Hollywood - 3:50 am on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

I tried PR Web and PR Leap.

Our release was pretty on topic and well written.. also was news release/story worthy.

What I have learned...

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- On PR Web I was getting about 30-40 clicks per minute
- Click above not going to my website only reported by their reporting tool
- I was position 4 on release date (Of entire new releases page, AKA: homepage of PR WEB)
- After 3 Days 31,590 Views so the site says (Views reported by their tool, not my website)
- Not one phone call from this
- About 30 hits to web site - if that from one website that picked up story - no biggie
- "Estimated Pickup -- > 207 < -- This number estimates the number of times your press release was picked up by a media outlet. This does not tell you how many times your story appears in the media. It simply attempts to estimate media interest of your release."

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- On PR Leap 132 Views so far
- 1 Search Engine robot only
- hardly a hit if any to website

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Opinion: Not worth the time, not worth the upgrades; at least so far I think this has been a no gainer.

I do know that there are other PR sources, (The big names) this test comes next. Big names such as Business Wire and Reuters Etc.

Happy hunting!

Hollywood