--- title: "Best Benefit Ever: PR Help for Convenience Store Owners" id: "27701" type: "post" slug: "best-benefit-ever-pr-help-for-convenience-store-owners" published_at: "2015-03-24T19:16:15+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T17:52:05+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/03/24/best-benefit-ever-pr-help-for-convenience-store-owners/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/03/24/best-benefit-ever-pr-help-for-convenience-store-owners.md" excerpt: "Members of The Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing will learn how to promote their businesses more effectively with a new public relations guide." taxonomy_category: - "Marketing / Communications" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AI" - "AssociationsNow" - "community outreach" - "Membership" - "Public Relations" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "For-Profit CEO / President / Owner / Partner" taxonomy_persona: - "Industry Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Best Benefit Ever: PR Help for Convenience Store Owners **What’s the benefit?** Good public relations is critical for business owners aiming to build relationships with their communities and customers. But not everyone’s a PR expert. That’s why [NACS, the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Pages/default.aspx) is giving its members [the PR training (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/News/Daily/Pages/ND0323152.aspx#.VRFyHDTF_0p) they need to foster positive media coverage and build goodwill. The [NACS Public Relations Toolkit (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Issues/Refresh/Documents/PR-Toolkit.pdf) is full of information for convenience-store owners on how to carry out successful PR programs in their communities, with instructions on everything from writing press releases to conducting media interviews. **Why it works for members:** The comprehensive toolkit is an invaluable resource, teaching convenience-store owners and fuel retailers how to reach out to their communities on multiple media platforms and ensuring that they’re sending the right message to the public. “By using basic public relations strategies and gaining some additional exposure for your efforts, you will be able to more successfully attract consumers to your stores and improve the reputation of your brand,” NACS Vice President of Strategic Industry Initiatives Jeff Lenard [said in a statement (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/News/Daily/Pages/ND0323152.aspx#.VRGSwjTF9ie) . **Other perks:** The PR toolkit is just the latest deliverable from [the NACS reFresh initiative (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Issues/refresh/Pages/default.aspx) , which highlights the contributions that convenience stores make to their communities. NACS members can take advantage of additional [products and services (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Products/Pages/default.aspx) to help them succeed, including offerings in the areas of [business intelligence and data analytics (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Products/Business-Intelligence-Data-Analytics/Pages/default.aspx) , [training and development (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Products/Training-Development/Pages/default.aspx) , and [store security and signage (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nacsonline.com/Products/Store-Security-Signage/Pages/default.aspx) . (Byron Villegas/Flickr) [Julia Haskins](https://associationsnow.com/author/julia-haskins/) Julia Haskins is a contributor to Associations Now. 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