The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #533 Nov. 30, 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. Your Local ‘Time Person of the Year’<\/p>\n
2. Jump on the Kindle Craze<\/p>\n
3. Tips for Social Media Events<\/p>\n
4. LinkedIn Adds a Share Button<\/p>\n
5. Help This Hound<\/p>\n
6. Hound Video of the Week<\/p>\n
7. And at My Blogs & Mobile Site…<\/p>\n
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\n1. Your Local ‘Time Person of the Year’
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What person made the biggest difference in your community this
\nyear?<\/p>\n
Time magazine wants to know. Plan a Meetup with your neighbors on While you’re there, Time also wants you to help decide who the After the Meetup, report back to Time and let the magazine know This is a great way to generate publicity for your local Anyone can organize a Meetup. If there isn’t one already planned Learn more about the competition and see which cities and ====================================== Amazon’s Kindle is at the top of Christmas lists all over the The Kindle is so popular that for Amazon’s 10 best-selling books, Somewhere on your hard drive, you have content that can be turned Tomorrow, Dec. 1, Daniel Hall will walk you through all the steps -Get an Amazon Digital Text Platform account so you can start -Use material already on your hard drive to create your first -Make an attractive ebook cover quickly.<\/p>\n -Take the actual steps to publish your first ebook.<\/p>\n -Price strategically so you squeeze the most profit out of each all this without spending a dime.<\/p>\n Register now at http:\/\/www.realfastbook.com\/joanweb.html<\/a> and come ===================================== A Meetup, like the Time magazine event mentioned above, or a WordWrite Communications in Pittsburgh is offering a free White When you need help promoting it, don’t forget about the dozens of ===================================== Encourage people to share your articles, tips, blog posts, video Go to http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/publishers<\/a> and choose from one of If you’re confused about other ways to promote on LinkedIn, check ====================================== Teri Arnold of Norfolk, Va., writes:<\/p>\n “I work for the American Heart Association and we are rolling out “You simply plug in your numbers (blood pressure, BMI, height, “We have it in our email signatures. We are promoting it on our The Publicity Hound says: Dovetail social media and traditional ====================================== Check out Chester, the Amazing Peeing Dog that has a most unusual 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 ===================================== You can now sign up to receive email notifications every time I Here’s my post from the last seven days:<\/p>\n Videos: How 2 businesses deal with bad reviews on Yelp ================================================<\/p>\n Joan Stewart The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #533 Nov. 30, 2010 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Your Local ‘Time Person of the Year’ 2. Jump on the Kindle Craze 3. Tips for Social Media Events 4. LinkedIn Adds a Share Button 5.\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":[55,56,96,9,5,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-free-publicity","8":"tag-how-to-get-free-publicity","9":"tag-meetups","10":"tag-publicity-for-niche-markets","11":"tag-publicity-tips","12":"tag-social-media","13":"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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday, Dec. 8, to decide who you want to nominate, and take a
\nphoto of your group. A Meetup is an offline event that’s
\norganized and promoted at http:\/\/www.Meetup.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nmagazine should choose as its “2010 Person of the Year.” You can
\nuse the magazine’s current list of candidates as a guide.<\/p>\n
\nabout your nominees. Submit the photo of your Meetup, too.<\/p>\n
\nneighborhood group, nonprofit, or volunteer organization that has
\nhelped your community. Don’t forget to contact your local TV
\nstations and newspapers to let them know when you’re meeting. If
\nit’s a slow news day, they just might cover it.<\/p>\n
\nin your town, start one at http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/time<\/a><\/p>\n
\ncountries are already participating at
\n http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/meetup#ixzz16SEXymsH<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2. Jump on the Kindle Craze
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\nworld, and if you haven’t jumped on this craze yet by selling
\nyour own content for Kindle users, you’re missing a chance to
\npromote your expertise and create a new revenue stream.<\/p>\n
\nKindle digital books are outselling print (both hardcover and
\npaperback combined) more than 2 to 1. Kindle books are also
\noutselling print books for the top 25, 100 and 1,000
\nbestsellers–pretty remarkable when you consider that the Kindle
\nhas been for sale for only three years.<\/p>\n
\ninto an ebook for the Kindle. But writing it could take months.
\nFormatting it can be a pain. And pricing it always dicey.<\/p>\n
\non how to create an ebook for the Kindle–fast. He’ll be my guest
\nduring a complimentary webinar at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, and you
\nshould set aside at least two hours. You’ll learn how to:<\/p>\n
\npublishing immediately.<\/p>\n
\nKindle ebook.<\/p>\n
\ntitle.<\/p>\n
\nwith questions.<\/p>\n
\n3. Tips for Social Media Events
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\nTweetup, or other offline events that you promote using social
\nmedia, can turn into a disaster if you haven’t attended to all
\nthe little details.<\/p>\n
\nPaper with 20 tips on how to host, plan and execute a successful
\nsocial media event. You can claim it by opting in with your email
\naddress in the third section of the left margin at
\n http:\/\/www.wordwritepr.com\/social-media-whitepapers-for-growing-
\nyour-online-business\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nonline event calendars and websites that will post your event for
\nfree. Last month’s webinar, “50+ Places Online to Promote Your
\nLive & Virtual Events to Reach Your Target Market & Pull Sell-out
\nCrowds,” explains them all. The video replay also comes with a
\nhandy checklist of all the sites so you don’t miss a beat. Read
\nmore about it at http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/events.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. LinkedIn Adds a Share Button
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\nand other content by inserting the new Share button on your
\nwebsite and blog.<\/p>\n
\nthree styles. Grab the code and insert it onto your site. (If you
\ncan’t do this yourself, delegate this to your techie.)<\/p>\n
\nout the teleseminar I did with Scott Allen on “How to Use
\nLinkedIn to Promote Anything–Ethically & Powerfully.” It’s all
\nabout adding value for your connections, not producing a non-stop
\nstring of free commercials. Learn more about what Scott can teach
\nyou to do at
\n http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/publicity-products\/marketing-
\ntapes\/linkedin.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\n5. Help This Hound
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\na new interactive website at http:\/\/www.MyLifeCheck.org<\/a> that
\nprovides a free health score and personal action plan for ideal
\nhealth.<\/p>\n
\nweight, etc.) and you receive a detailed plan on how to make
\nsmall changes in seven key areas that will add up to a big
\ndifference in heart health. The goal for our Mid-Atlantic
\naffiliate is to have 25,000 people go to the site by June 2011.<\/p>\n
\nmain website at Heart.org and we have promotional materials. Any
\nadvice on ways to get more people to visit the site without
\npaying for advertising?”<\/p>\n
\nmedia. OK, Hounds, how can Teri do that? What are your best ideas
\nfor promoting this site either online or offline? Post them to my
\nblog at http:\/\/publicityhound.net\/?p=7498<\/p>\n
\n6. Hound Video of the Week
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\nway of relieving himself. He’s also the dog with the world’s
\nbiggest bladder, and he won $100,000 for his owners on “America’s
\nFunniest Home Videos”:
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GcgVUtojg68<\/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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