Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. Why buying email lists is always a bad idea. http://ow.ly/b5es1 Bloggers: If your readers are leaving your blog, vowing never to return again, this could be why. http://ow.ly/b4zlY Even non-geeks with no artistic talent… Read More
Flickr
Will Flickr allow this kind of photo promotion?
Chris Stephenson of Madrid, Spain, asks: “I’d really like to use Flickr to host a competition. I’d ask people to submit photos of a variety of airports, highways, bridges and all types of buildings that the company I work for has or is currently managing or constructing. “Potentially, I could offer a prize of photo… Read More
Have an online pressroom you can be proud of—update it!
If your online pressroom looks anything like mine did about two hours ago, it’s time to drag out the dust mask, the Shop-Vac® and maybe even a garbage dumpster. I found so much outdated information and ancient publicity photos in the pressrooms at my website and at the PressRoom247 site that I almost didn’t recognize myself! And then it dawned… Read More
Artists need publicity ideas for water tank mural
Publicity Hound Kate Farrall of San Diego, CA, writes: “I need to get national/international publicity for my two muralist clients who are completing a five-story public art installation this November for the City of Davis, just outside of Sacramento. They have transformed a water tank into 360-degree kinetic art installation. You can see a short… Read More
13 press release topics when there’s nothing newsworthy
One of the biggest myths of press releases is that they must contain news. That was true two decades ago when we wrote press releases primarily for journalists and we had to worry about insulting them with trivia about our business. But now that we post them online, mostly to pull traffic to our websites, we’re… Read More
Prepare your PR company for hurricanes, earthquakes
If you’re in the path of massive Hurricane Irene, and the home or office that houses your PR business is severely damaged or wiped out by the 115-mph winds and torrential rains, could you continue to conduct business? How to prepare for natural disasters is the stuff they teach in Crisis Communications 101. But many… Read More
Create animated graphics for PR with free generator
Did you ever land at a blog, and spend more time staring at the clever graphic than you did reading the post? I have. The same way you landed here and stared at the one above, wondering, “How did she do that?” Easy. It’s one of the 10 free generators, most of them animated, at… Read More
9 ways to use Flickr to promote your business
This guest post was written by David Murton. David has been helping companies build and maintain their online relationships with customers since 2006. He is also a professional writer and webmaster, with a particular interest in the open source Drupal platform. On a more personal note, David is an avid piano and accordion player, drawn especially to… Read More
13 ways to cross-promote on social media sites
If you’re like me, you sometimes spend so much time and effort trying to understand the minutiae on a site like Facebook, that you forget to let your regular customers know where to find you there. Here are 13 ways to create a trail of digital bread crumbs that will let your friends, followers and… Read More
EveryBlock: Another uber-local site for community news
Here’s another hyperlocal website to add to your publicity toolbox: EveryBlock, perfect for publicizing local news in bigger cities, and also for finding other local blogs and media outlets you might not know about. MSNBC.com bought it in 2009 and unveiled the new version yesterday. It operates in 16 cities mostly on the east and west… Read More