{"id":778,"date":"2006-11-29T16:05:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/top-10-tips-lists-great-year-end-publicity\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:11:53","slug":"top-10-tips-lists-great-year-end-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/top-10-tips-lists-great-year-end-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Top 10 Tips&#8217; lists: Great year-end publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great end-of-the-year idea for your publicity campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re short, punchy lists of &#8220;the best&#8221; or &#8220;the worst.&#8221; The number doesn&#8217;t even have to be 10. Your list can include 5 items. Or 7. Or 9.<\/p>\n<p>Just now, I googled and found these lists:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Top 10 Best Blogs, as chosen by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingsherpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarketingSherpa.com\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Best and Worst Dressed Celebrities of 2006, according to People magazine.<\/li>\n<li>The Top 5 books on public relations, as published in the Wall Street Journal last week<\/li>\n<li>The Top 10 Best Jobs according to Money magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Golf&#8217;s Best and Worst of 2006, as chosen by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC.com.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Top 10 Green Projects of 2006, courtesy of the American Institute of Architects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet all of you can create lists just like these, whatever product, service, cause or issue you&#8217;re promoting.<\/p>\n<p>Several Publicity Hounds emailed me recently asking if these lists can substitute as press releases. During the teleseminar I conducted on how to write and distribute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Briefs, Fillers &amp; Quizzes,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0I explained that they can. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can distribute them just like a press release and even use the online press release distribution services like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expertclick.com\/Expert\/JoinAsAnExpert.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExpertClick.com<\/a> at\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRWeb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great end-of-the-year idea for your publicity campaign. They&#8217;re short, punchy lists of &#8220;the best&#8221; or &#8220;the worst.&#8221; The number doesn&#8217;t even have to be 10. Your list can include 5 items. Or 7. Or 9. Just now, I googled and found these lists:\u00a0 The Top 10 Best Blogs, as chosen by MarketingSherpa.com\u00a0 Best\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/top-10-tips-lists-great-year-end-publicity\/\" class=\"rmlink\">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":3,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[601,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-press-release-topics","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\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41147,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/41147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}