Pitching the Media
Posted on December 11th, 2007.
A few days ago Jack Barnard and I met John Kremer www.bookmarket.com at his Book Marketing Blastoff Seminar in Los Angeles. He had asked us to talk with his authors about how to speak their books and also to introduce Speaker Services to his attendees. John Kremer In the short time we had Jack shared [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2007.
The MediaSpeak Symposium was a great success. Here’s a few comments. Pitching to live producers was an experience needed to jumpstart the process to demystify the experience. – Cindy Kludt, Grief Counselor, Author Susan and Jack created an amazing learning situation with a variety of media experts. – Laurie Hacking, Coach, Author The MediaSpeak Symposium [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2007.
Those of you who know me know that I am passionate about my service and completely committed to assisting business folks and authors in growing their business and income through speaking. However, if you do not know about our services and training take a look at the following video and see what others are saying [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007.
We are generating interest quite a bit of interest in a new workshop: Authors’ SpeakEasy Workshop. Here’s the short version and you can see the entire program at AUTHORS’ SPEAKEASY, A Speaker Services production, Friday-Sunday- November 9-11 in Los Angeles Authors need to promote themselves and their books. To get their books out to the [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2007.
Here’s more from our friend Ann Convery www.annconvery.com WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS FROM YOU: 1. Editors and producers need great stories – all the time. Your value to the media is not your product or your service or your book, it’s the great story you can offer them. You are a story to the media. [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2007.
I am going to be talking alot about media as we are preparing for October 11,12 & 13 MediaSpeak Symposium The tips tooday are courtesy of Media Coach Ann Convery 1. The key to connecting with your audience – speak in stories. Find the emotional aspects of your topic. 2. Use numbers, trends and statistics [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2007.
Today I had one of the hardest days with technology. Does that ever happen to you? I am laughing about now but when it was happening I was not a happpy camper. Here’s what happened when I attempted to conduct the second complimentary teleclass for the MediaSpeak Symposium and somehow, due to a combination of [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2007.
My friend e-mailed the following video that he saw on You Tube – Elvira Speaks When you have a chance take a look at it-it’s a riot. You’ll probably agree after viewing it that you do need to be prepared to speak! Many of my colleagues feel as I do that it is vitally important [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2007.
Tips for Press Coverage by Sharon Housley Press exposure can significantly impact a small businesses’ success. Press releases are not just for big businesses; many small businesses find press releases to be an inexpensive way to gain exposure and attention. It is not uncommon for reporters from magazines, newspapers or blogs to scan press releases [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2007.
The 5 Best Ways to Get Media Attention for Your Business by Fern Reiss, CEO, PublishingGame.com/Expertizing.com Fern Reiss weighs in today on how to get media attention for your business. You can learn more about getting media attention for your business if you attend the MediaSpeak Symposium where you will learn to master the message [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007.
Recommended Resource: Bill Stoller’s Publicity newsletter delivers loads of meaty public relations insights, leads of media needs with publicity contact information. PARTYLINE – A Roundup of Media Placement Opportunities is a segment of the Newsletter. Each month, Bill teams up with Partyline to bring you exclusive inside info about reporters looking for stories, new publications [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2007.
Today is my first post at our new blog home on the Speakers Community server. Sam Levy, the NETMAN, made the move for me. We are still working on a few fixes however I think it is good enough to show off. Sam has been my webmaster for many years and is a delight to [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007.
I am all about media these days and when I saw this following article Shaping How The Media Portrays You in Rain Today by C.J. Hayden, contributing edito I excerpted the section on ptiching to the media. It actually sums up what Jill Lublin was talking about on the complimentary teleclass for the MediaSpeak Symposium. [...]
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