January 18th, 2008 Add Your Comments Bookmark and Share

Funnily enough this wasn’t one of those websites that takes up too much time for too little a return (well it is actually but I have too much fun writing it to drop it). I didn’t have time to post yesterday because I was sorting out a few things the real media, not bloggers but those people that write for newspapers and do the radio and things like that. I’m not sure how much affect real world coverage has these days (it’s a been a long time since anything was written about one of my websites in the press) but I’ll let you know of any traffic spikes and that sort of thing.

Anyway, a friend of mine thought it would be a good idea to get some local press coverage of the ICU Child Monitoring product I’ve been involved with. A rather magnificent press release was crafted with help of one of his friends and yesterday was when it went out. In all honesty I expected that perhaps the local newspapers might copy and paste it as well as maybe a couple of the local newsy style websites. I wasn’t expecting the radio stations to pick up on it at all but 2 have.

I was in this morning giving some sound bites for their news slot about the dangers of Bebo, Facebook etc Child Monitoring and then trying to explain exactly what Trial Pay was. Honestly I sounded like a complete cock. ICU, child safety and things like that are fine but as soon as it comes to explaining what Trial Pay is in a way that doesn’t make me sound like a dodgy car sales man I can’t do it. Knowing I’d screwed up I dropped the news editor an e-mail later with a link to this page on the Trial Pay website. Funnily enough she agreed completely, it’s such a simple concept but you try and explaining it to somebody. I think that she’s going to just give out the Trial Pay web address as an explanation, I hope so anyway because it will save my blushes!

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