Hello Everyone

[bitsnstuff]

Hello my name is Kate and I found this great forum a couple of weeks ago and have been picking up loads of really helpful information on the quiet, so decide it was high time I joined in properly!

I set up my website www.bitsnstuff.co.uk last year, but unfortunately due to health problems and lack of knowledge I stopped in January of this year. I am now, however, trying to set it up again and am working hard on the new site, getting new supplier, learning about marketing and many other subjects and hope that if I need some assistance as I progress, I will be able to ask here for some help.

I will keep an eye out for anyone I can help and will chip in with my two penny worth wherever I can. :D

[top-click]

Hi Kate, your site looks great, I recently became a dad for the first time and would have loved to have found you then!

If you need any marketing help p[lease give me a shout!
Rob

[bitsnstuff]

Hi Rob,

First of all Congratulations.

Thank you very much for your message and site comments - greatly appreciated after so much hard work! I hope you remember my site for any future events :lol:

I have written my first press release ready for the site launch and am trying to work out how you obtain a list of contacts to send it to? I have spent some time looking on the internet - is it just a question of compiling a contact list from the relevant publications websites and sending off a press release on the off chance or is there a more exact science?

I am planning to add a free reminder service, a gift ideas section and also many more products, do you send out releases every time something interesting happens - I don't want to annoy the press before I have even started!

Any help would be appreciated, as this is all new to me and I am SO keen to do it right this time.

[top-click]

Thanks! - You may have to wait a year or so until there's another occassion!

On the PR front, my advice (and I'm not a PR person) is send as much and as often as possible as long as it's interesting and newsworthy.

I have built up a list over the past 12mths or so, I'll happily let you have that if you like although it's very southern UK based?

R

[bitsnstuff]

That would be really kind of you to share your list with me! As I am based in Kent, it would be my neck of the woods :D

Thank you very much, I really appreciate your help.

[odeniyi]

Nice site.

You may want to remove the first paragraph when you get going......no need to apologise for a nice site :)

Some tips fro generating traffic to your site:-

* add a blog as part of the site and write often
* set up a "my yahoo" page and add the RSS feed from your blog
* join other popular online networks and blog often

If the above seems like double dutch :? just do a google search on "using blogs to increase site traffic" or something similar.

Best wishes,

[Greg]

We have the following tips and advice at http://www.pressdispensary.co.uk/services/advice.html

Tips on writing a press release
Tips on when to issue a press release
Tips on liaising with journalists

For our press release distribution service see http://www.pressdispensary.co.uk/services/distribution2.html

Releases are also syndicated to a number of online news sites, including Google News and Yahoo! News.

[bitsnstuff]

Thank you very much Olu and Greg for your kind welcome and great advice. I will definitely follow up on both. :lol:

[MartinC1970]

Hi Kate.

I agree the site looks great - it's now one that I have bookmarked.

Having recently had a third new addition to my family and in the process of moving, I shall send a link to my lovely girlfriend to peruse whilst on maternity leave.

I hope everything goes well and I wish you many years of success.

[Ozzy]

Hi Kate,
I can simply confirm what the guys above have said, a nice looking site, well done!

Welcome back :)

[RSL]

Really enjoyed your site! I'll be adding it to my favourites! wish it were free P & P too though LOL!

:=)

[Srivvy]

Hi Kate

When visitors arrive at your site, it is important to keep them there. Try to use snappy page titles and headings to give the reader an instant overview of what is contained within the site.

Web surfers are not patient and strange as it may sound - want to read as little as possible! I agree with odeniyi - no need to apologise for a pleasant website when there are so many horrible sites around.

If you would like any assistance with search engine optimisation, please give me a call.

Best of luck!

[Alpha]

hi Kate and a belated welcome from a freshly relaxed member.

Look forward to seeing more of you on the forums.