Outside the Link: Google’s Crowned PR as the New SEO
Remember years ago when you would search for something and come across a website riddled with nonsense words everywhere? Those Wild West days of SEO are thought of with a quiet laugh and a roll of the eyes. Those websites were never pretty and often full of junk and even viruses, but they always seemed to pop u… Read more
What to Do with a Failed Press Release
Well, you gave it your best shot. You wrote a fantastic press release, making sure to write in the inverted pyramid format and get in some great quotes and other relevant stuff. You literally couldn’t have done a better job… but it still failed miserably.
Hey, it happens! Getting a press release out “in the w… Read more
What Your PR Team and Sales Team Should Be Doing for Each Other
Many companies fail to take advantage of internal relationships that could help build their brand and further sales. Case in point—the PR team and the sales team. In many cases, they act like two separate families living in the same town. Maybe they see each other from time to time in passing, but they aren’… Read more
Press Releases During PR Disasters
You sit down to write your next press release for your company. Just as you start writing your first sentence, you see on the news that your CEO has said something ridiculous and gotten into a ton of trouble over it. The news is reporting it on a constant loop. You realize your press release job just got that muc… Read more
Recent Press Releases That Show You How It’s Done
Need help with your press release efforts? Looking at samples of press releases is often the best way to know if you’re doing the best job with your own writing. One tendency is to stick to the past and look at press releases that have been successful before.
Instead, try reading recent ones and keeping up wit… Read more
Finding the Best Way to Say “Oops, Our Bad”
Apologizing is never an easy thing to do. Even if it comes quickly to you, being humble and accepting blame is still a tough thing to swallow. After all, you have to admit that what you did was not only the wrong thing to do but so wrong it hurt someone physically, mentally, or spiritually. When you think about i… Read more
The 5 Things BuzzFeed Can Teach You About Press Release Writing
It seems like I can’t go a day without seeing a link to a BuzzFeed article. Whether it’s 34 Things That Will Make ‘90s Girls Feel Old or 18 Shocking But True Celebrity Facts, people go crazy for BuzzFeed’s content. The popular site was valued at $200 million earlier this year, so clearly they’re doing somethi… Read more
Press Releases that Make No Sense… But Work Anyway
Have you ever heard the phrase “the exception that proves the rule?” When you have a steadfast, unwavering rule, it’s inevitable something comes up that breaks it entirely. But when it does, it just shows how true the rule was in the first place because the exception is so “huh?” worthy.
The same goes for pre… Read more
The 5 Reasons Reporters Aren’t Using You As a Source
Aren’t you tired of seeing your competitors getting all the ink? Doesn’t it get old seeing someone else in your industry giving an expert quote when you’re just as qualified (or maybe even more qualified) to give a quote? Do you feel like you’re banging your head against a wall trying to get the media to notic… Read more
5 Subtle Techniques to Make Your Press Releases More Readable
Do you struggle with getting people to read your press releases? Maybe it’s not that the content is bad. Maybe it’s that you’re not presenting the content in a way that’s appealing to your audience’s natural reading tendencies.
Countless studies have been performed that track the way people read content … Read more