Category Archives: cyber public relations

The press release debate: Is it still relevant?

Public relations is changing. This is a fact that is not lost on PR companies, bloggers or the press. It’s often lost on companies with news to release however. I get queries from a lot of clients still looking for a more traditional approach and who try to rebuff efforts to take a more contemporary…

How to use the Hunger Games craze to market your business

Have you seen Hunger Games? I have not but I know scores of people who are waiting in line to see the movie. Amazing the effect this story has on people. I’m not going to talk to you about Hunger Games though. Well I am a little bit. But only in how it affects your…

5 ways to get your press release trashed

In all of those years that I sat at a news desk and read through thousands of press releases there were always those that made me wonder: Was the goal of this press release to make it into  the trash as quickly as possible? There are several things that are common in press releases that…

Is your press release really an advertisement?

Have you ever tried submitting your press release to an online press release submission site only to have it rejected for some unknown reason? Or maybe you’ve sent out press releases to the media only to hear nothing back. It could be that your press release was actually an advertisement. There are a variety of…

How to find the right angle to pitch

No matter where you submit your press release, no one is going to publish what you say unless it is newsworthy. Before I explain what it means to be newsworthy or how you can become newsworthy, let me explain what is not newsworthy. If your press release talks about a sale, that is not newsworthy….