{"id":809,"date":"2007-01-08T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/oprahs-magazine-a-secret-for-getting-into-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:03:05","slug":"oprahs-magazine-a-secret-for-getting-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/oprahs-magazine-a-secret-for-getting-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah&#8217;s magazine: A secret for getting into it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.oprah.com\/omagazine\/200701\/images\/omag_200701_cover_103x126.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Here&#8217;s an inside secret on how to get into O, Oprah&#8217;s wildly popular magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Be willing to wait up to two years before the editors review your pitch and say yes. That&#8217;s right&#8212;two years!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re willing to stay the course and stay in touch with the magazine, you&#8217;ll have a huge advantage over most other people who give up after two or three months.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Harrow has interviewed publicists who regularly get their clients featured in 0, and people like you who have done it themselves&#8212;and that&#8217;s one of the secrets she discovered during her interviews. Here&#8217;s what else she learned:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&#8220;The O feature got us into over 100 retail outlets,&#8221; says Denise Loren, whose company makes DVDs for dogs. The mention in O increased her business by 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jeanne Fitzmaurice, whose website allows users to create their virtual likeness and produce it on gift items, says her team was filling about 100 orders a day. But after her story appeared in O, the orders skyrocketed to more than 500 a day during the month when the magazine was on newsstands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Genevieve Piturro, who founded the pajama project, a charity to give new PJs to poor kids, went from five chapters to 30 and growing. She got 9,000 new PJs donated and a donation of $5,000 after appearing in O.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re among the Publicity Hounds Susan Harrow interviewed for her new ebook &#8220;Get into O Magazine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Susan is offering the ebook along with other popular products and programs from more than 20 marketing &amp; publicity experts, including me. Learn how to get publicity in every area, whether you&#8217;re publicizing a speaking engagement or trying to make your next book a best-seller.<\/p>\n<p>The price goes up Thursday and the event ends Friday, January 12. <a href=\"http:\/\/prsecrets.com\/soundbiteswebinar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more here.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll look for you in the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an inside secret on how to get into O, Oprah&#8217;s wildly popular magazine. Be willing to wait up to two years before the editors review your pitch and say yes. That&#8217;s right&#8212;two years! If you&#8217;re willing to stay the course and stay in touch with the magazine, you&#8217;ll have a huge advantage over most\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/print-media\/oprahs-magazine-a-secret-for-getting-into-it\/\" 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":2,"wds_primary_category":615,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[29,205,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"tag-pitching","9":"tag-publicist","10":"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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/40802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}