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Identify Public Relations Opportunities
Here are some opportunities you can use to enhance product public relations:
? contribute product information to regular product surveys
? issue press releases on new products and new product developments
? contribute feature articles about innovative product applications
? write "how-to" articles with instructions on product usage
? submit articles from technical specialists about industry developments
Quoted from : http://www.bnet.com/2410-13237_23-66479.html
"As David Yale notes in our new Training Manual How To Get Publicity for Your Products, preconditioning consists of clearly communicating and actually amplifying the need that your product fulfills before your product (which will then be a white knight that resolves that pressing problem) is even announced to the marketplace.
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Identify Public Relations Opportunities
Here are some opportunities you can use to enhance product public relations:
? contribute product information to regular product surveys
? issue press releases on new products and new product developments
? contribute feature articles about innovative product applications
? write "how-to" articles with instructions on product usage
? submit articles from technical specialists about industry developments
Quoted from : http://www.bnet.com/2410-13237_23-66479.html
"As David Yale notes in our new Training Manual How To Get Publicity for Your Products, preconditioning consists of clearly communicating and actually amplifying the need that your product fulfills before your product (which will then be a white knight that resolves that pressing problem) is even announced to the marketplace.
As public relations executive Bob Seltzer explains, "If you're going to come out with a new contact lens cleaner in six months, you would be very smart to get articles about the problems of cleaning contact lenses in the media - now. These stories don't even require that your product is mentioned. You're educating the marketplace about a problem, so when your product launches, you've made your audience more receptive. Publicity does not work as effectively if you wait until the product comes out to build awareness."
You can also publicize a product before it�s available to create a dramatic awareness that gets the media and the public looking forward to its introduction. A great example of this occurred several years ago when Seltzer�s public relations firm, Porter Novelli, "... launched the Gillette Sensor Razor with an announcement in October - even though it would not come out until January. The object was to build anticipation and expectation. Every year Fortune magazine does an article on the 10 best products of the year. The Gillette Sensor was actually named one of the 10 best products for 1989, even though it wasn't even introduced until 1990," according to Seltzer.
That's an interesting way to look at the world, isn't it? Publicize your product, possibly without even naming it, before your launch, so that your potential customers are very aware of their unmet need and foaming at the mouth to get it solved when your product gets launched."
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How to Get Free Publicity for Your Small Business
By David Frey
Brought to you by MarketingBestPractices.com
The other day I picked up the newspaper and read the headline, "Ex-High School Teacher Helps Struggling Students Improve Their Grades." The headline immediately caught my eye because I recently developed a system for high school and college students to improve their academic performance.
In the article it talked about a Houston woman who retired from high school teaching and now holds study skills workshops around town for high school students that need academic help. It included her contact information and web site address.
It was a quarter page article in the Houston Chronicle with over one million circulation. When I saw the article I wondered to myself how much that same article would have cost her if she had paid for it.
LOTS!
The Power of the Humble News Article
There is only two ways to land the name of your business in the local newspaper, by paying for an advertisement or by having a newsworthy event that is covered by the local press. Both can be very effective but the all-mighty news release can provide the level of credibility and respect that can spark on-the-spot sales for your business.
Advertisements contain information that people know are biased. Surveys have shown that the vast majority of people believe that all advertisements contain false or misleading information.
News articles, on the other hand, are written by third-party news organizations that have nothing to gain by endorsing your business. Hence, their believability is high. That's exactly why your print ads should use an editorial style format. People read editorial style (news article format) seven times more than an advertisement!
Why Are Some News Releases Chosen and Other Not?
Knowing how the press chooses one news release over another will give you an advantage in getting the coverage you're looking for. Most large pressrooms get hundreds of news releases a day. When yours comes in, it competes with all the others that come in with it. ...
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