PRWeb Webinar: How to Use Your News to Bring Customers Straight to Your Door

PRWeb Webinar: How to Use Your News to Bring Customers Straight to Your Door

Free, One-hour Webinar Will Teach Participants How to Use Your Story to Build an Online Presence and Attract Customers to Your Web Site

Lanham, MD (PRWeb) July 14, 2009 -- PRWeb, a Vocus, Inc. company and leader in online news release distribution (http://www.prweb.com/), today announced it will host a free PRWeb Webinar on " How to Use Your News to Bring Customers Straight to Your Door (http://tinyurl.com/nykrcu)." The event will feature Janet Driscoll Miller, president and CEO of Search Mojo (http://www.searchmojo.com/) and Stacey Wells Justice, director of Corporate Communications for Vocus.

The one-hour Webinar will be held on Thursday, July 16, 2009 starting at 1:00 p.m. and the featured speakers will discuss ways you can use your story to build online presence and attract customers to your Web site.

Specifically they will detail the following topics:

• How to use optimized news releases (http://www.prweb.com/) to improve search engine visibility

• How anchor text, inbound links and keywords greatly improve search rankings

• A measurement-driven case study on how one small business used online news releases to build online equity

"When synchronized with SEO, online news distribution is one of the most powerful ways to drive traffic and sales for small businesses," said Sophie Shiatis, vice president of e-commerce for PRWeb. "If you perform marketing, PR or SEO activities for your small business, this Webinar is a perfect opportunity to learn how to integrate these functions and improve your results."

For more information and to register online please visit us by clicking here: http://tinyurl.com/nykrcu

About PRWeb

PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and press release distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution. PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public relations management software. For more information, go to www.prweb.com.

About Vocus, Inc.

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide and is available in five languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

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Contact Information Frank Strong

PRWeb

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