{"id":29511,"date":"2015-07-08T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=29511"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:14:56","slug":"help-this-hound-returns-submit-your-publicity-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/help-this-hound-returns-submit-your-publicity-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Help This Hound Returns: Submit Your Publicity Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Help This Hound, a regular feature in my twice-a-week email tips, was one of the <strong>most popular<\/strong> sections of my newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readers loved it, because they could submit a question about a publicity problem that stumped them. I featured the question here and then included it in the newsletter. Other readers, who <strong>welcomed the challenge,<\/strong> would come here and offer their best ideas. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was <strong>bowled over<\/strong> by their creativity. But I sometimes wondered if an <strong>obscure question<\/strong> would result in enough answers to make it worth my time and my readers time, like the question from John Cicale of Deptford, N.J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wanted to know how to promote the Glare Eliminator, his new invention. It&#8217;s a reusable static cling headlight window tint that cuts glare from your driver&#8217;s side window. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/help-this-hound-promote-a-glare-eliminator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Readers responded<\/a> with tips that included cross-promotion with ophthalmologists, visiting local car shows, sending a press release and photo to the New Products sections of magazines, and marketing the product to independent truck drivers. If I did a brain dump, I could <strong>never<\/strong> come up with as many ideas as they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, when I was researching newsletters from authors for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/21-ideas-authors-can-use-when-sending-email-to-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Author Email Boot Camp<\/a>&nbsp;I&#8217;m teaching, it dawned on me how many of the newsletters I discovered involve readers. How could I have let Help This Hound fall by the wayside, I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Tweet &#8220;Help This Hound Returns: Submit Your Publicity Question #PR #Publicity&#8221;]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m happy to say it&#8217;s back. But I need your help:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you don&#8217;t subscribe to my tips, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/tips\/sample\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can do so on this page.<\/a> It explains the kind of tips I send, and rewards you with two freebies to thank you for signing up: my cheat sheets on my <strong>Top 10 Tools for Free Publicity<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>89 Reasons to Write a Press Release.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you see a Help This Hound question within the tips, and you have an idea, click on the link, and submit it in the comments section at this blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Send me your own question<\/a> when\u00a0you have a publicity problem that&#8217;s bugging you. Offer enough details so my readers <strong>understand the problem.<\/strong> Explain what has and hasn&#8217;t worked. <strong>Link to a webpage<\/strong> where we can find more information. Include a good-quality head shot, along with your town.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let your social media groups know about this feature. You can send them to this page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll post the first Help This Hound question tomorrow.&nbsp;Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Tweet &#8220;Help This Hound Returns: Submit Your Publicity Question #PR #Publicity&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help This Hound, a regular feature in my twice-a-week email tips, was one of the most popular sections of my newsletter. Readers loved it, because they could submit a question about a publicity problem that stumped them. I featured the question here and then included it in the newsletter. Other readers, who welcomed the challenge,\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/help-this-hound-returns-submit-your-publicity-question\/\" 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":8,"wds_primary_category":691,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[671,46,465,34,45],"class_list":["post-29511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-publicity","tag-diy-promotion","tag-event-promotion","tag-free-pr-tools","tag-help-this-hound","tag-pr","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\/29511","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=29511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42883,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions\/42883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}