You’ve got an interview scheduled with a key media venue. Great! To have a good experience and improve your chances of being quoted correctly, follow these helpful tips: 1) Know your company. – Review your company’s website, history and key events....
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How to Work with the Media for Free Publicity
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Is Your News Worth Reading?
As a new business owner, it’s easy to rush through publicity efforts in order to concentrate or core business activities and priorities. But before you contact the media or post a press release, ask yourself if the information you’re about to send is...
Does Your Web Site Sing This Song?
There are a lot of performing arts shows out there today (“Fame,” “Glee,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “Dancing with the Stars,” etc.), and I love watching the good dancers and singers. But it made me think about...
How to Turn Your Luck Around
If you have been watching or listening to the news lately, it is packed with negativity concerning the latest unemployment rates, stock market upsets and violence overseas. It’s enough to make your blood pressure soar. Well, I’m not going to let it get to...
Focus Your SEO and PR Efforts for Ultimate Success
I just got off the phone with a potential new client. She wasn’t sure how to build buzz for her organization. And after months of jumping around with SEO, media pitching, press releases, and other activities, she needed my help. Nothing was working. Do you know...
Do you Hate to Wait?
A few weeks ago, I got up at 2:30 a.m. to catch an early flight out of LAX. I made the flight, but I was then stuck on the plane for two hours due to mechanical problems. Fortunately, I was able to change my connecting flight while sitting on the plane. Then, the...
Is Your SEO a Commercial?
It’s early in the morning, and I just got off the phone with a potential client. She is interested in my search engine optimization (SEO) copywriting services but is afraid that her Website copy will sound like an advertisement. I assured her that if the copy...
Want More Success and Fewer Headaches?
After months of hard work, I was finally able to take a break and just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia to dive The Great Barrier Reef. It was a fantastic experience. And two days after getting back to the States, I was off on another trip to...
Are you Excited in your Press Release?
As you begin to write a press release, it can be easy to fall into the standard, template form. But before you send it out, ask yourself these questions: Is this newsworthy? If you are announcing a major news event, statistic, research result, or other important...