Pitching the Media
My Radio Show Disaster
I just did a radio interview and totally muffed it. It was a huge disaster. I didn’t take my own advice – and even some of the advice I’d planned to talk about – on how to interrupt someone! I completely forgot in the moment. Here’s what happened… The phone rang on my landline. There was…
Read More6 Weird Ways to Get a Reporter’s Attention For Your Business
Guest post by Victoria Green Getting media attention – especially the right kind of attention – is something of an art. Whether you’re a celebrity, a business owner, or a politician, it’s all about finding an angle. And not just that – you have to be able to get a reporter’s attention in the first place.…
Read More8 Things Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Courting Publicity
Guest Post By Victoria Greene It’s fair to say that America is a fairly divided place right now, with wildly differing ideas about what’s right and wrong. Whatever your views, our blundering, boastful President does seem to have mastered one thing, and that’s showmanship. As he appoints more than a few questionable characters to office, many…
Read MoreGet More Product Publicity With Editorial Calendars — and Get a Free List of 2022 Magazine Editorial Calendars for a Limited Time
By Guest Blogger Margie Zable Fisher Wouldn’t it be great if you could get information about your product to a magazine editor, at the exact time when that editor was looking for products like yours? Well, that option exists, if you use Editorial Calendars. What Are Editorial Calendars? Editorial Calendars list topics and special…
Read MoreBe a Media Darling Podcast Introduction
There are thousands of media platforms—radio shows, newspapers, blogs, podcasts, columns—in the US alone. Hundreds of thousands of journalists, producers, and bloggers who are hunting, DAILY, for interesting people and ideas and stories that they can feature. These people who work in the media are looking for knowledgeable experts. They’re looking for heartwarming stories. They’re looking for you.
Read MoreMiracle Find Me Now – My Mantra
“Miracle find me now” is my mantra for this year. I didn’t make this up. SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) did. Re-igniting our friendship again after a 20 year hiatus — after a tiff neither of us remembers exactly how it happened, was the first miracle. I was up on Facebook fooling with something on a weekend…
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