignoring you because your business is boring. They're ignoring you because the pitch buried the story — and nobody ever showed you what their side of the inbox looks like.

The old way

  • Mass-blasting journalists with the same generic pitch
  • Pitching the wrong person, at the wrong outlet, at the wrong time
  • Sending press releases that read like marketing copy
  • Paying agency retainers month after month with little to show
  • Watching competitors get the coverage you should be in

The Pitch to Published way

  • Pitch stories journalists are actually looking for
  • Build journalist relationships that outlast any one campaign
  • Know what to send, when to send it, and how to follow up
  • Turn coverage into lasting online authority
  • Own the system yourself instead of renting it
Why right now

The inbox window is closing.

Pitching hasn't gotten gradually harder — it changed shape. Three shifts are deciding which founders own their category's coverage, and which get skimmed past with the spam.

Flooded

Inboxes are drowning

AI tools have made it trivial to blast hundreds of identical pitches a day. Journalists are buried — and generic pitches are the first thing they learn to skim past.

Filtered

Generic pitches are dying

The more noise there is, the faster irrelevant pitches get deleted. As Sakshi puts it: if it isn't relevant to what she covers, she isn't opening it — no matter how clever the subject line.

Shortlists

Trust is concentrating

Burned by the flood, journalists lean harder on sources who've proven reliable. Become one of those sources now, or spend years pitching against them.

What waiting actually costs you

  • Competitors keep collecting the features — and the authority links — you wanted
  • Their credibility compounds in search results while yours stands still
  • The journalists covering your category settle on their go-to sources. Without you.
  • The story angles that are fresh today get written under someone else's name

PR compounds. A journalist relationship can't be backdated — the founders who build them this year are the ones getting quoted for the next five.

What you'll walk away with

You will be able to do all of this.

Each capability maps directly to a module in the course — nothing here is aspiration without a lesson behind it.

Win inbound requests

Position yourself as the expert sources platforms surface — and write the responses journalists pick.

Pitch outbound stories

Match your pitch to the stories journalists and editors are actually looking for.

Craft pitches that get answered

Know exactly what to include — subject line to sign-off — for maximum impact.

Time it right

Navigate journalist deadlines, follow up without burning bridges, handle urgent stories.

Build real campaigns

Ideate and execute data-driven and story-driven campaigns, start to finish.

Use data and AI properly

Present data journalists trust, and use AI for research without losing authenticity.

Write press releases that land

Structure, format, and headline releases so they stand out in a crowded inbox.

Build lasting relationships

Establish online authority and nurture journalist relationships that compound for years.

Stop renting attention. Start owning the system.

Launch pricing and all four bonuses disappear when the timer hits zero.

Enroll now — $499
Your instructors

Both sides of the inbox.

The agency operator who books the placements, and the journalist who decides what runs — teaching the playbook together.

Chris Panteli
The Agency Operator

Chris Panteli

Co-founder, Linkifi

Chris co-founded Linkifi, one of the world's leading digital PR agencies, winning tier-one coverage for startups and established brands. The systems in this course are the ones Linkifi runs on live client work.

Most founders think PR is a black box. It isn't — it's a system. This course is that system, exactly as we run it at Linkifi.

Linkifi clients featured in
ForbesBloombergTechCrunchInc.EntrepreneurFast Company
Sakshi Udavant
The Insider

Sakshi Udavant

Tier-One Journalist

Sakshi has bylines in Business Insider, NBC Universal, Investopedia, Reader's Digest, the Chicago Tribune, the Independent, and PayPal — exactly the inboxes you're trying to land in.

For me it always comes back to relevance. If a pitch isn't relevant to what I cover, I'm not opening it — even with an amazing subject line. But if it's relevant, and the subject line is even a little bit convincing, I'll give it a chance.

Bylines in
Business InsiderNBCInvestopediaReader's DigestChicago TribuneThe IndependentPayPal
A letter from your instructors

Why we finally put the playbook on paper.

Dear founder,

Between us, we've spent years on opposite sides of the same broken transaction.

Chris has been inside the agency engine at Linkifi — watching capable founders pay retainers, month after month, for coverage they could learn to win themselves if someone simply showed them how the machine works.

Sakshi has been on the receiving end: a constant stream of pitches landing in her inbox at Business Insider, Investopedia, NBC. Most never get opened. Not because the founders behind them weren't interesting — but because the pitch wasn't relevant to what she covers, and nothing about it earned a second look.

That's the whole problem, and it has a teachable fix: the story, the subject line, the pitch itself, the timing, the follow-up that doesn't beg, the relationship that outlasts the campaign.

We built Pitch to Published as the course we wish we could hand every founder who's ever asked us "how do I get press?" — ten modules, recorded together, with nothing held back for an upsell. There is no upsell. This is everything.

We hope you take one of them.

Chris Panteli
Chris Panteli
Co-founder, Linkifi
Sakshi Udavant
Sakshi Udavant
Tier-one journalist

P.S. — The $499 launch price and all four bonuses retire when the countdown above hits zero. We don't re-run launch pricing. The best deal this course will ever be is the one on your screen right now.

The curriculum

10 modules. 6½+ hours.
One repeatable system.

Ten videos, around 45 minutes each, co-taught by Chris and Sakshi. Watch a module, apply it, move to the next — lifetime access means there's no clock on you.

  • Meet your instructors — Chris Panteli and Sakshi Udavant
  • A preview of the practical PR skills and insider knowledge ahead
  • How the course will change the way you approach media attention
Inside the course

Taken straight from the recordings.

No stock footage, no actors. These are unedited frames from the actual modules you'll be watching.

The course structure
The course structure

All ten modules, laid out at the start of the course — from inbound requests and outbound essentials through press releases, credibility, and advanced strategy.

Module 4 · Crafting the Perfect Pitch
Module 4 · Crafting the Perfect Pitch

Sakshi and Chris on nailing the subject line — including a real pitch, shown in full, that put a client's comment in front of a journalist that week.

How every lesson is taught
How every lesson is taught

Chris and Sakshi record every module together — so you hear how the agency thinks and how the journalist reacts, side by side.

Ten modules, recorded together. The agency side and the journalist side, in the same room.

Get instant access — $499
Your first 90 days

What happens after you enroll.

The path the course is built around — module by module, milestone by milestone.

Day 1

Everything unlocks at once.

All ten modules, the PR Request Blacklist, the Journo Bio Builder, and the SEO Estonia talk — no drip-feed. Watch Module 1 tonight and you'll already look at media coverage differently tomorrow.

Week 1

You're positioned as a source.

With Modules 2–3 down, you understand inbound requests and outbound PR — and your journalist-ready bio is built. You can start responding to relevant requests immediately.

Week 2–3

Your first real pitches go out.

Module 4's pitch framework plus Module 5's timing and follow-up strategy means your pitches are relevant, well-timed, and followed up properly — not blasted and forgotten.

Day 30

The 50-pitch checkpoint.

Fifty pitches sent using the system. By now your reply rate has a real baseline to measure against, and the follow-up cadence is running on its own.

Day 60

Campaigns, not one-offs.

You're running the ideation process from Module 6, using data and AI the way Module 7 teaches, and structuring press releases that stand out.

Day 90

Credibility that compounds.

Bios, bylines, and journalist relationships in place — plus the tracking systems from Module 10 so you can see exactly what your PR effort is returning.

Four bonuses, included free

Enroll now and these come with it.

No filler. Each one is a tool Chris and Sakshi actually use — included free while launch pricing runs.

Value
$199
Bonus 01

The PR Request Blacklist

Stop wasting pitches on dead ends.

The request types, outlet categories, and red-flag patterns that quietly burn your time and reputation — drawn from Linkifi's day-to-day outreach work. Skip what doesn't convert and put your effort where it counts.

  • The request and outlet types that waste your time
  • Red-flag patterns that signal a dead end early
  • Built from live agency outreach experience
Included free with enrollment
Value
$89
Bonus 02

Journo Bio Builder

Three journalist-ready bios, in your own voice.

A guided bio builder that interviews you about your experience, credentials, and links — then turns your answers into three clean, journalist-ready bios written in your own style, ready to attach to any pitch or media request.

  • Interviews you to gather the right information
  • Turns your experience into three journalist-ready bios
  • Keeps the wording in your own style — not template-speak
  • Collects your credentials, website, and social links for media use
Included free with enrollment
Headline bonus
Value
$399
Bonus 03 · Headline bonus

SEO Estonia Conference Vault

The conference talk that never went online.

Chris's full presentation from the SEO Estonia conference — techniques connecting digital PR to SEO authority that he has never shared publicly outside that room. Included here in full.

  • The complete presentation, with slides
  • The digital PR → SEO authority approach behind Linkifi's client work
  • Techniques never published anywhere else
Included free with enrollment
J
Value
Members only
Bonus 04 · Partner perk

JournoFinder Member Discount

The journalist-finding tool, at a price only members get.

JournoFinder takes the hardest part of outbound PR — finding the right journalists — and turns it into a search. Look up reporters by beat, outlet, and what they've actually covered recently, then build evidence-backed media lists ready to pitch. Every Pitch to Published member gets an exclusive discount on JournoFinder.

  • Search journalists by beat, outlet, and recent coverage
  • Build curated media lists backed by real article evidence
  • Pairs directly with the outbound and pitching modules
  • Discount available exclusively to course members
Included free with enrollment
Combined bonus value
$687
Included free
What you pay
$499
Course + all four bonuses
None of these are sold separately — the three tools plus the JournoFinder member discount are included with every enrollment while launch pricing runs.
The math

Agency vs. DIY vs. Pitch to Published.

What you actually pay — in money, time, and ownership — over a 12-month horizon.

Dimension
Hire an agency
DIY alone
Pitch to Published
Costs you
A monthly retainer, indefinitely
$0 — plus months of trial and error
$499 once
Who does the learning
Nobody — it stays a black box
You, the slow way
You, from both sides of the inbox
Own the system after
No — you rent it
Sort of
Yes — forever
Journalist relationships
The agency keeps them
You build very slowly
You build them, you keep them
Insider perspective
Second-hand
None
Taught by a working tier-1 journalist
When you stop paying
The coverage stops
n/a
Nothing changes — it's yours
Verdict
Do the math

What is one feature actually worth?

Forget 'investing in yourself.' Run it like the founder you are — as a straight cost-per-placement calculation.

$1,000s
What a single agency-won placement typically costs
Per placement, on a retainer you keep paying.
$499
What the entire system costs you — once
Lifetime access. Every placement you win after this is free.
1
Feature it takes for this to pay for itself
Everything after that — every placement, every backlink — is margin.

Agencies charge by the placement, forever. This is the system itself — bought once, owned for good.

Make the $499 trade

The same playbook Linkifi runs for paying clients.

Learn it once, use it on every launch you ever do. The system is yours for good.

Enroll now — $499
Is this for you?

We are unapologetically picky about who this is for.

Built for

  • Bootstrapped founders ready to take PR seriously
  • Funded startups about to launch a product or raise
  • Agency owners adding PR to their stack
  • Personal brand operators chasing authority
  • Service businesses tired of relying only on paid ads
  • Anyone fired by a PR agency that didn't deliver

Not for

  • People who want PR without actually pitching
  • Founders looking for a get-quoted-tomorrow hack
  • Anyone unwilling to send 50 pitches in 30 days
  • Brands with nothing newsworthy to say (yet)
The full stack

What you actually get, line by line.

One enrollment, five things — the course plus four bonuses. Lifetime access to all of it, including future updates.

  • 01Pitch to Published — 10 co-taught module videos, 6½+ hours$999
  • 02Bonus 01 — The PR Request Blacklist$199
  • 03Bonus 02 — Journo Bio Builder$89
  • 04Bonus 03 — SEO Estonia Conference Vault$399
  • 05Bonus 04 — Exclusive JournoFinder discount for membersMembers only
  • Combined value$1,686
  • Your price today
    $499
    You save
    $1,187
Launch pricing — ends when the timer runs out

One enrollment. Everything you need.

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What's included
  • 10 co-taught module videos · 6½+ hours
  • Lifetime access — including all future updates
  • The PR Request Blacklist ($199 value, free)
  • The Journo Bio Builder ($89 value, free)
  • The SEO Estonia Conference Vault ($399 value, free)
  • Exclusive JournoFinder discount for members
Course + bonuses, combined value
$1,686
You pay $499

Heads up: price returns to $999 the moment launch pricing ends. We won't run this discount again — and we don't do "extended one more week" games.

Still on the fence?

Every reason you're about to close this tab — handled.

The hesitations we hear most, answered with the same honesty we teach.

“I don't have time for a course right now.”

The course is 10 module videos, around 45 minutes each — a little over 6½ hours in total. You don't need to finish it in a weekend. Lifetime access means you can watch a module, apply it, and come back when you're ready for the next one. It fits around a real workload, not instead of one.

“My business isn't newsworthy.”

No business is newsworthy — stories are. Module 6 is entirely about campaign ideation: how to brainstorm angles, what data-driven and story-driven campaigns look like, and how to refine a rough idea into something a journalist wants.

“I've tried PR before. It didn't work.”

You tried PR without a working journalist showing you what her side of the inbox looks like. That's like learning poker without ever seeing the dealer's cards. This time you're playing with the deck face-up.

“$499 is a lot for a course.”

It's a fraction of a single month of a typical agency retainer — and when you stop paying an agency, the system leaves with them. Here you keep everything forever.

“Can't AI just do this for me?”

AI blasting is exactly what's flooding journalist inboxes and killing reply rates — they can smell it in one line. Module 7 teaches you to use AI properly: for research and drafting, inside a human system, without losing the authenticity that gets pitches opened.

“I'll wait until I'm ready.”

$499 is launch-only, and the bonus stack retires with it. Meanwhile your competitors' coverage keeps compounding. Waiting is the most expensive option on this page.

Questions

Things founders ask before enrolling.

Founders, business owners, and brand operators who want to win earned media at tier-one publications. If you're trying to be the person reporters quote, the company TechCrunch covers, or the brand that shows up first in Google for category searches — this is built for you.
90 days from today

Two versions of you read this page. Only one enrolls.

Path one

Close the tab.

  • Still pitching from guesswork — or not pitching at all
  • Competitors' logos stacking up on the features you wanted
  • Getting quoted $5–10k/month by agencies, again
  • The same invisibility in Google your category has today
  • Reading this page again at $999 — if doors reopen at all
Cost: $0 today. Everything, later.
Path two

Enroll tonight. Pitch by Friday.

  • Your first tier-one feature live, framed, and converting
  • A 30%+ reply rate and journalists answering you by name
  • A 500-contact media list and a cadence that runs itself
  • Authority backlinks compounding your rankings every month
  • $499 — once — and you own the system forever
Choose path two — $499
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90 days from now, you'll either be in the headlines — or wishing you were.

You've seen the system, the instructors, and the math. The only variable left is whether you act before the timer hits zero. When it does:

  • The price returns to $999 — permanently
  • The $687 bonus stack retires from the offer
Enroll now — $499
Lifetime access · Lifetime updates

If media coverage is anywhere on your roadmap this year, this is the cheapest and most direct version of it you will get. The rest is up to you.

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