This week’s Help this Hound question is from Timothy Nishimoto, owner of Vino Paradiso Wine Bar & Bistro in Portland, Oregon:"I'm in a PR quandry. I hope you … [Read more...]
Can you spot the 5 mistakes in this guest blogger’s pitch? Find them all and win $100 coupon
If you want to write a guest blog post at your favorite blog, and you're writing the pitch, don't make the five mistakes this blogger made when he emailed me today. Can you guess what they are? Here's the entire pitch: OK, what did the blogger do … [Read more...]
How to give Facebook Fans a coupon for Liking a page?
Heather John of Los Angeles, Calif., asks this week's Help This Hound question: "I created and manage the Facebook business page for an online store and I want to set something up on Facebook (maybe through Events?) where we send out a mass … [Read more...]
Need a clever tagline? Learn from nonprofits Taggies contest
Taglines, those pithy one-liners that follow the name of an organization, can let people know within two seconds what your organization does and how it helps them.
Yet too many companies don't have a tagline because they can't think of something clever.
If that's you, Nancy Schwartz's 2010 Tagline Contest for Nonprofits will … [Read more...]
How have my publicity tips helped you? Win $500 in prizes
How has my free ezine, "The Best of The Publicity Hound's Tips of the Week," changed your life or your business?
That's the question you should answer if you want to win $500 in products or … [Read more...]
How can I promote issue Number 500 of my free newsletter?
Almost every Tuesday during the last decade, my readers and I have been sharing our best tips in "Craigslist: A Valuable Publicity Tool."
If it's Tuesday, and it's Christmas, the ezine arrives via email on Christmas Day and the other 51 weeks of the year.
On … [Read more...]
19+ story ideas to generate publicity, PR for your business
If you're looking for publicity from bloggers or traditional media but can't think of an idea to pitch to them, here's a quick way to find several.
Longtime Publicity Hound Norman Lieberman reminded me about this yesterday when he emailed me to see if I … [Read more...]
Congratulate journalists
From now until June, you'll be seeing articles about journalists whose newspapers, magazines, TV stations and radio stations have won industry awards.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors, for example, announced its 2005 winners recently.
Why is this important to Publicity Hounds? Because these awards are important to … [Read more...]