PitchRate.com: There’s No Cost like No Cost

Oct. 15, 2009 - PRLog -- Free expertise in publicity, promotion and publishing offered online

Authors, entrepreneurs and others seeking the benefits of free publicity can find expert advice on topics such as selling a book or creating an effective Web site at http://www.pitchrate.com.

Now http://www.pitchrate.com also offers a free Online Resource Center with expert articles on a range of “how-to” topics.

“PitchRate.com is committed to making a difference for entrepreneurs, small business owners, authors, speakers, and other media experts looking for free publicity,” says PitchRate.com creator L. Drew Gerber, CEO of Blue Kangaroo, Inc.

The Resource Center, found at http://www.pitchrate.com/content/content-folder.asp?FolderID=1538 offers a range of informative articles with more to be added based on users’ requests, Gerber says. Current titles include:

1. 7 Ways to Sell More Books at No or Low Cost
2. How to Have an Effective First Web Site
3. Simple Ways to Promote Yourself Online
4. What Is Your Brand as a Writer?
5. Your Book Is Judged by Its Cover — 7 Tips for Effective Internet Book Selling

The Resource Center complements PitchRate.com’s goals: help reporters with finding a media expert and assist the entrepreneur, author, or speaker who wants to be a media expert. It works like this:

Journalists sign up for free and send out queries on the articles and shows they are developing. Sources with expertise in diverse areas, from parenting and relationships to law and finance, also sign up for free to receive queries targeted to their areas of experience.

In developing PitchRate, dotcom veteran Gerber came up with a unique system that allows journalists to rate the expertise of the sources they interview. The goal is to move the best interviews to the front of the line for the media.

To find out more go to http://www.pitchrate.com or email Shannon.PitchRate@gmail.com or call 828-749-3548.

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Blue Kangaroo, Inc., Online Press Kit 24/7, http://www.presskit247.com, provides businesses, entrepreneurs, authors and others with cost effective marketing tools.