{"id":42224,"date":"2010-12-28T01:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T01:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2010-12-28T01:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T01:45:26","slug":"ceos-unusual-hobbies-collections-forbes-wants-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/ceos-unusual-hobbies-collections-forbes-wants-you\/","title":{"rendered":"CEOs: Unusual hobbies, collections? Forbes wants you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/guitar-collection2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7609\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" title=\"guitar collection2\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/guitar-collection2.jpg\" alt=\"guitar collection on a wall\" width=\"230\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>Think beyond the office when you&#8217;re pitching stories about yourself or your company to journalists and bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>If your CEO has an unusual hobby or collection,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/people\/kmcnicholas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kym McNicholas <\/a>of Forbes wants to know about it. She&#8217;s an anchor\/reporter for the Forbes Video Network and reports and produces mostly video business stories. She she also contributes to her blog and sometimes to the magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I love &#8216;unique&#8217; entrepreneurial stories.\u00a0 I especially enjoy writing about executives who excel outside the boardroom with special hobbies, sports, charity, or collections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For example, she wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kymmcnicholas\/2010\/11\/04\/a-hobby-only-an-engineer-would-appreciate\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post<\/a> about\u00a0Tom Georgens, head of NetApp, a\u00a0Silicon Valley data storage firm, who competes in ham radio contests, in what\u2019s called \u201cRadio Sport.\u201d It\u2019s where amateur radio owners try to communicate with as many people around the world as they can in 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>She also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kymmcnicholas\/2010\/11\/02\/silicon-valley-ceo-wins-babe-ruth-world-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about Paul Pluschkell<\/a>,\u00a0the CEO of Spigit, a\u00a0Silicon Valley\u00a0idea management software firm, who coaches his\u00a0Babe Ruth World Series winning baseball team, made up of 14-year-old and 15-year-old boys from Pleasanton, California \u2013 just east of Silicon Valley.\u00a0 Between work, family and the softball team,\u00a0Pluschkell is lucky to get 4 1\/2 hours of sleep each night.<\/p>\n<p>In my ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to be a Kick-butt Publicity Hound<\/a>, I include dozens of ideas on how people can generate publicity for themselves and their businesses. Check out the free sample chapter of publicity tips.\u00a0If you don&#8217;t have an unusual collection, one of these ideas will click with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think beyond the office when you&#8217;re pitching stories about yourself or your company to journalists and bloggers. If your CEO has an unusual hobby or collection,\u00a0Kym McNicholas of Forbes wants to know about it. She&#8217;s an anchor\/reporter for the Forbes Video Network and reports and produces mostly video business stories. She she also contributes to\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/ceos-unusual-hobbies-collections-forbes-wants-you\/\" 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":4,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[29,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-42224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"tag-pitching","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\/42224","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=42224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}