Category Archives: Public Relations

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….

Have you claimed your Google Places Page yet?

There is one space on the Internet that every business owner covets–The top section of the first search engine results page. There is one easy way to get there and it doesn’t even require a website. Claim your Google Places Page. You want to claim your Google Places Page to get killer results in local…

Press release services don’t guarantee press

In these days of online press release services, free press release submission services and online news aggregate sites the power of the press release is losing a bit of its oomph in the eyes of business owners. So increasingly I’m getting asked to supply press release services but these potential clients want me to guarantee…

When crisis strikes, send out a press release?

For the most part people think of marketing during the good times. You send out press releases when sales are good and quarter earnings are up, when your business expands or when you support a good cause. But what about when things are (gasp!) bad? When money is tight? Or even, when crisis strikes? What…

Why you need a business blog

  Your website provides the world with all the necessary information about your business and your products. Yet everyone is telling you you need a business blog. You ask ‘Why?’ I say, because you need a ‘voice.’ Not necessarily you but your business and no one can get a sense of that voice by just…