The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #686 Jan. 29, 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. Tips for Pinterest Contests<\/p>\n
2. Hollywood Needs Your Book & Idea<\/p>\n
3. TV Docu-Series Seeks Marketers<\/p>\n
4. Hound Photos of the Week<\/p>\n
This Week in the Hound House:<\/p>\n
I’m in Week 4 of Eben Pagan’s 12-week time management program
\ncalled “Wake Up Alert.” I now get at least eight hours of sleep
\nevery night and I drink a liter of water first thing in the
\nmorning. Those two changes have turned me into a new person–
\nclear-headed, full of energy, and more able to concentrate on one
\ntask at a time. I’m finally breaking the nasty habit of
\nunproductive multi-tasking.<\/p>\n
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\n1. Tips for Pinterest Contests
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Pinning pretty pictures on Pinterest is one thing. But are you
\nmaking money from it?<\/p>\n
If not, a Pinterest contest could be your ticket to publicity
\nthat goes viral, and a real return on your investment of time.<\/p>\n
Pinterest expert Beth Hayden offers these three tips:<\/p>\n
–Ask your followers and readers to create pinboards based on a
\ntheme you select. Harrods department store in London sponsored a
\ncontest that asked their followers to create storefront ideas
\nbased on the theme of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. Better
\nHomes & Gardens also ran a similar “Dream House” contest for
\ntheir Pinterest followers.<\/p>\n
–Keep it simple. Don’t ask contest participants to do five
\ndifferent things in order to enter. Make it a two-step process:
\nCreate a board, and tell them to tell you about it, whether it’s
\non Twitter, email, or in a blog comment.<\/p>\n
–Don’t sponsor contests too often. Once or twice a year is
\nenough. You want them to be REALLY special.<\/p>\n
There’s a lot more involved than just those three tips,
\nespecially if you want your contest to go viral, and you’re using
\nit to grow your email list and pull traffic back to your website.<\/p>\n
Beth will share tips on exactly how to do that when she’s my P.S. On the bottom of the registration form, under ==================================== If you’ve written a book, or you have a great story to tell, or That’s because, today, there are more broadcast channels, Adaptations are especially super-hot. An adaption is a movie or The current trend in Hollywood is for studios and producers to The producer of a documentary on the Miami drug wars bought the More than 29,200 movies started out as books. And 5 of the 9 Will yours be next?<\/p>\n Join Steve Harrison on a free teleseminar on Thursday, Jan. 31, As soon as you reserve your spot on the call, Steve will send you Even though the call is free, I’m a compensated affiliate for ==================================== A major cable network is on a nationwide search for the most Candidates will compete in a new docu-series that follows them The casting director needs the following information: your name, ==================================== Have you seen the photos making the rounds of “public shaming of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #686 Jan. 29, 2013 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Tips for Pinterest Contests 2. Hollywood Needs Your Book & Idea 3. TV Docu-Series Seeks Marketers 4. Hound Photos of the Week This Week in the\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":2,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,111,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-1169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-book-promotion","8":"tag-pinterest","9":"tag-publicity-tips","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\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nguest during a webinar on “How to Use Powerful Pinterest Contests<\/a>
\n to Grow Your Audience and Explode Your Profits”<\/a> from 4 to 5:30
\np.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Jan. 31. We’ve got a great package
\nof bonuses for everyone who registers. If the time is
\ninconvenient, sign up anyway. You’ll get the video replay and
\nthe slides.<\/p>\n
\nComments\/Special Delivery Instructions, let me know your website
\naddress. Beth will choose several of them and make
\nrecommendations during the webinar for specific types of contests
\nthat she thinks will work best for you, depending on what you’re
\nselling.<\/p>\n
\n2. Hollywood Needs Your Book or Idea
\n====================================<\/p>\n
\neven a series of blog posts on the same topic, there’s a thriving
\nmarket for you in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
\nthousands of cable channels, a growing number of independent film
\ncompanies, movies and videos on demand, online movies and MORE
\nmedia outlets than at any other time in history. They are
\nstarving for novels, true stories, nonfiction books and “how-to”
\nbooks that can be turned into movies.<\/p>\n
\nTV show based on an existing source, like a book or a manuscript,
\nor even a collection of your blog posts.<\/p>\n
\nbuy book\/screenplay packages. The option fee is like free money
\nto an author, and if your book gets produced, then you get
\nroyalties.<\/p>\n
\nrights to Billy Corban’s book just for the title: Cocaine
\nCowboys.<\/p>\n
\nfilms nominated for Academy Awards this year were adapted from
\nbooks.<\/p>\n
\nat 2 or 7 p.m. Eastern, and listen as he interviews a Hollywood
\ninsider on “How to Sell Your Book or Story to Hollywood as a
\nMovie or TV show\u2026Even If It\u2019s Self-published.”<\/p>\n
\na “Turn Your Book Into A Movie” worksheet that will help you
\nwrite the perfect “Logline” for your book–an important first
\nstep you need to take if you want to get the attention of a
\nHollywood agent or producer.<\/p>\n
\nSteve\u2019s company, which offers a variety of training programs and
\nservices for authors and authors-to-be.<\/p>\n
\n3. TV Docu-Series Seeks Marketers
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\nambitious and business savvy go-getters who wants a chance to be
\nthe Director of Brand Marketing at a top fashion ecommerce site.<\/p>\n
\nduring the competitive interview process.<\/p>\n
\ncontact information, a current resume, a recent photo, and a
\nbrief synopsis of why you’re the next big director of Brand
\nMarketing. Email to TheOfficeProject@Yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n4. Hound Photos of the Week
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\ndogs”? It sounds inhumane. But when my sister emailed me about
\ntwo dozen of the best photos yesterday, I couldn’t stop laughing.
\nYou can find them all, and dozens more here.<\/a><\/p>\n