Styling Credit: Diana Ionescu via Beyond Beyond
If you’re having a destination wedding, get your guests to sign up to Groupon so they can look for discounted ways to explore the city or area. You can also use Groupon for pre-wedding pampering like nails, massages and beauty stuff.
From Alexis of OMG I’m Getting Married
Press Releases are a personal bug bear of mine. Blogs, like magazines, are run by busy individuals (or a small team of individuals)…often juggling lots of simultaneous projects and in order to ‘get in’ with editors, it is important to a) catch their attention, b) offer something new and c) offer something relevant. It’s easy to bash together a generic email and fire it out to as many media outlets as possible, but in the grand scheme of things, what that’s really going to achieve other than getting your emails automatically spammed?
A few tips for getting your press releases read…
♥ Keep them personal. Use the blogger/magazine editor’s name. It’s polite and it shows you’ve done your research.
♥ Make sure the layout of your press release is simple, clean and easy to read. Emails with large images or unattractive fonts that don’t automatically load are likely to end up in a trash folder.
♥ Be unique. If I receive another Royal wedding related press release I might just implode…and you know what? An ‘alternative’ Royal wedding project really isn’t that bloody original.
♥ Keep it relevant. Is teeth whitening, tattoo removal, personal trainers or car insurance Rock n Roll? Not to me it ain’t.
I have had a press release for a week now that I want to send out but so scared of getting it wrong I haven’t done anything with it yet (stupid I know). But after reading this I think I might have got it right. But I will double and triple check before it goes anywhere.
Good tips lovely lady x
ha ha ha, think you need to show us the best of the worse offenders! sounds like you have had a chocca inbox with this stuff! x
Cool photo!
Hahahah what do you mean car insurance isn’t Rock and Roll?! Jokes. Good post, and Groupon is pretty good actually although not sure they have many offers in deepest darkest derbyshire where our wedding is.
Tattoo removal???? They really haven’t done any research have they?! Bring on the tattoos!
The Groupon suggestion ia good, but their weird commercial that made fun of the troubles in Tibet completely turned me off to that company. Living Social does pretty much the same thing if anyone’s wanting an alternative.
Great advice! Why would an awesome Rock n Roll bride want to do tattoo removal? The more the better! The Groupon suggestion was fantastic!!!
I agree, these days if people havn’t taken the time to find out my name it’s a big DELETE!
I love this new series of yours, Kat! x
This photo is incredible! I love it !!! Thank you for sharing the tip. It’s really helpful ^^
Woop thanks for using my tip Kat! And yes, Lyndi, there are loads of other sites like Groupon that do similar things, so best to check them all out.
thanks for this post-i’m in the process of setting up a wedding stationary business and really looking forward to promoting it when its all up and running so this is really useful! 🙂
Tattoos are very rock n roll, have used groupon on occasions they aint bad really.