{"id":5941,"date":"2010-03-14T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2010-03-14T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:07:12","slug":"how-to-generate-publicity-from-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/how-to-generate-publicity-from-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How to generate publicity from Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/pi-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5942\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;margin-top: 7px;margin-bottom: 7px\" title=\"pi photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pi-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pi symbol on a blue circle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Piggybacking publicity onto popular or obscure days, weeks and months of the year is one of the easiest ways to find your way into the media, and I give lots of examples in my ebook, How to be a Kick-butt Publicity Hound.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Here&#8217;s one of the more obscure days of the year. \u00a0It&#8217;s Pi Day, and it&#8217;s today, 3\/14. \u00a0It celebrates pi, which is 3.141592653589793, the mathematical constant that goes on without any repeating patterns, right into infinity.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Columnist Jim Stingl of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/87602172.html\" target=\"_blank\">a column<\/a> in today&#8217;s paper about two local businesses that are celebrating:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovery World Museum is giving prizes to math wizards and Einsteins who can recite from memory the most digits of pi.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Each year, Whole Foods Market in Milwaukee gives away free slices of apple, cherry or blueberry pie, starting at 3:14 p.m. It also sells pies for $3.14. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your business doesn&#8217;t have to be tied to food, or math, in order for you to generate a little publicity from Pi Day. \u00a0What can you sell for $3.14? \u00a0Or what challenge can you issue to your customers that ties into the numbers 3, 1 and 4?<\/p>\n<div><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\n<\/strong>Someone who commented on Stingl&#8217;s column another great publicity idea:<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;When I used to work as a medical researcher, our department celebrated Pi Day every year by bringing pies into work on that day. \u00a0A lot of people would bring in pies and we&#8217;d set up the pies on a credenza in the hall outside of the labs along with plates and forks, whipped cream, etc. On the wall above the pies there were fun facts about pie.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">This is something ANY business or nonprofit can do. \u00a0Try it, and invite the local TV stations and newspapers.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">For more ideas, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/shop\/special-report\" target=\"_blank\">Special Report #45: How to Generate National Publicity from Your Own Holiday (or Day, Week or Month of the Year). <\/a>Or if you don&#8217;t want to create your own day, you can always piggyback onto someone else&#8217;s.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piggybacking publicity onto popular or obscure days, weeks and months of the year is one of the easiest ways to find your way into the media, and I give lots of examples in my ebook, How to be a Kick-butt Publicity Hound. \u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of the more obscure days of the year. \u00a0It&#8217;s Pi\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/how-to-generate-publicity-from-pi-day\/\" 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":7,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[601,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-5941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-publicity","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-tv-news","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\/5941","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=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}