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How are you all sending out your press releases?

13 pointsSwellJoe13 comments

Use www.prleap.com, just make sure to submit more than two days in advance if you submit for free, only the first 30 get into Google News each day. There are paid options which will get you into Google News as well.

I have seen Jajah, PageFlakes, Printingforless.com, and Squidoo releases on PR Leap.

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Awesome, Eric, will do.

I've used eReleases to reasonable effect, but it seems to be a nebulous field with no one listing prices or describing services rendered very well. Anybody have any clarity to offer?

I don't understand the concept. When to use press releases? What good do they do? Who reads them?

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Just to mention someone we can all recognize. But it's pretty well-understood that PR (not just press releases, but the whole process) is more valuable than any amount of advertising that small companies can afford.

The concept is a huge surge in traffic.

It still amazes me that the most worthless of sites can effortlessly surpass the traffic of good ones with a couple easy press releases.

Email seems to do the job pretty well.

I mean to someone other than your mom.

No really. The wire services that you can pay for are mostly junk, same with PR Web. It'll get picked up on google, and some sites syndicate the content, but as far as generating any legit interest from the press they're just not a reliable way to go.

The answer is to develop a press list and contact them individually.

And it'll do no good to send your press release to my Mother, she wouldn't want it.

Now, y'all don't all talk at once...

PRWeb

Can't beat the price. I just wonder if it reaches anyone...It's a great interface, and has the best user experience of all of the news wire type companies I've seen, but it's also free...and since anyone can send out a press release any time they feel like it, for absolutely no cost, it pretty much guarantees nobody is paying attention. Or am I missing something?

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