The Best Time of Day for Press Release Distributions

Posted: February 17th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Business General | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Many of the lower cost press release distribution services are now allowing you to specify a release time. The main wire service providers have always allowed you to specify the release time and time zone.  Your PR or marketing agency should be able to advise you on the best time for a release; but if you don’t have one here is some guidance?

Unless you are trying to stem a crisis or doing a timed product release that’s linked to an event, we have found 7:30am-8:00am in your “target timezone” to be the most effective.It is early enough in the morning to meet most journalist’s deadlines and late enough to catch them after their java. Releasing first thing in the start of the workday will allow you to get to the top of of the Inbox if you are sending releases via email. It also gives your public relations agency the entire day to line up interviews with company executives, if requested.

Note your “target timezone” may be different than the location of your business. For instance, if your business is in San Francisco, but you mostly sell products or services on the East Coats, a 7:30am release time would be best. Early morning distributions have given us the best pickup.Remember you always have the option to send releases to reporters “under embaro” which means you specify the date and time of the release in the future.  However, we find sending releases “under embargo” is not as effective as a timed morning distribution. Many editors and journalists now frown upon embargoes releases or the release slips their minds because it was sent days before actual distribution.

For a press release distribution service consider Marketwire.com.Marketwire’s state-only distribution channels are excellent bargains if you only sell locally.And their SEO-enhanced options at $200 is highly-recommended as anchor-text backlinks remain intact even in online news sites such as Google News and Yahoo! News. If you can’t afford Marketwire for a national release, then use PRWeb at $80 if you’re really budget-limited, or the $200 PRWeb SEO-enhanced package with anchor text backlinks. But be aware that at the $80 PRWeb package, you will not be able to specify the time of distribution- the $80 option releases only at midnight.

 

 

Can Marketing With Press Releases Help Grow Your Business?

Posted: December 19th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Business General | Tags: , , | No Comments »

by Scott A. Dennison

If you’re looking for ways to increase your business and earn more money, you must use any tools. Many business owners, be it traditional or Internet, wonder does marketing w/ press releases really work, and the answer is absolutely. But, you should learn how to do it properly. To begin with, your press release should be written in a journalistic style.

If you’re having trouble understanding what this really is, try to imagine watching television and a news flash cuts into your show. Basically, it is done to inform you about interesting and important information. You can do the same for your business. In fact, it is recommended that you do in order to grow your business. Never underestimate the importance of various marketing tools, including this one.

Although you may find it a great tool, you may be wondering what you could possibly write that would be newsworthy and interesting to your followers and members. Well, you could inform them of a new addition to the services you render or important information that they can’t miss out on, like a seminar. You could write a press release about a new employee or partner.

Another winner in such marketing is announcing a community service that your company is involved in. This shows that your company backs important matters and that it does what it can, like a charity effort or what have you.

Whatever the case, your press release should be mentioning something that is worth mentioning. Also, it should be about one particular topic. However, if you are sending it out, you want people to read it and therefore must click through. In order to get followers to do this, you must have some kind of opportunity for them.

Therefore, links to particular resources should be added in the release. It should be done in such a way that will get the reader to think that there is an opportunity for them. If your reader gets to the particular page that you are sending to, then he or she must only complete the transaction.

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