Sunday, August 28, 2011

The Primary Difference of Online and Traditional Public Relations and its Connection to Reputation Management

By Katherine Jones


Traditional PR and what is termed as online Public relations are 2 totally different things. Generally, the PR or media relations that we were used to had something connected with placing segments or articles in news papers, magazines, TV and radio. However, unlike other types of marketing like direct marketing or advertising, the whole process of Public relations is story-based. More often than not, you'd be needing reputation management services to decide which type is ideal for your company.

Its goal is usually to throw a enticing story to the media, who'll meet its needs, and also gathering coverage for you or your business. When doing this, highlighting your service or product is a must. However, successful PR is not really about hype and fluff. For your message to achieve success, you need to enlighten, educate, and if you can, entertain combined with giving readers, viewers or listeners details about a specific field or topic which they don't have access to otherwise.

Possibly, the most important element that differ public relations from other marketing types is that the articles are scrutinized in the same manner other articles or segments featured in the news are. They are evaluated and verified. Editors and segment producers are designated to assess the stories before getting run. This validation provides the news trust value which a print ad or commercial cannot deliver.

A person with the capability to acquire an ad can buy it, and that's fine. However, there's a truly huge difference between appearing in an ad from being featured within an editorial story. The value of trust that is achieved from being featured in the news is incalculable.

On the other side, online PR is much more similar to marketing or advertising compared to the traditional public relations. As a whole, there is no third party involved to verify the story, no editors or segment producer to carry out the vetting process or assess the article or segment that has been tendered. Online PR generally has something connected to posting details about social networks, blogging, e mail marketing campaign and distribution of an online press release.

Unique to the net is the process of pitching bloggers. It is quite different from a pitch to the usual media outlet because different bloggers talk about different things. Make your contact personal and don't turn it into a pitch since bloggers aren't looking for media oriented pitches and also PR releases.

PR being sent through PRWeb and PR Newswire are another online PR approach. And once again, this is done very differently using the traditional media approach. With this, landing mainstream media through your releases isn't the absolute goal, if it is, then its time you need to think your strategy over. Primarily, press releases sent through such distribution sites are merely tools to help your internet visibility and ranking. Often, when utilizing this process, the more releases you send out, the better for your organization.

Keywords need to be well mapped through the release, by using the appropriate keywords within the title, sub-title, as well as the body of the release. If it's the online press release route that you are going with, utilize social bookmark services like onlywire or furl.net to archive your releases.

Even though the media is often influenced by online PR, its main objective is always to correspond with others on the net using different websites and blogs. The best approach though would be to fuse traditional PR with an online marketing approach. On this form of approach, you can use the validation of the traditional PR as well as the global scope of online Public Relations in order to produce a marketing program that is more better than the total of its parts.




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