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It’s just incredible. It’s almost too good to be true. They tell you in advance what they’re going to write about next month, next week, and the rest of the year, all of next year. It’s a year ‘round collection of editorial calendars!
For example, let’s say a business magazine is going to run a story about how people are making money with CD-ROMS. You would suddenly know, three months in advance, that they were about to run this story about CD-ROMs, let’s say, in INC magazine. If you had a CD-Rom product or a web site that offered CD-ROMs, that would give you a chance to create a news release and send it to this person who’s an editor, by name, at that publication and say, “I saw on edcals.com, on your editorial calendar, that you’re doing a story on the CD-ROM. I wanted to send this news release to you, and if you have any questions, give me a call.”
The next stage would be the news release the way Russ described it. You would be positioning yourself, and you’d get a slant or an angle on your story because it would piggyback on what they’re already going to do. It’s a scientific new way to get thousands of dollars in free advertising for you web site!
Scientific, you ask? Very much so! There’s nothing random about this - with Edcals, you know when they’re going to run the stories that will have the most in common with
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