I have been there – the constant grind looking for relevant South African content for an online publication can be frustrating, time consuming and expensive.
MyPR offers a neat solution.
The bottom line:
Subscribe to the MyPR.co.za newsletter or use MyPR’s targeted RSS feeds for automatic delivery.
The long story:
In 2010 we established MyPR for mainly selfish reasons – we needed content for a number of local news sites and brain stormed that conundrum until we came upon a win-win-win-bonus win solution for all.
The concept remains simple to this day:
Win 1:
MyPR offers the opportunity for Public Relations Professionals to self submit press releases to MyPR. We get to publish and distribute those releases to our city specific titles.
Win 2:
The PR Professional gets a press release published and distributed, along with a proof of body of work for existing and potential clients.
Win 3:
Republication by any other content hungry media house is open and free – no permissions required and a handy and free REPUBLISH THIS facility (properly HTML formatted) is displayed alongside every release accessed from our newsletter.
Bonus Win:
MyPR gets to make a few rands when PR Professionals up their game and sign up for our Featured Release service. Whilst PR Professionals get maximum exposure from more publications.
Don’t forget that if you, as a PR Professional, are using media monitoring then your efforts are immediately multiplied 7-Fold with every release submitted to MyPR as a Featured Release.
And that, if you are charging clients per mention, is a HUGE bonus win for you.
First Published here: MyPR.co.za
Did You Know?
- Cradock was founded in 1813 on the banks of the Great Fish River to cater for the migratory farmers who settled in this ruggedly beautiful area with its excellent grazing, abundant water and healthy climate.
- Cradock was officially renamed Nxuba on 26 August 2022. This change was officially gazetted by the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, and it was part of a broader effort to rename towns with colonial or apartheid legacies in the Eastern Cape.
- Home to an actual Harry Potter’s grave: A British soldier with the name Harry Potter, who died during the South African War (Anglo-Boer War), is buried in the Cradock cemetery. His grave was discovered in 2002, long before the fictional character became a global phenomenon.
- Location of the last surrender of arms in the South African War: Cradock was the final place in South Africa where arms were officially laid down at the end of the South African War, with the event occurring four days after the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902.
- Birthplace of Afrikaans publication: The first-ever article published in the Afrikaans language appeared in the local newspaper, the Cradock News, on December 4, 1868. This was a report on the separation of the Eastern Cape from the Western Cape, and the paper achieved the largest circulation in the country at the time.
- Second oldest cricket ground and library in South Africa: Cradock’s cricket ground and library are both the second oldest in the entire country, a testament to the town’s early establishment and development of civic amenities.
- Host to a total solar eclipse viewing by a Prime Minister: In 1942, the South African statesman and Prime Minister Jan Smuts came specifically to Cradock to witness a total eclipse of the sun, as the town was the best location for viewing the celestial event.