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	<title>The Publicity Hound's Blog</title>
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		<title>How can Michigan promote itself to Hollywood producers?</title>
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Milan Stevanovich of Detroit, Michigan writes: 
&#8220;Michigan just passed a 40 percent rebate to companies filming movies and TV programs in the state.  If you use Michigan companies and labor, you get a 40 percent instant rebate after production&#8212;big savings for number-crunching entertainment financiers.
&#8220;For the last three weeks, my associates and I have schmoozed a dozen Hollywood actors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bury bad news with online press releases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It could be a lawsuit against your company.
Or a health department violation against your restaurant.
Or a post at somebody&#8217;s blog, written by a rabble-rouser who wants to drag your name through the mud and destroy your business.
If it&#8217;s bad news and it&#8217;s online, it could live on forever.  Anybody who uses the search engines to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/bury-bad-news-with-online-press-releases/</link>
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		<title>Video tour of your website will impress journalists, others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to use video for publicity is to give visitors to your website the red-carpet treatment by taking them on a video tour of your site. 
I&#8217;m creating a video right now for that very purpose, using Camtasia Studio 5.0. It&#8217;s a software program that captures whatever is on your monitor screen. The screencasts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teleseminars will teach radio, TV publicity tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re aching to get onto radio and TV, check out the five free teleseminars offered the last week in May by Web Business Ownership, devoted to teaching small business owners and entrepreneurs how to set up an Internet business.
You can register here for Media Week 2008:
Sunday, May 25: “Small Business Meets Big Media.”
J. Roger Powe of NBC will show you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/teleseminars-will-teach-radio-tv-publicity-tips/</link>
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		<title>Artists, photographers: Comment on Miley Cyrus photo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The it-borders-on-kiddie-porn photo of Miley Cyrus in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine screams for comment from artists, photographers, parents, teens, and anybody else who wants to jump onto this controversy.
Miley, who was photographed by Annie Leibovitz,  has issued a statement saying she&#8217;s embarrassed by the way the photo turned out. And her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/artists-photographers-comment-on-miley-cyrus-photo/</link>
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		<title>Professional organizer needs promotion ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Jordan Kravitz of York, Pa.  writes:
&#8220;I&#8217;m a professional organizer.  I also blog weekly at http://OnlineOrganizing.com, which has been going really well and leading to lots of website hits from all over the country.
&#8220;To capitalize on this broad audience, and since I can’t physically organize these people, I have added virtual organizing consultation programs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/profesional-organizer-needs-promotion-ideas/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Takeaway&#8217; competes with &#8216;Morning Edition&#8217; on NPR</title>
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Publicity Hounds, you have a new program on National Public Radio to add to your publicity toolbox. 
It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Takeaway,&#8221; a rival to &#8220;The Morning Edition.&#8221; It&#8217;s a chatty, less-formal, more interactive program that launched yesterday on PBS in New York, Boston, Baltimore and several smaller cities.
Hosted by John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji, the new show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/the-takeaway-competes-with-morning-edition-on-npr/</link>
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		<title>Web video pulls traffic, raises your search rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop wasting time trading links with other websites, posting the same how-to article to a gazillion article directory sites, and doing sneaky little things at your own website to try to trick the search engines.
Those strategies can actually hurt you.
Spend your time instead creating video, one of the most powerful ways to pull traffic to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/web-video-pulls-traffic-raises-your-search-rankings/</link>
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		<title>Which is more powerful: Online or offline publicity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which would you rather have? A guest appearance on &#8220;Oprah&#8221;? Or a post about your expertise, product or service written by the most influential blogger in your industry?
Take your pick again: A story in the New York Times? Or an influential blogger writing about you with 100 other bloggers linking to that blog post?
Depending on what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publicityhound.net/index.php/which-is-more-powerful-online-or-offline-publicity/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t let Craigslist&#8217;s bad publicity discourage you from posting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every month or so, it seems, we&#8217;re hearing one more story about how somebody committed a crime with help from Craigslist.
In March, a New York City prostitute was killed after meeting a client on the world&#8217;s largest classified ad bulletin board.  
Two weeks ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl who ran away from home sold sex acts [...]]]></description>
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