PR is one of the most highly effective ways to establish your business in a market niche. Placing articles in trade, business and special interest publications is a relatively easy place to begin your PR efforts.
The key to placing articles is to package your ideas as news rather than sales pieces. It is important to avoid self-serving articles that are thinly veiled advertisements. When done correctly, published articles provide highly credible media exposure that can quickly help your business become a known and trusted entity among your best prospects.
Instant Credibility. In a competitive world with a lot of companies vying for our attention, it’s hard to know who’s the best. Media exposure provides proof of who’s real and who isn’t. Media exposure delivers tremendous credibility—it’s an independent validation of your credentials in an increasingly distracted and distrustful world.
Make Selling Easier. Because of the media's indirect indication of ability, prospects that hear about you through public relations are largely pre-sold. Moreover, reprints of articles you've written or been quoted in, and copies of audios or videos of media appearances, make excellent marketing materials that are less expensive, and more convincing, than anything you create yourself.
Establish & Maintain Your Expertise. As an expert, you undoubtedly possess special knowledge that sets you apart from others. Don’t take your knowledge for granted!
The media are hungry for outside experts to help them write their stories. The media need you inside perspective and your knowledge can be leveraged to gain targeted media exposure.
Editors of trade and business magazines are always on the lookout for experts and will happily give you from one to three pages of prime magazine space if you can address the needs of their readers.
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Posted by: Calm Hill | August 31, 2006 at 07:56 AM