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- Send out Press Releases
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- A favorable write-up in a magazine is one of the best ways to
- market any product. The registered version of ~The Software
- Marketer~ contains a database of over 1400 people in the computer
- magazine industry (PC Magazine, PC Computing, Byte, Info World,
- etc.). It's really not hard to get a national magazine to run your
- press release if you know the right approach. Magazines are always
- looking for ways to fill up unused space in their pages. Most
- "articles" that are in many magazines are actually press releases
- that have been sent to the magazines. Many times a press release
- is ran as an article, word for word.
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- There are many tricks to increase your odds of getting favorable
- press; for example: Write your press release as an article,
- following the same format of the magazine. Make your press
- releases slightly longer than required, but include paragraphs that
- can be easily omitted; this way the editor can easily create an
- article from your press release to fit the exact space that he
- needs to fill, simply by taking out a few paragraphs.
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- In your article, mention that your software is carried by all the
- leading software sellers. This will create a demand for your
- product in most stores, because customers will ask the stores if
- your software package is in stock.
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- ~The Software Marketer~ contains a sample form letter, PRESS.LTR,
- to be used as an example. Notice how this letter contains acutal
- news items.