Collectively we should fund paid PR News Release Dist about Kevin's Hunger Strike ASAP

General Discussion Media & Awareness
#1

Guys, Kevin is putting his life on the line and we should honor his effort (and maximize it’s impact), by putting a little more muscle to market awareness.

Mew’s PR release on the site is great, but it’s getting no traction with media (aside from Examiner.com). Go to Google News and search Propecia Hunger Strike (etc). Nothing aside from Examiner has picked it up.

I’m pretty heavily involved at the intersection of online marketing/traditional media, the company I’m with is on the first page of Google organic results for “seo marketing” competing with thousands of other firms worldwide.

Sending to news outlets ourselves isn’t going to have anywhere near the impact as using a professional known news distribution service. This is so because as an unknown sender our messages land in spam email folders (in large measure).

For this reason, I suggest we collectively fund sending Mew’s Hunger Strike news release via eReleases.com. Their most sophisticated distribution offer is only $ 499. If ten or so of us pitch in, we should be able to cover that easily. This eReleases service is far better than some of the $50 services out there that basically sends to generic inboxes … not editors individual inboxes. I’ve used them occasionally for clients of mine. They are NOT my employer btw.

twitter.com/#!/ereleases
ereleases.com/submit.html

#2

I agree. Set something up and I will send some $. I am unemployed with tons of medical debt and student loans, but I also agree that we need to take advantage of the situation right now while we can.

#3

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#4

I am ready to donate. But I don’t want my name disclosed on any website if possible.

#5

Here’s another news source that gets picked up by some of the big sites. service.prweb.com/pricing/

#6

I need MEW and the mods behind this, I’m not going to initiate this unless the MOD’s here support and get involved with it. It has to be set up as ‘coming from’ a particular website with these group donation fund collection sites.

#7

This is a good idea! Everyone needs to chip in