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Customer Relations as Extension of Public Relations

February 20 2009

Last week, I thanked my customers in a special Thanks-Valentine’s message. The response was very positive. I received dozens of messages that had a common theme: people were responding to my message on a very personal level.

Some clients shared their eReleases PR success story. Others gave words … Read more

Six Public Relations Tips for Nonprofits

February 20 2009

Marketing is a dirty word for many mid-sized or community-based nonprofits. Activists often see marketing and public relations campaigns as tactics corporations use to dupe otherwise respectable consumers into buying junk they don’t need. Nonprofits, with their purer motivations and lofty … Read more

Public Relations Scams: How to Avoid Press Release “Newsbaiting”

February 19 2009

Press Release Spam and Newsbaiting

Gone are the days when members of the media are the only people reading your press releases. Thanks to the online distribution model, press releases are now transmitted to thousands of web sites and millions of e-mail inboxes. This is certainly the heyday for easy mass d… Read more

Are Press Releases Considered Spam?

February 19 2009

h2Is Sending Out Press Releases Spamming?

A PR Fuel reader writes: “With the CAN-SPAM Act in place, does a massive press release email blast to the media constitute spam? How does the media feel about receiving unsolicited, email-based press releases, even if they may contain their next story?

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Using a Newswire Service to Distribute a Press Release

February 17 2009

So you have a fine press release written, but you don’t know quite what to do with it. You decide to blast an email to your best contacts. You get no response. You pitch some people over the phone, but they’re not interested. So it’s time to go to the newswire or wire.

The beauty of newswire d… Read more

Press Release Tips: Hook Editors with Strong Openings

February 16 2009

If you want your press release to get an editor’s attention, you need to get to the point as quickly as possible. Dozens of press releases stream into a newsroom every day. Most of them end up in the trash because an editor simply didn’t have time to read through the whole release to grasp the writ… Read more

Happy Thanks-Valentine’s Day

February 13 2009

Mickie Kennedy here. I want to thank my customers this Valentine’s Day for helping make eReleases what it is today.

We launched a new nonprofit press release service for nonprofits called CauseWire: https://www.causewire.com

We’ve doubled staff in the past four months. While much of the … Read more

How Public Relations Can Shape Corporate Culture

February 12 2009

Localized cultures often evolve at companies, for better or worse. Most former Enron and WorldCom employees I’ve spoken with say that the corporate cultures at both companies bred the behavior that ultimately resulted in far-reaching scandals.

The common refrain I’ve heard from these e… Read more

Research 101 – Search Engines

February 11 2009

knowlege & researchSome time ago, I wrote a column about how to conduct public relations research online and why it’s important to do so. Looking back on that column, I see that I was blinded by Google. In retrospect, I did not provide good advice to my readers.

To rectify this transgression, I’ll once again provi… Read more

Six Months of Public Relations Lessons

February 10 2009

Looking back on the past six months, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve learned more about public relations during the time than any other period in my professional life. Here are ten things I’ve learned about public relations in the last half of the year.

1. If You Let Them, Journali… Read more