The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #678 Jan. 5, 2013
\nPublisher: 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. The Big Lie<\/p>\n
2. Lame LinkedIn Invitations<\/p>\n
3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n
4. Hound Video of the Week<\/p>\n
This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/p>\n
I’m addicted to the gourmet popcorn they sell at Fireworks ====================================== To convince journalists to cover you, you need a huge audience to You hear that all the time. But don’t believe it for a second.<\/p>\n It’s a lie.<\/p>\n You don’t even need a big audience or a big email list for a If your newsletter has fewer than 1,000 subscribers, you can have How? By having an audience that’s incredibly loyal and engaged, Last August, when I hosted a webinar with Danny, he demonstrated They also loved the fact that when they emailed him with That’s why I said “yes” immediately when Danny asked if he could He’ll be giving the step-by-step blueprint that he used to grow Danny is somewhat of a media darling, too, especially with ==================================== Nothing says “I’m boring” more than those one-size-fits all “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.”<\/p>\n The generic invitation should include a second sentence that Enough already.<\/p>\n Here are some ideas, courtesy of social media guy Scott Allen, on ==================================== Vowing to blog more? 7 shortcuts for fast blog posts<\/a><\/p>\n 10 January story ideas for publicity, blogging, videos<\/a><\/p>\n Dog Tweets: 10 blogging commandments for a successful year<\/a><\/p>\n ==================================== Thanks to Publicity Hound Dan Janal of PRLeads.com for this video <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #678 Jan. 5, 2013 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. The Big Lie 2. Lame LinkedIn Invitations 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Video of the Week This Weekend in the Hound House: I’m\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":[2,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-1144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-linkedin","9":"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\/1144","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=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPopcorn\u00a0Co. in Port Washington, WI<\/a>, where I live. They ship around the
\nworld. My favorite: Baby White Rice–small, crispy kernels and no
\nhulls. I’ll be poppin’ just before Saturday’s Packers-Vikings
\ngame.<\/p>\n
\n1. The Big Lie
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\nprove you’re credible.<\/p>\n
\nsuccessful online business.<\/p>\n
\nfar more success than someone who has a list of more than 10,000
\nnames.<\/p>\n
\neven if it’s small, says Danny Iny.<\/p>\n
\nhow to write a guest blog post in under an hour and get it
\npublished on a high-traffic blog. The response from Publicity
\nHounds was overwhelming. Those who attended gushed about him.<\/p>\n
\nquestions\u00a0afterward, he took time to answer every one. And I loved the
\nfact\u00a0that he CC’d me on them all.<\/p>\n
\npresent another free webinar on how to build a loyal audience.
\nIt\u00a0will be at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Jan. 10, and you
\ndon’t\u00a0want to miss this one.<\/p>\n
\nhis\u00a0company, Firepole Marketing, from a “nothing” to a
\nmultiple-six-figure business.<\/p>\n
\nbloggers\u00a0who welcome his guest posts because their readers love him. You
\nwill too.<\/p>\n
\n2. Lame LinkedIn Invitations
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\nLinkedIn invitations:<\/p>\n
\nreads,\u00a0“But I’m too lazy to customize this by explaining how I know you
\nor\u00a0why we should connect.”<\/p>\n
\nhow to write invitations that say “I care about you.”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n3. New Posts at My Blog
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\n4. Hound Video of the Week
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\nof two dogs having the time of their lives playing tetherball<\/a>.<\/p>\n