PRWeb Town Hall Meeting Explores How Optimized Press Releases can Drive Traffic, Search Visibility and Drive Sales Leads

Online News Distribution Service presents town hall meeting on WebmasterRadio outlining how to use press releases to effectively market your business and drive sales.

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) May 12, 2009 -- WebmasterRadio.FM presents a town hall meeting from the leading online news distribution service, PRWeb, on the best ways to use press releases for online marketing and public relations on Tuesday, May 12, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.

This Town Hall event will be hosted by Jiyan Wei, PRWeb product manager at Vocus, Inc. The show is built around interviews with two Internet marketers; Richard Lee, Chief-at-Large for the Pillar Consulting Group, and Lee Odden, CEO Of Top Rank Online Marketing.

Jiyan opens discussing recent distribution enhancements of PRWeb, including the introduction of two exciting new iPhone applications to distribute PRWeb business and technology news, and new publishing partnerships entered in the past three months including Website Magazine, Comtex News Network, and the Electronic Retailing Association.

From there, the show moves into successful design and writing of press releases with PRWeb client Richard Lee of the Pillar Consulting Group. This segment includes numerous tips on using the power of press releases wisely and effectively. Closing the half hour long Town Hall meeting, Jiyan interviews Internet marketing legend Lee Odden of Top Rank Online Marketing on the benefits of online press releases.

PRWeb was founded in 1997 to help small businesses leverage the Internet to communicate their news to the public. In the process of doing so, PRWeb pioneered the direct-to-consumer press release, allowing companies for the first time to communicate their news directly to customers, prospects, analysts and the media.

This program will be made available same day on demand at http://www.webmasterradio.fm located inside the "Town Hall Meetings channel.

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 please visit www.prweb.com.

Media Contact:

Robin Lane

Vocus, Inc.

301-683-6022

About WebmasterRadio.FM

WebmasterRadio.FM lifts the "veiled curtain" of the Internet, bringing the business community together through an interactive radio network. Its listeners are a global group, comprised of everyone from corporate executives and decision makers to small and mid-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs. WebmasterRadio.FM's stellar line-up of radio programming includes "CoverStory" with Jiyan Wei of PRWeb, WebmasterRadio.FM's official newswire; "The Hook with Katie Kempner" with Katie Kempner, vice president of Crispin Porter + Bogusky; "SEO101 with Ross Dunn and Eric Lander; and more. To tune into WebmasterRadio.FM's live content or check out the show lineup, please visit www.WebmasterRadio.FM.

Media Contact: Brandy Shapiro-Babin 954-309-5578

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