Spring is here, and to welcome the season PRChannel is running a promotion.

Starting today, if you sign up for a featured listing on PRChannel we’ll give you a banner ad on this blog for free!

We have several featured listing options available, and signing up for any of them will get you the promotion.  You’ll have to supply your own banners (120 x 60 pixels please) and they will remain live on our site for 1 month.  Just sign up for your listing and go through our automated process – after  your listing goes live one of our staff will contact you about placing your banner.

Read more about our listing options here, and hurry – this offer ends May 1st!

We’ve got a couple of great new resources that have been added to the PR Dashboard:

First up is a UK-based press release distribution service, at PressGo releases are distributed online, through RSS, Twitter and email to the UK’s largest online community of journalists.

We’ve also added Business 901, a great online pr/marketing reference site that also provides PR services.

Keep the suggestions coming!  We’ll do our best to add the links right away, with your help the PR Dashboard is becoming one of the most comprehensive public relations resource sites out there.

We’ve received a few more great suggestions recently:

First up is BurrellesLuce, a top-notch media monitoring & analysis service.  Someone also suggested MyMediaInfo – a site that has information on media contacts, editorial calendars and outlet profiles.

And now our favorite new addition -MatchPoint.  This just launched tool is a  search app that helps PR people find the reporters/bloggers that are most appropriate for their specific pitch.  Now there are absolutely no excuses left for badly targeted pitches.

Keep the suggestions coming, we’ll try to post them to the PR Dashboard as soon as we get them in!

The PR Dashboard has had a great start to the new year and we have a few new visitor submitted resources that have been added!

First up is Online-pr, a great site with lots of information on making your PR campaigns better and less expensive.  Someone also suggested Manta.com, a great way to gather background information on both private and public companies online.

Last up for this set of additions is AdHat, where you can enter a keyword, brand name or agency to find appropriate promotional campaigns on display. Great for inspiration and brainstorming!

We’ve had a great response to the PR Dashboard so far, and we’ll post new additions here from time to time, but we can’t list them all so make sure to check back often.  And keep sending in suggestions…

Welcome to PR Channel!

Thanks to the success of our sister site AgencyTool.com and their web design directory and web design dashboard we decided to branch out and offer these valuable services to other industries.  We’ve launched the site and everything is now up an running, so feel free to take a look around.

Check out our PR Dashboard for helpful links to resources and tools for the PR professional.  The dashboard is broken up into categories like Media Management, Writing & Pitching to make finding the resource you need extremely easy.  We’ve spent a lot of time pulling together some of the best sites and tools out there, but we know we’ve left some great resources out.  That’s why we have the submit feature – so if you use a tool or know of a great PR related site don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll add it to the list!  Hopefully we can built the biggest and best PR resource around.

Also, make sure you visit the directory at PRChannel.com – its empty now, but if the success of our first directory, AgencyTool, is any indicator spots will fill up fast!  Receive targeted traffic from our site that results in qualified leads and boost your visibility online.  Check out our Get Listed page for more details about signing up and getting listed.

That’s all for now – but be sure to check back here as well.  Our blog will post about resources that are added to the dashboard, as well as articles and other random PR tidbits we come across.

Cheers!

The PR Channel Team