Press Releases for PrivateCommunities.com

In my day job, I work at a real estate office. One thing I do is to write occasional press releases. Here are two that I've written over the past couple of months. Both of them are about fairly cool events - Jack Nicklaus (the golfing legend) who visited Governors Club in September and HGTV's Love it or List it filming in Governors Club.

Press Releases - The Fantastic Product Co & Solar Events

In 2014, a client was launched a new product - Ice Spheres, refillable silicone ice molds which produce large spherical pieces of ice.  The idea of the product is to use these slow melting spheres for hard liquors like whiskey or bourbon and in mixed drinks as well. 

To help this client with the launch, I did a whole lot of press releases.  I also did a good number of press releases for his other business, Solar Events. 

I don't know how many people actually read them, but it gave me a lot of experience with a new type of writing.  Here are two samples of the press releases I wrote.  Click the photos to read more.

First work from new job, brushing up on old skills

Today I started my 2nd week at my new job.  And today I got my first published piece.  Actually it was posted this past Friday, but I only realized today that it was live.  The businesses I work for maintain about 10 websites, one of which is a news site for Chatham County.  I also posted the article to several others sites since my new employer wants everyone to know about their award. 

This Chatham Post site (and the other 2 sites) have been created with Wix, a platform I'd never heard until last week at this new job.  It is a pretty simple and straightforward tool for making nice looking sites.  Below is the article/ press release which was published to the Chatham Post site along with the same post on 2 other Wix sites.

Also, I'm brushing up on my Adobe Illustrator skills.  Its been four years or more since I last used Illustrator, but so far I'm doing fine getting used to it again.  I don't have any finished design work to show yet, but will post something when I do.