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March 9, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Dog Tweets — The very best way to receive a LinkedIn recommendation

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter.

Retailers are missing where the customers REALLY are on Facebook. Are you? [Read more...]

March 2, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Find the name of a blogger’s dog, cat, kid in 60 seconds

Update on March 8, 2012:

For years, I have recommended---at this blog, in my articles, in my newsletters, during my webinars, during interviews with other media, in my live presentations and elsewhere---that you NOT pitch a blogger unless you spend time at their blog reading their posts. You must have a good understanding of what they … [Read more...]

March 2, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Dog Tweets — 50 Ways to Get More People to Like your Facebook Page

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter.

50 Ways to Get More People to Like your Facebook Page | Facebook Tips and Tricks - FanPageFlow. http://ow.ly/9jBz0

Big list of 200 "Write for us" pages. … [Read more...]

February 11, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Sidestep expensive media directories: Create your own

If you do your own publicity, or you're a publicist who has a small number of clients, you probably don't have to spend thousands of dollars on those massive media directories that are as big as phone books.

Here's why:

You're … [Read more...]

February 10, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Dog Tweets — 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter.

7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post [Read more...]

January 17, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Relationships columnist needs tips on psychology research

A columnist who writes about relationships for a top-tier media outlet (you or your PR clients will want to get into this one) wants to develop relationships with people who do research on psychology or relationships, particularly … [Read more...]

January 10, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Want (recurring) donations from blog readers? Just ask!

By the time Jim Hopkins left his job as a reporter and editor for USA Today on Jan. 10, 2008, he had already built up a respectable following at the snarky blog he published about his employer, Gannett Co., anonymously.

Called simply [Read more...]

January 3, 2012 by Joan Stewart

5 Twitter resolutions that will help you tweet smarter

Here are five things to consider doing differently on Twitter this year.

They'll help you gain traction, see a bigger return on your investment of time, generate more retweets and gain more followers.

If you can't do all of these regularly, at the very least, start doing some of them once a week, and then increase the frequency as … [Read more...]

January 2, 2012 by Joan Stewart

Have an online pressroom you can be proud of—update it!

If your online pressroom looks anything like mine did about two hours ago, it's time to drag out the dust mask, the Shop-Vac® and maybe even a garbage dumpster. I found so much outdated information and ancient publicity photos in the pressrooms at my website and … [Read more...]

December 20, 2011 by Joan Stewart

24 juicy publicity, social media tips in free ‘best of’ ebook

If you haven't made any resolutions for improving your publicity or social media efforts next year, promise that you'll steal at least one tip from this free ebook, "The Best of The Publicity Hound's Tips of the Week of 2011" and do it. This is the … [Read more...]