The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #611 May 8, 2012<\/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. Celebrate Employees’ Milestones<\/p>\n
2. Manage Your SM Profiles<\/p>\n
3. Use Pinterest to Teach<\/p>\n
4. Hound Video<\/p>\n
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\n1. Celebrate Employees’ Milestones
\n==================================<\/p>\n
What do you do when two of your employees have lost more than 200
\npounds combined?<\/p>\n
You celebrate with a giant party that doubles as a wellness
\nclinic. Invite the entire community, tie it to a fund-raiser for
\nthe local food pantry, and set a goal of collecting 200 pounds of
\nfood.<\/p>\n
That’s what my local library is doing in Port Washington, Wis.,
\nthis Saturday when it honors two librarians who each have lost
\nmore than 100 pounds. What a brilliant idea!<\/p>\n
Read about it at my blog at http:\/\/publicityhound.net\/?p=11201
\nwhere I’ve also given you five other ideas for sponsoring clever
\nspecial events.<\/p>\n
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\n2. Manage Your SM Profiles
\n================================<\/p>\n
When I was answering a question at Quora.com recently, I noticed
\nthat I never created a profile. Yikes!<\/p>\n
That means that if someone liked my answer and wanted to know
\nmore about me, they wouldn’t know that I’m a publicity expert, or
\nwhere to find me.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I saw a fabulous tip from Peg Fitzpatrick, aka
\n@PegFitzpatrick on Twitter. She suggests keeping all the links to
\nyour social media profiles in one place. Makes sense. If you’ve
\nwritten a new book, started a coaching program or changed jobs,
\nyou can find all your profiles in one easy place and edit them
\nquickly.<\/p>\n
The best place I can think of to keep all these links is in your =============================== If you’re on Pinterest, don’t just create boards that feature Create boards that teach your target audience how to do What old blog posts, articles or videos do you have that you can If you’re not using Pinterest yet, you’re missing a valuable =============================== Watch the Chihuahua play pool: Dog Jokes & Quotes Ebook: 170+ G-rated dog jokes and quotes, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #611 May 8, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Celebrate Employees’ Milestones 2. Manage Your SM Profiles 3. Use Pinterest to Teach 4. Hound Video ================================== 1. Celebrate Employees’ Milestones ================================== What do you do\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":[132,133,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-best-ways-to-get-free-publicity","8":"tag-how-to-use-pinterest","9":"tag-pinterest","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\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGoogle profile, which lets you create a long list of links to
\nother websites and social media profiles. If you don’t have one
\nyet, create it at http:\/\/profiles.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\n3. Use Pinterest to Teach
\n===============================<\/p>\n
\npretty pictures.<\/p>\n
\nsomething. I created a board at
\n http:\/\/pinterest.com\/publicityhound\/best-ways-to-get-free-
\npublicity\/<\/a> on the “Best Ways to Get Free Publicity.” Almost all
\n14 photos link back to an old blog post–a clever way to push new
\ntraffic to older content.<\/p>\n
\nuse to create a teaching board?<\/p>\n
\nsource of traffic. I show you how to get started, step-by-step,
\nin the webinar replay of “How to Use Pinterest to Generate
\nClicks, Traffic, Links, Leads and Sales” at
\n http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/publicity-products\/marketing-tapes\/pinterest.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. Hound Video
\n===============================<\/p>\n
\n http:\/\/www.maniacworld.com\/Chihuahua-Playing-Pool.html<\/a><\/p>\n
\nperfect for a dog-lover, your favorite vet, or just for a few
\ngood laughs: http:\/\/publicityhound.com\/dogjokebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n