If you sell a product or service related to Halloween, or you’re promoting a cause or issue that ties in, start pitching your story ideas\u00a0now.<\/p>\n
Halloween-related stories and magazine covers started showing up as early as Labor Day this year, as the popularity of the holiday seems to grow each year. Halloween is the second largest retail holiday,\u00a0behind Christmas.<\/p>\n
This article\u00a0in Bulldog’s Daily Dog newsletter explains more about why retailers are wasting no time filling shelves with anything Halloween,\u00a0from costumes to candy.<\/p>\n
If you pitch now, you’re far too late for national magazines, many of which have a six-month lead time. But you still have plenty of time to generate publicity in your local media, at blogs,\u00a0and at social networking sites.\u00a0 See\u00a0Special Report #14: How to Piggyback Your Story Ideas onto Holidays and Anniversaries <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you sell a product or service related to Halloween, or you’re promoting a cause or issue that ties in, start pitching your story ideas\u00a0now. Halloween-related stories and magazine covers started showing up as early as Labor Day this year, as the popularity of the holiday seems to grow each year. Halloween is the second\u2026 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":0,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[601,427,605,205,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-25176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-marketing","9":"tag-news-events","10":"tag-pitching","11":"tag-press-releases","12":"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\/25176","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=25176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41052,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions\/41052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}