Website press rooms are the topic of the day today, it seems.
Good tips here, here, here, and an article I wrote a couple of months ago, here.
Biggest beef of reporters? No PR contact information.
This fact continues to astonish me. How can one profess to be an expert PR person, a liaison between an organization and the press, and not put one's email address and phone number on the company's website -- the place most reporters go to get information?
Excuses such as hiding from headhunters and spam just don't cut it. PR people exist to be FOUND. This is PR 101, for goodness sake.
And please, please (pleads my journalist/analyst friends) STOP sending attachments without permission.
People who don't follow these basic rules drag the reputation of the profession down. I am really tired of having to answer for this.
Ok, enough of my Monday morning rant.
I think it's the never-ending quest for the good Press Room.
Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | October 13, 2003 at 08:53 PM