Comments on: How To Get Great PR for (Almost) Free http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/ Web Design * Development * Marketing Ireland Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Vince http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1360 Vince Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:35:16 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1360 Fantastic post, This may be an obvious question but is there a resource out there that has contact details for papers like The Kerryman etc.. or is it just a matter of going to Easons and picking up every newspaper there? Thanks, and keep up the great work Fantastic post,
This may be an obvious question but is there a resource out there that has contact details for papers like The Kerryman etc.. or is it just a matter of going to Easons and picking up every newspaper there?

Thanks, and keep up the great work

]]> By: Sabrina Dent http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1359 Sabrina Dent Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1359 Sorry, guys, it's been MANIC around here and the holidays almost killed me so I'm late to come back and say thanks for all the kudos and the nice feedback and excellent points about the advantages of doing these campaigns. All input very gratefully received! Sorry, guys, it’s been MANIC around here and the holidays almost killed me so I’m late to come back and say thanks for all the kudos and the nice feedback and excellent points about the advantages of doing these campaigns.

All input very gratefully received!

]]> By: Samantha http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1358 Samantha Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:59:57 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1358 What excellent advice and so well written. With this much effort put in yet being able to make it sound like such a doddle, you deserve all the coverage you received ++ and dozens more small biz clients too. Thanks for sharing! What excellent advice and so well written. With this much effort put in yet being able to make it sound like such a doddle, you deserve all the coverage you received ++ and dozens more small biz clients too. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Fran http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1357 Fran Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:00:07 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1357 I'm dissappointed "no matter how special you think your unique snowflake may be, it just isn’t that special" I thought all the ones we made were. ;-( It's not that bad the annual snowflake season is now closed, but love will soon be in the air with the coming of Valentines day. Great post Sabrina, with pointers that appear so obvious that everyone should be able to work it out for themselves, but unfortunately we don't. I’m dissappointed
“no matter how special you think your unique snowflake may be, it just isn’t that special” I thought all the ones we made were. ;-( It’s not that bad the annual snowflake season is now closed, but love will soon be in the air with the coming of Valentines day.
Great post Sabrina, with pointers that appear so obvious that everyone should be able to work it out for themselves, but unfortunately we don’t.

]]> By: Derry O Donnell http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1356 Derry O Donnell Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:50:34 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1356 Conor hit the nail on the head, newspapers features (http://tinyurl.com/3z9fa8) have never really done much for our website traffic, but the resultant media interest and radio interviews cause great bursts of traffic. A press clippings file is also great to have for potential and existing customers. It's nice to send out an email alerting everyone to the fact that there's a write up about you. I haven't tried it yet for sending out releases but I have used press releases from www.irishpressreleases.ie for magazine articles, so that's always worth a shot, you never know who'll pick it up and print it. For traditional type businesses I think it's also good to use traditional PR methods as your client base will also use them. Then (note to self) stop reading about what you should do and just do it! But check out this interesting tweet first though.......... Conor hit the nail on the head, newspapers features (http://tinyurl.com/3z9fa8) have never really done much for our website traffic, but the resultant media interest and radio interviews cause great bursts of traffic. A press clippings file is also great to have for potential and existing customers. It’s nice to send out an email alerting everyone to the fact that there’s a write up about you.

I haven’t tried it yet for sending out releases but I have used press releases from http://www.irishpressreleases.ie for magazine articles, so that’s always worth a shot, you never know who’ll pick it up and print it. For traditional type businesses I think it’s also good to use traditional PR methods as your client base will also use them. Then (note to self) stop reading about what you should do and just do it! But check out this interesting tweet first though……….

]]> By: icedcoffee | words » links 18th december 2008 http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1355 icedcoffee | words » links 18th december 2008 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:04:06 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1355 [...] A great write-up from Sabrina on getting free PR. [...]

[...] A great write-up from Sabrina on getting free PR. [...]

]]> By: Conor O'Neill http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1354 Conor O'Neill Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:55:55 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1354 One thing I really loved about the coverage of WeddingDates in the newspapers was that "mammies" and friends will cut it out and give it to women who are getting married. Old school viral! The experience for LouderVoice is that newspaper mentions cause minimal traffic increase. Generally it just means that recruiters and ad sellers in other newspapers ring us. By comparison, radio slots cause big bursts of traffic because listeners are often in front of their computers and immediately check us out. One thing I really loved about the coverage of WeddingDates in the newspapers was that “mammies” and friends will cut it out and give it to women who are getting married. Old school viral!

The experience for LouderVoice is that newspaper mentions cause minimal traffic increase. Generally it just means that recruiters and ad sellers in other newspapers ring us. By comparison, radio slots cause big bursts of traffic because listeners are often in front of their computers and immediately check us out.

]]> By: Shane http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1353 Shane Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:33:09 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1353 Nice post. Link to www.weddingdates.ie is incorrect though. Nice post. Link to http://www.weddingdates.ie is incorrect though.

]]> By: Ann Donnelly http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1352 Ann Donnelly Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:33:44 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1352 Excellent! Finding the time to do all of this is the hard part. Needs to be moved up on the priority list if needed! Thanks. Excellent! Finding the time to do all of this is the hard part. Needs to be moved up on the priority list if needed! Thanks.

]]> By: LizMcGPR http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/12/15/how-to-get-great-pr-for-fre/#comment-1351 LizMcGPR Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:03:37 +0000 http://www.sabrinadent.com/?p=791#comment-1351 Nice ideas - well written release and good results. Also will bet Ciara will be contacted when those wedding seasonal coverage times pop up! Nice ideas – well written release and good results. Also will bet Ciara will be contacted when those wedding seasonal coverage times pop up!

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