The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week
– Issue #1180 Dec. 9, 2017
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- Best PR Tools of 2017
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Advice Needed on Using IMDbPro to Contact Celebrities
Publicity Hound Teri Brown of North Las Vegas, Nev., asks: “Do you know if IMDbPro is a good resource for finding current contact info on celebrities? They charge $19.95 on a month-to-month basis or less yearly. My main concern is current info. Have you heard anything about them one way or the other?” The Publicity… Read More
#PublishingatSea Day 4: The Food of Old San Juan
The foodies in our group can hardly wait to hit the streets of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico for our Food & Culture Walking Tour this afternoon, one of two excursions I’ve chosen on our fourth annual Publishing at Sea cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas. But we have two classes today on… Read More
6 Tips for Dealing with Publicity Stress and the PR Grind
By Peggy Sealfon Promoting yourself can be challenging. But you can take several clear—and simple—steps to streamline the process and keep stress at bay. I used to own an advertising agency and, more recently, have become a life coach, author and publisher, so I’ve distilled advice into these six doable tips. 1. Create a simple… Read More
Tips from 32 Top Copywriters
12 ways to use my free ebook on DIY publicity tips
It’s my annual gift to you: “The Best of The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2012” ebook. This year’s book includes 27 publicity and social media tips for businesses, schools, nonprofits, authors, speakers and experts, excerpted from my ezine, delivered each Tuesday and Saturday. Right-lick here and save the book to your hard… Read More
Storify: Valuable tool lets PR pros be storytellers
This guest post was written by Harrison Kratz, the Community Manager at MBA@UNC, the new online program that allows students to receive an aacsb online mba degree from the University of North Carolina anywhere around the world. Harrison also sticks to his entrepreneurial roots as the founder of the global social good campaign, Tweet Drive, which has collected over… Read More
Need national publicity? Master the art of storytelling
Speakers know that if they can tell an emotional story from the platform, they’ve got the audience in their hands. Authors have perfected the art of storytelling, too, to sell millions of books. And Publicity Hounds who can tell a compelling story can generate mountains of national publicity. Publicist Michelle Tennant Nicholson, Chief Creative Officer… Read More
Create your own infographics at Visual.ly
Are you as fascinated with infographics as I am? They’re everywhere these days, and you can’t spend much time on Twitter, or surfing the web, without stumbling across one. Create your own at Visual.ly, a start-up that allows anyone to quickly and easily create professional quality designs with their own data. When you’re ready to… Read More
24 juicy publicity, social media tips in free ‘best of’ ebook
If you haven’t made any resolutions for improving your publicity or social media efforts next year, promise that you’ll steal at least one tip from this free ebook, “The Best of The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2011” and do it. This is the seventh year I’ve compiled the very best tips from… Read More