28 Reasons Why You Should Distribute a Press Release
Do you have a special event or occasion, or a unique story to share about your company? If so, you should be sharing it in a press release.
Press releases are an excellent way to keep your company in the spotlight. They allow you to share with your allies, employees, customers, and prospects what you are doing in your industry.
When you distribute a press release to the masses through a service like PR Newswire or PR Web, you increase your chances of getting picked up by hundreds of major media outlets including magazines, newspapers, top media websites and broadcast TV affiliates. Press releases can help open the door to inquiring minds – people who want to learn more about what you do.
Whenever you distribute a press release you should also post it on your company website and email it to your lists.
To give you some ideas, here’s a short list of possible reasons for you to write and distribute a press release right now.
- New products that solve unique problems
- Business start-up
- Partnerships, especially with well-known entities
- Strategic alliances with other companies in same industry
- New or innovative business strategy
- Restructuring your company
- Taking your company public
- Overcoming a major challenge that’s known to the public
- Important executive retiring or resigning
- Comment from company executives regarding business or economic trends
- Announcement of research results
- Major anniversary
- Major new client acquisition
- Company revenue, sales growth
- Company name change
- Winning of a major award or receiving national recognition
- Company presenting an award
- Company sponsoring an event
- Receiving sponsorship for a company event
- Receiving industry accreditation or certification
- Holding a free learning event such as a seminar or workshop
- Issuing a statement popular subject that positions your company as a leader
- Important, free information available to your target market
- Company speaker’s bureau
- Community work or philanthropic support
- Major company milestone such as a 25th anniversary or hiring of 1,000th employee
- New board of directors
- New website that offers more value and better functionality for visitors
A press release is a very cost-effective way to reach more of your market while positioning your company as a leader in your industry. The time to start reaching more customers and clients is now.
Monica Davis is a media coach and strategist with 20+ years of experience in the media industry to include television, magazine publishing, and radio. She is on a mission to help entrepreneurs use publicity to reach more of their market with an impactful message, and leverage their media coverage to quickly grow their business and influence without hiring a publicist.
“There’s a real advantage to working with Monica because she knows media from both sides; one side as a producer, host and publisher and the other side as a source and subject matter expert. Monica knows how to position your message in a way that it can be heard. And at the same time, she can show you how to monetize your message which is something that few to no publicists do. Monica’s media coaching program goes far beyond what you would get at a traditional publicist or PR firm. If you are serious about growing your business and income and you would like to use media to accelerate that process, I encourage you to use Monica’s Media Mastery course and Media Mogul coaching programs.”
William R. Patterson, CEO, The Baron Solution Group
