Now that you have established your home based business, you are ready to inform the public about your product or service. A common method to achieve this is to send a press release. Before accomplishing this, you need to be informed what a press release is and to be effective in using this method of promotion.
A press release is a statement about your business that is designed to be appealing to the public using the resources of the media. This statement is designed to answer questions submitted by the reporters who in turn will write and report on your business.
There are several methods that you should learn to be able to write an effective press release. First of all, you should have an idea to whom the release should bn sent. Thus, you need to know the editor or reporter of the particular section of that form of the media in which you want your press release to appear. Secondly, send your press release to only one person so that there will be no duplication,. Keep your press release short and informative and typically limited to one page.
When wrting the press lelease, call the media that you are sorking with and inquire about deadlines as many magazines are plannned months in advance. Seasonal releses for Christmas, etc., especially need to be planned in advance.
After writing your press release, call the editor or reporter as speaking to them in person will give you better coverage for your press release. It would be wise for you to then follow with another call to be certain that they received your release. Be certain that the editor or reporter knows how to contact you by telephone or email.
You can distribute press releases to many sources including magazines, newspapers, TV and radio, webmasters, email, fax and US mail.You might be surprised how well press releases are received by your potential cuatomers.
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Why do we use this expression? How did we come to call a misdirection a “red herring”? The term for an attempt to distract attention from the main issue comes from fox hunting. After it is cured, a red herring has a stong odor, As the hounds set out on the scent of a fox, if a red herring is dragged across the trail, it will diatract the hounds and cause then to follow the scent of the red herring instead iof the fox.
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I put an ad on craigslist looking to write essays, press releases, etc. Now I have a response and they want my per page rate but I don’t know how much to charge. I have a Master’s degree and a lot of experience writing research papers for school and reports at work but I’m just starting out in the freelance writing arena. Help!
Some services ask for as little as $1 per page, some I have seen as high as $5. I would never pay very much, you will want to consider keeping your rates low. This is particularly true when forming a client base. You don’t want word-of-mouth to get out that you’re overcharging.
One good rule of thumb is if you were a person making, say, $10 per hour, how much time did you spend on the job?
Some people use their rate by time rather than page.
How to Start Blogging – Steps for becoming a Blogger
1) Find your Niche – Now when I saw this Tip, I didn’t even knew what’s a niche. What it means to me is your interests. For Eg. -My Blog Realtrix is about Internet & Web and Computing Stuff. Similarly you should find your Interest about what you are going to Blog about. Some Ideas I think you can be blogging about are Blogging, Computing, Tech, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Music, Bollywood, Parental, Personal & Education.
2) Find which Blogging SW you are going to Use – The are many. The most Popular is WordPress & Blogger. Lets be straight WordPress is much better than Blogger. BUT is better as it not 100% free. Hence, Blogger is the Best Option. I am using Blogger as Its highly Customizable. Also Blogger is a part of Google Services.
3) How to Start & what to write – Before making your own blog see what other Bloggers are doing and writing about on the same topic you are going to write about. Then make a list of Stuff they are not Writing about but you think should be written about. Now you know what to write about in your Blog.
Tip : If you are a regular reader you might have seen that I use Images for every Post I write. So you can start collecting Photos for your Blog Post in advance.
4) Starting Your Blog – Check Out the Video here to know how to Get a Free Blog at Blogger.Com. Set Up the Blog there following the Video Tips. Read : How to Create a BlogSpot Blog for Free ? – Video Guide For Beginners
5) Search Engine Optimization – This is very Important when Starting a Blog… See Below “Tips for New Bloggers”
6) What Template to Choose and Where to find Them – Your blog Template, I think is one of the Factors which will keep bringing back Visitors. I means think it this way if you see a very Nice Looking Blog … Don’t you try to remember it and Go back to See what’s new going On there ??
Best Tips for New Bloggers
Do you want to increase traffic to your blog? Well, here are some ready tips to make a move in the world of success blogging. Get started with the following tips that make your task easy. Some of the Easiest Ways to Improve your Blog, SEO and its Traffic/Visitors.
- Make a habit of posting regularly in the blog.
- Choose a proper template for your Blog. You don’t expect people to like it if you have a cooking theme in a Technology blog.
- Write a topic and post it in different sections and thereby create a series. This increases the curiosity of the web visitors who turn to the blog for the interesting follow-ups.
- Optimize your blog to make it load Faster so that new visitor don’t get annoyed to sit idle while your blog page loads.
- Try to blog out breaking news first. It increases the popularity and creates an authentic image in the web community.
- Use right keywords in the body content. The placement of the keywords in accurate density proves to be search engine friendly.
- It is very important to encourage comments of web visitors in your blog. Highlight the most relevant comments on the blog. Try to build a cordial relation with the web visitors so that they visit your blog over and over again.
- Submit your blog in blog directories and the RSS feed in RSS directories respectively.
- It will be fruitful if you use the Ping-O-Matic service. Enter your blog name and its URL and select the directories according to choice. Any updates in your blog are automatically updated in the directories. The web visitors in these directories will able to access your contents.
- While designing your blog it necessary to make an email subscription button and form. This proves to be very user friendly.
- Try to comment on other blogs. This will introduce your blog in the blogger community.
- List your favorite blogs in the blog rolls. You must also try to list your blog in other blogs.
- It is highly important to add your blog’s URL to your email signature and any profiles other social networking sites. This will also introduce your blog in the web community.
- It is essential to use Digg, Stumble and other social bookmarking sites for your blog. Once you send a post in the aggregators, it will reach millions in no time.
- Write on related topics. Post related Articles in a row. This helps in stirring up the interest of the web visitors.
- Show the topmost posts in the your blog which received great popularity. This will bear evidence of your blog’s authenticity and significance.
- It is mandatory to add “previous” and “next” post buttons. This helps the user to quickly and easily navigate through the Blog.
- Try to build up inbound links in your blog. This will help the web visitors to access other important pages in your blog and thus enhance traffic flow.
- Rework on the previous Old posts. Try to check out every detail in your post and make it exciting.
- Track your Visitors. See where they Come From, Searching for What. When they leave. etc.
- Use photos in your post.
- Make a Translation Widget In your Blog to help foreign visitors read what you have written.
- Utilize your Online time when Not Blogging.Find Important Things to Do when Not Blogging.
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What should be included in the write up? Should I include the car specifications? Any written examples to show me?
give the name of the car, what else the manufacturer makes, how much fuel used, how many people it carries, how fast it goes, how well it Will get thru traffic, how easy it is to park, any anti-theft devices
remember, press releases are ideally written for a specific purpose. the press release you send to the car magazines will have a lot of technical stuff, the press release for the daily newspaper will be more general, and the press release to the weekly magazines will be different from either of the above. also, the press release to magazines that go to dealers and to auto mechanic shops will also be different
Which one is easiest to manage? Which one is best for driving traffic? Which one is most automated allowing for just writing and posting?
You always do better having your own domain name and web hosting account using a good blog software program with add-ons that supports SEO. WordPress has many such extras.
When you use another blogging service you are bringing traffic first to that web hosting account then secondary to your blog.
Here’s the WordPress SEO All-In-One-Package Add-on: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean – Heroes of Justice and Democracy
by Cherie Pugh
Cherie Pugh discovered the true story of the Nassau pirates when sailing through the Caribbean on a traditional wooden ship. She found the court records of their trial in London, and spent years researching and writing her novel
“Mary Read – Sailor, Soldier, Pirate”.
This ultimate pirate yarn is now available as an ebook or paperback from www.womanpirate.com
The real pirates of the Caribbean were mostly desperate British sailors, abandoned by their government after they had fought and won Queen Anne’s war. From 1702 to 1713, England, Holland and Germany challenged the might of Catholic France, in a terrible war waged in Flanders and Spain. This war, fought nominally over the succession to the Spanish throne, raised England to a super power, won her entrance to the immensely profitable slave trade, and ended the centuries old dominance of France. Yet England now required no more than skeleton crews to sail her ships back, and her well-trained sailors were left begging for bread in all her scattered colonies. Other European powers also abandoned soldiers and sailors, and there were many Dutchmen, Frenchmen and Spaniards who had deserted their posts, and were now without a home.
Many of the sailors stranded in the Caribbean were forced to cut logwood in the jungles, the desperate life uniting them into tight-knit brotherhoods, sworn to protect each other through malaria, Indian attack and starvation. When the captain of a trading ship tried to cheat Charles Vane’s Company, Vane killed him, and commandeered the ship. And all over the Caribbean, the brethren followed suit, and returned to the sea as pirates.
At the same time, a massive fleet sailed from Cartagena on the Spanish Main, carrying the treasure stripped from South America during the years of the war. Now that peace had been declared, the Spaniards decided to take the immense risk of getting it home. Yet they had barely set sail when a terrible cyclone smashed into them, leaving corpses and gold littering the beaches of Florida.
The pirates heard about the treasure when Captain Henry Jennings rescued a drowning Spanish sailor. When the gallant Welshman refused to throw him back overboard, despite the mutterings of his crew, the grateful Spaniard revealed the fate of the treasure fleet. Jennings then united the pirates, and led them in an overwhelming attack on the Spanish salvage camp. They sailed off together with a fortune.
Jennings then led them to Captain Mission’s old pirate base – the port of Nassau on the island of Providence in the Bahamas. Because of the trade winds, the Bahamas stand directly in the line of sail from Europe to the New World colonies, and every merchant ship would have to run the pirate gauntlet. Nassau harbour, with its reefs and shallows and extreme tides was also too dangerous for a large, square-rigged Navy ship to enter.
Urged by Jennings, the pirates united under Captain Mission’s code, which insisted on the honour of the Brethren of the Sea. The pirates claimed they were true gentlemen, and those well-born were but a pack of wolves that gorged on the helpless and weak. Mostly poor sailors, most had been shanghaied by their own government, that required hundreds of men for each ship in their navy, yet in never managing to feed them properly, due to the corruption of the Navy commanders, killed thousands of their own men every year, many times more than were ever killed in battle.
It is within a cultural disdain for the life of the ordinary man or woman, that the pirates evolved. These men came from the 80% of Britain that lived in desperate poverty and lawlessness, and having all suffered from injustice, they chose not to tolerate it, or perpetuate it. If they captured a ship captained by a tyrant, the pirates would encourage the crew to ‘tickle’ him, before dropping him into his ship’s boat, keeping his ship for his crew to share. To them, this was justice. The pirates also released slaves from the ships they captured, for they abhorred slavery as much as any Quaker.
The Caribbean pirates lived by strict rules, chosen by themselves, and clearly expressed in their Company Articles. Marcus Rediker, in “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – A History of Anglo-American Seafaring…” examines six surviving sets of signed Articles which all insist on one man, one vote. Their officers were openly elected, and could be challenged by any of the crew. The quartermaster’s role was to defend the rights of the crew against the captain, who could only give orders when they were ‘chasing or being chased’. Every man had an equal share in the plunder, except the captains and quartermasters, who had a share and a half.
They expelled any man who stole from the Company, even to the value of a piece of eight; any who took an open flame below deck near the gunpowder; any who raped a “prudent” woman found aboard a prize; or who bought boy or bawd aboard for amusement.
I have found the court records of two women aboard pirate ships, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and they are the exceptions that prove the rule. Mary Read masqueraded as a man for most of her life, including her time with captain Jack Rackam. Anne stole two sloops for Rackam’s crew, dressed in trousers when attacking, and though living openly as a woman pirate, and Rackam’s wife, was manifestly good for business. Even so, it is probable that the two women contributed to Rackam’s downfall.
[For more information on these fascinating women, see my coming article
“Mary Read and Anne Bonny - Pirate Women of the Caribbean”]
As they had sworn binding oaths not to spill each other’s blood, the pirates marooned any who broke their rules. A man could be made the ‘Prince of an island’ that was no more than a strip of sand in a blinding sea. With no water, food or shade, he would die in agony within three days. Or he might be left on a verdant isle with all he needed, and the likelihood of another ship dropping in for water.
Perhaps the lasting achievement of the Nassau pirates was the introduction of the bird-wing sail to Europe. John Haman built the pirates’ small fast ships at Harbour Island, basing his designs on the sloops of the Malacca pirates, ‘fast to attack, faster to run’. The pirates easily outran the square-sailed Navy ships, and their agile sloops could easily negotiate the dangerous reefs and shallows of the Caribbean on much lighter breezes. It was not until the Navy adopted these sloops, that they threatened the pirates at all.
[For more information on Nassau, see my next article
“Nassau – Pirate Haven in the Caribbean]
By 1715, pirate fleets of small, quick sloops dominated the trade between England, Africa and the Caribbean. They kept themselves well-armed, making their own powder and grenades, and stealing all the large and small armament they needed. Sailing up to a merchantman, King Death flying from the mainmast, drums and trumpets blaring, their sloops crowded with hundreds of armed men with blackened faces cursing like the Devil, and promising mercy only upon instant surrender, they must have seemed truly terrifying. The small, under-paid, starving crew would indeed surrender instantly, knowing the pirates’ reputation for fairness to the ordinary sailor, whose sea-chests they never touched.
When their holds were full, the pirates sold their stolen goods openly at auction on the docks of the corrupt colonial governors, who disliked buying expensive, highly-taxed goods from Europe.
At its height, the Brethren of the Sea was a close-knit organisation of thousands of well-trained sailors, in companies of hundreds of men, in large fleets of fast sloops. Openly devoted to the ethics of justice and democracy, they committed a great deal of theft, but little murder. That they have been slandered as psychopaths is an ongoing injustice.
[For more information on the British Government's slaughter of these pirates,
see my coming article “The End of the Pirates of the Caribbean”]
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Cherie Pugh
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Below are the ingredients you can use in blogging world that can make you attain a great success in your blogging business career.
1: Get your blog filled up with quality contents.
as a blogger who want to excel through blogging business On the Internet must be able to source for quality content content that will keep the readership to keep returning to it blog. But, what is quality content? The quality of your blog’s content is directly related to how well you have defined your ideal audience.
A successful blog is written with a distinct audience in mind. In this way, you can provide content that is unique to your audience’s issues, needs, or desires. If you create content they like and wish to return to read, you have quality content.
The second issue is to stay true to your audience and tone of your blog. If people are reading your blog, it’s because they like your topic and tone. Try not to stray from your typical topics and style too much. This will give your readers a reason to link back to your blog on daily basis, as will posting on a regular basis.
2: You must be highly committed to your blog.
As a blogger who is highly committed, you must frequently update your blog on a daily basis, If you don’t update your blog often enough, blog readers will move on to other blogs. There are too many blogs out there competing for attention. Blog readers will go where they can get enough of what they want.
Successful blogging takes a commitment of your time. When you begin blogging and wish to capture an audience, you should be prepared to blog every day. In this way, you can develop an audience who counts on you to help them begin or end their day.
This means you should also try to post at the same time each day. Your readers will get accustomed to your schedule and check your blog at the appropriate time. The time of day is not as crucial as the consistency in your posting.
Since you now have quality content and a regular posting schedule, it’s time to drive traffic to your blog. Your readers will do a lot to promote your blog just by telling their friends. Don’t count on this alone! You need to do some additional work.
When you post, make sure you set your blog to “ping” blog tracking sites every time you add a new post. Think of this as a means to get their attention. The ping says “Hey, we just added a new post”. An alternative to automatically pinging from your blog is to use pingomatic.com. This is a one-stop place to automatically ping everyone you should notify of your new post and only takes a couple of minutes to accomplish.
3: Always announce and talk about your blog anywhere
Mention your blog’s address in your email signature line, in forums where you post, on your business cards, on address labels and in conversations with anyone you meet. Use a tag line under your blog address to further entice them to visit. Mine reads:
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Beyond just mentioning your blog in writing and conversation, you must actively participate in the blogging community too.
4: Participate in the blogosphere Get involved in other people’s blogs.
Visit blogs that interest you and are in line with the general topic of your blog. Then, leave thoughtful comments. Almost every comment option on someone else’s blog will allow you to post your blog URL and your email address. Help other bloggers out with traffic and they will help you.
If a blogger really likes your site, they will add you to their blogroll. A blogroll is generally found on every blog which understands linking to the rest of the blogosphere helps drive traffic. A blogroll is a listing of other blogs. Think of it as a “recommended reading list”. Don’t be stingy with your blog roll either. Add those blogs that you read and enjoy to your blogroll too.
5: Always include your keywords in your post.
think about keywords with your use of titles, links and blog posts. Search engines, like Google and Yahoo, like keywords. The more targeted your keywords, the better the chances of your blog appearing in search results. Search results can drive that extra traffic you want.
To increase the value of the key words in your content, make certain keywords are part of the hot link in your posts. Don’t use “click here” as the hot link. You will be wasting valuable real estate in your post. Instead use the relevant keywords for the hot link, like “a great marketing idea. This gives the keywords added emphasis with the search engines.
One last thought on keywords for driving traffic; if you want a real leg up in the traffic game, in your linking code add rel=”tag”. This helps Technorati, a major blog resource, index your blog for their directory. But don’t stop there! It’s time to submit your blog to blog directories.
6: Submit your blog to blog directories.
In addition to submitting your blog to the major search engines, make certain you submit the blog to exclusively blog directories like blogwise, blogcatalog, or bloghub. Many people find blogs through these online directories.
When you do submit your blog to these directories, remember to add a description that will entice your targeted audience to check your blog out. For instance, when I post my blog in blog directories, under description I put “General Musings, rants, advice and strategies from a battle-worn veteran of the Marketing Wars, online and off”. Your description should help the potential reader understand your blogging topic and the flavor of how you write.
In addition to submitting your blog to blog directories, join a few of the free or inexpensive traffic exchange sites like blogexplosion or blogclicker.
7: Use free and inexpensive blog traffic exchange communities.
there are many sites which can be termed “traffic exchange” sites for the blogging community. It won’t cost you anything to sign up. At the very least, join blogexplosion, blogclicker, and blogazoo. Once you sign up, you have two options to help drive traffic to your blog. Use both of them!
The first method is to earn credits (guaranteed visitors to your site) by using the “surf member sites” function. As you surf through those sites, you will be earning credits (visitors to your blog). When you find an interesting post, leave a comment as discussed above. When you find a blogger you like, add them to your blogroll and let them know you did.
The second method to drive traffic is to purchase credits. The cost is very cheap for the traffic you will drive to your blog. The more traffic to your blog, the more customers you’ll have. The more happy customers you have, the more they will tell others. The more they tell others, the more customers you get. Don’t you love this dance!
In summary, blogging for business may not be for everyone. However, it can be a great method for bringing your unique perspective to the Internet. You will surely find others who think the same way you do. Some bloggers will entertain you, some will inform you, and some will drive you to tear your hair out. Decide what type of blogger you want to be and be the best you can. See you in the blogosphere!
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