In this competitive media age, it can really be tough when trying to make sure your content stands out. Media Advisory and Tip (MAT) releases are an effective way of achieving extensive media coverage for brands. However, to get the most out of it, best practice distribution rules should be followed. Below are some key tips to improve your MAT release strategy.
Understanding MAT Releases
MAT releases are pre-written articles that can be published as is by media outlets. They offer a inexpensive way to guarantee presence in print or online publications. These releases generally contain advice, tips or insights relevant to the readership of the publication.
Important Tips for Effective Distribution of a MAT Release
- Know Your Product: Know Your Product well enough that allows for content to be created that is not only highly informative, but highly relevant as well and motivates people to want to learn more about your product or service.
- Content creation for the highest attainable level: Quality is what matters. Consequently a mat release should be created in such a way that is well written and engaging.
- Use an Established Roadmap: Complying with a format that the editor likes will increase your chances of being published. With a strong headline, attention-grabbing lead and organized body content consisting of subheads and bullet points for easy scanning through the text.
- Take Advantage of Distribution Services: One example involves using reputable distribution channels such as NewsUSA which does MAGT releases on behalf of companies.These firms have established relationships with many publications hence ensuring that you get the right exposure for your MAT release.
- Optimize for SEO: SEO optimization is done to ensure that your MAT release is SEO optimized. It is important to select a syndicator whose editorial staff is SEO trained and who can maximize that task.
- Insert Multimedia: Enhance an MAT release using high-resolution photo, infographic or video. This way it will be more likable and shareable across more media channels thus increasing chances of being picked up by them.
- Monitoring and Analyzing the Results: After distributing your MAT release, monitor how it has performed. Some things you could look at include publication rates, audience reach, engagement levels among others that are used for evaluating how effective an MAT release was. The information from these measures can help when planning future releases
Conclusion
In order to distribute MAT releases more effectively, it is important to think about the quality of the content produced, knowing your target audience (again, referring to demographics implies we can provide that data) and using effective distribution channels. These ideas will help you gain as much media coverage as possible for your brand and make it visible in the market resulting in achieving marketing objectives. One way of getting better at promoting NewsUSA is through producing stories that have an interesting appeal to readers and understanding how newsrooms operate.
Please take up these approaches such that each time you release a press statement, it captures the attention of journalists and their clients.Thanks for all your distributions!