Dear Friends,

This issue is dedicated to a number of free. services that I've found for you. Sometimes free. means worthless. But not for the resources I share below.

Alexander Pope said, "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. "I've found in my clients and in the many people I've met in my life that the people with pure intentions, who are detached from the outcome, typically get the best results. One of my dear clients and friends Ann Keeler Evans and her friend Jennifer June are great examples.

I shared a delicious Vietnamese, Laotian and Lue meal with Ann Keeler Evans, who calls herself a "spiritual circuit rider for today's ecumenical world." If you're planning a wedding, funeral, or any other ritual she's your gal. Her tag line is, "A Fabulous Wedding Ceremony Can Move You from "I Do!" To Happily and Healthily Ever After." http://annkeelerevans.org/weddings/index.php

Over delicious fried rice ball salad we laughed and talked and ate with our fingers. Jennifer June, Ann's close friend and an expert in cowboy boots, regaled us with tales from cowboy land. Who knew you could choose in advance to have a male or female alligator for the skin of your boots?

What I adore about both of these gals is that they love what they do. They're totally devoted to their craft and mission. Jen has a site dedicated to storytelling and cowboy boots http://www.dimlights.com and has written a beautiful book called, "Cowboy Boots: The art & sole." Even if you never wanted a pair of cowboy boots you should still check out her site and book as the lore and boots are gorgeous poetry.

Ann is enmeshed in her community singing to her mother and the other elders in the old people's home, leading them through oldies that they all know by heart. This is the essence of a good life, which translates into good PR karma.

I'd like to start a regular feature of great free stuff and I'd like your help. You'll get good karma points and good PR exposure as well.

If you have a product or service related to PR, promotion, media interviews, tips on getting attention in the media, media coaching etc. that you're giving away, please send it on for my review and I will post the ones I consider of value in the next few issues, and as ongoing if possible.

No articles please. Just free products & services and only related to PR and marketing, not general self help.

Please note that I can only respond to the ones I'm going to use and thank all of you in advance for sending them.

Warmly,

Susan

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BTW, I love that this guy (Peter Shankman) created helpareporter.com for good karma. He's a skydiver living life on the fly and a real hoot.

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Read about Peter Shankman's run in with the head of Profnet here:
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Joan Stewart's Newsletter

If you're making publicity a priority and you're not on Joan's list, you're going yourself a disservice. Joan's advice is always on the cutting edge (as a former reporter she's up on all the current news & trends) from writing a press release that works to using video to increase your website traffic, sales, and visibility for TV and radio producers. She's got a terrific teleseminar series with expert guests on all aspects of PR on and off the Internet. Be sure to check out the ones she's already done is there is a goldmine there.

This is one newsletter I read regularly and learn something new. Her newsletter is a no fluff zone. http://snipurl.com/ykan

Marcia Yudkin's Newsletter

This is another newsletter that is always packed with sage advice from how to pitch a reporter to how to make best use of your blog. Her book was my first publicity bible "6 Steps to Free Publicity: For Corporate Publicists or Solo Professionals, Including... Publishers, Consultants, Conference Planners, Politicians, Inventors" and I highly recommend it as it's still the best book on the market. http://snipurl.com/2qcnl

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Great Oprah Tips & an Excellent PR Blog

Matt Baron took some concise notes how to handle a producer's call on a teleseminar I gave a while back.

Read them here.
http://insideedgepr.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-to-do-when-oprah-calls_09.html

And check out Matt's blog that has lots of other useful PR tips. He tells some insightful stories and has a good eye for the important PR details. Read some case studies of his own clients here:

http://insideedgepr.com/success_stories.html for ideas about things you may not have thought of for your own PR.

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Publicity Experts & Publicity Tips

I just did an interview with http://www.thepublicityshow.com/ which you can hear by going to the site here: http://publicityshow.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=350520. If you're a professional in the PR industry take a look to see if you qualify to be interviewed as well.

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