{"id":2478,"date":"2008-12-09T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:44:34","slug":"freelancer-needs-a-way-to-keep-track-of-media-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/freelancer-needs-a-way-to-keep-track-of-media-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelancer needs a way to keep track of media contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week,&#8221;<\/a> Publicity Hound Erin Portman of Austin, Texas writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I am a freelancer and have a ton of media contacts.  My new year&#8217;s resolution this year was to find a better way to track and capture information about the media I work with.  Excel spreadsheets are getting old.  Also, I should note that I use a Mac, which may be limiting in some instances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I&#8217;d be interested to hear about how other Publicity Hounds keep track of their media contacts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com?subject=HelpThisHound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email<\/a> your own &#8220;Help this Hound&#8221; question, along with your city and state, for consideration in an upcoming newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s issue of &#8220;The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week,&#8221; Publicity Hound Erin Portman of Austin, Texas writes: &#8220;I am a freelancer and have a ton of media contacts. My new year&#8217;s resolution this year was to find a better way to track and capture information about the media I work with. Excel\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/freelancer-needs-a-way-to-keep-track-of-media-contacts\/\" 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":[34,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-2478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-help-this-hound","8":"tag-media-relations","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\/2478","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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41423,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/41423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}