After hearing allot of others using press releases, yesterday I gave it a go, I thought about PRWeb.com, but as a newbie to press releases I decided to try out a free press release site first, after typing “free press release” into Google, I came across http://www.free-press-release.com/, yes its free, but, you do not have the opportunity to insert a text link into the release itself, so if you want to be able to insert a text link it will cost you 1 credit($1), but you cannot just pay $1, the lowest you can purchase is 20credits($20), free my a$$!!!.
I researched a couple of other related press releases before I entered mine, the others were about as dry as a camels nose after drinking in the desert, but at least I have something to go on, so I put pen to paper, or in blogging terms, fingers to keys and got working on my first press release.
Earlier that morning before I wrote the release I was watching CNN, and wouldn’t you know the main news was about how the company I work for are laying off 7000 jobs!, oopps, this might be fun going into work tomorrow!, I can only imagine telling my wife that one!, “erm…… well you know about how things get worse before they can get better right?…”, see I got it all planned out;).
But I thought i’d maybe use that for a headline, after all many people are starting to find themselves in the same boat as me, so I came up with this for a headline, “Blogging Away From The Bank”, and this for a short intro…
“How a part time retail worker, with job under threat has turned to blogging to pay some bills, and earn extra income in these tough times. If I can do it, anyone can!.”
Then I follow up with the rest of the story, you can take a look here flopidle release, I just thought it might get more interest if I make it relevant to todays issues, then relate it back to what im trying to do myself by blogging. so far its got 130 views and a few clicks to my site, not a huge amount but its still only one day old so ill give it time to see how it really works out, after all this release cost me 1credit, and I now have another 19 to go, so I have allot of time to improve;).
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Im still waiting for my other articles to be reviewed before I can see how that improves traffic, its taking a long time!, I’ve seen faster donkey races, but what do you expect for free!?, if these articles do well then Ill gladly pay for a quicker submission in the future, “you get what you pay for”, I know, you can say it;).
Oh the last thing before you leave this blog and go on to one of the “pro” blogs;), today I received my Isonic Snapbox HD video camera, god only knows what kind of things im going to bring to this blog with that beast!, maybe I can take it to work tomorrow to film me get my marching orders?, or I can film the moment I tell my wife about the issue, oh and the fact that I actually bought the camera, I just hope it had a built in bleep feature to mask over the words she may use!?.
Wish me luck with this one;))..
