One great way to create public relations and Internet community goodwill for your online business is to do interviews of people in the industry. This does two things; first, it makes you look good being associated with other people that you are interviewing and it makes you look like you know what you are doing and you are well connected in the industry so you must be very good and even an expert in the field or industry sub sector.

Additionally, it makes the other person look good and that means they are more likely to network with you in the future on industry projects and that can bring value to your business future sales. It adds one more important word-of-mouth advertiser in the industry funneling business your way. Creating PR by way of interviews is a very smart business tactic in marketing because it is a win-win situation for both the interview were and the interviewee.

What some people do not realize is that often in the interviewer can end up with more publicity, public relations and Internet community goodwill than the interviewee. Often the interviewee is someone who is very popular and already well known in the industry and that is the reason that they picked them to do the interview in the first place. By being associated with this person it upgrades their status in the industry as well.

The good thing about using interviews for PR is it also separates you from the interviewee in case sometime in the future the interviewee has any negative political or unfortunate negative press. After all you are not associated with them or aligned with them anyway because you merely did an interview. So interviewing people for public relations and marketing is a very smart idea and something you might consider in 2006.