Here’s a cool social media tool to use in your publicity campaign if you’re promoting a tourist attraction, an event, a neighborhood, or even something as mundane as your local firehouse. It’s called waymarking, and you can do it here. A tip of the hat to Publicity Hound Rebecca Davey of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio who emailed… Read More
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Learn 5 legal issues for online businesses
If you write articles, create information products, blog or create, publish and distribute any kind of content online, you must know how to protect yourself from the scoundrels who might be tempted to steal your content. My colleagues, Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, aka The Blog Squad, are presenting a teleseminar on legal issues affecting online professionals. You… Read More
Holiday gift guide tips featured weekly in free ezine
Every year, newspapers, magazines, TV news shows, newsletter editors, the wire services and even nonprofits feature products and services that would make ideal holiday gifts for their audiences. It isn’t too late to pitch your product for many of these special features. Newspapers, for example, typically plan several holiday gift sections in November and December. If advertising revenue… Read More
Online event calendars: Which are your favorites?
OK, all you publicists and self-promoters. I’m in the market for the very best online calendar directories, preferably free, where you can post blurbs about your events. I’ll trade you six of mine for six of yours—or even just one of yours. Here are some of the sites we’re using: Full Calendar costs $19.95 per post, but… Read More
Salon’s letter to the editor is better than an article
Have you ever picked up the local newspaper and read a glowing story about one of your competitors? And told yourself that the reporter could just as well have written the story about you? Lots of Publicity Hounds have. They throw away their newspapers, and then stomp off grumbling and groaning that their day has… Read More
GoodSearch.com raises money for charities, schools
If you’re a charity or a school, or there’s a particular charity or school you support, this tip is for you. Use the GoodSearch search engine whenever you’re looking for information online. After a charity or school adds its name to the website, GoodSearch will pay the group one cent every time someone designates it as the recipient and… Read More
EzineArticles.com adds 27 niche categories
EzineArticles.com, the granddaddy articles directory, has added 27 niche categories for your articles. The niches are within these more general categories: Arts & Entertainment Business Computers and Technology Finance Health and Fitness Home Improvement Home and Family Internet and Business Onine Legal Real Estate Recreation and Sports Relationships Self-improvement Shopping and Product Reviews Travel and Leisure… Read More
Donate a prize for publicity at ProBlogger
There’s a clever promotion that’s tied to a contest at ProBlogger, one of the top blogging sites dedicated to showing bloggers how to add income streams to their blogs. The blog is celebrating its third anniversary, and Darren Rowse is asking readers to donate significant prizes—everything from cash to iPods—and generate some great publicity. Call me nuts,… Read More
Tuscany Visioning Retreat needs promotion ideas
Kathy McCabe of Washington, D.C. writes: “My business partner, success coach Margarita Rozenfeld, are co-sponsoring The Tuscany Visioning Retreat. “It’s a week of personal reflection, goal-setting sessions and cultural encounters at a private villa. We envision the target audience as men and women, 30s to 50s—people ready to refocus their lives, maybe change jobs, start… Read More
Website traffic eluding you? Free White Paper has tips
Frustrated because your website isn’t pulling the traffic you expect? I’ll bet part of your problem isn’t just a lack of traffic, but that you aren’t converting existing traffic into paying customers. Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, aka The Blog Squad, have a free 12-page white paper called “The Great Internet Challenge–How to get your… Read More