{"id":32028,"date":"2017-04-11T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=32028"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:05:25","slug":"easy-way-to-get-publicity-in-inflight-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/easy-way-to-get-publicity-in-inflight-magazines\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Way to Get Publicity in Inflight Magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As airlines go out of business and consolidate, their inflight magazines are disappearing or shrinking, making it tougher to use these publications in a publicity campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I flew United over the weekend, I noticed an easy way to increase your chances of getting publicity in Hemispheres, their inflight magazine. \u00a0This tip also applies to Southwest and a few other airlines. And it requires <strong>no pitching.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United has a page called &#8220;Hemigram&#8221; in the front of the magazine. It features several photos of customers holding up a copy of Hemispheres. You can see they&#8217;re on vacation, at the beach, at sporting events or on the airplane. United wants you post your photo to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and use the hashtag #Hemigram. You don&#8217;t have to appear in the photo. But the magazine does.<\/p>\n<p>Editors will choose their favorites and publish them each month on that page.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>you must be strategic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find a way to include your name, your company&#8217;s name or the title of your book prominently in the photo, even if it&#8217;s <strong>far more prominent<\/strong> than the cover of the magazine. I went through some online issues of Hemispheres and found three excellent examples of how others have done it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. Stand in front of your trade show banner.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32030\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/United-Poker-tournament-publicity-468x360.jpg\" alt=\"man holding up copy of magazine\" width=\"468\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the MSPT Poker Tour on this banner. Be careful that you don&#8217;t stand in the way of words or anything else that identifies you or your business. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads:<\/p>\n<p>@msptoker @MSPTeric can&#8217;t fly @united to a poker tournament without picking up a copy of @hemisppheremag!<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/trade-show-banners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9 Other Ways to Use a Trade Show Banner for Ma<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/trade-show-banners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rketing.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2. Stand in front of a large sign for your business.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32031\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/04\/United-Marina-publicity.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holding up magazine at a marina\" width=\"449\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/04\/United-Marina-publicity.jpg 449w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/04\/United-Marina-publicity-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>@Wikeating @united fishing with my husband and my favorite magazine #hemigram\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing this woman is at the marina just to fish. But if she owns the marina, what a clever way to get free advertising. She&#8217;s positioned perfectly because you can tell the name of the marina is &#8220;Bud &#8216;N Mary&#8217;s Marina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Display your book prominently in the photo.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32032\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/United-School-district-publicity-481x360.jpg\" alt=\"Man behind table holding up a magazine\" width=\"481\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a book? Do you do book signings? Do you attend book festivals? Do you see where I&#8217;m going with this?<\/p>\n<p>The publication on his table looks like a typical marketing piece for his school district. If I had a book, I&#8217;d put it upright on a stand in the foreground, right at the front edge of the table so people can see the cover. But I&#8217;d make sure it doesn&#8217;t block the cover of the magazine.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Ideas for your #Hemigram<\/h2>\n<p>Five quick ideas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wear a T-shirt with the name of your business in big letters. Hold the magazine off to side so people can read your T-shirt. Beware of ball caps, however. They&#8217;re usually too small for the letters to show up clearly, especially in the magazine where the photos are small.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to be in the photo. On the plane, place the magazine on your tray table in front of you. Place your book next to it.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsoring an event? Use the magazine, or the part of the magazine that says &#8220;Hemispheres&#8221; as a backdrop and put a small sign for the event in the foreground.<\/li>\n<li>Are you a speaker or subject matter expert? Your T-shirt can say &#8220;Leadership Speaker&#8221; or &#8220;Ask Me About Computers&#8221; in giant letters.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re a speaker, how about a photo of you onstage, with your banner in the background?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The next time you&#8217;re on a plane, check to see if the inflight magazine has a similar feature. I saw one in Southwest&#8217;s magazine \u00a0when I flew last year. You can also go over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/hemigram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Hemigram on Instagram<\/a> and see the photos other people have submitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are some of my ideas. What are yours? I&#8217;d love to see them in the Comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As airlines go out of business and consolidate, their inflight magazines are disappearing or shrinking, making it tougher to use these publications in a publicity campaign.\u00a0 When I flew United over the weekend, I noticed an easy way to increase your chances of getting publicity in Hemispheres, their inflight magazine. \u00a0This tip also applies to\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/easy-way-to-get-publicity-in-inflight-magazines\/\" 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":615,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[78,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-32028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"tag-inflight-magazines","8":"tag-instagram","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\/32028","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=32028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41392,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions\/41392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}