The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #609 May 1, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Trade Show Publicity 2. “May I Record This Interview?” 3. Sell Blog Sponsorships 4. Hound Video ================================== 1. Trade Show Publicity ================================== The next time you… Read More
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How I use Pinterest to link to old blog posts
Go ahead. Drool all you want over photos of those eight-layer chocolate mocha wedding cakes. While you’re at Pinterest scrolling through the thousands of enticing photos of strapless gowns, cute puppies, breath-taking sunsets and stiletto heels, I’ll be creating Boards around a common topic and using my pins, or images, to pull viewers back to… Read More
A Really Impressive PR Pitch
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #595 Feb. 28, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. A Really Impressive PR Pitch 2. How Pinterest Violates Copyright 3. LinkedIn’s New “Follow” Button 4. Authors: Meet Me in San Francisco 5. Write for My… Read More
Dog Tweets — 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post http://ow.ly/8TLYO Farts: The topic of a 6th-grader’s 1st-place speech. Here are 5 lessons from the speech: http://ow.ly/8TPHk 5 ways LinkedIn can freshen up and… Read More
Valentine’s Day Story Ideas
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #592 Jan. 31, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Valentine’s Day Story Ideas 2. See You in San Francisco 3. Follow Journalists on Facebok 4. Promoting Calendars for Vets 5. Media Lead 6. Hound Video… Read More
Doing business locally? Share your blog at Patch.com
At the winter farmer’s market in my town, I ran into my local editor for Patch.com, the uber-local website that’s giving Publicity Hounds yet another outlet for their press releases, photos and local news. Lyssa Beyer and Matt Schroeder, her associate regional editor, were stopping shoppers and asking if they knew about Patch, which operrates in 22 states in the… Read More
Dog Tweets: Write killer headlines using this clever trick
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. How to write irresistible blog intros. http://ow.ly/8Em6E Chicago Tribune Offers Sunday Book Review Section for $99 a year. http://ow.ly/8FRZM Facebook timeline becoming mandatory for all users. (Ugh.) http://ow.ly/8HvgH 4 Simple Steps to a Facebook… Read More
Sick of Your Blog? Sell It
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #590 Jan. 17, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com http://publicityhound.com http://www.publicityHound.mobi http://www.publicityhound.net/ (Blog) http://www.publicityarticles.net (Ezine Archives) ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” Receive this ezine direct to your desktop http://www.publicityarticles.net/feed/rss/ =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Sick of Your Blog? Sell It 2. Know When Reporters… Read More
Make Your Blog Go “Ka-Ching”
The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #589 Jan. 10, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Make Your Blog Go “Ka-ching” 2. Host a Scavenger Hunt 3. No Corrections on Facebook 4. Do You Make This Typing Mistake? 5. Help This Hound… Read More
Want (recurring) donations from blog readers? Just ask!
By the time Jim Hopkins left his job as a reporter and editor for USA Today on Jan. 10, 2008, he had already built up a respectable following at the snarky blog he published about his employer, Gannett Co., anonymously. Called simply Gannett Blog, it kept employees of the largest newspaper company in the United… Read More