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Re:Ask PG: Do you still see value in traditional PR? by JohnN on Thursday October 11, 2007 @04:57AM (#66198)
It seems to me that two startups can have be roughly the same in terms of how good it is, but one gets much better PR. Maybe PR only matters all things being equal.

I am thinking of PR strategies for my startup, any ideas? BTW its an open source newspaper

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Re:Ask PG: Do you still see value in traditional PR? by rms on Thursday October 11, 2007 @05:15AM (#66201)
How is your startup different from Wikinews?

Here is one PR idea that I've never actually tried, though I would be very curious to see if it worked. Write a press release about the problem your startup is solving in the style of a human-interest story. Try and put a human face on the story. Send it to every local newspaper in America and see what happens.

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Re:Ask PG: Do you still see value in traditional PR? by JohnN on Thursday October 11, 2007 @11:46AM (#66298)
its different because there are profiles, voting, comments plus we are focused on comment and opinion
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