• How to Get Media Attention for Your Business

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    Most entrepreneurs are well aware of the wonderful opportunity a success public relations or PR campaign can provide. A press release is an integral part of a successful PR campaign. It's a cost-effective way to promote a company.Read more…
  • Business Reputation and Buzz for Retail Restaurant Outlets

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    Many types of businesses live or die on their reputations. But what sorts of businesses is it most critical too? Well, a video rental business can have a ho-hum reputation and still survive providing there is no other major competition in close proximity.Read more…
  • Media Coverage: 5 Myths, 5 Musts

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    It’s true – media coverage is just about the best exposure your business can get. High impact for low cost. An article about your business generates greater readership and credibility than an ad or brochure or other sales tool.Read more…
  • How to Create a Better News Release

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    Many organizations and businesses want media coverage of their activities, and at the same time many newsrooms are looking for local (or even national and international) topics to cover. If you're belong to an organization that wants coverage, you can increase the odds of getting it by following a few simple news release (or press release) conventions.First, you must have something new or different to say.Read more…
  • Cracking Da Media Code

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    With the international movie based on Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code breaking box office records around the world, its time to look into the secret world of the media.How do you crack Da Media Code and get your message across clearly and consistently in the media.Well, for some the media represents a secret sect to be feared or revered.Read more…
  • How to Write a Press Release in 14 Easy Steps

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    Writing and submitting press releases isn't the same as writing and submitting articles about your business. Press releases have a much greater degree of credibility among hard copy publications and major current affairs orientated websites alike. They may be published as released, amended or changed completely to suit the publisher.Read more…
  • Getting Free Publicity for Your Online Business

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    It is very easy to get some free publicity for your online business. You can start with taking a crash course on how to write a press release and then put together a media kit. There are many details online on how to go about it, on how to present something news worthy about your business in one or two pages.Read more…
  • About Non Profit Fundraising

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    Did you know that 85% of Non Profit Fundraising every year is acquired from direct individual donations?That 85% consists of large and small donations but it is the steady stream of small donations that keep most nonprofits afloat.One should plan and forward his or her steps careful if the organization is new and they are not sure about the process of Non Profit Fundraising.Read more…
  • Give to Charity - It Pays

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    Charity avails so much as the old adage goes.Most of us like to help others and you don't have to go too far out of your way to give. In some cases, you need only walk right out your back door.Read more…
  • Press Release System for Free Advertising

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    If you have a low budget or no budget your advertising campaign can still be done for free, and a small business owner can get free ads with large publishers.Magazines and other print publications have an ad to content ratio to maintain for legal reasons, and sometimes an issue has a blank space just waiting for an interesting press release (content) to match the size of an ad that they want to squeeze in for maximum revenue.I once developed a free ad campaign for a manufacturing company on a product line that hadn't changed in 30 years.Read more…
  • Are PR Campaigns Affordable?


    Between PR and advertising, many online businesses today prefer PR services because of two good reasons: one, PR is cheaper than advertising; and two, PR services are lasting in effect when it comes to promotions. But we could also argue that given PR as a cheaper commodity and effective in promotional services than advertising, still, many companies cannot afford to have its services.This is especially true with small-time and starting companies.Read more…
  • What To Do Before Handing Out Survey Forms

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    It doesn't matter if you have hundred of thousands of employees, or just three, employee surveys are still necessary to ensure a smooth running organization. However, conducting surveys is more than just handing out forms and getting your employees to answer. To ensure the accuracy of survey data, you, as an employer must observe proper guidelines.Read more…
  • Press Release Ideas

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    Ask yourself what readers or a reporter will be interested in.Are you launching a web site?Is there an issue you can protest?Read more…
  • Nine Ways to Get Free Publicity and More Clients

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    One of the disadvantages of traditional marketing is that it often lacks credibility. Why should someone believe you when they know you're trying to sell them something? However, there are free or inexpensive techniques for gaining business-building, positive exposure through a number of channels that may not be occurring to you or that you may not be taking full advantage of.Read more…
  • The Crucial Factor That Determines Whether or Not You Get Free Publicity

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    Obviously there’s more than one way to get your name in the headlines. You can offer incredible deals or you can do the outrageous. You can discover some new and exciting product or you can be recognized for your services to the community.Read more…
  • PR Crisis Management - Tell It All, Tell It Fast And Tell The Truth

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    I turned on the television news recently to learn that one of our top football teams may have lost an important match because of illness, the story being brought to us by a reporter stationed outside the hotel where the players enjoyed lunch prior to the game.In the car, this was the lead story on the radio news with the story read by a reporter, again said to be outside the hotel. He confirmed that the Police had collected samples from the restaurant to pass onto the health authorities.Read more…
  • 14 Publicity Tips You Can't Live Without

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    How do you best promote yourself, your business or your cause using publicity? The list could easily be 100 items long. But 14 items stand out that can make yours a winning publicity campaign.Read more…
  • The "Can't Miss System" for Getting Free Publicity

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    Publicity is a funny business. On one hand you have as many variables as you do opportunities to promote and yet, on the other hand, beneath it all, there are a few cardinal rules that regulate any successful publicity effort. Each rule make take on a different color depending on the specifics that apply to individual industries, but once you strip it all down, you'll always find the following system at work in any working system.Read more…
  • Four Things You Have To Do To Get Free Publicity for Your Business

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    It’s true about any profession. The "old pros" somehow always seem to get everything done much quicker and more effectively. They’ve made their mistakes and are sensitive to the pulse rate of the industry.Read more…
  • Hot Publicity Techniques That Are 100% Legitimate!

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    As in any business, once you’ve been the publicity business for a while you start to discover those little insider secrets that make life so much easier. Those little tricks of the trade that typically give the old pros an unfair advantage.That’s what this article is about.Read more…

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