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Arizona Star Highlights 5050BIZ -- "Makes home offiice a breeze"

Business: 5050Biz "Makes Home Office A Breeze"

By Dan Sorenson, Arizona Daily Star

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/301656

Forbes.com is looking for the most promising new companies

Forbes.com announced last week that it is looking for the most promising new companies for their April 2009 issue. The application process is a bit intensive and of course they're trying to sell you something, but I think applying for awards such as this is a valuable process for small business to medium size businesses to go through. Awards are a great way to promote your company, motivate your employees and highlight their work. Most local business publications, newspapers and many online sites have awards opportunities. Check out Forbes.com and go for it!

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/promising-companies/

One well placed story..........

This week Joe, a new addition to the Abbi PR team, secured a great feature in The Real Deal, a real estate publication out of South Florida. While we were excited we didn't dwell on it too much -- that is until we saw a slew of national bloggers begin to re-write the post in their own words. And many of these blog post were followed by various comments, both good and bad, about the benefits of shrink wrapping. And then it happened -- the Wall Street Journal developments blog re-wrote the story and all of a sudden it was all over the Internet. And then it happened AGAIN -- CNN Money called and wanted to fly a crew out to Reno to do a video on Mike Enos and Fast Wrap. Wow -- considering the company has already been featured in CNN Money we considered this a huge coup. This all came from one small story in a South Florida industry publication and now it's national news thanks to the power of the blog fueled by industry news. Don't under estimate those key industry publications -- they are often benchmarks for national news and a source of up to date content. Nice work Joe!

Pick up the Phone!!!!!

Ahhh -- the power of the telephone. I had lunch with a fellow PR colleague today and eventually the topic turned (as it tends to do) to media relations and how so many people just rely on e-mail to pitch a story. I'm still a believer that each e-mail should be followed up with a quick call to reinforce the message. Disclaimer -- "just following up to check you got my release, please let me know if you need anything else" -- does not count. That's a waste of every one's time. Have a reason for the calling the journalist, already know what topics the journalist has recently covered and be prepared to answer any questions with well thought out and intelligent answers. I regularly pitch journalists through social networks, but I still call if I believe my pitch/idea warrants that type of follow up. There's nothing more effective than personal contact and it will help develop stronger relationships over time-- so pick up the phone!