Remember the basics when writing releases
I noticed a piece recently on ReadWriteWeb about media relationships, a guest post by the marketing guy for an e-commerce startup specializing in co-created custom dress shirts. Very different space, but what he has to say about getting media and general reader attention translates really well to justa bout any industry, and certainly an emerging [...]
The importance of (good) white papers
San Fran-based content strategist Eccolo Media has released a survey of US businesses that suggests white papers are the most important and influential pieces of collateral used in technology buying decisions. The B2B Technology Collateral Survey of American businesses was done with more than 500 technology-purchasing decision makers and it confirmed, Marketing Charts reports, “that sales [...]
DS PR 101: No PDFs please
I just got a press release as a PDF. For me, that’s OK, because while I write about the industry, I don’t spend a lot of time reporting on it and therefore extracting a lot of quotes from releases. BUT, if I did, pulling the text out of PDF files is a pain in the [...]
Advice from editors: on carpet-bombing
There are countless blogs now on the digital signage and DOOH sector, but still just a handful of Web-based portals and news sites that cover the industry on a daily basis. The people who runs those commercial services make the calls daily on what either goes from their email Inboxes to their digital pages, or [...]
Fine-tuning your message so that prospective customers notice, and care
This post was also recently posted on the Website of the Digital Signage Association … How digital signage and digital out of home companies craft their communications on their Websites, handouts and in press releases is critical to their success. So why is so much of it so bad? The industry executives I speak with [...]
