Jennifer Braunschweiger, the articles editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, blogs about her life as a first-time mom at the GH Mom Blog. A tip for Hounds who want to pitch Good Housekeeping: Read her blog, then mention it … [Read more...]
Publicity tip—Mom authors can take blogging tour courtesy of Mom Writer’s Talk Radio
Are you a mom author looking for publicity for your book? Mom Writer’s Talk Radio, the premier online talk radio show for writing moms, is starting a Mom Writer’s Blog Tour. Blog tours, which have been gaining in … [Read more...]
Publicity tips–How to brand yourself in your blog
Here's a handy tip on how to brand yourself when you blog. The folks at MarketingSherpa suggest that when you blog, you include a few words in the headline of each blog post---something that will identify your brand. Then people who subscribe to your … [Read more...]
Blogging for publicity? 5 tips on how to write a better blog
I'm at the winter workshop sponsored by the National Speakers Association, and I attended great presentations yesterday and today by Tom Antion, my Internet marketing mentor, and blogger [Read more...]
Tip off reporters to blogs
Many of the great ideas you read about here come from the many Publicity Hounds who read this newsletter and my audiences who hear me speak. When I spoke recently to the Virginia chapter of the National Speakers Association, I picked up another great tip. It's from Brian Kirwin, a consultant for Rourk Public Relations. His PR firm … [Read more...]
Bulldog Reporter: Please start blogging
One of the best little tip sheets to hit my email box is Journalists Speak Out, the ezine published by Bulldog Reporter and edited by Brian Pittman. I find something useful in every one of them, like the nifty pitching tips in yesterday's issue under the headline "Be a Resource, Not a 'One Pitch' Wonder: Four Ways to Keep Your Pitches — and … [Read more...]
Website to train citizen journalists
One reason newspaper circulation is plummeting is because people feel a real disconnect between real life and what they see printed in their daily newspapers. Complaints of biased and inaccurate reporting, too much emphasis on crime (when in fact crime rates are decreasing) and too little good news are encouraging people to take news-gathering … [Read more...]
Mossberg says MSN has best blogging software
On Page D4 of today's wall Street Journal, tech guru Walter Mossberg chooses Microsoft's new MSN Spaces service as the most user-friendly of three blog-creation services. He also compared Google-owned Blogger.com and well as Yahoo's Yahoo 360 service. The decision was made based on how each service handled four basic tasks: publishing text … [Read more...]
Marketing Sherpa announces 10 best blogs of 2005
If you aren't blogging yet, or even if you are and want pointers on how to make your blog even better, you'll learn lots by studying "The Top 10 Blogs of 2005" as chosen by readers of Marketing Sherpa, the nifty ezine about marketing. When you're done, check out Don Crowther's excellent ebook Blogging for Business." You won't get … [Read more...]
Pennsylvania starts tourism blog
Thanks to Publicity Hound Paul Furiga of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for tipping us off to this story in the Pittsburgh Business Times. It's about how the state of Pennsylvania is posting at its website blog items written by travelers making road trips across the state. "It seems the state is pretty tightly controlling where the bloggers go … [Read more...]