Promote Your Business Without Really Advertising
It takes just 15-minutes of your time and a little brain power.
Public relations is one of the most powerful means for you to promote your business – put your business name in the minds of existing customers and prospects and keep it there. It’s one of the secrets that successful marketers use extensively but is commonly overlooked by most businesses.
How do you do it?
First of all, you need to tap into the knowledge you already have. Much of what you know you already give away on a daily business with little if any recognition of its value. Wouldn't you like that information to do something positive for your business?
There are two ways you can submit information.
Business Briefs
These are short news items of about 50 words or less. It could be anything from a new employee added, new products or services being introduced, change of location, etc. Any general interest item you want people to know. It is not, however, intended to be a sales message.
What it is the cost?
There is no cost to submit briefs to Community-focus.
Articles
Articles can be up to 250 words and length and can be on any subject you wish. Preferably they will relate to the activities of your business or issues in the local community on which you would like to comment. As with any publication, information should be properly written and researched. All articles are subject to the editorial policies of this publication.
Articles should be original content and cannot be taken from other sources and simply contain a change of author name.
What it is the cost?
There is no cost to submit articles to Community-focus.
Column
If you can commit to a minimum of one article every two weeks, you may qualify for your own column. You will receive your own by-line and your photo and contact information (if you wish) will appear in the page header.
In addition, we’ll add your business name and contact information to our regional business Internet directory and with it, include a business logo and link it to your existing web site so people that want to know more, can find you easily.
Please contact us if you are interested in this option so we can discuss the ideas you have your column and have an opportunity to explain our requirements.
The next step
Is to call us for further information. We’ll send you an information kit with suggestions on how to write a newsworthy and informative article for inclusion in our business news section and how you can become a member of Community-focus.