If your company does something and you didn’t tell your marketplace about it, did it actually happen?
By Linda Forrest
Outbound news is just one aspect of a company’s PR program, but it’s an important one. While there are ways to generate coverage without making announcements, it’s likely that your company has plenty of newsworthy announcements to share with its marketplace.
We’ve all heard the adage “if a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The corollary in marketing might be the title of this post, “if your company does something and you didn’t tell your marketplace about it, did it actually happen?” First, let’s examine what sorts of news is best suited to a news release versus a story pitch, benefits of sharing your news with the marketplace, objectives besides market awareness served by sending out news and a brief story about missed opportunities and the ripples that they have across marketing channels.
