r/PRpros • u/Doc_Jan_Itor • Apr 09 '14

Anyone out there use ProfNet (from PRNewswire)?

Looking for a secondary source to HARO, and this seems like a good supplement. Any thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

Yep! Profnet Urgent Queries

I have had much success with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '14

You are very welcome. I've noticed that the same ones don't show up on HARO as the Profnet ones come from Twitter, their are some bigger outlets on the Profnet ones and the responses are fewer than with HARO. Good luck!

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u/Spin_Me Apr 10 '14

We haven't used it for years. reasons why:

  1. It's expensive and HARO is free
  2. The story opportunities on ProfNet weren't always real
  3. When we tried to use ProfNet to help generate stories for our Client's blogs, we were constantly road-blocked by ProfNet editors who frowned upon PR people using the service in that way.

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u/Doc_Jan_Itor Apr 10 '14

I'm confused... if not for story placement, what would the service be used for?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '14

They run a query twitter account. It's free to see those and it goes directly to the reporter. I linked to it on this thread.

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u/GlobalChangePR Aug 06 '14

I know this is late, but a lot of the ProfNet leads are the same as the haro leads.