If you’ve been a guest on a TV or radio show and you’d love to make a return visit this summer, here’s a quick way to get the producer’s attention.
Offer to fill in if a guest cancels or runs into travel problems. Radio and TV talk show hosts dread having to fill an entire hour when a guest fails to show up, and you could be the one to save them from having to do that. Your offer just might get you a coveted place in their Rolodex.
A few years ago, when a guest canceled just minutes before one of my telephone seminars was to start, I got on the phone and called Raleigh Pinskey, a publicity expert who agreed to fill in. The result was a fabulous CD called “How to Create the Perfect 30-Second Pitch.” Raleigh got exposure to my audience and I didn’t have to cancel the session.
This strategy even works for those of you who have pitched a show and haven’t gotten on.
We are a new National Third Political Party to emerge from the OWS Movement. We would like to schedule radio interviews to discuss further.
Frances, I am not a publicist.
If you’re asking me the best way for you to schedule radio interviews, one way to do that is to go to the National Public Radio website at http://www.npr.org and use the search box at the top. Type “OWS” or “Occupy Wall Street” and you’ll find a list of shows that have dealt with that topic. Research the host or interviewer, and contact them with your pitch.