By Joan Stewart Frustrated Facebook users are still complaining about the redesigned home page. That’s my Number One complaint about Facebook. Just when I’m comfortable with the various tweaks and other changes they make, along comes a wholesale redesign, and I feel like I’m back where I started. Thanks to Christine Buffaloe, my virtual assistant, for pointing out… Read More
How to promote a group of expressive arts facilitators?
Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli, of Rochester, New York writes: “I just launched the Global Network of Expressive Arts Facilitators and need to get the word out about it and attract new members on an international scale. “It’s a membership-based organization for facilitators, all non-therapists, who use the creative process (painting, drumming, singing, journal writing, collage-making) with their… Read More
Action Sports Hub needs articles
Action Sports Hub is looking for action sports enthusiasts who can write articles. You can work you own hours from your home and at your own pace. Email samples. Write to them at Action Sports Hub Inc., 7071 Warner Ave., Suite F-416 Huntington Beach, CA 92647. If you’ve never written an article, see “How to Write How-to Articles.”
Resource links experts with radio shows that need guests
If you’re a guest expert, or a PR person who represents an expert, and you’re looking for radio talk shows and podcasts that need guests, don’t pitch only the big shows. Many of them are difficult to book, and you might be far better off trying to get onto shows that reach niched audiences. Check out RadioGuestList.com. You can… Read More
Let people comment at your blog without logging in first
By Joan Stewart One of the biggest frustrations of blogging is seeing too few comments at your blog—or no comments. Here’s one way to encourage comments. Don’t require people to first log in. Because I’ve created Google Alerts for my Publicity Hound website URL and my name, Google alerted me this morning to a blog post someone had written… Read More
More Facebook Changes, Ugh
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #491 Feb. 9, 2010 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” ================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. More Facebook Changes, Ugh 2. Radio Show Needs Guests 3. A Year’s Worth of Promotion Ideas 4. Corporate Sponsors & Social Media 5. Promoting a… Read More
Graphic artist needs ideas for promoting book video business
Jenni Bowring-McDonough of St. Paul, MN, writes: “My husband, Tim McDonough, is a graphic artist who is now producing book trailers at Standard Book Videos. “Because I work in publishing, I introduced him to our president who hired Tim to design several trailers (book videos) for us. That’s… Read More
Don’t let PR clients insert damaging info into press releases
If you’re a publicist or PR pro and write press releases for your clients, you’re making a big mistake if you let your clients determine exactly what the final version of a press release will say—particularly if that release is being sent to the traditional media. Of course, they should read it for accuracy and… Read More
Don't be anonymous at social media sites–use a gravatar
By Joan Stewart When you go to a blog, call up a post and see a comment that’s accompanied by an illustration of what appears to be a pawn on a chess board, or just a gray square where there’s supposed to be a photo, don’t assume that the person who posted the comment necessarily… Read More
Huffington: ‘Blogs more effective than press releases’
If you had to choose one or the other, which would you choose: a blog or press releases? Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, says a blog is more powerful. Her comments appear during a Q&A interview in the Febuary issue of PR Week. The magazine asked if PR pros were reaching out to offer rebuttals… Read More