Monthly Archives: April 2011

Get National Publicity for Your Company

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How difficult can it be to send a press release to the Wall Street Journal, or get your company featured on a national TV news show, like Diane Sawyer? Actually, it is very difficult. Sending the release alone is easy. Getting the reporters to take serious notice of what you sent, that’s difficult. And harder yet, is to make your company be newsworthy in their eyes.

National and Local Publicity

Getting any reporters attention requires relationships. A good public relations agency has developed strong relationships with the media. This doesn’t happen overnight. Unless you have a world changing product, or a unique service, it may be a challenge to just get any media to listen to what you have to say. With all the world politics today, disasters, and 3rd world revolutions, getting your 15 minutes of fame may not be as easy as you expect. PR Clients tend to believe they have the best product, best story, or the best new widget and the world needs to know this. Well, as true as this might be, if the presentation to the media isn’t as exciting, then you just lost that pr opportunity.

Packaging (presenting) your story is critical, as is the timing. Putting fluff into your release or story is not a good idea. Keep the facts real, keep the information short and don’t SELL your story using sales pitch language. Remember, reporters are people. They do not want to be sold to or told that you are the greatest at what you do. Explain why your product or service will help others, or solve a specific problem. That is just one way to get the attention of the media.

If you want to get local publicity, you need to do the same thing as a national publicity story. A good local publicity agency will have a good relationship with the local media, and they will know how to package your story to the selected reporters that best meets your pr marketing strategy.

Learn more about getting national or local publicity from Carson Marketing, Inc. Call for a NO COST consultation meeting to discuss how your company can be in the news. Contact George Carson at 949-477-9400.

How to Get Top Ranking on Google with Your Business Web Site

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The words “optimize”, “keywords”, “key phrases” and “Title Pages” are used all the time by Search Engine Specialists, and Search Engine Optimization companies. But what does all this do? Not much. Ok, it will help a little, but this alone isn’t going to get your site highly ranked, or found on the first page of Google.

SEO Rankings are Changing

What is the secret? You need a good pr marketing strategy.
It’s something that most SEO companies won’t admit, or tell you, because they want you to pay for their optimizing service. And when they complete all these great things I mentioned, they’re gone!

Let me give you the truth behind high rankings, on all the search engines. As you may know, Google changed their methods of rankings as did Yahoo and Bing. It now requires fresh content. As previous years before, “content is still king.” Another secret is inbound links.

Use these tips to keep content fresh:
1- Web site pages.
Every 60 to 90 days update the text on your web site. No need to re-write all the text, just do about 30% so the search engines see new content. Remember to re-register the site with directories and seo’s every 4 months.
2- Social media.
This is one of the most critical methods to get fresh content and “inbound links”. If you do not have a social media program, start one. A strong pr marketing strategy is to have a solid social media campaign. This should include a blog site, twitter account and a business Facebook page. Don’t create any of these if you are not serious about maintaining them. Otherwise it will just hurt your business site.

These are just two methods. I’ll pass along others in another post. Or you can contact me if you want more information on how to get started immediately.

In today’s fast pace world of communication, you need to be proactive, and to do this you need to surround yourself with those who are knowledgeable about social marketing. Give Carson Marketing, Inc. a call when you are ready to get ahead of your competition. Call George at 949-477-9400. He’s ready to help your company get noticed and increase revenue.