{"id":1696,"date":"2008-07-23T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:54:07","slug":"how-to-make-news-when-theres-no-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-make-news-when-theres-no-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make news when there&#8217;s no news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick trick for creating news when there&#8217;s absolutely nothing new to pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Be willing to talk about your business problems and how you solved them.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up any business journal and you&#8217;ll see company after company mentioned, usually because they&#8217;ve figured out ways to solve a problem, whether it&#8217;s delivering the product faster to customers, or finding and keeping great employees, or how to enter a new market that&#8217;s already crowded with competitors.<\/p>\n<p>But these stories don&#8217;t only play well in business journals.\u00a0 They&#8217;re great for general interest magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, and television, particularly if you have enticing visuals.<\/p>\n<p>This tip is one of more than a dozen I&#8217;ll be sharing tomorrow\u00a0during Bulldog Reporter&#8217;s teleseminar on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcssl.com\/SecureClient\/track.ashx?2488570&amp;2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Evergreen Magic for PR: Media Masters Show How to Make News When There&#8217;s No News.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk, for example, about editorial hot buttons: pegging your story to rumors, future trends, features, divisive issues, dramatic hooks and other sure-fire ways to supercharge your hit ratio, even when you&#8217;re not breaking news.<\/p>\n<p>Four other panelists will join me, and moderator Brian Pittman will make sure we move things along quickly so we can squeeze in everybody&#8217;s tips.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t miss this one!\u00a0 It promises to be fast-paced, and you&#8217;ll come away with enough ideas to keep yo upromoting through the end of this year and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick trick for creating news when there&#8217;s absolutely nothing new to pitch. Be willing to talk about your business problems and how you solved them. Pick up any business journal and you&#8217;ll see company after company mentioned, usually because they&#8217;ve figured out ways to solve a problem, whether it&#8217;s delivering the product faster\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-make-news-when-theres-no-news\/\" class=\"rmlink\">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":3,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-1696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-pitching","8":"tag-press-releases","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\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41508,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/41508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}