{"id":2018,"date":"2008-09-23T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2025-06-07T15:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T15:33:34","slug":"gift-expert-needs-product-ideas-for-pittsburgh-womens-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/gift-expert-needs-product-ideas-for-pittsburgh-womens-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift expert needs product ideas for Pittsburgh Women&#8217;s Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gifttherapist.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2017\" style=\"float: left;margin: 7px 9px;border: black 1px solid\" title=\"gifttherapist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gifttherapist.gif\" alt=\"Graphic of a woman with a shopping bag\" width=\"91\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>Jennifer Melnick Carota of Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am an expert bargain shopper and &#8216;give-ologist&#8217; known as the Gift Therapist. I have a ton of fun teaching folks how find fabulous gifts on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I recently combined all of my bargain shopping tips and gifting advice into my first book titled &#8216;Shop Smart, GIVE MORE&#8217;\u00a0and I\u00a0 have been asked to speak about it next month at a regional Women&#8217;s Expo in the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have purchased table space where I will sign my books throughout the two-day event, but wondered if your Hounds had any creative ideas on what other types of informational products I could develop and sell at the Expo, as well as the upcoming gift giving season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event begins October 11th. Yikes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Melnick Carota of Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania writes: &#8220;I am an expert bargain shopper and &#8216;give-ologist&#8217; known as the Gift Therapist. I have a ton of fun teaching folks how find fabulous gifts on a shoestring budget. &#8220;I recently combined all of my bargain shopping tips and gifting advice into my first book titled &#8216;Shop\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/gift-expert-needs-product-ideas-for-pittsburgh-womens-expo\/\" 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":27,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[34,591,214],"class_list":{"0":"post-2018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-help-this-hound","8":"tag-special-events","9":"tag-target-market","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\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41467,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/41467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}