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		<title>How can I promote issue Number 500 of my free newsletter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost every Tuesday during the last decade, my readers and I have been sharing our best tips in &#8220;The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week.&#8221;
If it&#8217;s Tuesday, and it&#8217;s Christmas, the ezine arrives via email on Christmas Day and the other 51 weeks of the year.
On April 16 this year, I&#8217;ll published Edition Number 500, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/how-can-i-promote-issue-number-500-of-my-free-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>How to generate publicity from Pi Day</title>
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Piggybacking publicity onto popular or obscure days, weeks and months of the year is one of the easiest ways to find your way into the media, and I give lots of examples in my ebook, How to be a Kick-butt Publicity Hound.
  
Here&#8217;s one of the more obscure days of the year.  It&#8217;s Pi Day, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/how-to-generate-publicity-from-pi-day/</link>
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		<title>Pros &amp; cons of using Facebook, Twitter geo-location features</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any day now, you&#8217;ll be able to let your Facebook friends and Twitter followers know where you are when you post status updates.
Daniel Ionescu&#8217;s article in PC World says Facebook will start adding friend location starting next month, though it&#8217;s uncertain exactly how this will work. Twitter turned on its feature briefly this week and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/pros-cons-of-using-facebook-twitter-geo-location-features/</link>
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		<title>How engaging is your blog? 17 metrics to measure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Measuring the effectiveness of a publicity campaign is one factor that separates the true Publicity Hounds from the Publicity Pups.
If you have no way of measuring the success of a press release you&#8217;ve posted online, then why are you posting it?
The same with your blog.
My friend Don Crowther, an Internet marketing expert who measures all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/how-engaging-is-your-blog-17-metrics-to-measure/</link>
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		<title>Ideas needed on how to promote an expert on mold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan Murphy of Pleasant Ridge, MI writes:
I’m looking for some interesting avenues in which to promote our client, an environmental scientist who specializes in toxic mold education, detection and remediation.
Connie Morbach, M.S. CHMM CIE, is a respected national authority in indoor air quality (IAQ) who has performed over 10,000 residential/commercial air tests and environmental evaluations.
Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/ideas-needed-on-how-to-promote-an-expert-on-mold/</link>
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		<title>Job-hunters, publicity-seekers: Wake up your boring bios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boring bios are more potent than sleeping pills.
Yet you read them all the time in people&#8217;s online press rooms, in their books, and even on the mini-profiles they write on their Twitter and Facebook pages.
Sometimes job-hunters include a useless paragraph of incredibly dull information on their resumes.
Publicity expert Nancy Juetten hates boring bios, too. The arrogant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/job-hunters-publicity-seekers-wake-up-your-boring-bios/</link>
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		<title>Why a press release and not just a blog post?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re releasing a report on the state of your industry, what&#8217;s the purpose of writing a press release? Why not just post the information to your blog?
In fact, why even bother with press releases? Can&#8217;t blog posts serve the same function?
That&#8217;s what law firm marketing expert Kevin O&#8217;Keefe asked at Real Lawyers Have Blogs.
He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/why-a-press-release-and-not-just-a-blog-post/</link>
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		<title>NYC to give press passes to bloggers&#8211;Hooray!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a blogger and you&#8217;re covering news events in New York City, you&#8217;re now able to obtain a press pass.
FishbowlNY reports that City Hall will now issue press passes to online journalists to cover events where the public is denied access.
Under the proposed new rules, an applicant must show that he or she has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/nyc-to-give-press-passes-to-bloggers-hooray/</link>
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		<title>Editor of Motivated magazine welcomes pitches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you or your PR client have a great story to tell that can motivate entrepreneurs and upper management, you might be a good candidate for Motivated magazine.
Editor Shevaun Voisin said she welcomes pitches. But before pitching, please check out the magazine&#8217;s website to get a good feel for its mission.
&#8220;MOTIVATED Magazine encourages readers to rise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/editor-of-motivated-magazine-welcomes-pitches/</link>
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		<title>Expert needs to reach Texas Boomers who want to downsize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patti Chavet of Frisco, Texas writes:
&#8220;I&#8217;m a sales consultant and I want to brand myself as an expert in active adult lifestyle living in Texas.
&#8220;My target market is Baby Boomers, age 55 and older, who want to downsize to a maintenance-free home so they&#8217;re free explore personal hobbies, interests, public service, education, travel, etc., all in the company of [...]]]></description>
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