So many media! What’s a person to do? Who is going to read your news release? How do you close the deal? Target your media carefully, based the following criteria: 1. What are you trying to achieve with the media? Most people can benefit from feature stories, interviews, and products reviews, in that order. Some […]

Right on! Client Chet Karella makes PC World for his new Apple iPhone program. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/197136/new_safe_driver_app_monitors_your_kids_driving.html

Publicity Planner for 2010 Each year I create an annual publicity plan to help people look ahead and map out their ideas for acquiring publicity throughout the year. This unique publicity planner provides a month-at-a-glance roadmap to holidays throughout the year and identifies the lead time for each holiday. The special design makes it easy […]

Great discussion over at Yahoo Small PR Agency Pros I’ll throw in a little twist here to focus on what a person who works for a living has to do to communicate and accomplish these various and distinctive roles and objectives. Advertising: paying for the creation and placement of communications so that target audiences of […]

Why does social media marketing suck and what can you do about it? Interesting Article at the Kansas City Examiner titled Social Media Marketing Sucks… If You Do It Wrong by Dustin Riedisel My comments: Social media are a special type of communication technology and they too, like all other communication technologies (email fax, street […]

One of my clients Cy Tymony who writes the Sneaky uses of Everyday Objects book series told a story about his appearance on one NPR talk show lead to an invite to write an educational fun article in a teen science magazine which then led him to be invited to be on a Make TV […]

This is one of my most popular articles turned into a Powerpoint presentation and an ebook pdf file. Free Powerpoint Presentation here: Why News Releases Fail Powerpoint Presentation“ Free ebook pdf file here: Why News Releases Fail ebook pdf file

Getting publicity for a local event is a pretty straight forward project. It’s just that the devil is in the details. A custom targeted publicity campaign to your local media can get you coverage in the newspapers, and on radio and TV before, during and after your event if you recognize the opportunities and provide […]

Everyone knows that online marketing is a powerful tool. One of the biggest challenges is to use the amazing power of seartch engines to your advantage. Your goal when you search is to identify and target the right people, companies, organizations, media, blogs, and social networks and communicate with them. If you find them, then […]