Brian Badera, founding partner at Amplify Relations, advises startups to target regional newspapers rather than national tech publications for PR.
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“If you want to garner real media impressions, go to regional papers in towns with a 100,000 to 500,000 people in them, and if you tell them about your product, I guarantee they'll run a story because they're desperate for content.”
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