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Promoting For Print: Social Media

By on October 6th, 2011

Writing for print isn’t just about writing for print. What? What I mean by that is this–you have to promote yourself and your work if you expect to make a dent in the print publication market. These days, a big part of this has to do with social media. Social media may seem like a strange thing to think of in terms of self-promotion–especially if you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet. Even if you have–using it to your full advantage can take time and effort. Let me ask you this…do you know how to get more work in print …

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Media Coverage for Your Blog (or Yourself!) – Radio Interviews

By on November 9th, 2008

Darren Rowse recently posted an article on ProBlogger about How to Get Media Coverage for Your Blog. Given that PR is my primary area of expertise, it’s a subject pretty near and dear to my heart – I’ve decided to expand upon it here. After reading one of the latest comments about someone doing a radio interview, giving their blog URL (www.IrishPolyglot.com) in the interview, and not seeing any increases in traffic because of it, I decided to start this series (yep, it’ll be a series) discussing radio interviews and ways to make them work for you. The difference is …

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Virtual Publicity Tours – Not Only for Authors

By on July 13th, 2008

I recently posted about virtual publicity tours, and how authors can use various online promotional strategies to promote a new book. But virtual publicity tours are for more than authors – freelance writers (as well as anyone with something to promote) can also make use of them. Focusing on virtual blog tours specifically, it’s really nothing more than basic blogger relations. Blogger Relations for Freelance Writers The key in managing a successful virtual blog tour is knowing what blogs your target audience frequent, and building a relationship with those bloggers. If you’re completely unknown to the blogger, you might want …

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