Tamara Remedios of New Jersey writes:<\/p>\n
“We’re doing a restaurant promotion July 24-August 4 in northern New Jersey. It’s Hudson Restaurant Week for Hoboken & Jersey City (across the river from Manhattan). I created the event last year. I own a local magazine and it was an idea brainstormed with one of my advertisers. It’s a 10-day dining promotion with prix-fixe meals at fine restaurants for a reduced price.
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\n“The event has really grown over the past year. I give lots of attention to advertising but not PR. I want to change that as we go into Year Number 2. I want to do a kick-off party with mayors, politicians, chefs, restaurant owners, business owners and winners from our email list. We’ll be selling tickets to the public with proceeds going to a local food bank. I want to invite media but I’m not sure how to go about it.<\/p>\n
“Do you send an invite or a personal note or letter? Do I also send a pitch? What’s the protocol and should we do anything special for them? Any other tips for publicity?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tamara Remedios of New Jersey writes: “We’re doing a restaurant promotion July 24-August 4 in northern New Jersey. It’s Hudson Restaurant Week for Hoboken & Jersey City (across the river from Manhattan). I created the event last year. I own a local magazine and it was an idea brainstormed with one of my advertisers. It’s\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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[623,607,108],"class_list":{"0":"post-581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-brick-mortar","8":"tag-promotions","9":"tag-restaurant-publicity","10":"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\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41687,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/41687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}