Article Marketing; One Step to Triple Your Results

Filed Under (Public Relations) by Daniel Z. Kane on 11-10-2008

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by Daniel Z. Kane

Article marketing has become a very popular tactic of website owners. It’s no wonder why.

For most websites, success will come if there is good content and good traffic. And, while advertising of various kinds can generate traffic, the best traffic will always be organic search engine traffic.

First of all, organic search traffic costs nothing. But that’s not it’s chief advantage over traffic that comes as a result of advertising. What makes visitors who reach your site via search engines so valuable is that they are far more likely to be buyers than are visitors who reach you in response to advertising.

Because people who come to you after a search were looking for what your site offers, they are your best visitors. They’re the ones who will request more information, sign up for your newsletter, or buy your product or service on the spot.

That’s why successful site owners do their best to maximize their search engine rankings, a process that should always include link building. And, article marketing is among the quickest, most effective ways to obtain links. It is not unusual to earn hundreds and even thousands of links by writing just one article.

For the most part, website owners write about topics closely related to their websites. And, for many reasons, that’s a good idea.

Unfortunately, most article writers compose articles only on things directly related to their websites. Big, big mistake!

Website owners who choose to write only on one or a narrow range of topics will miss out on lots of potential links. By branching out a bit, their writing and their links can be far more widely published. I’m an education writer who already has thousands of links on education-related websites. But not everybody is interested in higher education, so my articles have reached a limited audience and my links appear primarily on specialized websites. By writing on unrelated but popular topics, like this one, I can reach whole new audiences and earn links on countless more websites.

I recently wrote an article on winning strategies for casual sports bettors. I have written about search engine optimization, teaching teens safe driving habits, helicopter parents, and dozens of other areas. My most published article was on great backyard hamburger grilling recipes. The very best tip I can give other writers is to write and submit periodic articles on at least 4-5 subjects in addition to the subject(s) of their websites. The rewards, in terms of links, are enormous.

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What is What is aa Media Kit and Why Should Your Company Have One

Filed Under (Public Relations) by Amy Nutt on 05-10-2008

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by Amy Nutt

For any new business, or even any already established business that’s considering going in a new direction, reinventing themselves or just launching a new product - a media kit developed by a Public Relations Firm can be an incredibly valuable tool.

There are very few other ways available to promote your company and its endeavors that you can control entirely. You or representatives from your company can decide exactly what will be included in a media kit and where you will distribute it.

By determining the size, the items included and the packaging, you can control the price of the media kit, and by controlling distribution, you can be sure that your media kit will get directly into the hands of the people who need it - your target audience will have all the pertinent information on your company, exactly when you want them to have it.

Does Your Company Need a Media Kit?

All types of businesses can benefit from having a media kit. No matter what kind of service you are providing or what type of product that you are selling, you can most likely, in some way or another, benefit from what a media kit can do.

Increased awareness, increased patronage, and increased revenue are all very real possible products of a well thought out and properly distributed media kit.

What Types of Information and Items are Usually Included?

Depending on what type of service or product your company is offering, the contents of your media kit could vary dramatically. What you include and how you present it is really dependent on what your company is trying to achieve.

It’s also important to consider the objective of your media kit before deciding all of the information that you will include. What are you trying to achieve and what are the most important things that you want your target audience to know: Are you considering making your company more environmentally conscious, have you hired a new vice president, have you and your employees been more active in the community or are you preparing to launch a product that will change the face of your industry as the public currently sees it? All of these items would be good possible focal points of your company’s media kit, and may there-by change how much information that you include or slightly alter whose hands, exactly, you want it to end up in.

The Basics

Regardless of what your business offers, at the very least your media kit should include a basic press release detailing the company objective as well as a copy of the annual report - tucked neatly into a professionally printed folder.

Other adders to a basic packet could include press releases on upcoming company endeavors as well as information on the latest product releases.

Bigger and Bolder

Some companies that want to make big impressions with their media kit will go far above and beyond the minimal. They could trade in the professional, but conservative folder for some bigger, brighter packaging and include things like audio CDs or DVDs along with brightly colored flyers and product samples. A professional PR Company will be an ideal adviser as to what kind of media kit your company would benefit from most.

Snack food manufacturers, record labels and fashion studios are all immersed in very competitive fields. These companies will often try to go to new heights to make serious impressions with the content of their media kits - you can never go to big or bold when it comes to things like music, fashion and food.

Whether your company decides to go big or small, simple or elaborate - if you want to get the word out about your company and its endeavors, a media kit is one of the best possible ways to do so.

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What is an Executive Profile and What is included in One

Filed Under (Public Relations) by Amy Nutt on 04-09-2008

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An executive profile is a brief, but detailed report describing the particular attributes of often high power executives. A company’s CEO, President, Vice-President, Director of Marketing as well as other department heads may be represented to the public in the form of an executive profile developed by a Public Relations Firm.

Fortune 500 Companies often search far and wide for the right person to fill a high profile position, when they have that person in place they want to let the shareholders, the media, and the public know exactly why they have selected said person. An executive profile is the best tool for a company to accomplish this goal. Having not just a qualified person, but the most qualified person firmly in place is an important thing for a large company to be able to share with the public, and in particular, with it’s share holders.

What is Often Included

Experience and Education

The number of years spent in the trenches of a company before taking the reigns and the years of experience in the same or similar fields is often described in detail, as are degrees, awards and affiliations with educational institutions.

Where an executive attended school to receive his bachelors, masters and all subsequent degrees and current status with any of those institutions are detailed in this section. Many high power executives like to give back to the educational institutions where they got their start and will remain involved with those institutions in some way, shape or form - whether it be just by financial contribution or as an acting member of the board. This loyalty is an important part of being an executive and is often one of the first highlights of an executive profile.

Business Data

How an executive ended up where they are encompasses a large part of an executive profile, what they currently are in control of and what they have done in the past that makes them qualified for their current position. This part of the executive profile lets the reader know exactly what an executive had to go through to get to the point that they are at.

Personal Accomplishments

Some executive profiles will include a more personal section detailing impressive personal achievements that may not necessarily have much to do with their role in a particular position in the corporate world, but help ad an element of character to the profile.

Roles in non profit organizations, appearances in the media, acts of charity and roles of leadership or participation in the community may all be detailed in an executive profile.

Business Accomplishments

This can be the broadest section of the executive profile depending upon the level of success and executive has achieved. Each large step forward an executive has made can be detailed in this section; from increases in revenue, decreases in spending, new product launches, scholarship programs, charitable affiliations and environmentally efficient advances are all things that would likely show up in an executive profile.

Capability of improving the company’s finances in one way or another is often a large part of this section. Taking a company from six figure profits to seven figure profits, no matter how it is done, is a huge accomplishment and often the highlight of an executive profile.

Future Plans

It’s important for every top executive to be able to show success in the past, as well as success in the present, but it is equally important to have a solid plan for success in the future. Impending product and service developments and future endeavors to help grow the company’s future market share are often broached, without giving away too much confidential information.

Plans for future business involvement in the community, with charitable organizations and with environmental causes could also be broached in this area on and executive profile from Polaris Public Relations.

Top executives rarely get to the positions that they are in by resting on their laurels, it often takes years and years of continuing education and countless hours of hard work to be worthy of and successful in one of these positions. An executive profile displays all of the details of how the world’s most powerful and successful business men and women got into the positions that they hold today, and gives the rest of us a small bit of insight into exactly how hard they had to push themselves to get there.

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How can a Company Manage its Image using Public Relations

Filed Under (Public Relations) by Amy Nutt on 12-08-2008

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Public relations is no longer something that just happens; how a company or corporation is perceived in the public eye, particularly in the eye of the company’s shareholders or potential customers, isn’t something that’s left to chance. Companies have entire departments and large budgets in place to ensure that they will be viewed in a positive light by the public.

In its simplest form, the idea of public relations is to get the word out to the public concerning all of the positive things that a company or organization may be involved in, and to enhance the company’s overall image, while at the same time downplaying anything that could potential be viewed as a negative action in the public eye.

Public relations is kind of like advertising’s less obtrusive brother. Where advertising’s main goal is to stick a product in the face of a potential customer and give them every reason to buy it, the public relations approach is a lot less direct. Public relations will let your target consumer know what else you’ve got going on besides your product or service - like what kind of good you are doing in the community and how you plan to help more in the future. Though it’s not as bold as advertising, a good public relations department can aid in building profits just as much as advertising.

There are any number of ways that a company or organization can positively use public relations to enhance their image in the eye of the public:

A company can donate either time or money to a charitable cause or they could hold a charity event to raise money for a particular cause. Potential customers and share holders want to know if a company cares, and they want to know what it is that the company cares about and supports.

Another approach to public relations is to have a company representative speak at an industry conference or seminar. The speaker can go over with an audience, packed with the very people that the company wants to reach, details of all of the latest activities as well as all of the future plans that will be implemented and what kind of positive impact those plans will have on the industry and the community. This is kind of like issuing a personal press release, where the company representative can get out the exact message that needs to be distributed to exactly the right people, and can then answer any potential questions that may arise. A press release is a great tool, but its content is definitive, any questions that arise from a press release will remain until another company statement is made, with a live statement questions can be addressed and answered appropriately right form the start.

Though I’ve just pointed out some of the negatives of a press release, that doesn’t mean that it’s not a very effective tool of public relations. A press release mat not be personal, and it may or may not leave small questions in the minds of some readers, but what it can do is reach a tremendous amount of people giving them a good idea of your mission statement or telling them of a recent award or accomplishment of the company. A well written press release can reach thousands of thousands of people that wouldn’t have known of your accomplishment any other way - and press releases come at a much cheaper price than any form of advertising. You’d never be able to reach the same portion of your target audience with public speaking as you would with a high quality press release.

A company’s image can mean everything - one big negative event, even if it’s only perceived as a negative event in the public eye, can literally destroy a company. If a company or organization wants to become successful and stay successful, it has to build up and protect its positive image - the only way to really do that effectively is through good public relations.

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7 Benefits of Prosperity Conscious Thinking for Public Speakers

Filed Under (Public Relations) by James Malinchak on 09-08-2008

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by James Malinchak

You attract everything you have in your business - your clients, your prospects and even your level of success! In the professional speaking business, the first thing to learn is that the law of attraction is a vital strategy that will help your public speaking career grow and become the success you want it to be.

Prosperity consciousness is your lifeline to success if you’re serious about starting a public speaking business. Learn to think in terms of attracting the kind of clients, sales, and business you want for yourself. To enhance you as a marketable commodity study proven strategies and methods that work. Doing the opposite, known as poverty conscious thinking, would be the end of your career in speaking. Below are some ways that the law of attraction can benefit you when starting a professional speaking business.

Benefit #1: The law of attraction will help you land speaking jobs you never thought you would be able to.

At first it may seem that you’ll be using the wealth attraction principles just to get jobs but as you become more known in your niche, you’ll be going after more lucrative speaking engagements.

Benefit #2: You’ll be able to find niche engagements quicker and easier.

Marketable ideas will come to you as you use them in the right place, at the right time. That’s the laws of attraction working for you!

Benefit #3: Using law of attraction you can find higher paying clients.

As you’re starting a motivational speaking business, try to attract the kind of clients who can pay you the money you want. You may have to start off at a base rate or an introductory rate, but you won’t you won’t have to be there for long in your professional speaking career when you’ve got wealth creation principles working for you.

Benefit #4: A prosperity conscious mindset will make it a win-win for your client and draw larger crowds.

The more value you can bring for your clients (such as the ability to draw huge crowds), the more marketable you become. One of the many public speaking tips I learned was to create a win-win situation for every job. That way, the more business I drummed for my clients, the more likely I would receive a repeat invitation to the following year’s event.

Benefit #5: You can expand your business as the law of attraction brings other ideas to you.

You’ve heard me say that one idea can make all the difference and many of you have learnt that ideas are the real wealth nuggets we need to create more and more money. Let the law of attraction bring those ideas to your mind.

Benefit #6: You can attract the buyers you need for the other services you provide.

Your public speaking business doesn’t only encompass your speaking fee, but also mentorship programs, audio and video sets, as well as books and other training materials. The law of attraction will also help to make every aspect of your business a success!

Benefit #7: Help others develop prosperity conscious thinking!

One of the most rewarding parts of your professional speaking career is helping others develop a wealth creation mindset. Whether you believe it or not, you can use the law of attraction to help you do just that. Attracting the people to your professional speaking engagements who are potential wealth creators in the making!

Everything you could ever want or need in your public speaking career, you can attract. Just because you aren’t using the law of attraction doesn’t mean you aren’t attracting anything. All it means is you aren’t actively controlling what you’re attracting! Just think about that! Build the public speaking career you want using the law of attraction!

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The Law of Attraction for Public Speakers

Filed Under (Public Relations) by James Malinchak on 07-08-2008

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by James Malinchak

Understanding that everything centers on what you think means you know the law of attraction. You can get anything you want just by having the right mindset. Based on what people read in books people believe that there are many different laws of attraction. It’s possible that they are right. If you follow the law of attraction it will work every time is the principle here.

To attract success for yourself you must create a healthy wealth-attraction mindset. Even if you want to get into one of the best speaking businesses you can get into, motivational speaking, all that you have to do is put feelings into it and before you know it, you are in the process.

If you are just involved in public speaking, or you are speaking as a professional business, the law of attraction will get you into the speaking frame of mind and will have you create the mindset you need to become a successful public speaker. Remember the one point here. It doesn’t matter how easy it is for you to get leads, or how many leads you have. It doesn’t matter the amount of people that sign up to hear your speech. Without the proper mindset to guide your thinking, none of that will matter, you won’t be successful and you may not succeed as a speaker.

Even if you want to be a public speaker and you use the law of attraction to get you there, you still have to learn public speaking tips so you will know what skills to develop, which will help you get on that stage and begin speaking. Once you master some public speaking tips, you can create the wealth-attraction mindset that will allow you to not only start a speaking business, but run it successfully for years to come. Then as you learn, and develop more knowledge, you will open your mind to even more of the law of attraction, which will help you scale even more heights than you may ever achieved before.

The main priority is to use the law of attraction to influence your mind, whether you think that there is one law of attraction or many. You need to shape your mind to be a healthy wealth-attraction mindset, which when trained properly, will allow you to be a successful public speaker. It’s all up to you to use your skills to become a successful public speaker. But a huge bonus is having the universe work in your favor. The law of attraction should not be taken for granted, nor should it be taken advantage of.

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