{"id":7691,"date":"2017-05-30T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:26:49","slug":"5-audiences-you-cant-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/5-audiences-you-cant-ignore\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Audiences You Can&#8217;t Ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Issue #1128 May 30,\u00a02017<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>5 Audiences You Can&#8217;t Ignore<\/li>\n<li>Easy, Free Stock Photo Site<\/li>\n<li>New to Book Publicity? Start Local<\/li>\n<li>Hound\u00a0Video\u00a0of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This Week in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m recuperating from a weekend of planting forget-me-nots, cosmos, foxglove, sweet William, purple coneflower, dahlias and eight containers of dwarf sunflowers. The biggest gardening job was scraping and painting a scruffy, 7-foot high trellis that had a $2 price tag on it at my Garden Club&#8217;s plant sale on Saturday. It will support two intertwined clematis plants&#8211;one blue and one purple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">1. 5 Audiences You Can&#8217;t Ignore<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7693 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/social-icons-on-mobile-phone2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The success of your brand doesn&#8217;t rely only on publicity but on your ability to listen and react to five separate audiences:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Prospects<\/li>\n<li>Customers<\/li>\n<li>Competitors<\/li>\n<li>Influencers<\/li>\n<li>Employees<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A free 39-page ebook from Cision includes step-by-step advice from five social media experts on how to listen and, depending on what you hear, what to do next. <strong>Neil Schaffer, Jay Baer, Jeff Bullas, Mark Schaefer<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Stratten<\/strong> explain how to react to complaints, respond to tweets about your company, and start forming relationships with people who can recommend you.<\/p>\n<p>By responding to just one tweet from an engineer whose company was looking for a new phone system, Avaya closed a $250,000 deal with the engineer 13 days later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To do:<\/strong> Opt in for the free ebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cision.com\/us\/resources\/white-papers\/listen-ebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can&#8217;t Afford to Ignore.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#SocialMediaTips #SocialStrategy<\/p>\n<h3>2. Easy, Free Stock Photo Site<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/lemons300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You need a horizontal photo of yellow fruit for a new marketing flyer or blog post. And you don&#8217;t way to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Most free stock photo sites make you search through thousands of photos in all shapes, sizes and colors. Not Kaboompics.<\/p>\n<p>This site&#8211;one of the most popular for images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized photos&#8211;lets you search for vertical only, horizontal only, prominent colors shown in the photo (I love this!), and even entire photoshoots on the same topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To do:<\/strong> Start searching at <a href=\"http:\/\/kaboompics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kaboompics.com<\/a>\u00a0and bookmark this site.<\/p>\n<p>#freephotos #stockphotos<\/p>\n<h3>3. New to Book Publicity? Start Local<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/Newspaper-weekly300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Admit it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to imagine a review of your book in the New York Times. Or a story profiling you in USA Today. Or a standing-room-only crowd at your poetry reading at Powell\u2019s in Portland, which calls itself &#8220;the world\u2019s largest independent bookstore in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK to dream big, but not when you&#8217;re starting to promote your book and especially if you&#8217;re new to book publicity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because you face stiff competition in top-tier media, giant bookstore chains and other mega-venues. You need a track record of successes, with each layer building upon the next.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest place to start? In your own community where many of your neighbors already consider you a celebrity because you&#8217;ve written a book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To do:<\/strong> Read my tips for ideas galore on how to concentrate on local media and venues in your community. See my article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookdesigner.com\/2017\/05\/new-to-book-publicity-go-local-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;New to Book Publicity? Go Local First&#8221;<\/a> at <strong>Joel Friedlander&#8217;s<\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n<p>#BookPublicity #BookMarketing<\/p>\n<h3>4. Hound\u00a0Video\u00a0of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7692 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/poodle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After living in the streets, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Le3oFsDK9SI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this poodle was transformed<\/a> by the love of a little boy.<\/p>\n[Tweet &#8220;#PublicityTips &#8211;5 Audiences You Can&#8217;t Ignore #SocialMediaTips #SocialStrategy&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8211; Issue #1128 May 30, 2017<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>5 Audiences You Can&#8217;t Ignore<\/li>\n<li>Easy, Free Stock Photo Site<\/li>\n<li>New to Book Publicity? 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