I cannot believe what is coming across the wire. So may people are still blasting out news releases that lack the essential information media need. What a waste. If you want your news release to be maximally effective, it has to answer the primary questions for the media: 1. How many people in my audience […]

Mini brag and congratulations to client Glen R. Sontag, author of Anything Other Than Naked, for being featured in a half page article on Wall Street Journal on Thursday July 14, 2011. Read the article here: http://snipurl.com/13e54f He made p. 2 in the Personal Journal section in the On Style column. The print version of […]

Media are in business. They are publishers. They make their living primarily from two sources of income. Subscriptions and advertising. They get people to subscribe by creating quality content that people enjoy. They get advertising revenue because of the number of people who are paying attention. That’s what they do. Print publishes information. Electronic media […]

What’s the very best galvanizing media publicity you can get that will produce the maximum ROI? I believe that it’s a three to five minute piece that galvanizes people with you doing what you absolutely do the best. Imagine being in front of 20 to 30 of the very best people you think would be […]

This is so unusual I want to share. I was asked to write and transmit a news release in early December 2010 for the authors of the self-published book Asthma, Allergies Children: A Parents Guide. We received review copy requests from a few dozen media and about of them were from bloggers. The author obliged […]

One of my clients expressed her frustration in getting her local paper to give her coverage for a children’s book. Her local paper was The New Orleans Time’s Picayune. I offer up some of the techniques I use to help identify how to increase your chances of being successful with them and other newspapers and […]

Every year I create a forward-looking publicity calendar to help identify opportunities for people which is available in a free pdf file download. It contains a lot of unusual holidays so that you can really get creative and think up ways to tie-in to calendar events well in advance of the day they occur. Here’s […]

The goal of the news release it to get publicity and not to sell product. My experience is that media view endorsements as marketing facts. I don’t believe that media care much about what other people think until they have determined that they are interested in the story first. Only then do the bio and […]

Have to tell you that I have yet to see media (prime media or even bloggers we pitch to) cover web seminars to any great extent. But to answer the question properly I had to ascertain existing media coverage for those keywords. So I did the following search at Google News for “web seminars”. http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=web+seminars […]

You are a natural problem solver filled with good advice. This is the core approach you need to take when branding and promoting. You simply need to decide to help the people you can help the most, with each and every bit of outreach that you do. Select the biggest upcoming problem that’s on the […]