Why bother with press releases? Here's why
To promote an upcoming course on postcard marketing, on Thursday (2 days ago) I sent out a press release about it through Emailwire. Someone signing up for the course yesterday mentioned he'd found it in a Google search.
This morning I realized that although I had promoted the course to my email list on Wednesday, I had forgotten to change links at my web site so my page on the postcard course would show up in Google.
This morning, when I did a search in Google for "postcard marketing course" (without using the quotation marks in the search box), my press release for the course was main search result #2 and #5, and my own page on the course was main search result #4:
postcard marketing course - Google Search
It's not surprising, then, that someone looking on Google for info on postcard marketing found and then signed up for my course.
My own promotional page couldn't have gotten into Google other than from its link in the press release because there weren't any other public links to it.
So, my newly announced course has been getting more exposure than all but one of its competitors, within a day of my press release, because of the release. I'm pretty pleased about that!
Press releases are an underused and highly effective marketing tool.
Marcia Yudkin
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