PR Fuel: Press Release News, Resources & Public Relations Tips - Page 67 of 94

Before everyone gets up in arms, I’m not here to say that the press release is dead. It’s not. What I am here to say is that the old way of writing press releases may no longer be the best tactic. No, I’m not just talking about SEO and optimizing your press releases. I’m talking about much more than that.

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So you’ve just written a press release, and you’re ready to blast it out to your media list. Not so fast, partner. Before you send out a press release, you need to do a quick quality check to ensure it’s the best it can be.

Here are 5 simple things to check before sending that press release.

1. Your story’s newswo… Read more

We previously covered the Top 10 Tips for PR Success Using HARO. By now, I’m going to assume that most of you have heard of and signed up for HARO. Just in case there are a few of you who don’t know what it is, HARO is an email list you sign up for to receive queries each day from reporters who need sources for their st… Read more

In Glengarry Glen Ross (one of the best movies ever), Alec Baldwin’s character Blake delivers a speech to some underperforming salesmen. During the hilarious, profanity-laden speech, Blake discusses the AIDA method of selling.

If you’ve been in the marketing world for a while, you probably know what A… Read more

Since Twitter’s inception, its users have never hesitated to adapt the popular microblogging platform to their own needs. One of those needs turned out to be a way for a large group of people to converse together 140 characters at a time. Thus the TweetChat was born.

While any chatter on Twitter that makes u… Read more

The right tools can change everything about your SEO campaign. With good tools, you can more closely monitor your rankings, easily find the right keywords, track your links, and compare your websites to the competition. While there are many expensive SEO tools out there, you’ll be happy to know there are … Read more

Whenever we talk about building up media lists for sending out your press releases, it can be easy to overlook some of the hardworking, influential journalists who can get you the coverage you so covet.

I’m talking about freelancers.

Freelance journalists sell stories to papers, magazines, and online p… Read more

If you’ve been in the industry for any amount of time at all, you know that some PRs and journalists get along as well as cats and dogs. This isn’t always the case, but the truth is most journalists and PRs have at least a few pet peeves concerning each another.

That’s why we’ve come up with this list of 10 things j… Read more

In the past, I mentioned that one of the strategies used by PR magnets (those people who always seem to get media coverage for their clients) is the leaky faucet approach to PR. This involves dropping a steady series of press releases over time to eventually get media coverage. Basically, by constantly bei… Read more

It’s pretty simple really. It doesn’t matter how great your story is; if you don’t have anyone in the media to pitch it to, your news will be dead in the water. It’s all in the list, and with the right media list, you could land coverage on blogs, newspapers, business magazines, podcasts, and much more. Of cour… Read more