Comments on: How to promote a webmagazine for gays in the Great Lakes area http://publicityhound.net/how-to-promote-a-webmagazine-for-gays-in-the-great-lakes-area/ Tips, Tricks & Tools for Free Publicity Thu, 24 May 2012 17:15:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joan http://publicityhound.net/how-to-promote-a-webmagazine-for-gays-in-the-great-lakes-area/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 Joan Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:10:22 +0000 http://publicityhound.net/?p=507#comment-1454 Tom, you'd be smart to invest your time posting items to Craigslist at http://www.Craigslist.org My recent teleseminar with Nancy Mills on "How to Use Craigslist as a Global Publicity Tool" at http://tinyurl.com/geog2 explains how to do this. But if I were you, I wouldn't publicize the website. Instead, publicize the fact you are looking for news about certain topics, and encourage people to send the news to you. Then slip in a reference to your website. Craigslist has lists for many cities in the region you serve: Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit, Indianapolis, etc. I'm not sure what categories you would post under. Probably the "community" and "gig" categories. Review various categories in each city and see what seems to be the best fit for your news. Also note that your posts last only 30 days, so you have to repost after the original post expires. Be careful not to post identical items in more than one city or you'll be kicked off. You have to tweak each posting to fit the needs of that particular city. This is time-consuming. But it's incredibly powerful, and it's free. Tom, you’d be smart to invest your time posting items to Craigslist at http://www.Craigslist.org

My recent teleseminar with Nancy Mills on “How to Use Craigslist as a Global Publicity Tool” at http://tinyurl.com/geog2 explains how to do this. But if I were you, I wouldn’t publicize the website. Instead, publicize the fact you are looking for news about certain topics, and encourage people to send the news to you. Then slip in a reference to your website.

Craigslist has lists for many cities in the region you serve: Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit, Indianapolis, etc.

I’m not sure what categories you would post under. Probably the “community” and “gig” categories. Review various categories in each city and see what seems to be the best fit for your news. Also note that your posts last only 30 days, so you have to repost after the original post expires.

Be careful not to post identical items in more than one city or you’ll be kicked off. You have to tweak each posting to fit the needs of that particular city.

This is time-consuming. But it’s incredibly powerful, and it’s free.

]]> By: Nina http://publicityhound.net/how-to-promote-a-webmagazine-for-gays-in-the-great-lakes-area/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 Nina Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:31:48 +0000 http://publicityhound.net/?p=507#comment-1432 What about running some kind of contest on your website? A prize awarded to the winner may generate some interest in checking out what the site has to offer. Also, how about having local DJ's at gay night clubs talk your site up while they're spinning tunes or even asking the club manager to let you hand out uniquely designed post cards? Finally, if you have a local gay health clinic that offers free STD testing or any other health services see if they are looking for ways to advertise themselves & maybe you can promote for each other. What about running some kind of contest on your website? A prize awarded to the winner may generate some interest in checking out what the site has to offer. Also, how about having local DJ’s at gay night clubs talk your site up while they’re spinning tunes or even asking the club manager to let you hand out uniquely designed post cards? Finally, if you have a local gay health clinic that offers free STD testing or any other health services see if they are looking for ways to advertise themselves & maybe you can promote for each other.

]]> By: Pat Luebke http://publicityhound.net/how-to-promote-a-webmagazine-for-gays-in-the-great-lakes-area/comment-page-1/#comment-1430 Pat Luebke Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:58:22 +0000 http://publicityhound.net/?p=507#comment-1430 In regard to encouraging companies and organizations to send you news releases, I'd go out there and ask yourself. I'd just go from site to site -- tourist bureaus, museums, hotels, whatever and write a note asking to be added to their media list. Include a sentence or two about your site, and you'll very quickly have lots of news. In regard to encouraging companies and organizations to send you news releases, I’d go out there and ask yourself. I’d just go from site to site — tourist bureaus, museums, hotels, whatever and write a note asking to be added to their media list. Include a sentence or two about your site, and you’ll very quickly have lots of news.

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