{"id":4510,"date":"2009-07-30T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:35:58","slug":"how-to-pitch-small-business-tips-stories-to-businessweek-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-pitch-small-business-tips-stories-to-businessweek-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How to pitch small business tips, stories to BusinessWeek.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4514 aligncenter\" title=\"BusinessWeeklogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BusinessWeeklogo.gif\" alt=\"BusinessWeeklogo\" width=\"200\" height=\"42\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have advice, opinions, story ideas or a question related to small business for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/small-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BusinessWeek.com<\/a>, a high-traffic destination\u00a0for anyone looking for business tips, check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/stories\/2010-06-30\/small-business-channel-faqbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequently asked questions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It includes tips on how to\u00a0contact Karen Klein, \u00a0who writes\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/small-business\/smart-answers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smart Answers column<\/a>, and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/small-business\/smart-answers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weekly podcast series<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0I suggest you <a href=\"mailto:karen@kareneklein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact Karen <\/a>and offer yourself as a source.\u00a0 Let her know your\u00a0area of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Karen, by the way, interviewed me yesterday to get my best tips on how a start-up small business can promote their new health product. The column should be posted today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>You can also check the FAQ page for tips on how to submit a Viewpoint column to Small Biz Channel editor Nick Leiber.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas\u00a0you can pitch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How small businesses can save money during this bad economy.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opportunities to use Facebook\u00a0<\/a>and other social media sites to sell a product or service. How are you using your Fan Pages, for example, \u00a0to promote and sell? Are you offering coupons or freebies?\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tips and tricks on how to save time and money managing any aspect of a\u00a0small business.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>How to find and keep great employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When pitching ideas and Viewpoint columns, remember that you should never overtly promote your pr0duct or service. If you can provide helpful tips and advice, BusinessWeek will be more open to your pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have advice, opinions, story ideas or a question related to small business for\u00a0BusinessWeek.com, a high-traffic destination\u00a0for anyone looking for business tips, check out their frequently asked questions. It includes tips on how to\u00a0contact Karen Klein, \u00a0who writes\u00a0the Smart Answers column, and has a weekly podcast series.\u00a0\u00a0I suggest you contact Karen and offer yourself\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-pitch-small-business-tips-stories-to-businessweek-com\/\" 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":14,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[624,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-4510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-magazines","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\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42056,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/42056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}