{"id":6458,"date":"2016-03-05T16:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2024-05-01T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:11:27","slug":"publicity-tips-9-insider-strategies-for-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/publicity-tips-9-insider-strategies-for-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Insider Strategies for Publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Issue #1000 March 5, 2016<br \/>\nPublisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>In This Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>9 Insider Strategies for Publicity<\/li>\n<li>Easy Headline Tool<\/li>\n<li>19 Topic Ideas for Authors<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m baking an apple pie this morning to take to my friend&#8217;s house this afternoon. \u00a0We&#8217;re hunkering down and watching &#8220;Spotlight,&#8221; which won Oscars for Best Movie and Best Director. It&#8217;s the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">1. 9 Insider Strategies for Publicity<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6460 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/steve-harrison-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most authors, speakers and entrepreneurs make a big mistake when approaching the media. They lead with what they are promoting rather than an IDEA for a show or story.<\/p>\n<p>They essentially say to the decision maker, &#8220;I have a new book and you should interview me.&#8221; Or, &#8220;My product is amazing, you should write about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That pitch lands with a thud. So what does work?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepublicity.com\/report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Make Your Book or Business Famous: 9 Insider Strategies for Landing Free Publicity on Radio\/TV Shows, Newspapers, Magazines and Online,&#8221;<\/a> a free, 29-page download from Steve Harrison, includes nine how-they-got-publicity case studies. You&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the author of a book in a crowded subject category stood out from the pack and got booked on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show.<\/li>\n<li>The strategy that landed the owner of a very ordinary business&#8211;septic tank inspections&#8211;on the &#8220;CBS Evening News.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>How Steve helped <strong>Robert Kiyosaki<\/strong> make his book &#8220;Rich Dad Poor Dad&#8221; famous.<\/li>\n<li>What a &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; producer says is the absolute best way to get booked as a guest on the show.<\/li>\n<li>How a dentist piggy-backed on the presidential election to land an appearance on Fox News.<\/li>\n<li>How an amateur chess champion landed a big feature in People magazine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To do: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepublicity.com\/report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the full report now<\/a> (affiliate link). You&#8217;ll also get information about a free teleseminar Steve is hosting on Monday, March 7, at 2 and 7 p.m. Eastern on &#8220;How to Become a Guest on Top National TV Programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>2. Easy Headline Tool<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6461 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/Easy-Headline-Tool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuck for something to write about at your blog? Or looking for an easy tool that creates catchy headlines?<\/p>\n<p>A fun, free tool does both.<\/p>\n<p>Type in a topic, hit the orange &#8220;Go!&#8221; button and it will give you give five ideas. If you don&#8217;t like those, click again and you&#8217;ll get five more, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide you love one of the topics but don&#8217;t have the time or talent to write it yourself, they&#8217;ll write it for you for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>To do: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200810121804\/https:\/\/prozely.com.au\/tools\/blog-title-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Experiment with the tool here.<\/a> Then check out a killer <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240406004415\/http:\/\/www.digitalrhinos.com\/blog-post-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step-by-step guide to creating hundreds of blog post ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>3. 19 Topic Ideas for Authors<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6462 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/19-Topic-Ideas-for-Authors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fiction writers often struggle with what to write about at their blogs or when sending email to their email lists. That&#8217;s because they concentrate too much on their books.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with 19 topics, and some have nothing to do with their books. Most work just as well for non-fiction writers.<\/p>\n<p>To do: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/fiction-authors-blog-about-these-19-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read them all at my blog.<\/a> Choose an idea, and start writing.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Hound Video of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6463 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/google-robot-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S7nhygaGOmo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s robot dog<\/a> meets a real dog for the first time and tries to make friends, but fails.<\/p>\n[Tweet &#8220;#PublicityTips from @PublicityHound&#8211;9 Insider Strategies for Publicity #PublicityStrategies&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8211; Issue #1000 March 5, 2016<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>9 Insider Strategies for Publicity<\/li>\n<li>Easy Headline Tool<\/li>\n<li>19 Topic Ideas for Authors<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=6458\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/publicity-tips-9-insider-strategies-for-publicity\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rmlink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6465,"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":4,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2,318,399,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-6458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips-of-the-week","8":"tag-blogging","9":"tag-email-marketing","10":"tag-email-marketing-for-authors","11":"tag-publicity-strategies","12":"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\/6458","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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}