PR Fuel: Press Release News, Resources & Public Relations Tips - Page 87 of 94

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

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

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?

CA

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

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

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

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

Some 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

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

In desperate need of a break recently, I decided to check out of my Brooklyn home office and into a Manhattan hotel for a few nights of relaxation. Putting my research skills to work, I spent over a week trying to select the perfect hotel. There were amenities to consider, a location to decide on, and of course… Read more