The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #522 Sept. 7, 2010<\/p>\n
Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
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“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/p>\n
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In This Issue
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1. Link Surveys & Social Media<\/p>\n
2. Create Your Own Cartoon<\/p>\n
3. You Must be on Listorious<\/p>\n
4. Promote Others on Shoutworthy<\/p>\n
5. Magic Phrases for More Publicity<\/p>\n
6. Hound Photos of the Week<\/p>\n
7. And at My Blogs & Mobile Site…<\/p>\n
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\n1. Link Surveys & Social Media
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One of the best ways to keep people interested on social media
\nsites–and talking about you to their friends, followers and
\nfans–is to ask them to complete a survey.<\/p>\n
Ask their opinion on a controversial topic, or encourage them to
\nname a favorite company they love doing business with, or urge
\nthem to give advice to someone who needs it.<\/p>\n
You can create surveys for free, and within minutes, but you must
\nknow the right way to ask questions. You can push your audience’s
\nhot buttons by choosing fun, divisive or newsworthy topics that
\nyour followers will not only participate in, but promote to their
\nown followers. You can publicize the survey many ways and pull
\ntraffic to your Facebook Fan Page, blog or website where
\nrespondents take the survey.<\/p>\n
You can then turn the survey results into your own breaking news
\nstory, share results at the social media sites and pitch the
\nstory to freelancers, beat reporters, industry publications and
\nbloggers.<\/p>\n
My partner, Jeanne Hurlbert, who’s an expert in surveys and
\nsocial media, is the only one teaching how to do this in any
\ndepth.<\/p>\n
She’s hosting a teleseminar at 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, ====================================== Want an unusual way to promote a book or anything else?<\/p>\n How about creating your own animated cartoon, and then uploading Michael Keller, author of “Life In A Week; Book Two – What Is The site’s terms of service say that “you agree not to use the I didn’t have time to experiment with this, but it looks like ===================================== If journalists are searching for experts to interview on Listorious is my favorite directory for finding experts on It has the best Twitter people search on the web so you can find By answering some questions through Listorious rather than I recommended four other Twitter directories and shared dozens of ====================================== Give to get. That’s the mantra in social media.<\/p>\n Promote others, and others will promote you.<\/p>\n Shoutworthy at http:\/\/ShoutWorthy.com\/ is a cool new tool you can On Shoutworthy, you type your message into a window, much like ====================================== When you’ve completed an interview with a journalist or blogger, “May I contact you again in about three months if I have Most likely, the answer will be, “Of course” and you’ll know Then, when it’s time to pitch again, you can contact the That lets them know you already have their permission, and Those two phrases are among the 10 I listed during the webinar I ====================================== This isn’t a joke, but it will make you smile. It’s a gallery of http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/09\/06\/iphone-dog-photographs<\/a><\/p>\n DOG JOKES & QUOTES EBOOK: 170+ G-rated dog jokes and quotes, BONUS: Buy the ebook and you also get a compilation of the 50 http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/dogjokebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n ===================================== Great fodder for retweeting:<\/p>\n 23 ways to find media where you want publicity ——————————————-<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter: Join my Facebook Fan Page: Connect with me on LinkedIn (and tell me how we know each other): ================================================<\/p>\n Joan Stewart The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #522 Sept. 7, 2010 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Link Surveys & Social Media 2. Create Your Own Cartoon 3. You Must be on Listorious 4. Promote Others on Shoutworthy 5. Magic Phrases for More\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":1,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2,16,56,5,27,88,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-facebook","9":"tag-how-to-get-free-publicity","10":"tag-publicity-tips","11":"tag-social-media","12":"tag-surveys","13":"tag-twitter","14":"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\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43212,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/43212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSept. 14, that will show you how to use surveys and link them to
\nyour social media efforts. She’ll teach you new, proven
\ntechniques for getting a return on investment from social media
\nand building a huge following. If you’ve been looking for ways to
\ncreate products that will sell, new ways to do affiliate
\nmarketing, and more, you’ll get those tips, too. Listen to Jeanne
\nexplain more about what she’ll be teaching you during the webinar
\n“Create Community, Conversions and Cash by Teaming Surveys and
\nSocial Media”: http:\/\/mixiv.com\/vp\/87944\/18826\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2. Create Your Own Cartoon
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\nit to video-sharing sites, or linking to it from an online press
\nrelease, or placing the video at your blog or website?<\/p>\n
\nSpirituality?”, created his own cartoon at Xtranormal’s site at
\n http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/watch\/7020117 to tie into his book.<\/p>\n
\nsite for any commercial use unless you purchase a commercial
\naccount” and that all content is their property.<\/p>\n
\nfun.<\/p>\n
\n3. You Must be on Listorious
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\nListorious at http:\/\/www.Listorious.com<\/a>, and you aren’t there,
\nyou could blow your chances for publicity.<\/p>\n
\nTwitter, as well as Twitter lists.<\/p>\n
\nanyone by topic, region or profession–powered by data from the
\ntens of thousands of list curators. Once you find the right
\nperson, you can interview them by asking questions over
\nListorious.<\/p>\n
\ndirectly on Twitter, your answers are organized, in depth, and
\nhave archive value. It’s like a magazine interview.<\/p>\n
\ntips during the recent webinar on “How to Use Twitter Lists &
\nDirectories to Generate Publicity and Build Your Brand.” Order
\nthe video, MP3 and the handouts which include step-by-step
\ninstructions on how to create, use and promote your lists at
\n http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/publicity-products\/marketing-
\ntapes\/twitterlists.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. Promote Others on Shoutworthy
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\nuse to compliment, recommend and showcase vendors, clients,
\nbloggers and even journalists whose work you love. These posts
\nare easier to write than LinkedIn recommendations because you
\nmust keep them to within 140 characters. (Keep recommending
\npeople on LinkedIn, but use Shoutworthy when your time is at a
\npremium.)<\/p>\n
\nyou do on Twitter and then, specify if you want to also send it
\nto your Twitter account and auto-post it to the recipient?s wall
\non Facebook.<\/p>\n
\n5. Magic Phrases for More Publicity
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\nask:<\/p>\n
\nsomething you’d be interested in? If so, is there a good time to
\ncall?”<\/p>\n
\nexactly which times or days are most convenient for a call.<\/p>\n
\njournalist or blogger and say, “You said it would be OK to call
\nif I had something else you’d be interested in.”<\/p>\n
\nbecause you called when they told you to, it lets them know that
\nyou respect their time.<\/p>\n
\nhosted recently on “How to REALLY Use Publicity as an Online
\nMarketing Channel and ZIG When Everyone Else is ZAGGING.” You’ll
\nlearn lots of smart strategies that will give you a huge edge on
\nyour competitors, including how to research journalists and
\nbloggers before pitching them. Read more about what you’ll learn
\nat http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/onlinepublicitytips.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\n6. Hound Photos of the Week
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\n15 photos of dogs, captured and edited on the iPhone, from
\ntalented photographers all around the world:<\/p>\n
\nperfect for a dog-lover, your favorite vet, or just for a few
\ngood laughs.<\/p>\n
\nbest websites for dog humor.<\/p>\n
\n7. And at My Blogs & Mobile Site…
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