How to get free publicity
or why you don’t need to pay for everything all
the time
Can you remember what you saw yesterday? What public notices did you
pass by as being of no importance to you? Were the traffic signals red
or green when you drove up to them?
Does it matter? Probably not .
But,
it might matter to the circus publicist whose poster you failed to notice.
Which is why, you put your message out time and time again for a slow
accumulation of attention. After a while, the person begins to remember
he saw the ad before, after another while it becomes so familiar that
he believes it was always there. And after another few notices he wonders
why he didn’t buy that product already.
If the campaign is conducted properly he should make the purchase and
become an ambassador of yours as a satisfied customer.
So, how to do this for little or no money?
That’s what our PR for Pennies programme
is all about.
You can start online by opening an account on Twitter. Messages, or
tweets, are limited to 140 characters which is about two sentences.
However, you can include a link to your website within that tweet and
bring an interested reader to your site for the full sales treatment
and fulfilment.
Remember, the only function of a business website is to sell product,
the only function of public relations and publicity and advertising
is to steer the reader towards that website, or place of business.
Your website should have your products or services clearly shown and
it should be easy for the visitor, your new best friend, to do business
with you.
It should also have a news release page where all your news releases
are posted, for free.
Reading the releases should make the visitor feel as if they belong
to the site and the business and the wonder of it all.
An insider makes a wonderful outsider for telling others about your
business, for free.
Once onsite, you either sell, or guide them to where they can buy in
the terrestrial world.
Include your URL or website address in all messages you send out. Do
the same with your Twitter address and follow and be followed by as
many apporpriate people as you can find. It all contributes to word-of-mouse
.
Post your news releases on your site in addition to sending the release
to as many relevant traditional media outlets as you can find.
For
this reason: say a reporter notices your news being included in a radio
station’s news broadcast or on a magazine programme. As a media
professional he will recognise it as being a news release.
He may do an internet search and arrive on your media page --- he sees
the release as you issued it and then uses it in whatever publication
he writes for.
You may find you are quoted by someone you never even spoke to in person.
The publicity is free and it's all yours.
You can learn more and earn more by taking our online course
now.
©
Brendan Nolan September 2009
You
should book our 30-module PR for pennies programme now and get ahead
of your competition. The decision is yours. You control your publicity
campaign.
Be happy. Lead on.
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