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How to Write a Press Release - Use the Media to Grow Your Business - FREE
Learn how to write a press release and avoid expensive advertising as you grow your business. A full page ad in an industry journal can cost almost $6,000. But there is a way to use the same publications to promote your business free of charge. Journalists want and need one key thing. NEWS! They'll gladly write about you or your business provided you know what to feed them and do it in the right way. This is a great way to promote your business FREE. How can you make the most of the media? Learn how to write a press release and submit it correctly to the journalists so that it gets read and published. Remember journalists have an in-satiable appetite for news. So give them news. News is central to journalism. What makes news. * Significance - anything which will affect reader's lives. * Drama - accidents, disease outbreaks, armed actions. * Pop - sex, scandal. * Surprise - anything that surprises. * Proximity - anything dramatic which relates to a person or place. * Scale - job boost, 6,000 new jobs. * Money - lottery winner nets $30million * Elite issues - President, Royalty, Film Stars. * Vogue issues - trends/fashions. * Big guys v Little guys - pensioner defeats government. * Death and destruction - tsunami/earthquake. * Negative - as above. * New - if it's new it's news. How to write news. * What happened. * How it happened. * Amplify * Tie up loose ends. How to write a press release. * Date - top left hand corner, say's it new. * Headline - make as 'newsy' as possible - get your USP in. * Para 1 - who, what, when and where, why it's important. * Para 2 - expand on para 1. Don't stray off topic. * Quote - From someone in authority who is independent. * Offer FREE fact sheet. * Full contact details, including home contact - they work all hours! * Notes for editors, facts and background on the story, you or your company/business. Make the press release easy to read - double space. Follow these guide lines and you should not go too far wrong. Remember you are getting free publicity and they always need news. It gets better you can now automatically build attention getting press releases. So it's worth persevering and learning how to write a press release.
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