Dealing with the media can seem daunting when you’ve never done it before. Once you learn how, media coverage can be the best marketing tool to grow your biz.

We asked 3 young entrepreneurs how they got media attention, how it helped their businesses and what tips they have for anyone starting out.

Check out their stories here

Here are some examples of media releases featured in local papers by young entrepreneurs:

Download them and start thinking about what press release you could put together to get you and your business noticed in the media!

Paul Munro, Creative Director, Vision- Print Design Studio

1. Local paper (The Highland Post) – Local Young Entrepreneurs Reject the Recession

Vanessa Cullen, Principal, Forward Thinking Design

1. Fit Out magazine – Setting the Standard

2. Local paper – Design on Future

Where has The Frank Team been in the media recently???
We have been lucky enough to get some great media attention over the years. We have used a combination of direct media releases to journalists, as well as our website ranking highly for keywords that we know journalists are looking for and they then contact us!

Check out…
News.com.au – Young entrepreneurs tell Australians to toughen up on the global financial crisis
Daily Telegraph – Youth get down to business
The Australia – Now’s the time for web starts ups to go online
Want to learn how to get yourself featured in the media?

BOOK NOW for our PR Secrets for Beginners Workshop.

Send us your media coverage and we will add it here for ALL to see! jessica@frankteam.com.au

Get stuck into our latest Opportunities Blast just for you and your growing business.

Young Entrepreneurs Workshop –THIS Saturday (13th June) in Sydney

This is a FREE event put on by The Frank Team for young entrepreneurs to help activate their ideas. Hear from successful young entrepreneurs, work on your business idea through innovative and practical workshops, and meet other local young business people out there making their ideas a reality. The day assists 16 – 28 year olds who have a business idea, are thinking about setting up a new business, or want to grow their existing business. More info http://www.youngentrepreneurs.net.au/young-entrepreneurs-workshop-activate-your-ideas.html

Show Me How Workshop – PR Secrets for Beginners

Would you love to get some coverage in the media to grow your business but don’t know where to start? Effective PR is important to any business for a number of reasons. Mainly because it raises your profile to your audience, positions you as an expert in your field, helps to build your database and most importantly INCREASES SALES! The Frank Team’s ‘PR Secrets for Beginners’ workshop will teach you how to be a self-sufficient PR gun with a toolbox full of strategies for getting you and your business the PR exposure to grow your business right now. Delivered by young entrepreneur Jonica Bray from Publicity Insider.
BOOK NOW http://www.youngentrepreneurs.net.au/prworkshop.html
(Yes we are looking at webstreaming/recording this – so if you can’t make it let us know and we will keep you updated with this option)

Announcing Frank Team Young Entrepreneur FORUMS

We are super excited to announce our Young Entrepreneurs online FORUM. Here is a place to connect with young people just like you, starting and running a business – share knowledge, get contacts, get advice…..and generally hang out! Go and introduce yourself right now http://www.youngentrepreneurs.net.au/forum/

Help Brand Australia

If you are an exporter or importer then you can help to Brand Australia with Austrade. Have your say in how to better position Australia as a trade and investment partner, so that it helps you grow your business. Get involved http://survey.austrade.gov.au/ .

QLD Young Entrepreneurs Camp

With UPLOAD, our friends at Edgeware offer stimulating, accessible, enjoyable explorations of enterprise development and entrepreneurial skills, delivered through a series of interactive, hands-on workshops with expert trainers and young, real-world entrepreneurs. Check it out
http://www.edgeware.com.au/upload.htm

Take advantage of the Australian governments tax exemption http://www.creditcardfinder.com.au/30-percent-tax-break-for-business-owners-2009.html

DELL has also got some great end of Financial Year deals going on that you may like to take advantage of! Get into it.

If you have an opportunity you would like to share with other young entrepreneurs, let us know.

As busy entrepreneurs it can be tricky to keep a finger on the pulse in all areas of your business. So knowing how to continually promote you and your business through media channels can be daunting…unless you have the know-how.

Effective PR is important to any business for a number of reasons. Mainly because it raises your profile to your audience, positions you as an expert in your field, helps to build your database and most importantly INCREASES SALES!

Why pay someone else when you can learn the secrets of how to utilise the media and make the most of PR opportunities yourself?!

The Frank Team’s ‘PR Secrets for Beginners’ workshop will teach you how to be a self-sufficient PR gun with a toolbox full of strategies for getting you and your business the PR exposure to grow your business right now.

Following the success of April’s “SHOW ME HOW” online marketing workshop with marketing gun, Fred Schebesta, The Frank Team are excited to offer a 3 hour practical workshop for young entrepreneurs like you on how to get out there, get noticed and raise the profile of you and your business with PR and publicity extraordinaire, Jonica Bray.

The Frank Team’s “SHOW ME HOW” series deliver workshops that are presented by young entrepreneurs for young entrepreneurs that are only about stuff you need to know about and focus on showing you HOW TO DO IT YOURSELF.

When: 14th July 4.30 – 7.30pm

Where: bioFirst Seminar Room
Ground Floor, National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park, 4 Cornwallis St Eveleigh, NSW 2015
Parking available on site.

How Much: $66 per person (inc GST)

A recording of this workshop will be available to view after the event  – please email jessica@frankteam.com.au to book your access.

Also, if you have a skill that you would like to SHOW other young entrepreneurs HOW TO DO then please contact us for inclusion in our “SHOW ME HOW” series.

We have put together a short article on 5 Mistakes to Avoid when working with the media. We hope to spread the learning we have had over the years in regards to working with the media to you so please feel free to forward the article around and use in your newsletters etc with acknowledgment of The Frank Team of course.

Plus check out the coverage other young entrepreneurs have got in the media recently – get inspired!

Our Workshop presenter:

Jonica Bray, Publicity Insider

Jonica Bray from Publicity Insider

Through this workshop Jonica Bray will teach people all the basic skills they need to get their business PUBLICITY.

After working for leading national and international press and liaising with PR agencies on a daily basis, she has a lot of experience to share. As a journalist she knows which stories get published and which press release’s end up in the recycle bin.

Her inside knowledge can be passed on and by following the simple instructions you will have a basic PR plan in no time. Most news rooms work the same and are looking for particular types of stories at certain times of the year.

Jonica will provide you with those calendars and suggest ways you can be involved with many publications throughout the year, establishing your credibility and enhancing your reputation along the way.

The 3 hour workshop will cover:

- Introductory guide explaining what PR actually is (compared with marketing and advertising)

- How PR can help your business

- Why it’s important to set PR goals

- How to create a simple PR plan.

- Identifying target audiences and the publications they read

- The main ways to secure free editorial coverage

- How to develop story material for your pitch

- Digging deeper to get the story

- Who are you going to call?

- Roles within the media

- Becoming a PR expert

BOOK NOW TO SECURE YOUR SEAT

When: 14th July 4.30 – 7.30pm

Where: bioFirst Seminar Room
Ground Floor, National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park, 4 Cornwallis St Eveleigh, NSW 2015
Parking available on site.

How Much: $66 per person

We have put together a short article on 5 Mistakes to Avoid when working with the media.  We hope to spread the learning we have had over the years in regards to working with the media to you so please feel free to forward the article around and use in your newsletters etc with acknowledgment of The Frank Team of course.