The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #689 Feb. 9, 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. Bye, Bye Boring Bio<\/p>\n
2. LinkedIn Email = Book Contract<\/p>\n
3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n
4. Hound Video of the Week<\/p>\n
This Week in the Hound House: After digging out of 10 inches of
\nsnow with a snow blower, three different size shovels and a broom
\nyesterday afternoon, I sighed and thought about how lucky I am
\nthat I don’t live in Boston. Stay safe up there during the storm
\ntoday, OK?<\/p>\n
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\n1. Bye, Bye Boring Bio
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It’s all most Publicity Hounds can do to create one well-written
\nbio that encourages people to call them, learn more about them,
\nand even hire them.<\/p>\n
Nancy Juetten (rhymes with button) has not only one bio, but six.
\nYes, six!<\/p>\n
They’re all different lengths, including one that’s only six After you read them, and learn about all the other interesting If you have time to write only one bio, make it work for you.<\/p>\n Whether you want to attract clients, speaking gigs, or media She’ll explain it on a free webinar from 2 to 3 p.m. EST on<\/a> Seeing as how it’s Valentine’s Day, you’re going to fall in love If you don’t know how to identify the unique, interesting, even ====================================<\/p>\n 2. LinkedIn Email = Book Contract Nataly Kelly spent years pitching publishers with an idea for a She even hired a book agent, with no results.<\/p>\n But she got a book contract anyway, all because of one 75-word The book, published in October, is now in its fourth printing.<\/p>\n How’s that for ROI? You can read all about it at my blog. <\/a><\/p>\n During Thursday’s on all the new tools and tweaks that LinkedIn Wayne also shared a million-dollar idea about the “Courses” Find out what it is and sign up to receive the replay video of ==================================== 9 killer calls-to-action to use today on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n LinkedIn email, not an agent, lands author a book deal<\/a><\/p>\n Use window-dressing power tools on your LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n ==================================== Jesse’s back, and he finds new ways to be helpful around the<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #689 Feb. 9, 2013 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Bye, Bye Boring Bio 2. LinkedIn Email = Book Contract 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Video 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":1,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,185,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-1189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-book-promotion","8":"tag-boring-bios","9":"tag-linkedin","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\/1189","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=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwords, and they’re for different uses. She even made it easy for
\nyou to access all of them at her website.<\/a><\/p>\n
\ntidbits about her, you’ll understand why Nancy is the foremost
\nexpert on how to tell a story and broadcast your brilliance
\nthrough your bio.<\/p>\n
\ninterviews with your bio, you can follow Nancy’s road-tested and
\neasy five-part system to prepare winning stories about your
\nexpertise.<\/p>\n
\n Thursday, Feb. 14. <\/a><\/p>\n
\nwith her tips. I have. I’ve been following her for many years,
\nand she continues to amaze.<\/p>\n
\nquirky things about you that others would love to hear about so
\nthey feel like they already know you before they pick up the
\nphone, don’t miss this call. Nancy will even work one-on-one with
\na few volunteers and help them rewrite their own bios right on
\nthe call.<\/p>\n
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\nbook on how language changes our lives and affects the world.<\/p>\n
\npitch that she emailed to a book editor who was in her LinkedIn
\nnetwork.<\/p>\n
\nhas introduced the last several months, LinkedIn expert Wayne
\nBreitbarth said too few people use LinkedIn’s email program call
\nInMail to really make powerful connections, like Nataly did. He
\nwalked Publicity Hounds through the procedure of how to search
\nfor people who you need to contact, and then the correct way to
\nconnect with them.<\/p>\n
\nsection of your profile on LinkedIn. I had ignored this. Who
\nwould care about what courses I’ve taken? But Wayne made a
\nsuggestion on two ways to use that section so that you stand head
\nand shoulders above your competitors.<\/p>\n
\nThursday’s webinar, “LinkedIn Update: What\u2019s In, What\u2019s Out<\/a>
\n & Under-the-Radar Tricks to Help You Crush It in 2013″<\/a> and all
\nthe other bonuses, including the checklist of “103 Powerful Calls
\nto Action” that you should be using all over LinkedIn. Later today
\nor tomorrow, I’m emailing the link for the page where you can
\ndownload the videos, the checklist and the other bonuses.<\/p>\n
\n3. New Posts at My Blog
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\n4. Hound Video of the Week
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\n house<\/a> and even at the grocery store. This video got 4.7 million
\nviews on YouTube. Watch it, and you’ll see why.<\/p>\n