Do you know what a press release is? Or what it can do for you? Even if you did know about these things, would you know how to go about writing a press release, or how to get PR distribution so that your story could reach all of the appropriate and necessary news outlets? While…

In 1906, a public relations expert named Ivy Lee created the very first official press release when he convinced a railroad to make a statement and submit it to news sources in the wake of the Atlantic City Train Wreck. The initial motivation for this press release was to stop false information and rumors from…

Did you know that millions of new pieces of internet content are published on a daily basis? According to WorldOMeters, there have been 2.1 million new blog posts just today. You can bet that if you include news articles, press releases, and other content types, the number is far higher. With that being the case,…

News organizations such as those that provide you with your television evening or morning news, or those that print your daily newspaper, do not use reporters for all of their news stories. Particularly not the global stories that appear in your local news sources. Those world news stories come from news wire services that report…

Did you know that roughly 75 percent of new business ventures fail within their first year? Some experts even contend that as many as 95 percent of all start ups will be unsuccessful. And although computer technology and the internet has made starting a business a little easier today than it was a generation ago,…