2 steps to getting journalists interested in your story

One of the hardest parts of publicity is finding a good strong message that leads to your story getting published.

We can spend hours banging our fists against our foreheads trying to find a good story about our business. And if the journos don’t run with it, the disappointment is hard to recover from.

Here’s a better way to find your media messages, and get journalists interested in you.

1. Allow stories about your business to emerge naturally from your day-to-day online marketing.

We know that one of the most effective ways for a small business to build trust is by continually publishing content. This means regarding your website as a magazine and you as the editor.

Along with new product or service launches, there are so many things you can talk about on your site - draw on your experience and expertise and offer advice, comment on issues that relate to your business, talk about trends, tell stories about clients who have succeeded (with their permission).

Once you get into the habit of doing this, media stories will begin to jump off the screen.

You’ll find yourself saying, that’s a damn good story I just published. I know my audience will love it, so it makes sense to give the media a chance to publish it.

2. As well as putting out the story as a press release, send journalists links to your blog or newsroom, so that they can pick up the stories that interest them.

Include high-resolution images (upload them in hi-res, insert a thumbnail on the page or post, and link it to the hi-res version for download), and they’ll love you even more.

This kind of resource is invaluable to journalists, and bringing them to your site enables them to see that you are an authority in your niche. Chances are they’ll come back for more.

Tags: media message, Online marketing, Publicity
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