{"id":2149,"date":"2008-10-07T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:58:39","slug":"offer-advice-on-how-businesses-can-cope-in-a-bad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/offer-advice-on-how-businesses-can-cope-in-a-bad-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Offer advice on how businesses can cope in a bad economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/emptypockets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2150\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 8px;margin-right: 8px;border: black 1px solid\" title=\"Running out of money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/emptypockets-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Empty pockets\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a great\u00a0example\u00a0of\u00a0how a smart Publicity Hound\u00a0is passing\u00a0along tips for\u00a0small business owners who want to make sure their clients pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p>Margie Zable Fisher of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zfpr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zable Fisher Public Relations<\/a>\u00a0offered four excellent tips in a blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/zfpr.com\/blog\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/06\/don%e2%80%99t-let-your-small-business-get-stuck-with-the-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Small Business Get Stuck with the Bill.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0For example, ask for payment up front, and get signed agreements.<\/p>\n<p>I hope she pitches these tips to business editors because this is exactly the type of story they&#8217;re looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Margie\u00a0specializes in PR for small businesses and is also\u00a0author of the special report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zfpr.com\/target.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Skyrocket Your Sales by Getting Your Product in Target.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0She explains in step-by-step detail how to do it, even if you&#8217;re a small business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What tips can you pass along to the media, or through your blog, or a video, or in an article for your website?\u00a0Make sure you link to the tips from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PublicityHound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great\u00a0example\u00a0of\u00a0how a smart Publicity Hound\u00a0is passing\u00a0along tips for\u00a0small business owners who want to make sure their clients pay their bills. Margie Zable Fisher of\u00a0Zable Fisher Public Relations\u00a0offered four excellent tips in a blog post &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Your Small Business Get Stuck with the Bill.&#8221;\u00a0For example, ask for payment up front, and get signed\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/offer-advice-on-how-businesses-can-cope-in-a-bad-economy\/\" 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":2,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205],"class_list":{"0":"post-2149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-pitching","8":"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\/2149","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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41455,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/41455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}