It's Official: ProfNet vs. HARO

It was bound to happen at some point, and although there have been hints at some ruffled feathers before, yesterday marked another step in the HARO vs. ProfNet competition.

Not familiar with HARO, or ProfNet? Both services match up journalists with sources, allowing journalists to send queries to lists of thousands of subscribers, mostly PR people.

HARO is free for all, ProfNet is free for journalists, but costs money for PR pros. While HARO founder Peter Shankman stated in January, “I have absolutely no beef with Profnet,” that stance has quickly changed to, “Isn’t it a little foolish to predict yourselves [ProfNet] to be the ‘industry mainstay’ when you continue to charge your members for something that HARO gives them, every single day, for free?”

The above comment is part of a back and forth between Shankman and PRNewswire’s David Weiner.

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