If your press release has been rejected, don't panic, remember that the very purpose and design of the FPRC site is to help you get your story out into the media. We want to publish your press release.

However press releases are strange things, they are different to adverts and other types of promotional text. A press release is a starting point for a story for a journalist. Newspapers, magazine, TV shows all sell because of story, because of the human element. Adverts don't have that.

However don't despair, it isn't that hard. This is what I suggest:

1) Read the articles on the site about writing press releases.
2) Read some of the press releases on the site and get a feel for how they are written. Note, some are better than others.
3) Have another go. Submission is free. Once you succeed you can still upgrade your release to PRO.

Also in the future we will be offering a press release writing service for about $15 per release including the upgrade to PRO.

Also I am thinking about adding a "press release wizard" to the site which will aid the writing of press release.

Hi,

I have had to reject a lot of press release submissions recently and I thought I would write why.

The first reason for a majority of the recent rejections is because the submitted text is not a press release but rather a mere advert. Among other things a press release must news content. An advert isn't news, it is an advert

If you need to submit a press release about a product or website, as a minimum, there needs to be a story of some kind. If it is a new version then that is a story (of sorts). A product launch is a story (again a weak one, but a story no less). Think story. Remember press releases are for journalists.

The second reason (and I much more lenient on this) is bad formatting. As a minimum the body of the press release should start with:

City, State (FPRC) Month 1, 2006 --

Obviously you need to put in your city and the current date!

Finally, the team here at FPRC want to keep quality high. High quality means a wider distribution network which is better for all of us!

Thanks,

Gary