PRWeb Webinar to Explore Ways Organizations Can Use News to Grow Business
Industry Expert Dana Willhoit to Offer Tips and Strategies for Finding a News Angle, Creating Compelling News Releases and Distributing News to Gain Maximum Online Visibility
Lanham, MD (PRWEB) April 20, 2009
PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service (http://www. prweb. com), today announced that it will sponsor a free webinar offering techniques for creating and defining news angles to help organizations raise awareness and reach potential customers. Titled "How to Use Your News to Grow Business in 3 Easy Steps," the webinar will be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm ET. To register for the webinar, click here (http://tinyurl. com/dgv5ft).
Dana Willhoit, CEO of The Press Release Site, will offer tips to help companies identify compelling news angles and will demonstrate techniques to craft an effective online news release. Willhoit will also show how organizations can leverage various distribution channels to reach millions of people, drive traffic to their website and increase sales.
This webinar is designed to provide an educational and informational resource for organizations to gain insight into the best practices and practical techniques that can be applied to their efforts to increase online visibility (http://www. prweb. com/sharenews. php). A replay of the webinar will be available free of charge following the event.
About PRWeb
Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution. Today, with more than 250,000 RSS subscribers and more than 30,000 Web publishers, PRWeb is a recognized leader in online news and news release distribution service worldwide.
PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information please visit http://www. prweb. com (http://www. prweb. com).
About Vocus, Inc.
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,300 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit http://www. vocus. com (http://www. vocus. com) or call 800.345.5572.
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