Posts Tagged ‘tips’

I recently met up with Daryl Chen, news editor of Parade Magazine who gave me some tips for placing a story in one of the most read news magazines in the country. Currently, more than 32 million people have a chance to read a story that is found within Parade. They reach 70 million Americans [...]

Developing relationships with reporters around the world will help each public relations professional strengthen their ability to successfully place a story that they want to tell. This week I attended Bulldog Reporter’s Media Summit in New York. During the summit we had the opportunity to meet 1:1 with some journalists from some of the world’s [...]

On Tuesday, June 15, I had the opportunity to join a panel discussion on social media. What a blast! I talked about Posterous.com and mentioned some of my blog posts that could help Seattle area businesses (Tips to Increase Your Twitter Followers, Four Free Tips for a Successful Social Campaign, 12 Free Social Monitoring Tips, [...]

My wife @LaceyYantis is a full-time wedding photographer. For the last two years she has repeatedly asked me what I get out of Twitter and why do I use it. About a month ago she created a username and password to understand Twitter’s fullest potential…and in about a month’s time she has 700+ followers. Realizing [...]

Next week I’ll be leading a discussion on measuring a company, person or organization’s social media presence. While I have participated in various conversations with larger social media monitoring services, the price they quote is rather larger (over $50,000 a year). Although these companies package the information into a full on report, so can you! [...]

1. Don’t post something every 15 minutes. Post an update once a day or every couple days. 2. In your posts, create something fun – after all you want people to comment on your updates. Don’t post something about your baby every time you post. People don’t care that he throws up, is keeping you [...]