{"id":5534,"date":"2010-01-26T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T10:16:24","slug":"publicity-dilemma-let-publicity-hound-readers-help-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/publicity-dilemma-let-publicity-hound-readers-help-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicity dilemma? Let Publicity Hound readers help&#8212;for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/01\/Publicity-Hound-with-Newspapersmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5535\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 10px\" title=\"Publicity Hound with Newspapersmall\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/01\/Publicity-Hound-with-Newspapersmall.jpg\" alt=\"Illistration, dog holding up &quot;Daily Woof&quot; newspaper\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>Struggling to find a good story idea to pitch to the business reporter at your daily newspaper?<\/p>\n<p>Wondering how to use your Facebook Fan page to\u00a0promote your product or service?<\/p>\n<p>Trying to catch the attention of the editors at Oprah&#8217;s magazine?<\/p>\n<p>Help is on the way. Actually, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Help This Hound,&#8221; and it&#8217;s one of the most popular features in my weekly ezine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week,<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>delivered every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\nHere&#8217;s how it works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who needs help with publicity or marketing can <a href=\"mailto:JStewart@publicityhound.com?subject=HelpThisHound\" target=\"_blank\">email a question<\/a>\u00a0to me, along with their name and\u00a0town.\u00a0If I use your question, I&#8217;ll post it here at my blog, and then print the question in my ezine.<\/p>\n<p>Readers who are willing to help can offer their best ideas as blog comments.\u00a0 I choose the best ideas and\u00a0print them in the following week&#8217;s newsletter.\u00a0Authors, small business owners, PR people,\u00a0publicists and nonprofits submit the most questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\n<strong>Here&#8217;s why &#8220;Help This Hound&#8221; is\u00a0so\u00a0popular<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of us are too close to our own businesses to be able to see clever angles or unusual hooks that can catch a journalist&#8217;s attention.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Many Publicity Hounds are on razor-thin or non-existent publicity and marketing budgets. They appreciate the free ideas.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>The blog posts live forever. That means that as the search engines pull in traffic, ideas will be accumulating here over\u00a0several months or years.\u00a0If I use your question,\u00a0check back every few weeks to see who else has commented.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Even though I created this service to help you solve a problem,\u00a0your question\u00a0exposes you to my audience.\u00a0Several people who have submitted questions over the years have gotten calls from journalists and bloggers who read about them in my newsletter. Others have even received\u00a0additional business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No anonymous questions, please. Be sure to offer enough information in your question so that my readers fully understand the problem. Explain what you&#8217;ve done that has or hasn&#8217;t worked.\u00a0And include a link to your\u00a0website.\u00a0If appropriate, attach a photo of your product.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m short on questions, and I could really use yours. But don&#8217;t just <a href=\"mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com?subject=HelpThisHound\" target=\"_blank\">email it to me.<\/a> Help other Hounds by contibuting your best ideas when you see a question in my newsletter that you can answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\n<strong>How to subscribe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t subscribe to my newsletter, you can do so by typing your name and email address into the box on the right side of this screen, under my photo. Then check your email box (or spam folder)\u00a0and click on the confirmation link.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bestof2009revised3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bestof2009revised2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5323\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 10px\" title=\"bestof2009revised\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bestof2009revised2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Best of the Publicity Hound's Tips of the Week of 2009\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By the way, have you downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the five free publicity ebooks<\/a>\u00a0that include the best publicity tips from my ezine in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009? They&#8217;re chock full of ideas, and there&#8217;s something there for everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll notice\u00a0in the ebooks,\u00a0many of the best publicity tips, success stories, and dog jokes and videos come directly from my readers, with attribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see yours.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bring &#8217;em on!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling to find a good story idea to pitch to the business reporter at your daily newspaper? Wondering how to use your Facebook Fan page to\u00a0promote your product or service? Trying to catch the attention of the editors at Oprah&#8217;s magazine? Help is on the way. Actually, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Help This Hound,&#8221; and it&#8217;s one\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/publicity-dilemma-let-publicity-hound-readers-help-for-free\/\" 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":11,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[623,465,34,631,205,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-5534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-publicity","7":"tag-brick-mortar","8":"tag-free-pr-tools","9":"tag-help-this-hound","10":"tag-nonprofits","11":"tag-pitching","12":"tag-publicist","13":"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\/5534","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=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}