About This Guest Blogger: Marketing and publicity expert Marcia Yudkin was one of my heroes when I started my business more than 15 years ago. I referred to her book, 6 Steps to Free Publicity, so often that it was threadbare. When you read her instructions below on how to come up with a story line… Read More
Guest Posts
7 easy ways to find guest bloggers (and enjoy vacation)
Your vacation will be a lot more enjoyable if you know you’re regularly publishing to your blog while wiggling your toes in the sand, or letting the wind whip through your hair while tooling around the country in that pink convertible. Do a little planning before you leave. Find other people to do the… Read More
How to pitch a guest post for The Publicity Hound’s blog
If you want to get in front of an audience of people who love to self-promote, including business owners, authors, speakers and experts—as well as PR people and publicists—you’re in the right place. I love publishing guest blog posts. But I hate pitches from people who have never read this blog. Or pitches that are… Read More
Dog Tweets—How to be an ideal guest blogger
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 5-Question Pitch Form will help you pitch better stories. [Wish everyone used this.] http://ow.ly/fojgL How to be an ideal guest blogger. [Read my comments] http://goo.gl/lwsZ1 How spying can make your blog better than your… Read More
Why guest blogging almost always trumps your own blog
Stop feeling guilty if you aren’t posting to your own blog at least three times a week. Danny Iny says it’s OK—it’s recommended even—that if your own blog isn’t attracting at least 300 visitors a day, you can post only a few times a month and spend the rest of your time pitching and writing… Read More
5 reasons I don’t guest blog, and why that’s changing
This is the latest tip in a series of “50 Tips for Free Publicity” which I’m pinning on Pinterest. Follow me there, and if you like my tips, comment and repin. * * * For as much as I preach about the importance of guest blogging, I should be able to… Read More
Photos Rule, Video Drools: It’s Photography, Not Videos, That Engage Users
This guest post was written by Julie Anne Herrin, a self-described social media and marketing junkie who ferrets out the latest and greatest in mobile, traditional and social media. She works in marketing and public relations for Zimbio and StyleBistro. You can find her at her blog at CapturingtheCustomer.com and on Twitter at @JulieAnneHerrin. * … Read More
How to write a guest post for my publicity blog
I love exposing readers of this blog to new viewpoints related to publicity, even if they disagree with mine. Topics can include anything dealing with traditional publicity to reviews for books and products that deal with publicity, online marketing, self-promotion or social media. I’m not interested in posts that aren’t related to those topics. Truth is,… Read More
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