My good friend Bret Ridgway from Speaker Fulfillment Services is giving away a copy of his new Info Product Development & Launch Checklist. It’s part of his new course “The 50 Biggest Mistakes I See Information Marketers Make”, which is a must have resource if you’re involved in information marketing in any capacity.
You can check out more on the course later, but the Checklist is yours just for the asking. Simply go to http://tinyurl.com/4anvge to claim your free checklist. It’s a tool I know I’ll be using with every new information product I create.

The latest issue of my local newspaper was just delivered.  One story got front page coverage and over 2/3 of an entire page of free advertising.  Bet you’re thinking it must be some very important topic to get that much free space.  Must have been a powerful press release that got that jackpot.

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I don’t care how much free publicity you get, if you don’t get your contact information out, you’ve wasted your time. By “contact information” I mean your phone number, address, web site or whatever.

Without your contact information, how are people going to get in touch with you to buy your product or service?

Don’t tell me about the “great exposure” you got. Exposure is worthless. You want sales, not exposure.

“You’ll get great exposure” is one of the biggest sucker lines of all times. That bogus line is used to get people to do a whole variety of things for free (like speaking, giving away products, doing media interviews, etc.), when they should be making money. Sales pay the mortgage, not exposure.

My golden rule of free publicity (or, as Mary says, The Holy Grail of Publicity) is:

“Publicity = Dollars in the Bank”

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I was flipping through some old news today and I saw a story that made me stop dead in my tracks and read every word. The headline was:

“Clock Says Girl Born Before Older Brother”

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This is a reminder that our monthly Publicity Coaching Call is tonight, Tuesday, June 10.

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This month’s publicity coaching call will be this Tuesday, June 10.  I’ll be live on the call answering your questions about using my publicity system, questions about publicity in general or any other aspect of writing press releases, getting publicity, doing interviews and turning those interviews into more customers, more sales and more cash in your bank account.

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I broke one little bone in my right hand (I’m left-handed) and for the last six weeks my entire life has been shaken up.

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Where Have I Been???

May 2nd, 2008

It’s been  a while since I’ve posted here.  What happened?

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I just heard it on the news a few minutes ago: pieces of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium will be going up for sale.  Do you see a publicity opportunity here?

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Have you ever heard of National Pancake Day?  Dave Phillipson let me know about it.  Seems to have been created by IHOP to raise money for charity.  Here’s how it works:

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