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PR Directory - Online & Offline - Some are FREE

Online PR services & companies

Press release distribution services:

Social Media Portal (SMP) - Free press release distribution of social media, UGC, Web 2.0
Malebits.com - Free & Subscription service options for this press release site
PR-Inside.com - European-based free press release distribution site.
PRBuzz.com - Completely free distribution to search engines, news sites, and blogs.
PRCompass.com - Distribute your press release with a free or paid version, others can vote it up ala Digg (Digg reviews) style.
PRUrgent.com - Not only distributes your release, but attempts to teach you how to write one, and even offers downloadbale samples for you to work with.
Press-Base.com - Submit your release for free and get on their front page and the category of your choice.
PressAbout.com - A free press release service formatted as a blog.
PressMethod.com - Free press release distribution no matter what, but extra services based on the size of your contribution.
PRLeap.com - Free distribution to search engines, newswires, and RSS feeds. Fee based bumps get you better placement.
PRLog.org - Free distribution to Google News and other other search engines.
PR9.net - Ad supported press distribution site
BusinessWire.com - Very good for syndication
PR.com - Not only will they distribute your press releases, but you can also set up a full company profile
NewswireToday.com - All the usual free distribution tools, premium service includes logo, product picture and more
I-Newswire.com - Allows for free distribution to sites and search engines, premium membership differs only slightly in adding in graphics.
Free-Press-Release-Center.info - Distributes your release, offers a web page with one keyword link to your site. Pro upgrade will give you three links, permanent archiving and more
Free-Press-Release.com - Easy press release distribution for free, more features for paid accounts
Express-Press-Release.com - Free distribution company with offices in 12 states
EcommWire.com - Focuses on ecommerece and requires you include an image, 3 keywords and links
1888PressRelease.com - Free distribution, paid services gives you better placement and permanent archiving
ClickPress.com - Distributes to sites like Google News and Topix.net, Gold level will also get you to sites like LexisNexis.
24-7PressRelease.com - Free release distribution with ad-support
pr-inside.com
i-newswire.com
Pressbox.co.uk
PRlog.org
DWpub.com/pressreleasewires/about
PRweb.com
ArticleCity.com
News4Media
PR Leap
PRNewswire UK
OpenPR
SanePR
USprWire
SourceWire
TheOpenPress

Online Video Syndication
TubeMogul
MultiVu.com
SocialMediaPortal
VideoTrafficAssistant.com

Social Bookmarking syndicators:
OnlyWire.com

PR Trade Press
Black Book www.prweek.co.uk 020 8267 5000 - Annual, Press and PR contacts. Formerly known as Contact.
Hollis UK Public Relations Annual www.hollis-pr.com 020 8977 7711 - Annual Press & PR contacts
PR Week www.prweek.com 020 8267 4429

Offline PR Associations, Services & Companies
Association of Public Realtions Consultants
British Association of Communicators in Business Professional body for internal and corporate communications staff
Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Alexson PR - MediaStarz member

Best Marketing Handbooks:
ALF
Guardian Media Directory

Ad Agency Directories:
FreeIndex
IPA Ad Agency List
IAB UK Members List

Copywriting
Excessvoice.com


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JonClarke

Sharing great PR ideas

Started by JonClarke Nov. 8, 2007.

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JonClarke Comment by JonClarke on May 26, 2009 at 4:54pm
Just updated the above list of Free & Paid for Online PR sites worth looking at. Of course PRweb.com is the 'Daddy' and it also has a UK variant now (You have to pay VAT though - Booooo!), but they are all good and the best list on the Net! Okay, probably :-)
JonClarke Comment by JonClarke on February 19, 2009 at 6:34pm
PRweb release: Full Release PRWeb UK Launch Party Draws Crowds

Their pitch:
Distribute their news directly to more than 450 publications through the Press Association as well as top local, regional and national media outlets
- Increase rankings on UK-based search engines - such as Google UK and Yahoo! UK through a search optimised UK platform
- Track and measure success with distribution analytics
- Include YouTube videos and other multimedia components to create a more vivid experience for readers
- Incorporate social messaging technology to communicate to an even larger audience

PRWeb news releases are distributed through search engines, RSS feeds and directly to tens of thousands of journalists and editors through e-mail.
JonClarke Comment by JonClarke on February 19, 2009 at 6:31pm
The news from last night's launch of PRweb's UK facing site, held at the Islington Hilton, was that Jiyan Wei, of parent company Vocus, revealed that the uk.PRweb.com site would be launching in March, they had tied up distribution deals with some hefty newswires and newsrooms including the might Press Association and for the first few months the two services .com and a prefixed uk.prweb.com one would be run separately, but in time the two would merge so only one account was required, country release could be optional and he'd aslo look into keeping current member RSS feeds active for both sites without the need to set up new ones on the .co.uk site.

I asked him if they could look at also setting up a second tier password protected area so that ad/pr agencies could create and monitor separate client accounts under a central account, the second password allowing clients direct access to their PR release data and he said they'd look at that.

About 100 people attended, and it was good to see the largest Online PR distribution portal boost the opportunities in the UK market. It would be nice to see more large newsrooms and publishing corps seek them out and take their feeds too.

All the best, Jon Clarke, Head of Digital, Space & Time Media, http://twitter.com/mediastarz
Lisa Connell Comment by Lisa Connell on June 19, 2008 at 10:22am
I am also looking for a PR/Managing Agent to help me with my own TV/Magazine/Newspaper work if any one has any ideas on who I could go to?
Lisa Connell Comment by Lisa Connell on June 19, 2008 at 10:21am
PR, Marketing & Sales Executive

Job location: Home based (Worldwide)

Volunteer Position – Full Time

Company: Rent A Date For Charity Limited – www.RentADateForCharity.com

I am looking for a PR, Marketing & Sales Executive from each corner of the world. You will be working voluntarily for a new online auction dating site which aims to raise as much money as possible for charity!

We are currently working with several charities worldwide. Please see our Charities/Events page http://www.rentadateforcharity.com/charities.html for more details

Benefits: You will be provided with a company phone and internet access for business use only.
Responsibilities:
 Develop and sustain the mutual understanding between an organisation and its public
 use all forms of media and communications to project and protect the appropriate image
 Write promotional material and press releases.
 Produce brochures, leaflets and videos when necessary.
 Organise press briefings and news conferences.
 Attend or set up exhibitions and conferences.
 Project-manage product/event launches.
 Carry out research and evaluations of published materials, interviews and surveys.
 Promote a company’s image by arranging charitable donations or sponsorship of events.
 Research and analysis followed by continuous evaluation of an organisation or campaign strategy by: conducting focus groups; co-ordinating surveys; researching recent reports and articles; or commissioning market research.
 Initiating and planning PR campaigns: defining goals; analysing problems and opportunities; liaising with management and clients (internal and external);
 Writing and editing press releases, in-house newsletters, speeches, articles and annual reports.
 Maintaining and updating information on RDC’s website when necessary.
 Using corporate advertising to maintain an organisation's identity, name and reputation.
 Preparing and supervising the production of publicity brochures, handouts, direct mail leaflets, promotional videos, photographs, films and multimedia programmes.
 Answering enquiries from individuals, journalists and other organisations.
 Speaking in public at presentations, press conferences, radio and TV interviews, and meetings.
 Developing and maintaining good working relations with the media, including local and national newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
 Organising special events, such as press conferences, exhibitions, open days, tours, competitions and sponsorship.
 Fostering community relations through events such as open days and through involvement in community initiatives.
 Respond to requests for information from the media or designate another appropriate spokesperson or information source.
Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of community, consumer, employee, and public interest groups.
Special Skills/Experience/Competencies:
 Written and verbal communication skills
 Organisation and flexibility
 Ability to form relationships with clients
 Public speaking
 Negotiating skills
 Confidence and discretion
 Time-management
 Ability to prioritise and multitask
 Discretion
 Self Manage

The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent communication and listening skills.
Other requirements include a 'can do' spirit, good teamwork skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines, problem solving under pressure, good time-management and organisation skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.

Educational Requirements:
The candidate should be educated to at least A Level or equivalent, with a good standard of English, both written and spoken, and basic mathematics including percentages.
To apply, please send your CV to admin@rentadateforcharity.com along with a covering letter detailing why you would like to work for me.

I can only accept applications from candidates who are available for face to face interviews in London within 48 hours. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK or hold a valid work permit. Please note that I will contact successful candidates within 3-4 working days. We will consider you for all our vacancies now and in the future. Please do not reapply unless requested to do so.
www.rentadateforcharity.com
JonClarke Comment by JonClarke on April 22, 2008 at 9:03pm
This looked very interesting = thought I'd add it here
 

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Captain Kick-Back

Watch This Space!

Lebedev in the Money
It seemed at best an unlikely plan when it was announced last year that Alexander Lebedev and his team intended to move the Evening Standard from paid to free distribution. However after just 9 months the paper has begun making money. Doubling the print costs and bidding farewell to the revenue made from newspaper sales, in the middle of a recession no less, was a tremendously bold move. But research has shown that all those additional copies are actually being read, and the beneficial effect this has had for advertisers has seen the coffers filling up once more.

Captain Kickback says: “with politicians stopping you in the street and patting down your pockets for loose change before taking your shoes and sending you on your way, this switch to free distribution was an intuitive masterstroke. The Standard used to sell 1,600 papers at Oxford Circus on a good day. Today, they can easily give away 20,000 copies there. Although owned and managed by the same team, it’s doubtful that the ailing Independent will follow the Standard into free distribution, but there are bound to be some interesting changes afoot.”

Metr0
Associated spent a day in court recently, taking out an injunction against the humorous politickists who published a spoof version of their free commuter newspaper, Metro. Metr0, as it was called, drew attention to the new government’s stance on immigration law by leading with a fake story that Gordon Brown was being forcibly repatriated to Scotland. 20,000 copies of the paper were given out in central London, none of the paper’s other 32 areas of distribution were targeted.

Ad Decline slowing
Reports on ad spend for the first quarter of 2010 have shown that the news for local newspapers is still bad, but is getting worse slower than it has been of late. The amount spent on local press advertising Jan-March was 5.2% down on the same period last year. So far, so bad, but if you consider that Oct-Dec 2009 was 14.1% down on Oct-Dec 2008, things suddenly start to look like they might be bottoming out.

Captain Kickback says: “much of this almost-improvement will be due to classified advertisers finding the money once more to do more than just pay the wage bill and hope that nobody asks for the rent, however media mix is also playing a part here. Over the last 2-3 years many advertisers will have eschewed print media in favour of an entirely digital campaign. Now that the budget allows it, many will now be recognising the value of a more varied schedule.”

6Music
No real news for advertisers here you might think, but BBC 6Music’s 11th hour rescue is solid news for DAB broadcasting. The BBC’s commitment to raise the station’s profile and listener base rather than close it down is shoe in foot with the government re-opening discussions on a switch off date for FM broadcasting: if we are all finally going to make the switch to DAB, the Beeb will have a vital role to play in creating and promoting DAB content worth listening to. The station’s survival could also be seen as a victory for social media, as campaigns on Facebook and activity on Twitter contributed to the BBC Trust receiving more than 25,000 emails asking that the station be kept open.

Captain Kickback says: “we need to either conclude our ablutions promptly or get off the pot with all this DAB business. The technology is nearly 30 years old and we’re still arguing about the switchover. It’s chickens and eggs though- the investment in signal strength will only come when listenership is high enough, but listenership will only be high enough once the signal strength is sufficient for DAB car stereos to be worth having. While we’re on the subject, since it is necessary by definition that a chicken has to have been born from an egg, but not similarly inherent in the nature of eggs that they must be laid by a chicken, clearly the egg came first. Furthermore, since mutation occurs only during reproduction, it’s surely inescapable that the first chicken as we know it will have been born from an egg laid by a not-quite chicken. But I digress.”

The Manchester Wall has Fallen
Having the confidence and the business acumen to beat Murdoch to the punch and put a paywall around your website is terrific. Not realising that almost nobody will pay up to £60 a year to read local gossip and restaurant reviews on Manchester Confidential is a terrific way to alienate users, lose face all over the shop and save yourself the bother of having to send out invoices to advertisers. Publisher Mark Garner won’t reveal how many of ManCon’s 260,000 free readers signed up to be paid-for subscribers to his website, but having reverted to a free model, is no doubt relieved that instead of being termed ‘a failure’ in the trade press it’s largely being described as ‘an experiment’.

Captain Kickback says: “It’s both unfair and inaccurate to compare ManCon to the Times, but nuts anyway. So long as a similar product is available elsewhere for free, it’s difficult to see why anybody would pay for their news online. It’s a brave or foolish imaginary media superhero who suggests that Murdoch has it wrong, but nuts anyway. Forcing users to pay for content will put a huge dent in user numbers, impacting advertising revenue, and while people can visit the BBC’s offering free of charge, why wouldn’t they?”


If you would like more detail on any of the issues discussed in this email, your Space and Time contact will be delighted to help.

See You Next Time!!

Captain Kickback

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