Using Social Networks for Free Online Publicity – How Social Networks Are Changing Marketing

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Managing a free online publicity campaign can be tedious and time-consuming. Using your time effectively to get the most out of your efforts is one challenge. Keeping your message consistent and accurate across the various free services is also an obstacle. Consider the following discussion about both.

Not All Your Customers Use the Same Services
This is the first pure fact any web publicist has to come to terms with in running campaigns. You can guarantee that if you have as few as just ten customers that they will never all agree which cell phone service is the best, or which social media site is the best, or even which web browser is best. As a product or service provider, it is up to your company to master the basic techniques of the web services most of your customers use – and make business justification decisions about the less popular services. Although it is not necessarily the preferred plan of action, you do have to be prepared to have discussions with business clients that use services other than those you have chosen to support.

Inevitably there will be customers not included in your plan via their preferred means of communication. You will be in the unenviable position of explaining your decisions. Try to opt instead for directing the conversation to alternative freelower cost communications methods andor free trials of any pay or premium services you do decide to support.

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Online Publicity Tips – Six Things You Probably Do Not Know About Distributing Press Releases

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In recent years, while helping clients distribute press releases on four different paid press release distribution services (and using those services myself), I have learned a few important pointers that I haven’t seen other publicity experts discuss.

1. Press releases can deliver traffic for years. Every day, my web site gets visitors who have found and clicked from releases posted two years ago or earlier. Therefore, if you use press releases to promote a transitory event or limited-time product, either update your landing page from the release to something people can now buy or redirect traffic to that landing page to a closely related, still relevant page.

Not all services keep your releases active indefinitely, however. One subscription service told me that if I didn’t renew my account, all the releases I had posted through them would become invisible. Ask about this before buying a monthly or annual subscription to a distribution service.

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