If you sell consumer products in one of seven areas, you can meet journalists who want to know about your products by attending the Holiday Gift Guide Show June 13 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. It’s sponsored by Stark & Associates. The show will feature 50 non-competing exhibitors in the health, home,… Read More
Online Marketing
YouTube: Perfect place to sponsor a contest
Sponsor a contest on whatever it is you’re promoting, and let the amateur videographers over at YouTube participate. That’s what the nonprofit SmartPower has done. Its national non-profit marketing campaign, which promotes the use of clean renewable energy from sources such as wind, solar and water, is sponsoring a contest at YouTube.com for the most creative… Read More
Book marketing: Pitch high-traffic, niched websites
Here’s a great success story on how authors can get exposure at high-traffic websites by writing a regular column. Mike Archer of Firebomber Publications emailed it to me and I’m reprinting it here. My ‘Firebombers Incorporated’ novels relate the adventures (and misadventures) of a high-tech wildland firefighting outfit that employs a high percentage of ex-military personnel.… Read More
Video press releases alive and well
Will somebody please tell the folks over at ClickZ that video press releases are alive and well? A post yesterday indicated the writer wasn’t aware of how often video is being used successfully in press releases. A link to an audio or video clip can be incredibly powerful. Readers simply click on the video link and watch a short video of you… Read More
Google Alerts help you find influential bloggers
Every morning, I spend about an hour finding bloggers who wrote about the topic of press releases—one of the biggest pain points for Publicity Hounds—and I post comments to their blogs. It’s a wonderful way to let them—and their readers—know who I am. Here’s how I do it. Several months ago, I created a Google Alert for “press… Read More
EzineArticles.com adds 8 new categories
EzineArticles.com, the granddaddy of article directory websites, has just issued a call for articles in 8 new categories: Real Estate Law Timeshares Sleep & Snoring Ergonomics Pain Management Financial Aid Psychic Paranormal If you’re an author, speaker or expert on any of those topics, or hundreds of others, start submitting your articles. During a teleseminar… Read More
Greeting card/stationery company needs marketing tips
Lisa Tomlinson from Oakland, California writes: “I have a greeting card, stationery and gift items company that features fine art reproductions of extraordinarily unique mixed-media collage originals created by my brother, Jon Tomlinson. I don’t have a bricks-and-mortar shop, but our office and warehouse operations are run out of a 4,000-square-foot facility. “Our products are… Read More
David Lawrence Show pitching tips
More than 4 million people listen to The David Lawrence Show and Onling Tonight radio on a regular basis. Host David Lawrence is looking for guests who are experts on technology and can talk intelligently and compellingly about topics from spam to flaming to online sex. Marketing Sherpa has an in-depth interview with David, complete… Read More
A great deal for Internet marketers
If you want to get started as an Internet marketer and don’t know where to begin, or if you’re already doing business on the Internet but you’re disappointed with the revenue you’re earning, listen up. My mentor, Tom Antion, has a fabulous offer you can’t pass up: —60 audio recordings on Internet marketing covering 68 topics —Over 35… Read More
Publicity for dancers: Online and offline tips
If you want publicity for your dance company, dance event or anything else related to dancing, check out these great tips on how to use social media press releases and open rehearsals to generate more publicity. It’s courtesty of Doug Fox’s Great Dance Blog. Doug makes an important point: that dance coverage in traditional media like newspapers is eroding… Read More