Are You on a Journalist’s Banned List?

What a powerful email to receive on a Monday morning from Shannon Cherry of Be Heard Solutions. She writes about an editor at Wired magazine who has compiled and published a list of banned PR people who can know longer connect with him by email because they have shot...

What’s Your Claim to Fame?

If you’ve been running your business for any length of time, you likely have a good sense of the characteristics that describe your ideal client. I was asked this question during a web conference the other day and said that my best clients operate in the...

Doing Business and Doing Good – Here’s a Media Lead You’ll Love

I subscribe to Joan Stewart’s Publicity Hound ezine, and I recommend that you do, too. Joan always has great tips and resources to share to empower your quest for free publicity. While visiting her blog this week, I found a post about a new feature called Doing...

A Fabulous Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog

A fabulous thing happened on the way to launching this blog. My farewell column for the Snohomish County Business Journal appeared online on August 30. It offered a link to this new blog before it officially launched on September 1. That same day, I received a...