The next time you needed a fun promotion for a new product or service, or an upcoming event, consider a look-alike contest, one of the 35 Ways to Promote Your Facebook Page. Important: You must use a third-party app to run your contest, one of 9 tips for running successful Facebook contests. I love the Duluth Trading Co.'s Paul Bunyan Look-alike … [Read more...]
5 ways to use social media sites to promote your events
By Joan Stewart The next time you sponsor a live or a virtual event, don't forget all the ways you can use social media sites to promote them. Here are five, which I'll discuss in more detail when I present the webinar "50+ Places Online to Promote Your Live & Virtual Events to Reach Your Target Market & Pull Sell-out Crowds" at 3 p.m. … [Read more...]
Make event promotion/PR easy: 27 questions spark ideas
When you're brainstorming ideas to promote your next special event, use this shortcut: My list of 27 questions designed to get you thinking creatively about how to generate publicity. The answers will help you identify juicy angles, compelling pitches and other content the media and bloggers will want to know about. I'll share several dozen more … [Read more...]
50+ (almost all free) websites to promote events
When it's time to promote a live or special event, do you rely on the same old websites to spread the word? Posting on Craigslist, Facebook and LinkedIn is a no-brainer. But if you aren't doing much more than that, you could be missing the smaller niche websites where you can target your ideal attendees like a laser beam. A Great Site for … [Read more...]
Sending Facebook event invitations, RSVPs is time well spent
If you're creating events on your Facebook page for speaking engagements, book signings, teleseminars or anything else you want to promote, don't miss an important step---emailing the invitation to a select group of your friends, or all of them, using the email function on Facebook. If you have thousands of friends, that's a time-consuming cho … [Read more...]
Online event calendars: Which are your favorites?
OK, all you publicists and self-promoters. I'm in the market for the very best online calendar directories, preferably free, where you can post blurbs about your events. I'll trade you six of mine for six of yours---or even just one of yours. Here are some of the sites we're using: Full Calendar costs $19.95 per post, but they automatically post … [Read more...]