How it Works

A key to your organization's strength and credibility is how you are perceived in the media. We can provide you with the most efficient, instantaneous, accurate, low-cost and easy way to target and get the word out to your key media. Here's how:

Step 1: Tell us about your project so that we may assist you in creating a targeted media list. Choose your media targets from our extensive list of magazines (including trade journals, business and consumer publications), newspapers (daily & weekly), news services and syndicates, radio and TV stations and shows.

You can customize your list by industry, category, state, market area, circulation, editor type, right down to the individual publication.

Step 2: Send us your news release (by e-mail, fax or regular mail. You can include graphics, pictures, logos and/or letterhead.

We Do the Rest: We'll format your press release and then transmit it directly to the fax machines of the media on your chosen media list.

Do It Now: You are in control of exactly who gets what information and when. We do the work for you.

We are totally up-to-date. Our databases are kept current and complete with the industry's best and freshest media and fax information. CK&A Mediafax is comprehensive with full coverage of most industries already in place and more being added every day. CK&A Mediafax is more cost-effective because you're more effective and your costs are less. And because it's live data, more accurate than any printed source can hope to be.

Whether you need selective industry trade coverage, specific market area, state or regional focus, or broad nationwide distribution, CK&A Mediafax allows you to achieve your goals and objectives.

Congratulations! You've increased the chances you'll make the news by reaching your most important media outlets more frequently and more effectively, while spending less.

What Can You Do With CK&A Mediafax?

CK&A Mediafax will assist you in customizing your news distribution to the media. It's the fastest, easiest, and most economical way to simultaneously reach your key media.

With CK&A Mediafax you chose to send your news to as many media outlets as you want to -- any way you want -- any time you want to.

  • You can broadcast news nation-wide to every daily and weekly newspaper in the country, the top 250, just those above a certain circulation, or just selected types of editors.
  • You can just as easily target magazine and trade journals by industry, category or editor. You can select only those media you want to reach -- no more -- no less.
  • You can select from print media (e.g., trade journal business editors) for one tailored outreach campaign, and come back to CK&A Mediafax to do electronic media (e.g., radio talk shows) in another tailored outreach. You can tailor your news release and your approach to optimize the results of your publicity campaign.
  • You can target key magazines, trade journals, and consumer publications by selecting from 86 industry, or 214 industry categories. You can target by state or by geographic area, or market area.

Understand the CK&A Mediafax Targeting Process

CK&A Mediafax leads you through a pre-set series of stepwise levels from the broad to the narrow depending on the type of media you chose. You can select any or all the print media at one time, or any or all the electronic media at one time. For each media the process is depicted below:

Type
Industry
Category
State
Market
Circulation
Editor

Print Media

Magazines

1
2

3

Newspapers

1
2
3
4

News Services & Syndicates

1
2
3
4

Electronic Media

Broadcast TV Stations

1
2
3
4

Broadcast TV Shows

1

2
3

Cable TV Stations

1
2
3
4

Cable TV Shows

1

2
3

Radio Stations

1

2
3

Radio Shows

1

2
3

Thus in no more than five easy steps you can create your own hand selected media list.

You get the most out of CK&A Mediafax custom media list selection capabilities by targeting carefully.

1. Target by Media -- choose magazines, newspapers, news services and syndicates, radio or tv stations, radio or tv shows

2. Target by Subject -- For Magazines select the Industries and the Categories you wish to include in your custom media list.

3. Target by Location -- Select All for Nationwide distribution, or Target By State and By Market area

4. Target By Editor -- The selection is automatically set on the senior editor for each media outlet. You may change this by selecting one or more different editors to receive your release.

5. Target By Circulation -- Select based on the number of subscribers.

 

Tips:

  • Prepare Your News Release Ahead of Time
  • Prepare your news release off-line using your word processing software.
  • Save your news release, complete with logos, pictures, graphics or letterhead in a Microsoft Word document file (.doc) or as a WordPerfect 6.1 document file (.wpd). Remember the file name.
  • When you complete the selection of your custom media list, you will then be asked to complete a short on-line order form.
  • If your news release is strictly text, you will enter your news release into the form.
  • If your news release contains special formatting, logos, pictures, graphics or letterhead you will be asked to submit your news release as an attachment to an e-mail message.


How To Identify Your Key Media Targets

You get the most out of your news releases by targeting your key media carefully. You target by sending your news release only to those media who are interested in your news. You don't waste your money and time sending a news release to people who won't be interested. Your create and use media lists contains only those media who will be receptive to your news.

You target by first identifying who will be interested in the subject of the news you offer. Two factors operate here -- reader or audience interest and editorial interest. What the readers or audiences want to read or hear is the single most important piece of information. Editorial interest more often determines the news slant or the style of presentation. Together they help you identify the right media and what to send to the right media.