Friday, May 4, 2007

Get Your Business Publicized Free

The Internet is awash in social networking sites. More than a few of them are aimed at business networking, and some offer free press release distribution. Here are a few places you can go to get a press release for your business online with minimal effort and no expense.

1) Fast Pitch Network - These releases get seen by at least 20,000 other Fast Pitch Network members, generally small businesses and consultants.
2) Newswire Today
3) Free Press Release - This is a small service that buys a lot of Google ads. But a recent check of it seemed to show major corporations using it as another of their alternative distribution platforms. If it's good enough for CA, it's good enough for me.
4) SanePR
5) PRBuzz
6) MyFreePR
7) The Open Press
8) Pressbox - UK-based service.
9) AddPR

Most of these services offer paid add-ons, such as higher placement or search engine optimization, but you get the majority of what they can do for your for free. These services don't have the prestige of Business Wire, which is used by publicly traded companies, but the Internet is the great leveler. Even the free material listed on these sites does get scraped and seen by search engines.

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