Meet Bogie, an 11-week-old German Shorthaired Pointer. She’s the love of our lives right now. Here she is in all her glory, though she usually doesn’t look this serene. Because she has a brown head and brown-green eyes, it’s often difficult to tell if her eyes are opened or closed. (In this photo, they’re closed.) When they’re open, she’s either chewing lamp… Read More
Publicity Blog
Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum still generating publicity
The thousands of run-of-the-mill small business owners who can’t figure out how to generate publicity for their businesses can learn a lesson or two from Michael Bohdan. He’s an exterminator who runs The Pest Shop in North Texas. And whenever there’s a problem with fire ants or roof rats, he alerts the local media, and they feature him as… Read More
BusinessWeek Chicago to launch in November
If you’re pitching Chicago-area business news, watch for BusinessWeek Chicago to debut in November. About 60,000 of BusinessWeek’s local subscribers and other Chicago-area businesses will receive the free-distribution magazine. Michael Arndt, a senior correspondent in BusinessWeek’s local bureau, will be the editor. The magazine, he says, will focus on long, analytical articles. Each issue is expected to be about 36… Read More
Shawnigan Lake School in Canada needs publicity ideas
Julie Ann Kodmur from St. Helena, California writes: “How do you get American writers and, of course, families, interested in Shawnigan Lake School, a Canadian boarding school? “I’ve been doing publicity for the wonderful school where my step-son goes and now find that we need some fresh ideas. The school is frankly a cousin of… Read More
Grant recipients: Tell the rest of the story
Thanks to Publicity Hound Beth Bilderback, public relations specialist for Nauticus, a marine science center in Norfolk, Virginia, for this tip that can be used by anyone who receives grant money: “This summer, we received a hefty grant to fund two oceanography camps for two separate groups of 10th-graders. One requirement was that the students… Read More
Freelancers: Your Secret Weapon
PR people spend huge amounts of time pitching the most influential writers at top-tier media outlets, and too little time finding freelancers who already have built strong relationships with those same newspapers and magazines. Finding freelancers isn’t always easy. But once you know who they are, they can be your secret weapon to publicity. Here… 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
New edition of ‘hidden Hawaii’ book needs publicity ideas
Karma Bennett of Ulysses Press writes: “The publishing house where I work was founded with our travel series, the Hidden Guides. The first book, Hidden Hawaii, was at the time, the only book on Hawaii that actually reviewed and compared the various beaches of the islands. “Now we are giving the books a whole new… Read More
Media interviews frightening? This card deck will help
At times, I dislike doing media interviews, particularly with reporters at top-tier publications whose interview style makes me feel rushed, or I suspect the journalist is either dense or biased. Crisis counselor Lou Hampton of the Hampton Group in Washington, D. C. says we don’t have to be afraid. He offers these six handy phrases to use during interviews: “Let… Read More
Promote books with a contest like this one for Packers fans
If you’re doing PR for a new book, here’s a great idea you can borrow, courtesy of Dorothy Molstad, marketing manager for MBI Publishing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. Create a fun contest for the media, including ezine publishers and bloggers. That’s what she did to promote their book “Green Bay Packers: The Complete Illustrated History” by… Read More