This is a guest post from Frank Strong, the director of Public Relations at Vocus and PRWeb.  Connect on Twitter: @Vocus or @PRWeb. Despite the fuss that press releases are dead – press releases, perhaps more appropriately titled news releases, remain a steadfast and effective tool in the marketer’s tool kit.   There is one simple [...]

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This is from my post on Lead411. I’m a big fan of online press releases. I use a service called PRWeb.com, which sends my clients’ press releases to dozens of news and industry sites. (They don’t pay me to gush about them, unfortunately, so know that this is solely my opinion). We get tens of [...]

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I recently wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about how to get your pitch trashed. I decided I’d draft a reply email that I very well may send the next time I get a horrible pitch. Here goes. Dear [blank]: Thank you for your untargeted pitch. I can see you don’t read my blog about PR and [...]

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