Press Release Preparation Small Business Owners should send press releases out at least once a month to local newspapers, cable TV, local magazines and radio stations. You will be surprised how often they get published or air time. After doing this a while you can figure out what types of news get the best results. Some typical and simple press releases can be new employee hirees, new accounts with large local corporations or non-profit endeavors you are assisting with.
Competition in the News Creates Spin In larger cities with many outlets they are competing for more news that other outlets cannot get as fast. "THE SCOOP" and also the spin, this spin thing is so that articles can cater to the readership or so they say. I have found that many reporters including at the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Christian Science Monitor, etc completely spin articles.
VIP Database; Does Your Company Have One? The VIP databases are fun to create and can be an excellent source for your small business. You say; VIP database, "what is that; who would I put in it?" It will contain things like mayor, city council persons, city managers, service club board members, campaign contributors in previous elections, human resource directors, P.R. directors and presidents of large companies, etc.
Getting to Know Your Local City Council Members The easiest way to meet city council members is to meet them at an event. Usually city council members have a phone number that is listed. Many will not ever answer the phone, but events they must be cordial and open to all. Explain who you are and your business and thank them for some endeavor they feel strongly about in the city.
What? You Havent Got a Capability Statement? If you provide consulting or other services and don't have a capability statement, you're probably losing business. Find out what a Capability Statement is and why you simply MUST have one.
Post Your Press Release Online – For Free!! Are you launching a new product or website? Announcing a new book, movie or seminar? Then you've probably created a press release - sharing the: who, what, when, where, how and why of your special newsworthy item.
The Ten Ps of PR Paula Gardner looks at the ten PR commandments that will help you get the most of any PR and marketing campaign.
Dont Do This to Your News Release! Hundreds of thousands of News Releases are sent out all the time
and many people will show you different ways to write a news release in a way that will result in publicity for you or for your company.
However, many people over look the 17 Deadly Sins that you should never do or have in a news release. These can cause your news release to end up in the shredder!
10 Ways to Get the Media to Love You So you've put yourself "out there" with a public relations campaign. Your dealings with the media now become critical. Those relationships with the media can make or break your public relations efforts. Here's how to get the media to love you:
Easy to be Foolish About PR C'mon! You need to do something positive about the behaviors of those external audiences of yours that MOST affect your organization.
Mastering the Media What do Monica Lewinsky, Shoshanna Lowenstein, and even Richard Hatch have in common? Media exposure. They were ordinary people who became household names.
Will you be ready for your 15 minutes of fame?
Media Training 201: The Reporters Have Done Their Homework. Have You Done Yours? Just about anyone who has been in the public eye has a story of the media interview that went south. "I talked to that reporter for an hour and all they used was a ten-second sound bite!" or, "He said he wanted to ask me about X when that was just a way to get in the door so he could talk about Y."
