Sunday, March 22, 2009

Press releases as promotion tools

By Jillian whittaker

Why do we need a press release? What purpose does it have? What are its benefits? Well, a simple answer to this is that you need people to know about your existence. If you need to be known as a person or as a business entity, then you have to distribute news about yourself. A press release does this for you.

It basically is a means of communicating a new product launch or a fresh acquisition via written or recorded media for publicity purposes. It is written in third person.

A press release can change the perception of people about your company and its range of products and services. It is very useful in gaining recognition in the market and portraying yourself as a probable client who is efficient and willing to work. Also, if published on web, it will add substantially to the traffic on your website.

Let's see how. When you post news or articles about you, it drastically increases the chances of directing traffic to your site. The more you are seen and read about, the more publicity you will get and the numbers of visits also increase.

Press releases are straight to the point and thus convey their meaning in the simplest manner. They will generally involve announcements like expansion of business, scheduled events, information about a positive survey of a company, rise in revenues and thus will indirectly promote brand value among the customers as well.

A press release should be better be written by a professional as it is critical in providing platform for a new product or a service by a company. The content should be to the point and should be directed towards the favourable audience so as to attract attention. Unnecessary information should be avoided and necessary information should be highlighted.

Your press release may be unique and attractive but loop holes in the distribution process may prevent it from doing what is being released for. Thus utmost care should be taken while distributing it so that the business benefits from it.

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