{"id":13436,"date":"2024-12-16T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangeme.com\/blog\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:45:53","slug":"get-more-press-by-making-your-products-newsworthy-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangeme.com\/blog\/get-more-press-by-making-your-products-newsworthy-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Get More Press By Making Your Products Newsworthy \u2013 Here\u2019s How!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Using PR as a marketing method for product launch requires an understanding of what is newsworthy and what is not. Whether you\u2019re an accomplished PhD or an enterprising young person starting out with a fantastic product, most people don\u2019t understand this.&nbsp;Once I explain it, however, you\u2019ll be able to pick up the phone to a reporter at the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> or <em>Buzzfeed<\/em> and have an actual conversation instead of being blown off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s nothing worse than calling a reporter and regaling them with a description of your product\u2019s features and benefits, followed by, \u201cIt\u2019s so newsworthy!\u201d Did the reporter hang up on you? Yeeeeeah (cringe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editorial versus advertising<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A little background: You should understand what editorial is versus advertising\u2014the latter known as \u201cbuys.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13438\" style=\"width:310px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?w=65 65w, https:\/\/rangeme-blog-images.imgix.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-design-2.jpg?w=50 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Editorial content is (ideally) not subject to being bought\u2014it is manifested in the form of unbiased reporting or the earned opinion of a reporter or producer. This is the content between commercials on TV, articles on dot-coms that are interrupted by popups, the organic listings on Google under the ads on the top, magazine feature stories between ads, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertising includes anything you pay for\u2014such as pay-per-click, influencers, banner ads, radio, TV, newspaper ads, endorsements, and many other methods. These are biased, subjective, paid-for placements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like my Labrador, I am food-driven and see it this way: Editorial is the cream in the middle of the Oreo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PR is worth its weight in gold because it\u2019s inexpensive to solicit and unbiased. Advertising can be worth its weight in gold, but it usually costs as much as gold, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Long term is better<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you could get your product reported about in 34 media outlets during a 6-month period and be exposed to 109 million potential customers by paying a PR agency a $6,000 monthly retainer? Wouldn\u2019t that be better than purchasing one ad for one month in <em>Vogue<\/em> magazine at the cost of $270,000?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about spending $36,000 versus $500 a day ($90,000) on Google Ads? How about spending $36,000 instead of a pricey $5.6 million Super Bowl TV spot (which doesn\u2019t even include the cost of producing something cool)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, the first sentence of that last paragraph is a real case study from my company\u2019s work for a luxury skincare line that resulted in an 8,100 percent return on investment. Had the skincare line bought advertising, it would have cost $2.9 million to get the exposure it received through PR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secret of marketing is to target your customers and spread out your message so they see, hear, and experience it repeatedly. I call this the \u201cOh, Yeah, I\u2019ve Heard of That\u201d response (September 2020 <em>Inventors Digest<\/em>), whereby humans only buy things they have heard of. Yes, we are sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Leverage what\u2019s in the news<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what is news? Anything that is new and\/or of legitimate interest. This doesn\u2019t mean your jogging bra made of fabric that measures your heart rate is new. What I just listed is a feature and benefit\u2014the information you put on a package.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What may be newsworthy about the bra is that it\u2019s now possible to weave wearable technology into a fabric for the first time, and your jogging bras are the first to use it. You might think about calling reporters during National Heart Month to make it more so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you donated some of those bras to a women\u2019s hospital with patients who are recovering from heart attacks, that ups the newsworthiness. What if you could find a heart institute patient who used your bra and it saved her life when she had a relapse trying to jog too soon after her heart surgery? Now, that is newsworthy!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not about your bra. It\u2019s about using all the trends, statistics, and things already in the news to make your bra significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason reporters hang up on you or don\u2019t respond to email pitches is because they don\u2019t want to yell at you. Enduring another product soliloquy makes them want to spit in your face like a llama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll save you the embarrassment and tell you what they really want to say: \u201cBuy advertising, dummy. Don\u2019t waste my time telling me about your widget\u2014because it\u2019s not newsworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Try product roundups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, products have a special place in editorial. It\u2019s usually in product roundups, reviews, or gift guides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A product roundup is editorial that features all the newest accessories for your mobile phone, all red lipstick shades for Christmas, or the best new electric vehicles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A product review is a listing of all the newest laptops that have been tested at <em>PC Magazine<\/em>, <em>Consumer Reports<\/em>, <em>CNET<\/em>, or the like. The <em>Good Housekeeping Institute<\/em> may do a story about the most waterproof mascaras or non-streaking window cleaners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift guides happen all year long. They are organized by a product genre that appeals to the reader, listener, and seer of that media outlet. 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