Press Release Distribution
I've been looking at how to submit press releases on my own. It seems there are a ton of services that do this as a one time fee from $100 - as much as you want to pay. Does anyone have any experience with submitting PRs on your own or using one of these services?
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If you are looking to get featured on a news outlet I wouldn't do a press release. I wrote about it here (it was featured on IH as well), it includes the emails that got me on TechCrunch, FastCompany and more: https://www.polidoesntcare.com/blog/how-to-do-your-own-pr
super helpful thanks!
happy to help, good luck!
To be honest, I find that finding sites with good SEO performance and high traffic that would agree to publish a press release for your brand or product takes a very long time and is very difficult for a beginner who doesn't understand outreach at all. I prefer to deal with outsourcing companies that offer complete Write & Publish a Press Release services for business. It's actually much more effective and you will get the result much faster than if you try to do it yourself. I think that the result that I got in the end, after several publications of press releases and the time that I saved on this, is worth the cost of paying the bill for the services of such a company.
presshunt.co starts from $69/month and gives you access to a database of 550k+ journalists, so this could be a better solution for you.
That looks interesting. I couldn't understand their pricing though. for $69 a month it looks like I can search and what not but there's no contact info included... not sure what the point of that is.
Ah ok, so the $69 package includes only social links. You get their emails from $129 plan up. Sorry for the confusion!
is presshunt your product?
Nope. I know it from Product Hunt.
If your press release is boring, nothing will help you, to be frank. Instead of sending massively press release, establish a relationship with a chosen media outlet by sending them exclusive stuff.
I've heard this is the way to go, but just thought I'd probe about submitting stuff over the wire.
OK understood, so try at OnePitch: https://onepitch.co