Your quote should be about the information in the press release, not about how great you are. It shows the reporter there's more to the story than some hot air blowing their way.
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They're always hungry for fresh ideas. Pitch story ideas about your business to the reporter who covers the retail beat for your local business journal or business magazine.
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Who you know in the media is only half the game. And here's what you get from knowing someone in the media.
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What that signals for you and your PR team is a second perception monitoring session with members of your external audience. Be sure everyone buys into why it's so important to know how your outside audiences perceive your operations, products or services.
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The media love polls and surveys. Here are just a few headlines in the news as I write this, generated directly from surveys.
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Do make sure that the press release sent is available in two forms - fax and e-mail. One of the members was a new business owner who was very excited about sending out her company's first press release.
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These are the basics to getting publicity anytime you want to. Look at all the holidays coming up and plan to get your news release out in time for each of them.
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To do that, it's either spend on lists or advertising, or learn how to get yourself some free publicity. In this great country of ours, there are basically three ways to get yourself tons of media coverage.
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Let not your passion to colour the canvas use up all the paint, and neither let not your purpose to paint, curb your creativity. Likewise, Public Relations too becomes completely deflated without the essential ingredient of Passion.
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You can and should find ways to increase your ROI (return on investment) for all the community relations activities you take part in.
* Long wait to realize results - like public relations, you implement a community relations plan for the long haul.
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At the end of your first interviews, you'll remember all the things you wanted to say, but didn't get to. Once they express an interest, be prepared to follow up with an information sheet or bio, and a list of suggested questions for them to ask you.
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With your communications tactics hammering away, you keep one eye peeled for signs of target audience opinion shifts in your direction. There are just three choices here, create opinion where none exists, change existing opinion, or reinforce it.
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And that's why any financial planner should build 80% of their publicity around what the prospect cares about. The media love only one thing more than information, and that's people's problems.
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Most people have told me that they worry the most when it is the media, because embarrassing or damaging answers could end up on public display. How you answer questions depends on many factors.
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Many people in the media
prefer not to work with anyone who does not have a publicist
for the reasons I've just mentioned. That way, when a producer says no, I can take it
because he's not turning me down, he's turning down my
client.
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