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Our second big revamp announcement of 2009 is getting even more Kudos than our first announcement!

Back in the beginning of 2007, the Michigan Business Directory launched a sister website http://www.michiganpr.net/ that offered Michigan Business members and Michigan based companies the ability to send out press releases for free throughout the web.

Our members loved the feature, and more and more websites started picking up our RSS feeds giving free exposure to our companies.

The problem we had was that the release service was tedious. Each release had to be manually reviewed and we received a tremendous amount of spam. It became very expensive to manage with hundreds of releases coming in each day. We had two alternatives:

1. Start charging companies for the releases OR


2. Revamp the submission process to eliminate the SPAM and make it easy to edit and approve the legitimate releases.

We chose option #2 and it has already proven to be the right option! Throughout our social network, our marketing company partners and PR company friends .. we have gotten rave reviews. Try it out yourself: http://www.michiganpr.net/addpage.php?a=addnews

A couple of friendly reminders:

• This service is for newsworthy press releases - if you would like to draw attention to an event in Michigan - use our Free Michigan Event Calendar. It's easy to register and once you register one time, you can input all of your company events.


• Please make sure that you submit your release in a professional manner. We truly want to approve all releases, but some PR gets submitted with spelling errors and improper grammer and we cannot approve it


• Spread the News! Make sure that you bookmark your release using our handy "AddThis" button when your release is approved!


• Use the WYSIWYG editor and add a couple of links that are applicable. Doing this will help your website or blog gain exposure. But do not submit HTML - we cannot approve press releases with HTML.

If you have any questions, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maryjoyce or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-E-Joyce/773284581

Labels: Free Press Release, Freebies at the Michigan Business Directory