Poets and PR | Reader Report | National Poetry Month
One of the biggest benefits to blogging for me is seeing how others use the information they find here. Did you know poets and artists write press releases? Thanks to Adan, a reader who shared his National Poetry Month press release and a report on how his online PR campaign is going.
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Reader PR Report
Adan’s ambitious approach is impressive and motivating. Because he shares his progress here, we can all learn from him.
A bit of background first . . . Adan wrote in and asked for information on webwire, which led to this post: News Wires|PR Q + A| What is WebWire.
Here’s how he’s doing so far:
thought it might be a good time to give another update on my on-going “let’s do some on-line pr’s” experiment
bottom line up top: so far so good; pleased
still just using webwire’s entry level, or basic service, for $19
have only had one problem to speak of, which took a few days, and once i found out why & what, thought that was pretty darned good
kind of complicated, but webwire’s onsite stand alone page with one’s news release has, on the right hand side, all kinds of tools and buttons for emailing the release, signing up for a feed, or tagging it to various social networking sites (plus more of course
on my third release, i think it was, all that info to the right of the body of the release didn’t show up til after the bottom of the body of the page
webwire sent me the screen shots where they finally pinpointed it to a problem with a specific browser version run a specific operating system, and found a fix on their end
i was impressed
anyway, still getting a handle on what may or may not constitute a good # of reads, click-throughs, etc; not sure when, but eventually i’ll give a brief recap of how i feel that’s going
will say, in finishing for now, i have a “very” wide range of topics on my site i want to pr (to use the verb
, and am being surprised at which topics catch on more quickly than others, and which seem to have delayed effects; very experimental on my end so far
thanks!
adan
www.adanlerma.com
pr on webwire for national poetry month:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=62754media room on my site:
http://adanlerma.com/other-form
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hi, thought it was time to follow up on my online news release efforts again
as per barbara’s mention above and repost of my comments, i’ve been trying out learning to do online pr’s for my arts related interests, painting and poetry mostly, but also arts reviews of movies, music, and arts events
the national poetry month pr is something i like to start with in re to the wide range of topics i have on my arts site, a general intro to one of three main fields: poetry, art, reviews
since tax day, when the national poetry month pr went out, i’ve done pr’s on both my nursing poetry and teachers poems (and i’d pre-released a sports poetry pr before the natl poetry mth release)
the subject-targeted pr’s far out perform the general review
but at $19 via webwire, i not only don’t mind doing the general pr, but am glad it’s inexpensive to do because i strongly feel it’s something i want to be able to (afford) to do; i like and want to be able to set up an introductory type release
though i’d read before starting my news release efforts that the pr’s would continue picking up views, plus hopefully click-throughs and further benefits), i didn’t think it would be as pervasively true as it’s been so far across all the news releases
thank you much, more info later (i hope 🙂
adan lerma
http://www.adanlerma.com
nursing poetry pr:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?ald=63655
teachers poetry pr:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?ald=64234
hi, thought it was time to follow up on my online news release efforts again
as per barbara’s mention above and repost of my comments, i’ve been trying out learning to do online pr’s for my arts related interests, painting and poetry mostly, but also arts reviews of movies, music, and arts events
the national poetry month pr is something i like to start with in re to the wide range of topics i have on my arts site, a general intro to one of three main fields: poetry, art, reviews
since tax day, when the national poetry month pr went out, i’ve done pr’s on both my nursing poetry and teachers poems (and i’d pre-released a sports poetry pr before the natl poetry mth release)
the subject-targeted pr’s far out perform the general review
but at $19 via webwire, i not only don’t mind doing the general pr, but am glad it’s inexpensive to do because i strongly feel it’s something i want to be able to (afford) to do; i like and want to be able to set up an introductory type release
though i’d read before starting my news release efforts that the pr’s would continue picking up views, plus hopefully click-throughs and further benefits), i didn’t think it would be as pervasively true as it’s been so far across all the news releases
thank you much, more info later (i hope 🙂
adan lerma
http://www.adanlerma.com
nursing poetry pr:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?ald=63655
teachers poetry pr:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?ald=64234
barbara, the webwire urls don’t seem to work right, try
for nursing poems:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=934BB302-2B62-4957-A533-18E56F93F31E&aId=63655
for teachers poems:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=934BB302-2B62-4957-A533-18E56F93F31E&aId=64234
thanks!
adan
barbara, the webwire urls don’t seem to work right, try
for nursing poems:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=934BB302-2B62-4957-A533-18E56F93F31E&aId=63655
for teachers poems:
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=934BB302-2B62-4957-A533-18E56F93F31E&aId=64234
thanks!
adan
What results have you seen in terms of percentage increases in traffic, page rank, views that you can attribute to your WebWire releases Adan? Thanks for checking in!
What results have you seen in terms of percentage increases in traffic, page rank, views that you can attribute to your WebWire releases Adan? Thanks for checking in!
hi, barbara,
the results have varied according to the release, and i’m not sure at this point how much of the differences were due to the subject and how much to how i did the news release
generally speaking, currently, traffic has increased to range either just less than equal to, to equal, to more than that generated by google searches that triggered a click-through to my site; i would consider that very good for what i know at this point
checking the originating page of the click-through via my site stats, most (but not all 🙂 of the google listings are on the first pg, many of those high on the pg
having said that, some of the topics, once aged, start dropping further into the pages (2nd, 3rd, and further) but somehow were still found and clicked
bottomline is my views are way up directly relational to the webwire releases
i should add i’ve done one a week for a couple of months, my goal from the beginning to lay a base for the variety of topics on my site, plus get a working handle of what seems to work
both goals have been met to my satisfaction for a beginning; i now plan to “lay off” a bit and extend into more targeted subject/date conjunctions; and possibly, in early fall, jump up from the $19 release and try a much more comprehensive release, and see how that works 🙂
hope this is helpful, thanks to you also! 🙂 for checking w/me
anyone who wants to see all releases, can either go to my media room: http://www.adanlerma.com/other-form
or
to http://www.webwire.com, type in “adan” in the search top right, and all my webwire releases should come up
thanks!
adan
http://www.adanlerma.com
hi, barbara,
the results have varied according to the release, and i’m not sure at this point how much of the differences were due to the subject and how much to how i did the news release
generally speaking, currently, traffic has increased to range either just less than equal to, to equal, to more than that generated by google searches that triggered a click-through to my site; i would consider that very good for what i know at this point
checking the originating page of the click-through via my site stats, most (but not all 🙂 of the google listings are on the first pg, many of those high on the pg
having said that, some of the topics, once aged, start dropping further into the pages (2nd, 3rd, and further) but somehow were still found and clicked
bottomline is my views are way up directly relational to the webwire releases
i should add i’ve done one a week for a couple of months, my goal from the beginning to lay a base for the variety of topics on my site, plus get a working handle of what seems to work
both goals have been met to my satisfaction for a beginning; i now plan to “lay off” a bit and extend into more targeted subject/date conjunctions; and possibly, in early fall, jump up from the $19 release and try a much more comprehensive release, and see how that works 🙂
hope this is helpful, thanks to you also! 🙂 for checking w/me
anyone who wants to see all releases, can either go to my media room: http://www.adanlerma.com/other-form
or
to http://www.webwire.com, type in “adan” in the search top right, and all my webwire releases should come up
thanks!
adan
http://www.adanlerma.com
once again i seem to have typo’ed webwire’s url 🙂
it’s : http://www.webwire.com
thanks ya’ll,
adan
once again i seem to have typo’ed webwire’s url 🙂
it’s : http://www.webwire.com
thanks ya’ll,
adan