If you haven’t made any resolutions for improving your publicity or social media efforts next year, promise that you’ll steal at least one tip from this free ebook, “The Best of The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2011” and do it. This is the seventh year I’ve compiled the very best tips from… Read More
Create Top 10, 20, 50 lists for year-end publicity
Lists are everywhere these days—on TV, on Facebook, on Twitter and in your local newspapers and national magazines. And for good reasons. Readers love lists. The end of the year is the ideal time to create your own—either by yourself or with help from your friends, followers and fans. Nicole Nichols, a personal trainer and group… Read More
Ask visitors who complete a web form to tweet about you
Website owners who ask visitors to complete an online form, and then simply thank them for doing so, are missing a powerful opportunity for a little publicity, and possibly some extra sales. If visitors have completed the form because they want more information about your product or service, or they’re asking a question, or they want… Read More
Blogging Cheat Sheet and more tweets
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 25 Worst Passwords of the Year for 2011. [Is one of yous on this list?] http://ow.ly/81QNc How to get a ton of new subscribers to your blog. http://ow.ly/7ZR3S Should you post press releases in social… Read More
52 Headline Hacks
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #585 Dec. 13, 2011 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. 52 Headline Hacks 2. Heads-Up: Deadline Tonight 3. No-no’s for Nonprofit Publicity 4. Holiday Greetings for Journalists 5. 17 Freebies for Publicity 6. Hound Video of… Read More
Nominate a newspaper for a notable idea, achievement
Don’t be surprised if the newspaper, as we know it today, is gone a decade from now. But before it disappears, let’s give the newspapers that do an exceptional job their due. If you have a favorite local, regional or national newspaper that achieved something noteworthy in at least one area this past year, nominate it for Editor &… Read More
Piggyback PR onto Baldwin & celebrities behaving badly
Another case of a celebrity behaving badly, and another opportunity for Publicity Hounds in a variety occupations to generate some PR by tying into this story. This time, it’s Alec Baldwin who was kicked off an American Airlines plane on Tuesday for refusing to stop playing Zynga’s Words With Friends on his phone. The plane… Read More
OK, What’s Bugging You?
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #584 Dec. 6, 2011 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. OK, What’s Bugging You? 2. Attention Amazon Authors 3. Your Own Amazon URL 4. Twitter Tweekly 5. My Gift to You–It’s Almost Here 6. Hound Video… Read More
How to piggyback PR onto top consumer trends for 2012
Every December, Trendwatching.com publishes an annual list of a dozen crucial trends for the following year. If you’re looking for a hook to hang a story onto, so you can pitch it to the media and bloggers, there are lots of opportunities. Here’s the list of 12 Crucial Trends for 2012 (there are actually 13): You won’t be able to… Read More
Fast Company tips and other tweets from this past week
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow @PublicityHound on Twitter. Twitter and Facebook tips for food trucks. http://ow.ly/7MOeO RT@mysurveyexpert #foodtrucks Are women in PR just grown up “mean girls”? Weigh in athttp://ow.ly/7LXGe Want a story in Fast Company? Writer says you must answer these 4 questions first: http://ow.ly/7LaI1 How to… Read More