The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #490 Feb. 2, 2010<\/p>\n
Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
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“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/p>\n
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In This Issue
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1. When Google Speaks, Listen<\/p>\n
2. Five Blogging Must-Haves<\/p>\n
3. LinkedIn Recommendations<\/p>\n
4. For Authors & Publishers Only<\/p>\n
5. A Book on Inappropriate Touching<\/p>\n
6. Help This Hound<\/p>\n
7. Hound Slide Show of the Week<\/p>\n
8. And at My Blogs…<\/p>\n
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\n1. When Google Speaks, Listen
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So you think social media is a big fat waste of time, huh?<\/p>\n
What if I told you that Google, the granddaddy of search engines,
\nis now including links and posts from social media sites like
\nTwitter, Facebook and MySpace as soon as they appear online? If
\nyou aren’t participating at social media sites, and your
\ncompetitors are, they could be elbowing their way onto the top of
\nthe Google search list for your keywords, if they’re using those
\nsame keywords and sharing links.<\/p>\n
You can read about it here: http:\/\/ow.ly\/12CLQ<\/p>\n
As you’ll see from that article, it’s more important than ever
\nfor Publicity Hounds to use social networking sites to spread
\ninformation via shared links. If you’ve been putting off
\nparticipating, that should change your mind.<\/p>\n
Jeanne Hurlbert, my new business partner, and I created Social
\nMedia Rx, a new product specifically for Publicity Hounds who are
\npetrified about getting involved in social media, or can’t figure
\nout what to say or how to act at these sites.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Feb. 3, we’re offering you a free webinar, chock full
\nof social media tips, for people who haven’t even dipped their
\ntoes into the social media waters yet, or for those who are
\nparticipating, but aren’t quite sure what they’re doing or aren’t
\nseeing a return on investment.<\/p>\n
It will be at 3 p.m. Eastern Time (Noon Pacific), and we’re
\nsharing tons of social media tips and success stories. We’ll also
\ngive you a glimpse of Social Media Rx, our new product. It’s an
\nassessment you can take by answering a series of questions
\ndesigned to show you how much you do or don’t know about social
\nmedia.<\/p>\n
When you’re done, it delivers, within seconds, a customized
\nreport and your own formula that explains exactly what you should
\nbe discussing at social media sites, based on your job, hobbies,
\ninterests and level of expertise. It’s already received rave
\nreviews, and we can hardly wait to show it to you.<\/p>\n
Everyone who registers for the call will receive the free report
\n“3 Dangerous Social Media Problems & How to Solve Them.”<\/p>\n
For instructions on how to sign up, go to
\nhttp:\/\/budurl.com\/socialmediarxwebinar<\/p>\n
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\n2. Five Blogging Must-Haves
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If you’re blogging, here are five things that blogging expert
\nPatsi Krakoff says you must have at your blog:<\/p>\n
–An email subscription form so your followers get each new post
\nvia email. (I’ve added this to my to-do list.)<\/p>\n
–An “About” page.<\/p>\n
–Something you can offer them for free. (Another to-do for me.)<\/p>\n
–A “retweet this” button to make it easy for readers to share –An analytics program so you can see how much traffic you’re =================================== If you aren’t regularly recommending people on LinkedIn, you’re That’s because every time you recommend someone, LinkedIn asks Don’t just ask for recommendations. Offer them! It follows the See “How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Anything–Ethically & =================================== Want to make your book a best-seller? You’re invited to a free Steve Harrison will interview Peggy McColl about the simple Interested? Register at ==================================== This week, 10 Publicity Hounds have tips for Jill Starishevsky of From Martine Ehrenclou:<\/p>\n “Submit your book to the Mom?s Choice Awards. That’s the book From Eric Gruber:<\/p>\n “You should be writing top tips, how-to, top mistakes, and top From Christel Hall:<\/p>\n “Send a copy of your book to Dr. Laura, who has her own The Publicity Hound says:<\/p>\n Create a Facebook Fan Page just for the book, and share the link Read all the responses to this week?s “Help This Hound” question Send your own Help this Hound question to: =================================== Phyllis May of Key West, FL, writes:<\/p>\n “March 1 is my day in Chase?s Calendar of Events. It?s ?Refired “Might your Publicity Hounds have ideas for things I can suggest “One time I saw an assisted living facility promoting it but I The Publicity Hound says:<\/p>\n Hounds can create their own holidays like you did, or their own The hard part is figuring out how to promote it. But my Hounds ================================= The popular exhibit “First Dogs: American Presidents and their Here’s a slide show that features six presidential pups: Barney, http:\/\/www.newseum.org\/exhibits_th\/first_dogs\/ BONUS: Buy the ebook and you also get a compilation of the 50 ================================== Consider retweeting these blog posts: Shotgun Sports needs articles on trap, skeet, hunting ================================================<\/p>\n Joan Stewart The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #490 Feb. 2, 2010 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. When Google Speaks, Listen 2. Five Blogging Must-Haves 3. LinkedIn Recommendations 4. For Authors & Publishers Only 5. A Book on Inappropriate Touching 6. Help This\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":[2,3,48,9,64,27,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-book-promotion","9":"tag-linkedin","10":"tag-publicity-for-niche-markets","11":"tag-scott-allen","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-social-networking","14":"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\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43297,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/43297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyour post on Twitter. I use Tweetmeme. You can check it out at my
\nblog at http:\/\/www.PublicityHound.net<\/a><\/p>\n
\ngetting and where it’s coming from.
\nPatsi listed seven more “must haves,” and the one issue that many
\npeople waste time obsessing over, when she was my guest during a
\nteleseminar on “Time-saving Tips for Smart Business Blogging”
\nlast month. The CD, MP3 replay and electronic transcript come
\nwith 23 pages of handouts that include 101 ways to find content
\nfor your blog, templates for writing a post quickly and easily,
\nand a list of 20 common mistakes you don’t want to make. Read
\nmore about it and check out all the rave reviews at
\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/businessblogger<\/p>\n
\n3. LinkedIn Recommendations
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\nmissing a chance to accumulate your own recommendations from
\npeople who know, like and trust you.<\/p>\n
\nthat person if they’d like to return the favor.<\/p>\n
\ngive-to-get rule that’s so important in the world of social
\nmedia.<\/p>\n
\nPowerfully” at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5zvzyd<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. For Authors & Publishers Only
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\ntelseminar on Thursday, Feb., 4, at 2 and 7 p.m. Eastern Time.<\/p>\n
\nblueprint she’s developed to quickly make many books instant
\nbest-sellers at practically zero cost. This works for all types
\nof books: fiction, non-fiction, ebooks, novels, print on demand,
\netc.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.BestsellerBlueprintCall.com\/?10011<\/a> (I’m an affiliate.)<\/p>\n
\n5. A Book on Inappropriate Touching
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\nNew York, NY, author of My Body Belongs to Me, a children’s book
\non inappropriate touching. Jill needs ideas on how to promote it
\nto traditional and social media.<\/p>\n
\nawards competition that acknowledges the best books that benefit
\nfamilies. They do a lot of promotion for their winners.”<\/p>\n
\nquestion-type articles, and then submit them to the top websites,
\nezines and article directories that parents are going to every
\nday. For example: Iparenting.com, About.com, Child Parenting.”<\/p>\n
\nsyndicated radio show. Whether you agree with all of her advice
\nor not, she is a big children?s advocate and covers a new book at
\nleast weekly on her radio program.”<\/p>\n
\nwith mommy bloggers. See “11 Ways to Avoid Missed Opportunities
\non Facebook” at http:\/\/budurl.com\/jfgw<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/budurl.com\/touching<\/p>\n
\nmailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com?subject=HelpThisHound<\/a>
\nand include your city and state or province.<\/p>\n
\n6. Help This Hound
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\nnot Retired Day? and it?s also the title of my humorous book that
\nshows people how to make the most of life after retirement.<\/p>\n
\nfor people to do on March 1? Amazingly, because I have a Google
\nAlert, I know that there’s a restaurant in Australia that has it
\non their calendar. I wrote and told them I thought I should be
\nthere but they didn’t respond. Darn.<\/p>\n
\ntruly don’t know any BIG ideas. Can your creative readers help?”<\/p>\n
\ndays, weeks or months of the year, at http:\/\/www.Chases.com<\/a> (the
\ndeadline is April 15).<\/p>\n
\nare, indeed, a creative bunch, and they’ll be glad to help by
\nposting their best ideas to my blog at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ygrw3oa<\/p>\n
\n7. Hound Slide Show of the Week
\n=================================<\/p>\n
\nPets,” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., showcases some of the
\ntop dogs that have lived at the White House. On display are
\nimages of dogs belonging to 23 presidents, including the newest
\naddition: Bo, a gift to the Obamas from the late Sen. Edward M.
\nKennedy.<\/p>\n
\nLiberty, Bo, Him, Her and Checkers. Before you view the slide
\nshow, can you guess which pups belong to which presidents?<\/p>\n
\nDog Jokes & Quotes Ebook: 170+ G-rated dog jokes and quotes,
\nperfect for a dog-lover, your favorite vet, or just for a few
\ngood laughs.<\/p>\n
\nbest websites for dog humor.
\nhttp:\/\/publicityhound.com\/dogjokebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n8. And at My Blogs…
\n==================================<\/p>\n
\n6 ways to use the Newspaper Map of the World
\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb4x7su<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yjfb2r6<\/p>\n
\na.k.a. The Publicity Hound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"