Public Relations: Announce, Worldwide, Who You Are and What You’re Doing

Getting publicity for yourself and your online business is not as difficult as you may have previously thought. Since web 2.0 took a firm hold a couple of years ago, we are now able to control much of what information we give out and receive. This is the perfect time to promote what you are doing to others in the world you are interested in your topic and ideas.

There are many ways to be your own publicist. One way is to send a press release whenever you do something newsworthy. The important thing to remember is to make news, not make news or press releases. You must have a hook of some kind if you want others to have an interest. Once you find that hook, your information can go viral online.

Many magazine and newspapers have either folded or at least cut way down on the number of people who are reporting the news. My local paper uses stories from the Associated Press wire and other services to fill up their pages. People like you and I are in a fantastic position to be able to get our information out to others.

You can post your stories to your blog, and then use social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to get the word out as well. I do this for myself, my business, and the non-profit groups I am associated with.

Make sure that anything you send out on the internet is exactly the way you would want to be quoted and represented. Once you press send, it is out there forever.

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Connie Ragen Green has been online since 2005 and teaches people how to build their own online business in record time, offering free teleseminars weekly, as well as online courses in a workshop environment with webinars.

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