When you want media coverage, what do you do? You probably write a press release, send it out to a carefully culled list of reporters, and follow up with these reporters in hopes of getting your story covered in at least some of your target publications. While this is a popular way to score coverage, it is just … Read more
Exclusive! The very word can send waves of excitement through the most hard-nosed reporter. Something about getting a scoop nobody else has, knowing something nobody else knows, possibly before it blows up and you can claim you were there FIRST – what a rush.< But there’s an unforeseen dark side to giving out an exclusive news story, one you may not have accounted for. While it can excite and titillate the masses, you may end up isolating yourself a little too much. G+
For an example of something “exclusive” gon… Read more
Fluff … it worked nice on those high school research papers when you had to hit a minimum word count, but when it comes to composing marketing materials for your company, you want to do whatever it takes to eliminate the excess. Why? Because it’s easy for your message to get lost among the extra verbiage.
So ho… Read more
In this day and age of instant communication, you think it would be much simpler to get the word about your business to interested parties. But often the opposite is true, and it’s a generally long and detailed process to make people understand how awesome you are.
Why is that? During the early stages of the I… Read more
Whether you are writing press releases, blog posts, or web content, it’s important that you have a decent grasp on some basic rules of punctuation. No one’s asking you to be a grammar god – after all, the days of college term papers are long gone. However, there are certain rules that simply make your w… Read more
When you start a business, your plate gets piled high. Regardless of what industry you fall under, you’re much more than an owner. You handle client interaction, outreach, staffing, accounting … and the list goes on.
One position that many new business owners don’t typically thi… Read more
Though getting a press release printed in the newspaper or a magazine seems like a big project, it’s often an easier task than you think. One of the few things holding you back is the sheer volume of press releases out there competing against yours. How are you supposed to make yourself seen when chances are y… Read more
If you aren’t a professional press release writer, then you may find that composing your releases doesn’t exactly come naturally. In fact, getting all the facts down on paper may leave you with a repetitive list that has you stretching and yawning halfway through. So the question is: how do you keep your ne… Read more
One of the biggest mistakes new bloggers make involves the style in which they write their posts. What usually happens is a new blogger will write the way they were taught in high school English class – formal and in third person. However, what these new bloggers fail to realize is that blogging is not … Read more
It may look easy, but it’s not. Crafting that perfect press release can take hours. Now imagine this: you spend hours and you finally have it worded exactly the way you want it. You send it off and cross your fingers hoping to get some good coverage.
But then you reread it. And guess what? You notice you made all … Read more