{"id":4668,"date":"2009-08-18T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:18:05","slug":"national-publicity-summit-expected-to-sell-out-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/national-publicity-summit-expected-to-sell-out-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"National Publicity Summit expected to sell out soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4670\" style=\"float: left;margin: 6px 10px\" title=\"harrisonforbes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrisonforbes1-150x131.jpg\" alt=\"harrisonforbes\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.NationalPublicitySummit.com\/?10011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Publicity Summit<\/a>, the\u00a0event\u00a0that lets authors, speakers and experts pitch top-tier media outlets, is expected to close registration within the next week or two. It will take place\u00a0Oct. 21-24 in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only 100 people will be chosen to attend.\u00a0Steve Harrison and his staff provide training, pitching tips and even dress rehearsals for participants before they pitch to the real journalists.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written many success stories about people who have attended.<\/p>\n<p>Take pet expert Harrison Forbes, for instance.\u00a0He has been an animal behaviorist for more than\u00a020 years, with an extensive\u00a0background in police dog training in the U.S. He had his own side job on weekends doing a radio show in Tennessee, where he lives, and also appeared on TV in a few small\u00a0markets.<\/p>\n<p>When he attended the National Publicity Summit, everything changed.\u00a0He was booked on &#8220;Live with Regis &amp; Kelly&#8221; and his world hasn&#8217;t been the same since.<\/p>\n<p>Within 48 hours after appearing on the show, he received 1,400 emails from people who saw the program. Today, he&#8217;s the show&#8217;s resident pet expert. Not only that, but as a result of his first appearance on that show, he has since fielded calls from\u00a0Oprah, TLC, the Entertainment Channel,\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that I was on Regis &amp; Kelly was sort of like somebody had done all the homework for those other producers,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One successful TV appearance on a major show\u00a0proves to other produces and guest bookers that you won&#8217;t &#8220;freeze up&#8221; on the air and that you know how to deliver a compelling segment with sizzling sound bites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forbes is also a monthly regular on\u00a0the Fox News Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.NationalPublicitySummit.com\/?10011\">Register for\u00a0National Publicity Summit <\/a>here. If you get closed out in October, Steve Harrison will notify you when he starts planning the next summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Publicity Summit, the\u00a0event\u00a0that lets authors, speakers and experts pitch top-tier media outlets, is expected to close registration within the next week or two. It will take place\u00a0Oct. 21-24 in New York City.\u00a0 Only 100 people will be chosen to attend.\u00a0Steve Harrison and his staff provide training, pitching tips and even dress rehearsals for\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/national-publicity-summit-expected-to-sell-out-soon\/\" 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":0,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205],"class_list":{"0":"post-4668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-pitching","8":"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\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42045,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/42045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}