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The Press Release aka Tell Me Your Story In One Page Or Less - Click To Read Article
The purpoes of a press release is not to tell your whole stoyr but to grab the media's attention. Keep it short, simple and think in headlines.

Defining Your Target Market - Click To Read Article
You can have the best business or product out there, but if you don't know your market, you won't be successful

Keep Your Message Focused to Get More Clients
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The key to delivering a powerful message is focus. While you may indeed be an expert in your field, to be considered one by the media, keep your information targeted and concise.

UTILIZING YOUR MEDIA to Land More Business
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If you use it correctly, media begets media.

The PR Credibility Factor
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Unlike advertising, or other forms of marketing, it is the credibility factor that makes PR so effective.

Twenty and one bonus Tips For A Successful Interview
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Tips to review before a media interview

Creating Your PR Image to Bring Your Dreams to Reality
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It’s important to define your image. Approach your business as though you were a prospective client. An effective image does not just happen; it has to be worked at.

The PR Follow-Up Etiquette
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You need to make follow-up calls after sending out your press release. Initially it’s often best to concentrate on your local media. The local press will usually be more open to your calls and pitches.

Authors and the PR Blues
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If you're self-publishing, you know it's up to you, but even if you are publishing with a major house, view your publisher primarily as a printer and distributor and assume that all of the responsibility for securing for your book rests firmly on your weary shoulders. In reality, it does.

The 8 Greatest Public Relations Myths Of All Time
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There are certainly more than eight, but these are some of the biggest PR mysts out there.

Staying on Course
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People who tell you exactly how you should run your PR campaign have nothing at stake, which is why they can afford to make such definitive and authoritative pronouncements.

Avoiding FollowUp Suicide
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Without follow-up calls, media placement is often a real crapshoot, yet the wrong kind of follow-up calls will knock you out of the game completely.

Yes You Do Need more Media Training
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Studies show that 93 percent of what an audience reacts to has to do with the messenger, and only 7 percent has to do with the message itself.

The Myth of the Press Kit
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Press kits can be seductive. They're attractive and seem impressive, but they can often do you more harm than good.

Why Be The Story
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When you're featured in the media, you have avoided spending thousands of dollars in advertising and have gained two things no amount of advertising could ever buy you – validation and credibility.

Should I Handle My Own Public Relations Campaign
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Should you handle your own public relations campaign? No, not if you don’t know the process or truly understand the intracies launching a PR campaign. Can you? Yes, at least to a point.

You Never Know Whos Watching Listening or Reading
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What makes media relations so fascinating is the unexpected. It can result in totally surprising and unanticipated benefits.

The Importance Of Beating Your Own Drum
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If you believe what you do is important, than it is of equal importance to let others know about it.

Finding Your Niche
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You can't successfully promote your business until you know who you're talking to.

The Genesis of Emotional Branding
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Anthony Mora discusses how the most effective emotional branding is a result of the systematic use of the PR process.

Creating A PR Roadmap
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Take some time and create at PR roadmap: if you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you've arrived?

PR Guarantees
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If a public relations company guarantees you specific placement or a successful campaign, I suggest you start looking for the exit. But you can access what a company can do in the future by taking a look at their past track record.

The Trouble with Pay for Placement
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With Pay for Placement chances are you won’t have a campaign focused on delivering your message, or building your brand, but one focused on grabbing as much quick media as possible.

The Online PR Media Myth
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You need an even media mix, and those that turn their back on so called old media and exclusively focus on the net, do so at their own peril.

The PR Headline Game
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When it comes to your press release a strong, effective headline is the name of the game.

How to Succeed in Business With a Little Help From Oprah, Time, USA Today…
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Imagine picking up Newsweek or People or The Wall Street Journal and reading an article on YOU or your company, or turning on the Today Show, or CNN, or Oprah and seeing a segment profiling you and your product or service - that is PR.

The PR Follow-up Ph.D
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Making PR follow-up calls can be a difficult proposition. You may be a natural salesman, and your clients may indeed love you, but you're playing a different game when you’re contacting the media.

Taking Your Message Public
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Effective media placement can legitimize, validate, sell products, bring in clients, forge new alliances, bring you in contact with benefactors you never knew existed.

Why Media Training is a MUST
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If you're launching a PR campaign, you want to make the best presentation possible, media training is imperative. You owe it to yourself and to the media to be as well prepared as possible.

Whatdaya Mean Preinterview
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Whether you're booked as a guest will often be determined by how well you do on the phone pre-interview. Take it seriously

The Trouble with Press Conferences
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If you think that a press conference is the way to go, nine times out of ten you're going to be wrong.

What Is Your Message
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The importance of understandting and defining the central idea and message behind your business.

What The Media Wants
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The media wants stories, not products, not services, they want good interesting stories. So, give them what they want.

The Most Important Marketing Tool of the Internet Age
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Why public relations is the ONLY Valid Form of Marketing in the Brave New World Of Social Networking

Viral Marketing vs PR
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PR is still amazingly effective when it comes to generating positive word of mouth and viral marketing is not the end-all online marketing tool that many would suppose.

PR FollowUp Secrets
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You’ve found your story, you’ve written a release, you’ve sent it to the appropriate media contacts and now you’re ready to follow up with the media. Welcome to the minefield.

Public Relations: The Long -Term View
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When looking at launching a public relations campaign, you have to decide not only what media is applicable to your business, but also how you want to utilize your media.

National PR for a Local Story
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Don’t be afraid to shoot for national coverage, think of national media as being local media with a huge spillover.

Breaking the PR Rules
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Most experts will suggest that you stick with the traditional press release form and put your name, address, and contact information at the top. My response has always been, “why?”

But Ive Tried It PR Doesnt Work
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Learn how to truly access a PR campaign's value. Your short-term goals may not be met by the particular article in question, but it affords you new, powerful ammunition to reach your long-term goals. It helps establish you as an expert in your field and separates you from your competition

Launching Your Own PR Campaign
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If you’re at the point where you need some media coverage, but can’t afford to retain the services of a firm, what are your options?

Staying on Target
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Keep your message targeted and focused. You may be well versed on a number of topics, but believe me, you don’t want to pitch the media a Chinese menu.

Sending Out Your Press Release
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Whether using email and snail mail or faxing, learn the PR basics before sending your press release to the media.

Surprising Ways PR Can Build Your Business
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When launching a PR campaign, once you get the story out there, you never know who is going to see, hear or read it.

Long Term PR Strategies To Make More Money
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Don't come up with a PR plan that has you appearing on Oprah, The Tonight Show, or in Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal within the first two months of your campaign. That's not a plan, that's fantasy.

Recession-proof PR
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Hard economic times are, ironically, the best times to aggressively launch a PR campaign.

Follow-up Calls: Welcome to the PR Mine Field
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Making follow-up calls is important to any effective public relations campaign, but if you are unprofessional in how you address the media, or verbally harass the media, you're going to destroy any interest that your press release may have created.

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Anthony Mora Communications, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based public relations firm that focuses in the areas of media relations, image development and media training. Anthony Mora Communications regularly places clients in major media outlets, including Time, Newsweek, Oprah, the New York Times, CNN, the Today Show, the Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other media outlets. Through media placement, you are not presented within the context of an ad or commercial. You're not positioned as an ad but as the news. President and CEO, Anthony Mora, has been featured in: USA Today, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The BBC, CNN, E! Entertainment Television, Entrepreneur, Fox News, MSNBC, and other media. He has written three books, the most the most recent, a how-to on PR called Spin to Win. For further information visit: www.AnthonyMor a.com
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