Once your business is up and running, you will want to take advantage of any possible cost and time effective method of promotion that you can find. While articles and social bookmarking are often called “free” ways of driving traffic to your site, they really have quite an extreme expense in terms of time taken. To judge these methods realistically you have to compare them with other forms of paid advertising, because you will need to pay an outsource worker to produce the work.

One other method of promoting your site is by submitting an online press release. This can be either a “free” method or a paid one, depending on where you submit your press release. If you are a quick writer, then you will definitely want to take advantage of the free press release services. Using a paid release is far more likely to drive substantial amounts of traffic to your site, but you have to compare every form of paid advertising, and decide where your advertising dollars are best spent.

The key to effectively using either the free or the paid press release services is to write a proper press release, and not just a promotion for your product. The press release sites are quite strict on the content that is submitted, so if you are just looking to promote a product, you will need to add some other kind of story to your release to get it accepted. The best way to learn what makes a good press release is to study the releases of other people. If you search the major press release sites, you will find plenty of releases which relate to your topic, or which are written in a similar style to the one you will need. Working news about an event into your release is one way of making sure that is qualifies as a genuine press release, and will help to attract interest.

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