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From: "Nancy Peters" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Marketing through Web WriteUps?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:24:28 -0500
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Thomas,
What a generous offer from you! Yes, I would be interested in such a
webinar.

Thanks,
Nancy Peters
Aiken, SC
APG Member
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas MacEntee" <>
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TGF] Marketing through Web WriteUps?


> Being a marketer myself and someone who writes press releases for my own
> business as well as FGS, FGS 2011 conference and ISGS, I can tell you not
> to waste your $99 on these types of services.
>
> While there is an "art" to writing effective press releases, I don' t
> think these services are doing much for the consumer. On my long project
> list is a webinar on how to write a press release and free resources for
> sending them out.
>
> Question to the groups on this list: is there enough interest for such a
> webinar (free of course) if it were hosted by Legacy Family Tree and there
> were free templates such as a press release template? I'd be willing to
> set it up with Geoff Rasmussen at Legacy Family Tree and try to get it
> delivered sometime in late February.
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Join the Federation of Genealogical Societies for Pathways to the
> Heartland, A Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists, September 7-10,
> 2011 in Springfield, Illinois. For more information, visit
> http://www.fgs.org.
>
> Thomas MacEntee
>
> Founder, High-Definition Genealogy
> http://hidefgen.com
> +1 (773) 661-3080
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 10:58 AM
> To: transitional-genealogists-forum; apgmembersonlylist
> Subject: [TGF] Marketing through Web WriteUps?
>
> A company called Web WriteUps may be mass-mailing to genealogy businesses
> for its $99 press release program. The Web WriteUps mailer states that the
> company will write four press releases or product stories and get them
> posted to PRlog.org, onlineprnews.com, HubPages.com, and
> FullPagePress.com - all for $99. The articles are "guaranteed to be
> written by a live person" (hmmm...), be rich in search terms for your
> website/business, and be generous with links and photos.
>
> Having no experience with any of these, I went to PRlog.org,
> onlineprnews.com, HubPages.com, and FullPagePress.com to look them over.
> Several articles were selected and either their titles or important key
> words were copied from the articles and inserted in the Google search bar.
> Out of 10 search attempts with different articles, only one showed up in
> the first five pages of hits. I didn't look any further than five pages in
> each search. Several of the articles were not well written and many had
> spelling errors or typos. However, the mailer does state that the customer
> can write their own article, so...
>
> At first this appeared it might be a good marketing opportunity,
> especially for the transitional genealogists and those looking for more
> links to their websites. Looking a bit deeper, I'm not very impressed.
>
> Anyone have experience with Web WriteUps, PRlog.org, onlineprnews.com,
> HubPages.com,orFullPagePress.com?
>
> best regards,
>
> Dee
>
>
>
> --
> Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist (sm), Certificate 903 Contract
> Genealogist, US Navy Casualty POW/MIA Branch
> www.ForensicGenealogyServices.com Telephone/fax 281-431-3525 PO Box 1085,
> Manvel TX 77578
>
> Forensic Genealogy Services is the service mark (sm) of Forensic Genealogy
> Services, LLC. Certified Genealogist (CG) is a service mark (sm) of the
> board for Certification of Genealogists®, conferred to associates who
> consistently meet ethical and competency standards in accord with
> peer-reviewed evaluations every five years.
>
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