The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #714 May 11, 2013
\nPublisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
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“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/p>\n
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\nIn This Issue
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1. Press Release Contest<\/p>\n
2. How to Show Your Little Face<\/p>\n
3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n
4. Hound Photo of the Week<\/p>\n
This Week in the Hound House:<\/p>\n
My daffodils aren’t even in full bloom yet and it’s mid-May!
\nEverything in the garden is late here in Wisconsin. Do you
\nsuppose I’ll be harvesting pumpkins in December?<\/p>\n
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\n1. Press Release Contest
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So you think you write a great press release?<\/p>\n
Here’s a chance to show off your talents, and experiment with a
\npress release service for one month, for free, with a chance to
\ngrab $18,000 in prizes.<\/p>\n
It’s the first-ever \u201cNews Release Contest\u201d sponsored by
\nExpertClick.com, the two-pronged service that features guest
\nexperts on their own Press Room Page, and posts the experts\u2019
\npress releases online while also distributing them to the media.
\n(The terms press release and news release can be used
\ninterchangeably.)<\/p>\n
I’ve been promoting ExpertClick for many years because my readers
\nhave success stories galore about how they generated publicity
\nfrom this service.<\/p>\n
But when Mitch Davis told me he’s opening up the contest to PR
\nagencies all over the U.S., my heart sank! That’s when I told him
\nI want my Publicity Hounds to have an edge. And he said yes!<\/p>\n
Read about how to enter, and the special category he has created<\/a> Even if you don’t feel like entering the contest, share this link ==================================== When you do a Google search and read down the list of results, do When I see somebody’s little face, I usually click on THAT So all those little faces have an unfair advantage, don’t you Google doesn’t think so. That’s because Google makes the rules. When social media strategist BL Ochman was my guest on a Google+ The room was packed for this training session, and BL removed the If you missed “Why Google+ Matters to Your Business and How to As soon as you order, I’ll email you the links so you can If you registered for the session but did not receive the links ==================================== Online marketing tips galore in Red Hot Internet Publicity<\/a><\/p>\n Google CEO: “If you’re anonymous, you’re irrelevant”<\/a><\/p>\n 17 enormous advantages of Google+<\/a><\/p>\n Dog Tweets—How to link multiple editions of your book<\/a> ==================================== Meet Snoop Dog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #714 May 11, 2013 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Press Release Contest 2. How to Show Your Little Face 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Photo of the Week This Week in the\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":2,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,13,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-2942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-google","8":"tag-press-releases","9":"tag-publicity-2","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\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n just for you<\/a>. Full details are at my blog.<\/p>\n
\nwith your own blog readers, ezine subscribers, Twitter followers,
\nLinkedIn connections and Facebook fans. They’ll love you.<\/p>\n
\n2. How to Show Your Little Face
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\nyou ever wonder why some people’s little faces show up next to
\nsome of the listings?<\/p>\n
\narticle instead of someone else’s.<\/p>\n
\nthink?<\/p>\n
\nAnd what Google says, goes.<\/p>\n
\nwebinar two days ago, she explained how to get your little face
\nnext to the titles of your blog posts, articles, videos and other
\ncontent on Google’s search results. It’s a tad tricky, but you
\ncan do it with some help from your techie.<\/p>\n
\nmystery of how to use Google+ to your best advantage<\/a>. Everyone
\nwho registered already has received PDF copies of the slides she
\nused, so they can refer to step-by-step instructions.<\/p>\n
\nUse It Wisely,” don’t worry. It’s available right now.<\/p>\n
\ndownload the video replay, the slides and all the other materials
\nand get started this weekend.<\/p>\n
\nlast night, click “Reply” and I’ll send them again.<\/p>\n
\n3. New Posts at My Blog
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\n on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. Hound Photo of the Week
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