Public Relations Kit for Dummies - Brossura

Yaverbaum, Eric; Bly, Robert W.

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ISBN 10: 0764552775 ISBN 13: 9780764552779

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

Riassunto

When it comes to marketing, nothing beats good word of mouth. But how do you get your customers talking? This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to create and implement an effective public relations strategy for pennies on the dollar compared to the cost of advertising. Public Relations Kit For Dummies gives you all the tools you need to spread the word about your product or service, without a PR agency. All it takes is effort and the straightforward guidelines you’ll find in this helpful guide.

If you’re a small business owner or manager or an entrepreneur, good PR will give you an advantage over your competition. If you’re a corporate manager or executive, you need an effective public relations program to communicate with your target market without increasing ad spending. In Public Relations Kit For Dummies, you’ll discover how to:

• Map a winning PR strategy
• Grab attention with press releases, interviews, and events
• Cultivate good media relations
• Get print, TV, radio, and Internet coverage
• Manage crises

This book is packed with successful ideas, techniques, and campaigns that really worked – and you can customize them to fit your clientele, product, or service. This friendly guide shows you how PR works, how to brainstorm for creative ideas, how to deliver your message to the media, and how to create buzz. And there’s more:

• Developing and stick to a budget
• Building an in-house PR department
• Specific PR tactics like contests, surveys, and tie-ins
• Company newsletters
• Writing query letters and pitch letters
• Handling yourself in interviews
• Turning bad press into good publicity
• Developing a contact list
• Specific strategies for radio, TV, newspapers, and new media
• Handling crises
• Measuring PR results

The book also includes a CD-ROM full of helpful PR forms, checklists, and templates; lists of resources like PR firms and media outlets; and software programs that makes PR simple. If you want people to notice your product or service, Public Relations Kit For Dummies is the only resource you need.

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L'autore:

Eric Yaverbaum's PR firm, Jericho Communications, has represented IKEA Home Furnishings, Domino's Pizza, Progressive Auto Insurance, The Hain Cellestial Group, United Distillers & Vintners North America, and many others. He is coauthor of I'll Get Back to You. Bob Bly is a seasoned business writer.

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Proven techniques that maximize media exposure and generate buzz

Let a PR pro show you how to get people talking When it comes to marketing, nothing beats good word of mouth. But how do you get your customers talking? This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to come up with a compelling company story, sell it to the media, and follow through with a full-throttle campaign that'll generate buzz ? and build your bottom line. all this on the CD-ROM Videos, public relations forms, checklists, and templates, plus lists of PR firms, media outlets, and other useful contacts PR software tools, including a Start Right Marketing demo, ecBuilder, and Maximizer trial versions, and TeleMagic evaluation version Links to PR Web resources PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT 4 or later, or a 60840 Mac running Os 7.5.5 or later. See About the CD Appendix for further requirements and details. Plus leading Internet tools

Discover how to: Map a winning PR strategy Grab attention with press releases, interviews, and events Cultivate good media relations Get print, TV, radio, and Internet coverage Manage crises

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0764552775
• ISBN 13: 9780764552779
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346