Oprah, make your 53rd birthday your best ever today! To celebrate, many of my Publicity Hounds will be devoting 90 minutes to learning what they must do to land a spot on your show as a guest WITHOUT pestering your producers. They’ll be participating in a call that Steve Harrison is hosting with Michelle Anton, your former guest booker.… Read More
Media Relations
Freelancer needs a way to keep track of media contacts
In this week’s issue of “The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week,” Publicity Hound Erin Portman of Austin, Texas writes: “I am a freelancer and have a ton of media contacts. My new year’s resolution this year was to find a better way to track and capture information about the media I work with. Excel… Read More
How to persuade newspaper editorial boards
Today’s Crossroads section in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an excellent package of articles on how the newspaper’s editorial board works. It includes an explanation of how it chooses letters to the editor, how it decides who will be the community and syndicated columnists, bios of the editorial board members, and how the board formulates the positions it… Read More
When TV/radio talk show guests cancel, hosts need fill-ins
If you’re angling for some free publicity this holiday season on radio or TV talk shows, here’s a tip that I included under the headline “…And Build the Relationship” in Tuesday’s issue of my ezine, “The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week.” It generated reponse from several readers. Contact radio and TV talk show hosts and… Read More
Why you should read reporters’ blogs
Any Publicity Hound who wants to build a strong relationship with a journalist should first find out if that journalist blogs. Many reporters blog because they want to. Others blog, grudgingly, because they have to. A reporter’s blog will tip you off to sorts of insider stuff you wouldn’t otherwise know if you read only the reporter’s printed… Read More
USA Today reporters list also offers their articles
Thanks to Fox News reporter Jeff Crilley, for reminding us in his free ezine that Publicity Hounds can find a handy list of all USA Today reporters, along with articles they’ve written. This is a huge time-saver because once you know which reporter you should be pitching, you don’t have to search for articles they’ve written. Once advantage… Read More
Writing press releases: 9 out of 10 miss this critical element
One of the most valuable elements of a press release—a link that lets the reader click through to a website—is missing from 9 out of 10 press releases submitted to BusinessWire.com, one of their own press releases says. I find that statistic difficult to believe. But based on the press releases that people email to me, I… Read More
Self-publishing makes it easier for journalists to cover you
Authors love to debate the merits of having a book published by a publishing house, versus self-publishing. I’d choose the latter any day. Here’s one more reason why. I’m featuring the new book “Publicity for Nonprofits” published by Kaplan Publishing in the July/August issue of The Publicity Hound subscription newsletter and was hoping to excerpt several tips… Read More
CD get local tv publicity
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