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PRWEB and all the rest - worth it for me?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by grobar, Aug 29, 2006.

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klown Peon

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lol PRweb is nowhere close to being the best. The "best" will always be the "real" newswires, like AP, Reuters, the Dow Jones newswires, etc. Two other sites in particular I like (especially when I'm actually looking for news to write about - I try not to ever pull from a free "newswire" because there's too much garbage to sift through) are PRnewswire and BusinessWire. I'm sure everyone has their preferences. The reason you hear so much about PRweb though is because they have a free release option. While it might make them more popular with webmasters who intend to misuse releases anyway just for backlinks, it does hurt them in the eyes of a lot of industry professionals who end up taking them much less seriously. But they chose their target market, and it seems to serve their purposes well enough. And PRweb isn't really a "PR firm." They just offer press release services to the best of my knowledge (not campaign planning or implementation, image management, crisis response, or PR writing services outside of press releases themselves... like backgrounders, fact sheets, full media kits, media advisories, etc.).
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thanks for the info, i really know next to nothing about press releases

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I agree with Jenn, PRWeb started by a PRfirm and now they are doing great. But if you are looking for a seriouse newswire services here they are:

PRNewswire
BusinessWire
Primezone
MarketWire

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