Articles By: Marc Harty

Marc Harty is an online publicity expert, professional speaker, Internet marketing consultant and CEO of MainTopic Media, Inc. Marc’s Online PR Made Easy can help anyone at any skill level generate targeted web site traffic on autopilot.

5 Ways Online PR Is Like Kayaking

Here’s a different look at Online PR than you might expect. You see, I wanted to combine two of my favorite things: Online PR and Kayaking. At first glance, they couldn’t be further apart. Yet, upon closer inspection, the parallels were many. (Disclaimer: I am primarily referring to sea kayaking...
March 4th, 2009 | Press Releases | Read More

Press Release Distribution: Go Horizontal or Vertical?

Whether you are an entrepreneur, a company or a PR firm, the distribution of optimized press releases does present both challenges and opportunities. The good news? With a little extra work-make that a little extra attention-you'll maximize and leverage both the reach and longevity of all your optimized...
February 7th, 2009 | Distribution | Read More

Press Release Distribution: 4 Areas Where Even PR Pros Get Stuck

Getting stuck sucks. Maybe it's a momentary indecision or something more deep-rooted. The outcome, or lack there of is the same regardless. To give you some background on how I identified the top 4 press release distribution stumbling blocks, they were culled from the following sources:Source #1: client...
February 7th, 2009 | Distribution | Read More

3 Missing Ingredients From Many Online PR and Internet Marketing Blogs

Does the world really need another PR blog even one specializing in Online PR? Obviously, the answer is yes because, a) you're reading this PR blog and b) the money's been spent on branding so there's no turning back. :-)In my prep research of blogs of all marketing types-Internet marketing, Offline...
February 7th, 2009 | Content | Read More

7 Actions to Amp the ROI of Every Online Press Release

Some PR traditionalists grow a little uncomfortable when you put ROI and PR or ROI and Online Press Release together in the same sentence. PR and publicity have traditionally been perceived as awareness and branding-driven, and less for making the cash register ring, at least directly.Yet with the advances...
February 7th, 2009 | Strategy and Trends | Read More

6 Online Media Room Essentials Reporters Want To See

First off, if you do a search online for the search phrase "media room" you'll get numerous results on where to put that 50-inch flatscreen TV. Uh, wrong media room. We're talking online media room. Because to fully maximize your PR and publicity efforts, you need an online media room or online newsroom....
February 7th, 2009 | Online Media Room | Read More