Send2Press® Newswire is a service of Neotrope®, established Jan. of 1983 in Redondo Beach, Calif., USA.
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Press Release Distribution Services from Send2Press
Introduction
Since 1983 Neotrope® has delivered proven, effective, and consistent business marketing services and technology solutions. Send2Press (a service of Neotrope) offers affordable news distribution services, professional press release writing, agency of record service, and syndication of original news content.
Neotrope's Send2Press Newswire service and the Neotrope News Network provide a unique solution for dissemination and persistence of news content to targeted media. We offer the only proven, credible and experienced newswire service which was the first in the industry to be fully staffed by current and former professional journalists, and accredited public relations (PR) professionals. We're proud to be a fully U.S. based company, located in Los Angeles, Calif.
True Direct-to-Editors™ Media Targeting
As a true newswire service, managing our own media contact databases for over 25 years, we do not "mass media" blast news, or send content to the public or businesses (direct marketing). We only send news content to the media, and all dissemination is highly targeted. Specifically this means we don't send cooking news to car magazines, and we identify specific editors at publications so that the food editor at The New York Times doesn't receive book news (unless it's a cookbook!).
We Send Press Releases to:
- Daily newspapers in all U.S. states; selected weekly newspapers.
- National trade and consumer magazines / periodicals.
- Broadcast TV stations and news/talk radio.
- News aggregators, clipping services, social networks and search engines.
- Over 400 RSS feeds, Weekly opt-in list, and news feeds for Webmasters.
- Exclusive national online placement in the Neotrope News Network.
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More than Press Release Distribution
Because Send2Press is a service of Neotrope (which has been delivering brand identity and public relations services for more than 25 years) we also offer professional press release writing and editing, affordable agency of record service for new start-ups, and the best SEO of news content in the business.
You can trust the team at Send2Press to "do it right" when composing and disseminating your news content to the press.
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Overview of our News Distribution Service Plans
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General Overview of Our Press Release Distribution Plans:
- Two Distribution Plan Levels:
We have two "levels" of targeted news distribution services: Standard and Extended. The Standard plans include Direct-to-Editors™ dissemination to print and broadcast media via Send2Press Newswire, and online through the Neotrope News Network. Our Extended plans add national distribution via PRnewswire®.
- All plans include PRTrax™ tracking dashboard; SiteWatch™ clip report; free photo or logo; SEO+PR™ optimization; social media posting; hyperlinks in text; YouTube™ video support; and editorial review of release by accredited PR pro.
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- How Our Pricing Works:
All plan pricing is per press release issued (not a subscription). All services are pre-paid and ordered online. No membership fee. We accept all major credit cards through our secure payment system (PayPal is optional). All pricing is "agency pricing" (no further agency discounts).
- Word Length Limits:
Our STANDARD plans have an 800 word base length limit. EXTENDED plans have a 500 word base length limit. There is an upcharge if your release exceeds these base word length limits.
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Example of Our U.S. News Distribution “STANDARD” Plan Pricing
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Standard "STATE" Distrib. Plan
$99
Daily media: one U.S. state. National magazines: one category.
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Standard "4-STATES" Distrib. Plan
$189
Daily media: 4 U.S. states. Natl. magazines: multiple categories.
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Standard "National LITE" Distrib. Plan
$249
Daily media: up to 10 states. Natl. mags: multiple categories.
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Standard "NATIONAL" Distrib. Plan
$299
Daily media: All U.S. states. Natl. magazines: multiple categories.
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Standard "Industry Focus" Plan
$169
Daily media: One U.S. state. Natl. mags: multiple categories.
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Standard "Online Only" Plan
$89
Online and social media (no daily print, broadcast, or trade pubs).
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Example of Our U.S. News Distribution “EXTENDED” Plan Pricing
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Extended "STATE" Distrib. Plan
$339
Daily media: one U.S. state. National magazines: one category.
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Extended "4-STATES" Distrib. Plan
$379
Daily media: 4 U.S. states. Natl. magazines: multiple categories.
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Extended "National LITE" Distrib. Plan
$399
Daily media: up to 10 states. Natl. mags: multiple categories.
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Extended "NATIONAL" Distrib. Plan
$499
Daily media: All states. Natl. mags: all categories. BEST PLAN.
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Extended "Industry Focus" Plan
$379
Daily media: One U.S. state. Natl. mags: multiple categories.
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Extended "Online Only" Plan
$339
Online and social media (no daily print, broadcast, or trade pubs).
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
• You specify your choices on our news information form, after checkout (payment) in our Order Center.
• Pricing for our plans is based on each news announcement issued, and is not a subscription.
• Press release writing and/or re-writing not included with plans, but may be ordered as optional add-on.
• Please also review the "Top 10 FAQs," below, after the bullet points, on this page.
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Features of our “Standard” Press Release Distribution Plans:
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Send2Press Direct-to-Editors™ Distribution:
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LOCAL AND DAILY MEDIA: Direct-to-Editors™ targeted distribution to media at daily newspapers, major news weeklies, television stations, and news/talk radio, in all U.S. states or major metro area (your choice). (Number of states or metro areas varies with plans, such as "State," "4-States," or "National" plans.) Not included with "online only" plan.
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NATIONAL MAGAZINES: Direct-to-Editors™ targeted distribution to media at national trade and consumer magazine industry categories (as applicable to your news, such as "Travel" or "Medical"). Not included with "online only" plan.
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WEEKLY OPT-IN: Each Friday, we send a summary of the week's stories from our clients to a "double opt-in" list of confirmed media who don't want daily news or want to use RSS. This opt-in list is always a minimum of 550 media folk.
Tier One Wire Service Distribution:
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TRADITIONAL WIRES: We will submit your news directly to A.P. (Associated Press), UPI (United Press International), and Thomson-Reuters. These systems will choose to use and post your news item subject to their prevailing policy (they will refuse any "advertorial" material).
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATORS: Neotrope/Send2Press has partnerships in place with many of the top news systems in the world, including HTMedia in Asia/India (same outfit hosting Wall Street Journal's Asia news systems); Contify, another syndicator in Asia; ProQuest, which serves the academic and public library networks; ASC/Morningside Partners; and placement of news directly into Factiva, LexisNexis; Gale Cengage; and others.
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CLEAR TIME CONFIRMATION: Once your release has pushed to the media ("cleared the wire") and is starting to appear online, we send you a formal "clear time confirmation" by e-mail, showing how to find your story on our main site, on Google News, and selected social network sites. Each release is presented in five distinct formats: article (HTML), print-friendly, plain text (UTF-8) for media, PDF for media, and RSS (with IE8 Web Slice).
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SITEWATCH™ PLACEMENT REPORT: Free hand-prepared Send2Press SiteWatch™ report which shows links to sites and social networks we track that have posted your story within the first 24 hours, plus info on the number of media reads from our main site for your story during the first day. Report is provided in both MS Word and PDF formats, by e-mail, and averages 7-30 pages depending on service plan.
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PRTRAX™ DASHBOARD: Exclusive Neotrope PRTrax™ SEO tracking dashboard provides valuable ROI metrics on how your story is being found in search engines and keywords, by country, language, and platform (such as mobile device vs. desktop PC), plus referrer data from blogs and social networks. Your account tracks data for all your stories, on the Send2Press main sites (no longer tracks external sites as of June 2010), for one year (or as long as you're a client).
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MEDIA LISTS: All of our media lists ("where we send news") are found in PDF form, by publication, by state, and by industry topic, and may be researched prior to ordering services.
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EASY READER TRACKING: On all news releases found on our main site, we provide simple and permanent tracking by day, week, month, and year, which can easily be viewed at bottom of the story page and requires no log-in. Unique visits are tracked by I.P. address, not "hits."
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Standard Features:
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FREE PHOTO OR LOGO: This plan allows you to include one free Web-resolution photo or company logo (no ad banners). You may include a print-resolution (300dpi) image at additional cost. (Note: Most sites don't use image, but many do.)
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FREE CONTENT REVIEW: A professional accredited public relations (PR) pro and experienced journalist will personally review your news release for common errors, advertorial issues, and problems related to what media expect to see. Minor typos will be fixed automatically. Major errors in content, formatting, or language will require resubmission of corrected copy if it doesn't meet our minimum requirements (generally, we follow A.P. style).
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ANCHOR LINKS SUPPORT: We have always provided live links to fully formed URLs (such as www.yoursite.xyz), but you may also have up to four (or within reason, see our FAQs page) anchor links around words/phrases to "deep-link" into your site pages, such as to a product page, white paper, or online demo.
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FREE VIDEO NEWS RELEASE (VNR): This plan allows you to include an embedded video for your news (you must first host it on YouTube), to create a VNR. Ideal if you have a promo trailer, demo video, etc.
Online Posting and SEO/SEM Features:
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SEARCH OPTIMIZATION OF NEWS: Neotrope/Send2Press pioneered the concept of search engine optimized press releases (SEO+PR™) more than a decade ago (check Archive.org to see for yourself) and today we're still ahead of the pack in the persistent placement of news online. The value of this is that we've had clients receive media coverage a month, 3 months, even 12 months after a release issuance, simply because our system ensured the news could still "be found" by interested media online.
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NEOTROPE® NEWS NETWORK EXCLUSIVE: All plans include exclusive placement of your news in the Neotrope News Network, which includes content sites like eNewsChannels.com, California Newswire®, Florida Newswire, Music Industry Newswire, Publishers Newswire, and many more. Our network generates a minimum of 10 million page views per month, and only Send2Press can get your news in front of this valuable audience (these sites have been widely quoted by BusinessWeek, CBS-TV Los Angeles, E! Entertainment, FOX News, PublishersWeekly, and hundreds more).
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HAND PLACEMENT IN SOCIAL NETS: Send2Press hand-submits your news to valuable online sites like BX Business Exchange, Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Docstoc, Mixx, Propeller, Reddit, Scribd, Twitter, and Yahoo! Buzz (as applicable).
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TOP ONLINE NEWS SYSTEMS: All Send2Press news is found in popular aggregators like Google News, Daylife, NewsBlaze, Mass Media Content, Moreover, Newstin, Pluck Blogburst, Sphere, and VerticalNews; in clipping services like CyberAlert, CustomScoop, eWatch, InboxRobot, and News Knowledge; in RSS systems like Alltop, Feedburner, Feedzilla, NewsisFree, Newstin, Red Tram International, Wikio, Zimbio, and many more.
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RSS/JAVA: Send2Press has almost 500 syndication streams via RSS (both summary, and full-text 2.0 formats for every feed, by topic), JavaScript copy/paste, scrolling news tickers, and even a WordPress plug-in allowing anyone to easily host and pull our news into their blog, CMS, or aggregation system. (We have offered dynamic news streams longer than most of our competitors have been in business!)
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Quick Answers to the Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions
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FAQ: How does your pricing work?
As with all legitimate and professional newswire service providers, Send2Press® distribution plan pricing is based on "each news announcement" — meaning, that each time you issue a press release, you pay the plan fee, based on the plan you've chosen. We are NOT a simple online news posting site, but a true newswire service sending your news directly to media using our exclusive Direct-to-Editors™ media databases. As a professional PR services company since 1983, we invest over an hour of hand-work per client project!
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FAQ: How do I set-up an account to order services?
Simply go to our secure online Order Center (note the gold "tab" at top of each page), and follow the instructions. All services are pre-paid, and must be ordered online. No annual membership fee! We are a PCI DSS certified secure merchant, in business more than 25 years, and a member of the BBB since 1997. After you "checkout" in our Order Center using any major credit card (or, optionally using PayPal), you simply upload your word processor file and photo or logo on our simple News Information Form.
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FAQ: Where do you send news?
We maintain our own databases and send news Direct-to-Editors™ at media outlets which are targeted based on your actual news content. Most news is sent by e-mail, with additional delivery via syndication, RSS, clipping services, social networks, and news aggregators.
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FAQ: Will you write or revise my press release for me?
You can hire us to write your release from scratch for $239, and you get to work with a fully accredited public relations professional, or you can have us touch-up a release you've written (from $89; revision available only at same time as a distribution). With all plans we will do basic fixes to your release to meet A.P. style, and to fix common typos, at no extra cost.
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FAQ: Can I include a photo or logo?
You may include one free Web resolution company/product logo, or a photograph (such as of a product, CEO headshot, etc.), with every distribution plan. We don't allow banners, fliers, or similar. Our photos show up on a wide variety of sites, including Google News, DIGG, Mixx, Wikio, Newsblaze, Zimbio, DocStoc, Scribd, eNewsChannels, and many more (additional images $10/each). Optionally, you can include a media-friendly, print-ready 300dpi image for only $19.
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FAQ: Do you offer any reporting?
All plans include a Clear Time confirmation and quick-links report once the release has been issued (crossed the wire). A Send2Press® SiteWatch™ report follows the next day which includes from 50-300 links to sites running your news story, that we track (varies by plan level, as the "EXTENDED" plan will have many more sites tracked). With all of our distribution plans we also include a free PRTrax™ reader tracking dashboard, to track where your news is being read on our network of sites by keyword, referrer, language, country, search engine, etc. We *do* provide PDFs showing newspapers, magazines, and broadcast outlets your news is sent to — please see "where do you send news" above.
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FAQ: Are there any word length limits?
Our "Standard" (formerly Silver) plans, have a base word length limit of 800 words. Our "Extended" (formerly Blue) level plans, have a base word length limit of 500 words. Longer releases have an upcharge (for Extended plans, cost is $65 for ea. 100 words over 400, when the overall release is over 500 words — see the full Help/FAQs page for how to calculate length).
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FAQ: How fast can my news go out - what is the deadline?
We can normally get any project out within about two hours (sometimes longer on Mondays, or last couple days of the month) of when it's submitted during our normal business hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST/PDT Mon.-Fri. For projects to be scheduled for "early next morning" (such as 7 a.m. EST/EDT), we need to have the project in prior to the previous day close of business. We obviously cannot set-up projects to push to media prior to when we're open the next day, if you submit after we close the prior working day.
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FAQ: What are the format and minimum requirements?
We generally follow Associated Press (A.P.) style, and so each release must have headline, dateline, body of release, and contact info so that media can follow up. We prefer MS Word file for release (or .rtf), and images can be any format. All releases must have proper "attribution" in headline or first paragraph (company or person name of WHO is announcing the news). See the following link for step-by-step examples and some issues to be aware of related to content and Google News.
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FAQ: What successes have clients had with your services?
We have a highly detailed customer testimonials and successes repository you may review using the link below. Keep in mind we have been sending news to the media on behalf of our clients for more than 25 years*, and the Send2Press service has been online since 2000*, and so we have a wealth of archival information on client successes (placement in the media), and many testimonials you may review. (*Send2Press was spun off of our corporate PR services in 1997 as Mindset Netwire, before finally becoming the Send2Press® service brand in 2000. Send2Press is a service of Neotrope, established in 1983.)
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Important Notice: All Send2Press Newswire targeted distribution and writing/editing services are offered subject to Neotrope's Terms and Conditions of Service (TOS). Please see our price list or order system for current pricing and options. Please review our requirements and FAQs for important information on deadlines, news we will not accept, multimedia formats, anchor link limitations, and payment options. Send2Press is a service of Neotrope®.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: mention of any brand name, company, or Web site on this page does not claim or imply a strategic or other alliance or partnership, unless expressly noted as such. All trademarks and service marks are the property of the respective mark holders. Neither Send2Press nor any other legitimate newswire service can guarantee any specific success (placement or story "pick-up") from a PR campaign, and actual results will vary depending on many factors including actual content and "newsworthiness," editorial focus, space availability, world events, and other x-factors outside the ability of anyone issuing the press release to control. Replication (or "cloning") of newswire content onto various social nets and Web portals should not be considered a traditional story "pick-up," and we don't claim them to be such. Some of the sites mentioned in our "deliverables" for this plan, above on this page, may not run your story due to their own policies, technical issues, or other reasons outside our control and are subject to change. All services are offered and provided subject to our Terms and Conditions of Service (TOS), which are agreed to when setting up an account and when submitting each project, and per our requirements and FAQs.
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