Wednesday, June 19, 2013

PR lasts forever....



A few years after I started doing public relations, a client called to say he’d just made a sale from an article we placed more than a year earlier.


Because people think the media only uses experts, they often save articles until they are ready for a service or product.


Even though we tell clients that being in the media has enormous credibility, it doesn’t always hit home until they see the lasting effect. 


Recently, we had a reporter contact us about an issue we pitched more than three years ago.


Nation’s Restaurant News finally was writing about the idea we sent.


Because they had our client as a source. the reporter now wanted to interview him for the story.


As I wrote this, a researcher from Frost & Sullivan called about the same issue, the story more important now than ever.  


A sale a year later, reporters calling years after a pitch... whether you get immediate placement or not, talking to the media has lasting value. 


So PR doesn’t last forever, it still lasts a long time—not only with the public, but with editors and reporters as well.


For more information, call us at Dell Richards Publicity, (916) 455-4790 or visit www.dellrichards.com.