Debbie Jordan Kravitz of York, Pa. writes: “I’m a professional organizer. I also blog weekly at http://OnlineOrganizing.com, which has been going really well and leading to lots of website hits from all over the country. “To capitalize on this broad audience, and since I can’t physically organize these people, I have added virtual organizing consultation… Read More
Writing Articles
Book reviews at EzineArticles.com help authors with publicity
Authors, are you giving away copies of your books to influential people and asking them to submit reviews at EzineArticles.com, the granddaddy of the article directory sites? Heck, they don’t even have to be influential. If you publish an ezine, ask your readers to review one of your books. Bloggers, you can do the same. Speakers,… Read More
Promote your expertise with these five tips
The new book “The Million-dollar Idea in Everyone–Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions” includes five of my tips on how experts can promote themselves. Author Michael Collins asked me to contribute some of my best ideas for the book, and of course I said yes. (By the way, accepting invitations… Read More
Explain how to find a lost dog or a lost (fill in the blank)
I lost my dog, Bogie, on Sunday night while taking her for a walk in a residential neighborhood about a mile from our home—shortly after sunset, with temperatures in the 20s and falling fast. It was trash day the next day on the street where we were walking. When she brushed up against a trash bag filled with… Read More
Sploggers bring traffic, so why the complaining?
Some of you are still grumbling about finding your blog posts, articles and other material on junk websites, junk blogs and other stange-looking web pages that don’t seem to have a common theme or reason for being there. People who steal your material are called sploggers. A splog (spam blog) is a fake blog created… Read More
Top 10 tips for free publicity—in Italian
Cecilia Ungania, an Italian journalist who works for YouMark, emailed me a few weeks ago asking if she could translate my article “Top 10 Tips for Free Publicity” into Italian, and post it at the website. Of course I said yes. It’s very strange seeing the article I’ve written and, except for a few words here and there, not being able to understand what every… Read More
Freelancers, journalists can connect on Reporterist.com
Typical problem for freelancers: When they pitch an article to an editor, they must wait to hear back from that editor before they can pitch elsewhere. But a response can take days and maybe even weeks. Typical problem for editors: With staff cutbacks, they’re relying on good freelancers more than ever. And timeliness is still an issue. Some… Read More
EzineArticles.com rejecting articles for keyword abuse
If you’re writing articles for EzineArticles.com, the big article directory sites, don’t try to trick the search engines. The website is cracking down on keyword abuse and rejecting thousands of articles by writers, many of whom are trying to beat the system. Writers abuse keywords when they repeat them over and over again in the same article,… Read More
New mom asks, ‘Where do we put the baby?’
PR Week editor Julia Hood, who gave birth to a boy about three months ago, asks that question in her column in the Jan. 28 issue. “The truth is that much of the marketing world, whether targeting the hip moms or ‘Moms like me,’ do not effectively answer the basic question of what the hell to… Read More
Find a writer with free classified ads
If you’re looking for a freelance writer writer for your press releases, articles, a bio for your media kit, or anything else, Angela Adair-Hoy offers free classified ads in her excellent ezine, WritersWeekly.com. Send her an email and let her know what you need. Her ezine is one of the few I stop to read, no matter… Read More