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INTRODUCTION: MEDIA PUBLICITY => CREDIBILITY + SALES
Copyright 1994 Marcia Yudkin. You may reproduce this
entire electronic book and pass it on as shareware. All
other rights reserved.
You may have heard media publicity referred to as "free
advertising." In truth, it's much better than advertising
that you do not pay for. Since everyone knows that
advertising messages come from the advertisers, many people
distrust the claims made in ads. But when the same skeptics
read a story in the newspaper or hear about it on a radio or
TV program, they are much more disposed to believe it. Best
of all, through publicity, instead of paying thousands of
dollars for advertising exposure, you can reach millions of
potential buyers for your service or product for pennies.
In 1994, I sent a one-page press release about "The
Procrastinator's Penpal," a seminar on postcards that I had
created, to Entrepreneur Magazine. They published a short
article about it, with my color photo, in the July 1994
issue. A Chicago Tribune editor saw the article and assigned
her reporter to do another story, which appeared in a Sunday
edition and went out on the newswires. The Los Angeles Daily
News, Des Moines Register and Las Vegas Sun, among other
papers, republished the story. Months later, an LA News
reporter (not the original one) wrote another story on my
ideas that was picked up by the Providence Journal, the
Kansas City Star, the Arizona Republic, the Tampa Tribune and
the Dallas Morning News, among others. And all this exposure
produced orders. I received more than seventy calls from
Texas alone!
This story has not yet died, but as of this writing, it
has reached about four and a half million people. Can you
imagine how much it would cost to advertise to that many
people? Even in the world of publicity, you can hire someone
to get you media coverage or you can do it yourself. Had I
hired a well-known firm in Minnesota to get those kind of
results for me, this coverage would have cost me $15,675.00.
In fact, it all cost me 36 cents.
Yes, for 36 cents I reached four and a half million
people: 5 cents to make a copy at the copy shop, 2 cents for
the envelope and 29 cents for the stamp.
If that kind of cost-effective effort interests you, read
on and learn all the necessary steps to get your profitable,
credibility-building, nearly-free turn in the media
spotlight.