Publicity Blog

How to write a guest post for Copyblogger.com

If you’re an expert in copy writing, Internet marketing, info products or blogging, and you can write well, one of your goals for 2009 should be to submit a guest blog for Copyblogger, the wildly popular blog that teaches its massive following how to generate traffic, gain subscribers, attract links and sell something. I’ve been wanting… Read More

Freelancer needs a way to keep track of media contacts

In this week’s issue of “The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week,” Publicity Hound Erin Portman of Austin, Texas writes: “I am a freelancer and have a ton of media contacts. My new year’s resolution this year was to find a better way to track and capture information about the media I work with. Excel… Read More

Can’t sell your house? Bury St. Joseph for an offer & publicity

With a glut of houses on the market and few buyers, here’s an almost guaranteed way for you to get free publicity for a house you’re trying to unload—and maybe even a quick sale. This is just one of several great publicity ideas for real estate agents, too. An old superstition says that burying a St. Joseph statue upside down… Read More

How to persuade newspaper editorial boards

Today’s Crossroads section in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an excellent package of articles on how the newspaper’s editorial board works. It includes an explanation of how it chooses letters to the editor, how it decides who will be the community and syndicated columnists, bios of the editorial board members, and how the board formulates the positions it… Read More

How to get Google juice from your LinkedIn profile

The more inbound links to your website from authoritative websites, the more authoritative Google judges your own website and the more traffic it will deliver. And you get extra points from Google as well as traffic if those links include hyperlink text. For example, if someone links to my website at PublicityHound.com, I’d much rather… Read More

When TV/radio talk show guests cancel, hosts need fill-ins

If you’re angling for some free publicity this holiday season on radio or TV talk shows, here’s a tip that I included under the headline “…And Build the Relationship” in Tuesday’s issue of my ezine, “The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week.” It generated reponse from several readers. Contact radio and TV talk show hosts and… Read More

How can agency let clinicians know about summary guides?

This week’s Help This Hound question is from Winthrop Morgan of Bethesda, Maryland: “How would you raise awareness of a government agency’s comparative effectiveness summary guides for clinicians? “A well-known and respected U.S. Government agency has a program which distills the findings from high-quality research into short, comprehensive Summary Guides for clinicians. The guides provide… Read More

Thank book, food, music reviewers who write about you

Here’s an appropriate reminder for Thanksgiving Day. Send handwritten thank-you notes to journalists, freelancers, broadcasters, bloggers and others who write about you. It helps build the relationship. But what about book reviewers? Anne Roos, author of the book The Musician’s Guide to Brides—How to Make Money Playing Weddings, asks: “I have received some wonderful online… Read More

Canadian jeweler wants ideas for Bloomingdale’s trunk show

Rachel Mielke of New York, New York writes: “I have a high-end designer jewelry company, Hillberg & Berk, that wholesales across Canada. We have just broken into the U.S. market by being invited down to do a trunk show with Bloomingdale’s in New York City. “This is an unheard of opportunity for our company and could… Read More