When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on what day of the week and at what time)?

Re:When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on w... by pg on Sunday April 15, 2007 @07:54PM (#13160)

In the PR business, tuesday is considered the best day to make announcements. At least, positive ones.

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Re:When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on w... by yaacovtp on Sunday April 15, 2007 @10:51PM (#13182)

Friday after the market closes is when all the dirt comes out, at least that's what it seems from reading footnoted.org.

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Re:When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on w... by whacked_new on Sunday April 15, 2007 @08:19PM (#13163)

why?

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Re:When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on w... by vlad on Sunday April 15, 2007 @08:24PM (#13164)

I'm going to guess that Monday is the worst, because people are miserable they just got into work, as well as swamped with additional work that came about over the weekend. Friday sucks because people want to go home and be done with that week. Few people work on the weekend. Tuesday is best because it must give a person four business days for followup. Any reporter/businessperson/client who wants to reach the company has time to do so over the next few days. That would be my guess.

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Re:When is the best time to promote your startup (e.g., on w... by whacked_new on Monday April 16, 2007 @01:04AM (#13213)

Great reasoning. Here's a quote from the Joel discussion board.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.470472.11 "This is from a P.R. pro. Monday is the day that most announcements go out. You still want it to be early in the week but to avoid the crowd, it makes sense to do it on Tuesday."

The odd thing is everybody followed this advice it wouldn't work. So the sluggish Monday idea is pretty compelling :)

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