Yes, free press release sites can and do cost the uninformed and even the experienced marketer. Some of the costs are screamingly obvious others are more hidden. And it's my role as your advocate to review and reveal them all. Let's roll!OK, so you've written your press release. Next action: online press...

What's a more likely scenario for media coverage: pitch a reporter out of the blue or a reporter who seeks an expert that matches your background precisely?It's the difference between "push" and "pull" PR. When you pitch a story, you are pushing your story to the media. Conversely, with "pull" PR, the...

Getting stuck sucks. Maybe it's a momentary indecision or something more deep-rooted. The outcome, or lack there of is the same regardless. To give you some background on how I identified the top 4 press release distribution stumbling blocks, they were culled from the following sources:Source #1: client...

Some PR traditionalists grow a little uncomfortable when you put ROI and PR or ROI and Online Press Release together in the same sentence. PR and publicity have traditionally been perceived as awareness and branding-driven, and less for making the cash register ring, at least directly.Yet with the advances...