Want to be interviewed in Promo Marketing?

I've been getting a fair number of phone calls and emails lately from distributors who are looking for ways they can get themselves or their companies interviewed in PM one way or another. This is awesome and wonderful and I'm glad so many people have been excited about our magazine, but it's also made me realize that information about distributor press opportunities in our magazine isn't something that is readily available on our site. I'll look into figuring out a permanent solution to that in the future, but in the short-term, here is a quick rundown of what exactly we have to offer in terms of press opportunities for distributors:

MY BEST PROMOTION
If you aren't familiar, My Best Promotion is a column we run every month detailing a favorite promotion of a given distributor (You can see online examples of the article here and here). It runs as a pretty straightforward Q&A and usually doesn't require much more than a 10-minute phone interview on your part. I currently write all of our My Best Promotions, and I always need sources since the article runs monthly. Call me at my office at 215-238-5449 or email at mcornnell@napco.com for a list of questions and other details.

HEADLINES AND THREADS:
If you're reading this blog, it's likely you're more than familiar with both of our newsletters. Just for the sake of spelling out every press opportunity however, I will say that along with supplier and relevant world news, we do print distributor press releases and news stories. All press releases should be submitted to our senior online editor Kyle Richardson at krichardson@napco.com. And yes, unless it's absolutely Earth-obliterating news, you will have to write your own press piece. It's difficult to express the time investment required to produce a daily newsletter, but let's just say that it involves more bloodshed and bitter promises of revenge than can be measured by modern numerical systems. Please indulge our private war against time and submit your own news piece if possible.