announcements or press releases

[Chilihost]

Thanks, I am pretty sure I can write it up myself (with a little help from some friends who I will be bugging)...its just the submit process thats puzzling me. I will definately be posting it here and on a few other boards that I am active, but what about all those other boards out there? And yes, AVN Online and Xbiz are both now on my list. Any others that are recommended?

Lee, good tip on the variation stuff, that would help with boardtracker too!

cheers,
Luke

[basschick]

xbiz sends your press release to more places, so you'll see some action from good places you didn't submit

[chadknowslaw]

When I was running for [and winning~] political office, I learned the value of a good press release. I had one campaign volunteer that did nothing but write press releases.

Newspapers and other media outlets have reporters that are usually overworked and underpaid. They have a need to write articles that are timely and interesting to their readers while meeting deadlines.

If you present a well-written news article about you, then you have just provided a pre-written news piece that is [hopefully] timely and interesting to read. You have just made someone else's life easier.

Your press release should sound like a news story, so it will not need editing. Make sure you include your name and all contact information as well as date of release. After your story, put a paragraph that states you are giving the recipient permission to publish and permission to give the story to others to republish; also permission to edit as necessary and *permission to the recipient to claim authorship*. That way it can be edited slightly [or not at all] and the reporter will run it with his or her name as author, making it appear more like a news story and less like a press release, because news stories are more interesting than press releases.

It is the advertising you just cannot buy.