Author Marcia Yudkin is one of the most creative people I know. Her book “6 Steps to Free Publicity” is perhaps my very favorite book on how to work with the media. I’m one of her groupies, and I read her ezine “Marketing Minute” each week. So I was thrilled when she gave me permission… Read More
Publicity Stunt
Publicity stunt on baseball’s opening day generates TV publicity
Thanks to Jeff Crilley, an Emmy Award-winning TV reporter from Dallas, Texas for letting me excerpt this tip from his ezine: A disc jockey in Dallas named Alan Kabel knew he couldn’t fight the media attention being given to opening day for the Texas Rangers. So he came up with an angle to complement the… Read More
Donate a second home for the homeless
Publicity Hound Jerice asked me to help spread the word about a campaign under way to help find housing for the homeless in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama. Here’s what she’s asking: Please donate the use of your camp, vacation home, empty apartment or second home for this emergency response to Hurricane Katrina. If you… Read More
Honey, the money dog
Filling up your gas tank doesn’t get more fun than this. When Don Rogers picked up a cocker spaniel named Honey six years ago at the dog pound, he could never have guessed the fame she would bring to his gas station–Crazy D’s All American Fireworks at the El Cheapo Gas Station just off I-95… Read More
Fighting City Hall with a pothole party
Thanks to Publicity Hound Gina Warner of New Orleans, Louisiana, for telling me about a clever publicity stunt that resulted in stories galore in the media awhile ago in the Big Easy. Residents in the 5100 block of Cannes Street celebrated the first birthday of a pothole measuring 5 feet across and more than a… Read More
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