Add to your media database yet another ezine article directory. You’ll find it at Smartads Article99.com. You can create a free author account and submit your articles, old and new. Articles at websites like this one help increase your search-engine ranking because your articles will be picked up by other editors and publishers who also… Read More
Writing Articles
Ezine article directory wants your articles
Add to your media database yet another ezine article directory. You’ll find it at Smartads’ Article99.com You can create a free author account and submit your articles, old and new. Articles at websites like this one help increase your search engine ranking because your articles will be picked up by other editors and publishers who… Read More
Use powerful subheads on press releases and other copy
Of the five stories that appeared on the front page of today’s edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, my local newspaper, every one of them had a subhead just below the main headline. In today’s edition of the Wall Street, all four stories on Page 1 also have subheads. You’ll probably find something similar if… Read More
How to find freelancers for news releases, media kits and more in a hurry
Within the last several weeks, two projects have been driving me crazy: something I needed written very quickly, and a PDF document of an ebook that I need to update. But the Word file that I used to create the PDF was corrupted. It’s possible to edit a PDF but it’s time-consuming and it would… Read More
EzineArticles.com adds eight categories
EzineArticles.com, the giant repository for thousands of articles that can be picked up by editors and publishers all over the world, is one of my favorite places for submitting how-to articles. Now, they’ve added eight new categories for articles: Data Recovery—Lost data? Got data? This computer related category covers all of the issues relating to… Read More
How a freelance business writer can get more clients
This week, Cheryl Beck asks: “I am a freelance writer and I am trying to get more business writing clients. I also offer some publicity services because writing is so heavily involved. What I need are ideas to promote myself to get the ball rolling. I can think of campaigns for other companies, but not… Read More
Boulder newspaper trains citizen journalists
One of the things I hated about the newspaper business was our failure, as a whole, to teach people how to use the newspaper. That’s why I welcome a new program started by the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado. It’s sponsoring an in-person training session for its MyTown site. It’s running full-color, half-page ads in… Read More
Why Publicity Hounds must have good-quality publicity photos
I’ll bet at least 3 out of 4 of you who are reading this right now don’t have a good-quality photo of yourself that you can give to a reporter or editor who asks for it. Photos are often far more powerful than articles. Every time my photo appears in the newspaper along with a… Read More
Child Safety Stories
The happy ending to the story of the 9-year-old girl who escaped from her kidnapper in San Jose, California begs for follow-up story pitches on anything dealing with child safety. Schools, law enforcement agencies, non-profits, and companies that make safety equipment should pitch anything related to: –Technology that keeps children safe –Statistics on missing children… Read More
Quote excerpts from product reviews, with attribution
Lisa Wuennemann of Beloit, Wisconsin writes: “When a reporter reviews our new product and prints a review in the newspaper or voices it on air, can we legally use a quote from the review in materials that we send promoting the product as long as we source it? Do we need to obtain written approval… Read More