What Does it Take to Get Sales with Your Press Releases?

Writing by Brick Marketing on Saturday, 9 of February , 2008 at 7:30 am

Submitting press releases to a number of online sources is a great way to market your business, sure; but are you really content with building links? Wouldn’t getting sales be a whole lot better?

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Conventionally, getting sales with press releases wasn’t really the goal. With a traditional press release, the goal is to get the media to pick up the story and to talk about your product or service. The reason for that is remarkably simple: people tend to trust what they see on TV, hear on the radio and read about in the local newspaper (it’s for this same reason why designers pay celebrities to wear their clothing - it influences the buyers).

Online press releases can be used a little bit differently for getting sales. Because you can focus on a targeted keyword or keyphrase, because you can tie your products and services to your local area to help attract attention and because online press releases can be seen by anyone, you can attract prospective buyers along with the media. If you grab and hold their attention, you’ll find that there are clicks through to your website, and those clicks help with getting sales as well.

So what does it take to get sales with your press releases? The first step is to write for an online audience - which means balancing the content with search engine optimization so that readers and the search engines see it as valuable. Include enough details to get readers excited enough to want to know more - and then make them take action to get that extra info. Be confident, clear, concise and just casual enough that it doesn’t sound like your only goal is getting sales.

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