The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #651 Sept. 29, 2012<\/p>\n
Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
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“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/p>\n
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In This Issue
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1. Give Kudos on LinkedIn<\/p>\n
2. Magazines Love Your Holidays<\/p>\n
3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n
4. Hound Quote of the Week<\/p>\n
This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/p>\n
Does your garden look as pathetic as mine? Everything looks so
\nsad, so brown, so scorched by the summer heat. But the birds
\ndon’t seem to mind. As long as I clean the bird poop from the
\nfour bird baths every other day, they can still splish-splash.<\/p>\n
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\n1. Give Kudos on LinkedIn
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It’s the equivalent of a Facebook “Like.”<\/p>\n
But it’s a lot more impressive. It’s called Endorsements, and
\nLinkedIn rolled it out this week.<\/p>\n
With just one click, you can now endorse your connections for a
\nskill they’ve listed on their profile. Or recommend one they
\nhaven’t added yet.<\/p>\n
You can endorse in two places:<\/p>\n
–At the top of a connection’s profile, you’ll see recommended
\nendorsements for them. You can suggest additional skills as well.<\/p>\n
–You can also endorse them from the Skills & Expertise section
\nthat now showcases these endorsements.<\/p>\n
Go to the LinkedIn blog <\/a>at and click on the Slideshare When you’re done, check out the cool things that Wayne Breitbarth ===================================== If you have your own holiday–or your own day, week or month of Many of them love writing about, and featuring photos, tied to In just one issue of Family Circle, I found publicity about:<\/p>\n –National Candy Corn Day, with fun facts about candy corn.<\/p>\n –National Teen Driver Safety Week.<\/p>\n –National Roller Skating Month.<\/p>\n –World Prematurity Day.<\/p>\n Create your special holiday<\/a>–or your day, week or month of the Most people pitching these magazines don’t use the vast majority ==================================== 10 worst mistakes bloggers make when using photos<\/a><\/p>\n Speakers, help meeting planners publicize your gigs<\/a><\/p>\n Dog Tweets: Top 10 tips for developing blog post ideas<\/a><\/p>\n ==================================== “The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.” — Carrie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #651 Sept. 29, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Give Kudos on LinkedIn 2. Magazines Love Your Holidays 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Quote of the Week This Weekend in the Hound\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[161,48,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-1055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-chases-calendar-of-eventsv","8":"tag-linkedin","9":"tag-press-releases","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npresentation to see what Endorsements look like.<\/p>\n
\ntaught Publicity Hounds how to do on LinkedIn with four power<\/a>
\n tools<\/a> the site introduced in the last year. I used one of them,
\nfollowed his instructions, and booked a speaking engagement for
\nlater this year!<\/p>\n
\n2. Magazines Love Your Holidays
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\nyear–go after publicity in the glossy magazines.<\/p>\n
\nthese special days.<\/p>\n
\nyear–for free, at Chase’s Calendar of Events. And then learn all my tricks on how to
\nattract the attention of magazines not only for these holidays,
\nbut for products and services you’re offering, good deeds you’re
\ndoing, and news you are making. I’ll be sharing them all next
\nweek during the webinar “How to Find Your Way into Glossy<\/a>
\n Magazines.”<\/a><\/p>\n
\nof tips that you’ll learn next week. Register here<\/a> and bring lots of
\nquestions!<\/p>\n
\n3. New Posts at My Blog
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\n4. Hound Quote of the Week
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\nUnderwood.<\/p>\n