{"id":2178,"date":"2008-10-17T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:52:07","slug":"life-coaches-offer-tips-on-weathering-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/life-coaches-offer-tips-on-weathering-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Life coaches: Offer tips on weathering the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life coaches often complain that they have a difficult time generating publicity, perhaps because life coaches seem to be everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But Publicity Hound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowdownfast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bohl<\/a>, of Milwaukee, a life coach and former venture capitalist,\u00a0made it happen, with some\u00a0help from\u00a0a sharp publicist. David was the\u00a0expert sources for a more than three-minute interview on a Milwaukee TV station.\u00a0That turned into another interview. His publicist, Gail Sideman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiside.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PUBLISIDE Personal Publicity<\/a>\u00a0in Milwaukee, explains:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gail_sideman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2224\" style=\"float: left;margin: 9px 5px\" title=\"gail_sideman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gail_sideman.jpg\" alt=\"Milwukee publicist Gail Sideman\" width=\"175\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It&#8217;s Publicity 101 and\u00a0 something about which you talk all the time: piggyback onto\u00a0a current event.\u00a0 In this case, it&#8217;s the slumping economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I started writing a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for David to release every half hour-hour a couple of days ago.\u00a0 It got some responses, which for a first time with a Twitter campaign, I thought was good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I took the Twitter tips and created a tip sheet\/news release.\u00a0 With that in-hand, I made some calls to local television outlets.\u00a0I had immediate interest from two of four stations. One of\u00a0WTMJ&#8217;s producers emailed me in about an hour and requested the interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;One\u00a0interview turned into two.\u00a0 Anchor Charles Benson liked David&#8217;s information so much, he asked him to hang around a few minutes until he got off the air.\u00a0 Benson then did a separate interview with David that was supposed to air at 10 p.m., yesterday, but I think got bumped for breaking news.\u00a0 This is something that still can air in the next few days if the station chooses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I think David created a nice trust element with Charles Benson and the people at WTMJ (I got great feedback from the producer), so thus far, the effort is working nicely.\u00a0 Not that I hope the market continues to tank, but I&#8217;ll use this angle as long as I can!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She thought of other ways for David to keep the publicity train chugging down the track:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He hosted a free teleconference on how to\u00a0weather the finanacial crisis without becoming emotionally overwhelmed.<\/li>\n<li>At her urging, he wrote a letter to the editor and submitted it to the\u00a0Wall Streeet Journal, in response to a story that said\u00a0family time is one\u00a0casualty of the economic crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The gloomy economy presents opportunities galore for smart Publicity Hounds everywhere, not just life coaches. Here are five more ideas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create videos<\/a>\u00a0offering advice and upload them to\u00a0the dozens of video-sharing sites using\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficgeyser.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TrafficGeyser<\/a>, a program that will save you hundreds of hours of time uploading to dozens of sites.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get onto your local TV news<\/a>, submit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amateur videos<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the stations for use on their websites. Also submit them to local newspapers, which are hungry for user-generated video.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pitch influential bloggers<\/a>\u00a0with tips on how people can\u00a0save time and money and keep their sanity when times are bad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicity leads services<\/a>\u00a0that send\u00a0queries from journalists who are looking for specific types of sources for stories. They&#8217;ll be writing and broadcasting thousands of stories on the economy, particularly if we head into a recession.<\/li>\n<li>Think far beyond traditional media\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/think-far-beyond-traditional-media-target-niches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">target niches<\/a>\u00a0such as ezine publishers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Save the fretting for your financial statements. But be optimistic about your chances to create publicity that piggybacks onto the economy and any other trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life coaches often complain that they have a difficult time generating publicity, perhaps because life coaches seem to be everywhere. But Publicity Hound David Bohl, of Milwaukee, a life coach and former venture capitalist,\u00a0made it happen, with some\u00a0help from\u00a0a sharp publicist. David was the\u00a0expert sources for a more than three-minute interview on a Milwaukee TV\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/life-coaches-offer-tips-on-weathering-the-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":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-2178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-pitching","8":"tag-publicist","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\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41450,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/41450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}