Get Your Pens Ready for the Explosion in Online PR

The web copywriter's market is evolving so fast thatconnecting them directly with their greatest potential
rarely a week passes without new opportunitiesadvocates to build brand reputation. "
appearing on the horizon. The requirements ofSounds like part of the ethos of business blogging to
business websites are developing all the time. Staticme.
brochure style sites are dated, portals of news andOnline PR uses all the new tools at your fingertips to
information is what's needed.push out your message and direct more people back
It would appear that web marketers are nowto your website.
responding to the millions searching the web for info toUsing blogs SEO press releases and RSS is like deep
assist their buying decision. They have realised thatsea fishing with a giant fishing net. Trawling the internet
they need to be proactively promoting their client'sto catch info hungry web users, to pull them back in
services to their online marketplace. There is to be anand convert them into hard cash. Static websites are
imminent explosion in 'Online PR'.still stuck in port, motionless, without even a net to
The reliance of a PR agency on sending out presscatch any fish and a crew likely to go hungry.
releases to journalists, in the hope of some briefOnline copywriters have been advocating the use of
coverage, is now a dated concept. Now anybody withyour news and information as a key marketing tool for
a PC and internet connection has their own printingsome time. This concept is now being adopted
press and a potential readership of millions. PRenthusiastically in online PR, with agencies listing SEO
agencies need to move with the times and learn howpress releases, expert articles, viral seeding and
to speak to the online audience if they want to beblogging as the new tools in their marketing arsenal.
heard.The philosophy of business blogging and engaging with
Some smart agencies have now developed 'Onlineyour marketplace is finally starting to mature. So, if
PR' strategies to bridge the gap with the offline world.you're a freelance copywriter you might want to think
Here is how one describes their service:about adding 'Online PR' to your list of services. I think
"by identifying our clients' most influential media,there will soon be plenty of people wanting to know.
companies, networks, associations or individuals and