News Press Release Keyring
What is it?
This is a one-off, as and when add-on for our Expert Key (it’s included in our Product & Service Key).
The most common and most used Press Release is a News Press Release – telling the media about new products, services, events or stories. Typically, you can get all sorts of different articles from these press releases (depending on what you’re promoting).
How it works
If you’re keen and we think there will be an appetite for your news, we’ll get any necessary information and photos from you and then present you with an initial draft.
We’ll then work with you to make edits and when you’re happy, we’ll sent it out to either local or national publications (and usually both).
Examples
Upon receiving a News Press Release, Imperfect Life featured the release of Best Kept Secret’s new Bridgerton-inspired product.
Upon receiving a News Press Release about Anges De Sucre’s new products, Sheerluxe listed them in a line-up ‘Cool things for parents & kids’
Upon receiving a News Press Release about Jim & Tonic’s new drink product, PC Gamer asked to review the product and published the review.
Plenty of other examples here too.
How will these articles help my business?
Credibility
Credibility or ‘gravitas’ (as a few posh PRs call it) feeds that need for potential customers to see ‘social proof’ and to build trust.
According to a 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report “81% [of consumers] say trust impacts their purchasing decisions” so it’s important to build trust with your potential customers.
Getting articles in trusted, well-known publications, helps you build that trust and trust means more sales.
Once you have these articles, pepper your socials and website with them – shout them from the rooftops: “[insert fancy publication name here] loves us”. It will go a long way.
SEO
One of the most powerful benefits of PR is a boost to your SEO. In a nutshell, SEO (or Search Engine Optimisation) is the activity of appearing first on search engines when your key words (such as your service / product type, brand name and/or location are typed in).
The higher up you are, the more people will click onto your website.
When you get an article online, you may get a backlink to your website. When search engines see you have backlinks from websites they like (such as online publications) that gives you a boost and you’ll appear higher up the list.
How much a website is liked is called your ‘Domain Authority (DA) rating’ and you’re rated from 1-100 (100 being the best rating).
You can find out yours (and others) here: https://moz.com/domain-analysis.
To give you an idea of the Domain Authorities of publications, as of 2022:
§ Daily Mail – 94
§ The Sun – 94
§ The Telegraph – 94
§ The Metro – 93
§ Huffington Post – 90
§ Yahoo – 78
§ The Express – 76
Backlinks from these websites will boost your own Domain Authority.
There are tons of other SEO activities you can do (such as working on meta tags on your website or writing blogs) but backlinks are the most powerful way to up the ante.
Some Digital PR and SEO agencies charge £1,000s for backlinks – don’t do it.
Brand awareness
This is a classic reason for doing PR but as many small businesses tend to focus on it over the other two, I purposefully put it third to highlight the greater importance of credibility and SEO.
The idea of brand awareness is a simple one – you want your target market to know you exist (and then you want to keep reminding them).
Most publications have media packs (usually available on their website) which will document who their reader is. It’s then just a case of targeting those publications.
For example, if your target market is 25-34-year-old women with a disposal income, you might want to be in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Timing
Typically, it takes a one week or so from chatting to us about doing a news press release to the press release being sent out (depending on edits etc).
In terms of being published, if published, they can be published pretty quickly – it all depends on the press appetite and news cycles. Usually, expect 1-2 weeks.
The pricing
£82.50/each + VAT, as and when.