If you’ve been a guest on a TV or radio show and you’d love to make a return visit this summer,\u00a0here’s a quick way to get the producer’s attention.<\/p>\n
Offer to fill in if a guest cancels or runs into travel problems. Radio and TV talk show hosts dread having to fill an entire hour when a guest fails to show up,\u00a0and you could be the one to save them from having to do that. Your offer just might get you a coveted place in their Rolodex.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, when a guest canceled just minutes before\u00a0one of my telephone seminars was to start, I got on the phone and called Raleigh Pinskey, a publicity expert who agreed to fill in.\u00a0The result was a fabulous CD called “How to Create the Perfect 30-Second Pitch.”<\/a> Raleigh got exposure to my audience and I didn’t have to cancel the session.<\/p>\n This strategy even works for those of you who have pitched a show and haven’t gotten on.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve been a guest on a TV or radio show and you’d love to make a return visit this summer,\u00a0here’s a quick way to get the producer’s attention. Offer to fill in if a guest cancels or runs into travel problems. Radio and TV talk show hosts dread having to fill an entire hour\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":5,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[29,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"tag-pitching","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\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41257,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/41257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}