Joan Stewart

4 best-selling authors want your questions for webinar

If you want to become an author whose books fly off the shelves, don’t make many of the dumb mistakes that have cost other authors thousands of dollars in books they can’t sell and years of wasted effort. Bring your most burning questions about book writing, publishing and marketing to a free webinar tonight at… Read More

What advice do you have for Facebook after email snafu?

The little children running Facebook quietly changed users’ email addresses recently, with no warning whatsoever. Somebody, hire an adult to supervise the children. And then get this company a good PR person! This email switcheroo was one of two big, dumb boneheaded moves in the last few days. Dumb Move Number 1:… Read More

Summer drought: 7 story ideas to generate publicity

Piggybacking story ideas onto the weather is one of the very best ways to generate publicity for your product, service, cause or issue. Severe weather, like the drought this summer throughout much of the United States, improves your chances for publicity. Here in Wisconsin, the grass is usually deep green this time of year. But… Read More

Another New Facebook Feature

The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #624 June 23, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Another New Facebook Feature 2. How to Join My Affiliate Team 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Video of the Week ====================================== 1. Another… Read More

Dog Tweets—5 reasons you must promote your press releases.

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 5 reasons you must promote your press releases. [Too many peeps write them and forget about them.] http://ow.ly/bLpxN The email subject line strategy that gets 541% more opens. http://ow.ly/bJurB LinkedIn makes changes to Company… Read More

5 reasons you must promote your press releases

Writing a press release, and then not promoting it, means you’re missing opportunities galore for more readers and possibly more customers. Here are five reasons why you should be promoting your press releases (same as a news release): 1. There’s too much noise online, including billions of press releases. Every day, people feel as though… Read More

5 ways to promote press releases on LinkedIn

Most people write a press release, upload to their website or one of the paid distribution sites, and then forget about it. Missed opportunities galore! One of the best ways to call attention to your release, assuming it’s for a business audience, is to promote it on LinkedIn five ways. I’ll be discussing them all,… Read More

More Eyes on Your Press Releases

The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #623 June 19, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com http://publicityhound.com http://www.publicityHound.mobi http://www.publicityhound.net/ (Blog) http://www.publicityarticles.net (Ezine Archives) ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” Receive this ezine direct to your desktop http://www.publicityarticles.net/feed/rss/ =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. More Eyes on Your Press Releases 2. Site Rates Journalists… Read More

How to Drive Nonstop Traffic to Your Press Releases

When you write a press release, you probably post it to your website. If you have a budget, you distribute it through one of the distribution services like eReleases, PRWeb or PR Newswire. That’s a start. But you’re not done yet. The immediate bump in traffic you see after distributing the release won’t last long. In… Read More