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Publicity: When Calling a Reporter, Keep it Short


When you are planning to call a reporter for the first time, it can help to imagine that you are a phone solicitor (albeit one with terrific, useful ideas).

Publicity: Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Take a Reporter to Lunch


Sometimes a phone call isn't intimate or long enough to convey all the information you have for a reporter.

Publicity: Five Tips for Calling a Reporter


Always ask, ?Is now a good time??

Publicity: Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Never Say These Words to a Reporter


Everyone has something that drives them up a wall. You may be surprised at what aggravates reporters.

Financial Planning Publicity: When Talking to the Media, Dont Fake What You Dont Know


Relationships are based on trust?not just romantic relationships, or doctor/patient relationships, but practically any relationship, even the one with your auto mechanic.

Publicity: The Right Way for Marketing-Minded Financial Planners to Follow Up with a Reporter


Let's say you've called a reporter with some ideas for stories about financial planning, and they seemed interested. Congratulations! First, pat yourself on the back. It takes intelligence and gumption to come up with ideas that reporters like.

Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Join Your Professional Organization to Get Free Publicity


Unlike some professionals like lawyers and doctors, financial planners aren't required to be members of a professional association.

Publicity: Write a Letter to the Editor for Free Publicity


Ever wonder why papers devote a page or more to letters to the editor? Because subscribers love to read them!

Writing a Press Release: The Medias Dirty Secret


There's a dirty little secret about press releases that the media doesn't want you to know. The fact is, most of them travel directly from the sender?s computer to the reporter?s trash box. Or from out of the envelope into the "round file."

Writing a Press Release: Inverted Pyramid Style


A term you'll hear in newsrooms, in editing meetings, in Journalism 101, but almost nowhere else, is "inverted pyramid."

Publicity: Three Tips on Writing a Press Release


Use journalistic style

Writing a Press Release: How to Write Quotes


Ideally, you will have two types of quotes in your press release. A quote from yourself is mandatory. To give your release extra impact, get a quote from a third-party.

Writing a Press Release: The Design Basics


Big corporations like General Motors and Coca-Cola spend thousands of dollars on press kits with specially-designed folders, full-color stationery, digital photos and lots of other goodies. Does this make a reporter more likely to do their story? In my experience, the answer is no.

Publicity Wont Thrive on Press Releases Alone


Press releases are a useful tool for announcing news and for keeping your name in the mind of the news media.

Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Focus on Main Points During an Interview


You never want to inundate a reporter with information, but you don't want to be branded a one-trick pony either. That's why I recommend coming up with three key points for every interview you do.

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