Online press releases for Australia?

Hi,

Is this a real press release with real news? You can actually do this offline - call up your local newspaper and tell them you are submitting news for something local. Direct offline submission is a good way to get published in actual newspapers.

For example:

Look for some local newspapers - here is a Hobart newspaper
The Mercury - News, Views, Sports, Lifestyle and Fun - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

Find their contact - here is link
Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

All newspapers have contact pages where you can call or email and send invites for them to attend an event. Journalists will accept press releases from legit businesses and they are always on the lookout for good human interest stories but they will not publish unless it is real news.

Make the press release nice and give it a local flavor would be good for them to publish. "Two University of Tasmania students launch online commerce portal" is better than "New XXX.com website launched" or something similar to that, the examples are not too good since I don't have anything to work with here. :p

Another tip" pick a slow news day, Tuesday and Wednesday are good. Avoid weekends and the week before a holiday.

Hey Lyanna. I should have made this clear. I was referring to online Press Releases.

Just curious to find out how did you go with your press releases? Did you end up using any services, and if yes what kind of results did you get?

I am about to do the same, and have been thinking of using prweb.com for international exposure while using getthewordout.com.au for local Australian exposure. I was thinking of using a slightly different PR release for the above two sites, with the PR release for prweb being more 'Americanized'. Does anyone recommend doing that?

Why are you looking for local - why not use all pr outlets?

Here is a large list of sites you can submit your press release to free of charge: Submit Press Releases

i too am looking for australia specific press releases or articles or forum links
its a good liitle niche for someone to get into, as the australian economy is powering along
reason being its must look suss to Google when we have a .com.au website that only sells to australians and yet 99% of its links are global. Surely google is smart enough to work that one out//
So if there is anyone out there willing to carve a nich in only posting to australian press releases, forum backlinks or .com.au websites, im sure you would get a few clients.. Must speak and write perfect english, because right now Aussies are sick to death of being called, written to and harrassed by non english speaking marketers. They can spot in an instant and it screams the word "SCAM ARTIST"

I just did a quick Google for "australian online press release syndication" and found the following. There were heaps more too.

Seeking Media | Press release distribution, Online Australian press releases, target Australian media outlets, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, newswires
NewsMaker - Media release service, Press release distribution, Cost-effective PR
News Distribution and Media Management Services | Press Release Distribution AAP Medianet Australia
Press Release Distribution Australia, Get The Word Out, media and news release broadcast service.

Spinitwide.com does Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for $20