Blogging

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

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

Top 10 creative writing blogs and more top tweets

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. Top 10 creative writing blogs. http://ow.ly/8gzJb Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for improving your presence on LinkedIn. http://ow.ly/8gBr9 10-point checklist for growing your blog in 2012. http://ow.ly/8gBY9 10 reasons why you might not be… Read More

Blogging Cheat Sheet and more tweets

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 25 Worst Passwords of the Year for 2011. [Is one of yous on this list?] http://ow.ly/81QNc How to get a ton of new subscribers to your blog. http://ow.ly/7ZR3S Should you post press releases in social… Read More