24-7PressRelease.com
Press release distribution service to over 83,000 media outlets including
The New York Times, USA Today, Yahoo News, The
Wall Street Journal, ABC News and many other high-profile sites.
ARA Content
ARA Content is a feature article release service that connects your feature
articles with newspapers, magazines and online publications nationwide.
Twenty-five timely supplements plus hot topics throughout the year are promoted
to effectively reach over 16,000 editors a month. ARA Content also offers
writing services, image services and editorial review of every article.
Alexandra Brown, The Ezine Queen
If you haven’t
started an electronic newsletter or an email tip of the week yet, you’re missing
out on one of the most powerful marketing tools ever. Let The Ezine Queen show
you how to use an ezine to build a loyal customer base of lifetime buyers and
pull journalists to you.
All-in-One Media Directory
At just $165, the Gebbie Press All-In-One Media Directory (hardcopy version)
lists addresses and phone numbers for 24,000 U.S. newspapers, TV/Radio stations
and trade and consumer magazines. The data is also available on CD (which
provides media emails and websites) ready for import into your own email, fax,
database or contact manager software. It also offers PR Pro, a turnkey software
solution pre-loaded with all the data. The hard copy directory is a good
alternative if you can't afford the more expensive Bacon's directories.
Alternative Press Online Directory
You'll find dozens of links to liberal, women's and alternative publicaitons.
American Booksellers
Association
Find lots of publicity tips for anyone who sells books, even if you don't belong
to the ABA.
American College Media Directory
The ACMD includes contact information for 3,000 college newspapers, 1,000
college radio stations and 700 college TV stations.
Antion & Associates
An experienced company and a great website for all your public speaking,
training and entertainment needs. If you want free publicity by learning how to
be a great speaker, click here for public speaking, presentation skills and
speaker services.
AScribe Newswire
This newswire distributes
the news of America's nonprofit and public sector organizations to mainstream
national media.
Association of Alternative
Newsweeklies
Contains information on 115 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.
Audio Acrobat
This is the audio program I use. It's cheaper than Audio Generator, easier to
use, and their customer support is much better.
Bacon's
Bacon's offers everything from excellent media directories to news release
distribution services.
Beat the Press
This book by Al Guyant and Shirley Fulton shows you the inside track to the
media's secrets and how you can survive by beating the press.
BizJournals.com
American Cities Business Journals publishes more than 40 weekly business
journals in cities throughout the United States. (See
"How to Use Business Journals to Tell Your Story.")
BlackPR.com
This
African-American newswire service based in Long Beach, California will
email-blast and fax-blast your press release and up to three photos to more than
850 African-American newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations for $150.
Blog Squad
If you're blogging, or thinking of blogging, and you want to learn how to do
it right, subscribe to the "How to Build a Better Blog" ezine.
Book Marketing Blast-off
If you are into book marketing, book promotion, free publicity, self-publishing,
e-publishing, print-on-demand, or selling your books, John Kremer's site is a
treasure trove. He's the editor of the popular Book Marketing Update newsletter
BookPage
The 500,000-circulation BookPage reviews almost every category of new books.
This site explains how to submit your book for review.
Boomer Cafe
This is the place for Baby Boomers. It's an online magazine visited by more than
300,000 people each month. That means it's a great place for writers to showcase
their books. The best way to do that is by writing an article on finance,
travel, vacations, health, fitness or relationships. The site also accepts
stand-alone book excerpts. Visit the website and click on "Submission
Guidelines." But don't send press releases. They want finished pieces.
Bradley's Guide to
Top TV and Radio Talk Shows
Contains detailed profiles of over 500 key contacts at more than 240 top
national cable and TV shows that interview guests such as news shows like ABC
News's Nightline, 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, Prime Time Live and Dateline
NBC; morning programs such as Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show and NBC's
Today plus daytime shows like Oprah, Montel and Jenny Jones.
Business Journals
The official site of the more than 40 weekly business journals owned by American
City business Journals.
Business Wire
Business Wire is a news release distribution service for breaking news releases,
multimedia and regulatory filings for companies and groups throughout the world.
CanadaNewsWire Group
Canada's major resource for news release distribution.
College
Newspapers
Get access to your college newspaper or any college newspaper in the U.S.
College Speaking Success
The college speaking circuit is one of the most overlooked markets for speakers.
Colleges and universities have mega-bucks to pay speakers, and they're searching
for speakers who specialize in 21 different topics. Let James Malinchak show you
how he makes a bundle on the college speaking circuit-and gets tons of free
publicity in the process-and how you can too.
ContactAnyCelebrity.com
This subscription service gives you instant access to their fully-searchable
online database of 54,696 celebrities, 6,890 celebrity representatives (agents,
managers,
publicists & attorneys) plus 4,131 entertainment companies. A great resource if
you're seeking donations for a silent auction. Take a free 7-day test drive and
listen to the free interview with Jacqueline Duval on how to get celebrity
endorsements for your book.
Copy Editor
Welcome to the leading language newsletter, companion Web site, and job search
site for copy editors, or for anyone who wants help editing their copy.
CornerBar PR
CornerBarPR serves fresh media contcts and r5eal remedies for PR pros. Enjoy
unique perspectives and PR-focused artices that are never watered down. You'll
also find advice, commentary, grammar tips, job leads, links to related sites,
and miscellaneous articles of great help to PR folks.
Council of Public Relations
Firms
Organization which represents the business of public relations, advocating the
value of PR as a strategic business tool.
Crisis Manager
This online store features materials written by or featuring veteran crisis
management professional Jonathan Bernstein, editor/publisher of Crisis Manager,
a free email newsletter written for "those who are crisis managers whether they
want to be or not."
Dan
Poynter's Para-Publishing
This site provides extensive information resources for book publishing and
promotion, particularly for self-publishers, including many links.
eNewsletter Journal
Boost your business with an email newsletter and build relationships with
clients and prospects just like The Publicity Hound does. Sign up for Meryl K.
Evans' free eNewsletter Journal to find out more. When you sign up for the free
newsletter, you will get a free copy of A Marketer’s Guide to e-Newsletter
Publishing, valued at $24.95.
Entertainment Publicists
Professional Society (EPPS)
NYC- and Los Angeles-based membership organization of marketing, publicity and
promotions professionals working in the entertainment industry.
EurekAlert!
If you’re pitching story ideas about science, medicine or technology, this site
is a goldmine. Valuable links, too.
Experts
Directory
The Yearbook of Experts is one of the premiere resource directories in print,
online and via LexisNexis, used by journalists who are searching for experts on
hundreds of topics. Publicity Hound readers get
$100 off the price of membership but only if you use
this link. November 1 is the
deadline for the 2006 listings.
EzineListing.com
One of the world's largest ezine databases that includes more than 2,000 ezine
titles. Be sure to register your ezine here.
FMAMRadio.com
A marketing and media relations service for rock bands throughout the world,
from the garage band in the neighborhood to the hot regional act playing
in the local clubs to the classic rock band seeking their "second wind."
Fill Your Groups Now
If you’re a
speaker, trainer, coach or teleseminar leader who needs to fill classes,
retreats, workshops live events, coaching programs or teleseminars, sign up for
this free 7-part digital audio mini-course.
Financial Media Directory
If you’re pitching to the business or financial media, don’t let this somewhat
crude-looking site detract you. You’ll find dozens of links for newspapers and
magazines such as Forbes and Fortune, to smaller niche publications such as an
ezine that focuses on the mutual fund industry and a website where you’ll find
business news in Spanish.
Freelance Writers
This searchable database features writers from all around the world. Writers who
are looking for new opportunities can register to be listed in the database.
Editors and clients in need of a freelance writer can search through the
database of listings to locate those writers who match their needs.
FrugalMarketing.com
Marketing expert Shel Horowitz offers lots of free articles on how to market on
a shoestring. An excellent site for small-business owners.
Gebbie Press
At just $165, the Gebbie Press All-In-One Media Directory (hardcopy version)
lists addresses and phone numbers for 24,000 U.S. newspapers, TV/Radio stations
and trade and consumer magazines. The data is also available on CD (which
provides media emails and websites) ready for import into your own email, fax,
database or contact manager software. It also offers PR Pro, a turnkey software
solution pre-loaded with all the data. The hard copy directory is a good
alternative if you can't afford the more expensive Bacon's directories.
Get
Free Publicity
Veteran TV and radio broadcaster George McKenzie shows you how to get thousands
of dollars in free publicity with free articles and educational tools.
Gift List
Get contact information for newspapers, magazines and TV stations that are
planning special sections and features for holidays such as Christmas, Mother's
Day, Father's Day and graduations, etc. A great way to get your product
or service in front of consumers. This subscription service gives you
information on themes, product features, deadlines, submission preferences,
photo requirements, key editorial contacts, and more.
Gordon's Radio List
This site can help you find more than 1,100
locally produced and nationally syndicated radio
shows that interview guests. All but a handful of these shows interview guests
by phone.
Great
Teleseminars
A one-stop shop for anyone who wants to host profitable telephone seminars,
record them, then cell the CDs and audio cassette tapes as profitable products.
This is the company The Publicity Hound uses.
Headlines2go.com
Pre-test your headlines in an online focus group and get valuable feedback. Join
for free, participate as part of the focus group, and get your headlines judged
on a 1:1 ration for every other member's headline you judge.
Heliographica
This is a free book press release distribution service. Send your book
publishing or book industry related press release to industry professionals
subscribed to Heliographica Book News, the newsletter with information on the
book publishing industry and new book announcements and its Newswire service.
HispanicMPR.com
The companion website to the Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations book,
HispanicMPR.com is home of the first website and podcast dedicated to providing
information on how to reach Hispanic with marketing and public relations tools.
Hitslink
This is the
statistics program I use to learn who visits my websites, how they found me, how
they navigate my site, and if they buy.
Hispanic PR Wire
A news distribution service reaching U.S Hispanic media.
Hot Product News
New product press releases from all over the world on recent new product
introductions.
Internet Association of Information Marketers
If you like my
business model of a great website, an opt-in email list and kick-butt products,
and you want to enter the world of Internet marketing, or sell more online than
you already are, join the Internet Association of Information Marketers. You’ll
have monthly access to Tom Antion, my Internet marketing mentor, and you’ll be
able to post questions to a discussion board and participate in helpful monthly
teleseminars, for as little as $15 a month.
Internet Marketing
”Click,”
written by my mentor, Tom Antion, is the very best ebook to study if you’re
entering the world of Internet marketing. Tom will show you how to build a great
website, create info products and create an opt-in list of customers. I refer to
this book at least 6 times a week.
Jeff Crilley, TV Reporter
Jeff Crilley is an Emmy Award-winning reporter and the author of "Free
Publicity: A TV Reporter Shares the Secrets for Getting Covered in the News."
Karen Villanueva,
Author Services
Independent publicist Karen Villanueva explains the difference between a
publishing house publicist and an independent publicist. She also provides lots
of other tips for authors. Check out her "6 Tips to Getting More Attention for
Your Book."
KickStartCart.com
This is the shopping cart The Publicity Hound uses. KickStartCart.com integrates
everything you need to do business professionally over the Internet--an Internet
merchant account, a payment gateway, a secure online order form, affiliate
tracking, ad tracking, detailed reporting, and much, much more. It's perfect for
selling shippable products or downloadable goods or online services on a
one-time or recurring basis. Sign up for a 30-day test-drive. For a free ebook
on how to compare shopping carts,
mailto:JStewart@PublicityHound.com?subject=ShoppingCartEbook
Landing Page Cash Machine
I thought I had a pretty good website until I learned what Mark Widawer had to
say. Since then, I’ve made a long to-do list of all the things I need to add or
change. Learn how to make more sales on your website every day by signing up for
his free tips.
Magazine Data
Information on hundreds of consumer and business-to-business
magazines. Includes phone and fax numbers, demographic info, email links to ad
sales departments, and complete online media kits, if available.
Magazine News--See Wooden Horse Publishing
Market Wire
Market Wire offers broad distribution of your company's press releases and
material news, with real-time integration into editorial systems at leading
newspapers and broadcast outlets, as well as direct, real-time delivery to major
disclosure points, websites and online databases. In addition, Market Wire
reaches as many as 30,000 individual editors, journalists and analysts--all at a
price significantly lower than other major newswires. New customers receive "15
Tips for Writing Better News Releases" FREE written by The Publicity Hound.
MarketingIdeaShop
MarketingIdeaShop is an online resource that shows you how to generate and
implement ideas and strategies to grow your small business. Owner Lois Carter
Fay works with small business owners and managers to help them use their
marketing dollars more effectively and increase profits. Sign up for the
"MarketingIdeaShop BRAINY Tidbits," a free electronic newsletter filled with
marketing tips for small business owners and managers and delivered each
Tuesday. Subscribers receive free by email "67 Ways to Promote Your
Business."
MarketingSherpa
Improve your marketing by joining
the 147,000 marketing, advertising and PR pros who
get free
practical know-how and Case Studies from this site every week.
Media Man Australia
Media Man Australia was fully launched in February 2003, initially as a news
media portal to merge Australian and International media, in addition to
showcasing the work of its founder, Greg Tingle: journalist, TV presenter,
public relations man, Australian media identity, Internet broadcaster, publisher
and all-round media entrepreneur.
Medical News and Information Sources
You'll find links to medical media, medical databases and search engines, and
physician-oriented sites.
Midwest Book Review
The Midwest Book Review publishes several monthly publications for community and
academic library systems in California, Wisconsin, and the upper Midwest.
Excellent site for links related to the book industry.
National
Directory of Magazines
Lists more than 17,670 business and consumer publications, including 14,000
magazines as well as tabloids, specialized newspapers and journals that carry
advertising.
National
Ethnic Media Directory
Includes almost 2,000 media outlets representing the growing diversity of
multicultural audiences in the U.S.
National Speakers Association
The premier association for experts who speak professionally. Read their
excellent
White Paper on what constitutes expertise.
New York Times Contacts
Download this free Briefing book of 147 media contacts at the Times, complete
with information from each on what they cover, types of sources they are looking
for and contact information.
NewsBios.com
This subscription website is sort of a "Who's Who of Influential Journalists."
You'll find more than 6,000 profiles on file representing every major American
news outlet and many global news leaders. Need background info on a reporter who
will interview you? Or looking to recruit a journalist to your PR staff? This is
the place to look.
NewsDirectory
You'll find more than 20,300 links to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines,
TV stations and other sources throughout the world. Search by region, title or
area code.
NewspaperLinks.com
The ultimate "newspaper portal," a comprehensive gateway to U.S. daily and
weekly newspapers on the Web.
O'Dwyer's PR Daily
Features breaking news about the public
relations industry, a database of PR firms, listing of PR service firms, client
search tool and job postings.
Online Press Releases.com
Send your press release to the media
in minutes and choose from over 28,000 editors and publishers, plus radio
stations, in the U.S. and Canada.
Online Public
Relations
This giant portal includes hundreds of websites devoted to public relations and
marketing
PartyLine
PartyLine is a
weekly subscription newsletter of key media placement opportunities. Subscribers
include those in PR, promotion, marketing and management at respected PR and
advertising agencies, corporations, universities, hospitals, associations,
publishers, travel bureaus, health and government agencies, hotels and in the
entertainment industry. PartyLine is published 52 weeks a year.
PR Leads
Every day, PR Leads gets more than 100 requests from reporters who need to
interview experts for stories they are writing for publications large and small,
as well as TV shows. When this subscription service sees a lead that matches
your profile, they send it to you by email.
PR News
This executive-level weekly newsletter offers news, "stealable" ideas and
competitive intelligence in the areas of media relations, crisis management,
marketing communications, internal communications and financial relations. Read
a free sample issue.
PR Tactics
This is the newspaper of the Public Relations Society of America. It's published
10 times a year and includes news, features, briefs and more about every aspect
of the PR profession. The Publicity Hound's articles appear frequently in this
publication.
PR Translation
Lingo 24 Public Relations Translation will help you convey concepts, technical
terms and documents from a source language to a target language. Its extensive
database of translators covers a large number of languages, from Spanish, German
and French, to Gujarati, Icelandic, Urdu and Thai.
PRWeb
This is my
favorite press release distribution service if you’re sending fewer than about 8
press releases a year. (If you’re sending more, you’ll get greater value with
Expertclick.) Write the release yourself and they’ll distribute it, or
they’ll write it for you.
PR Week
This weekly newspaper for the public relations industry includes PR news, case
studies, new books for PR practitioners and opinion columns.
PressKit24/7.com
Press Kit 24/7 allows you to upload and distribute your press kits or your
clients’ press kits online, making them accessible to the media 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. If you’re a publicist, you can resell this service to your
clients.
Public Relations Society
of America
PRSA, headquartered in New York City, is
the world’s largest professional organization for public relations
practitioners. Its 20,000 members organized into 116 chapters represent business
and industry, counseling firms, government, associations, hospitals, schools,
professional services firms and nonprofit organizations.
Public Relations Student
Society of America
In 1968, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
founded the Public Relations Student Society of America. The declared purpose of
PRSSA is to cultivate a favorable and mutually advantageous relationship between
students and professional public relations practitioners.
Publicity
and Marketing Mailing Lists
Provides media mailings lists for a broad range of niche markets, from
chiropractors to Hollywood contacts.
Publicity Club of
Chicago
The Publicity Club of Chicago is the nation's largest independent public
relations membership organization
Publicity Club of New
England
This is the website for
the region's oldest professional organization for public relations,
communications, special events, and marketing professionals.
Publicity Club
of New York
PCNY is the oldest ongoing organization for the public
relations professional in the U.S.
PublicityFinder.com
List your business on PublicityFinder.com and start getting 24/7 exposure to
over 3,000 national news media outlets that search the business profiles of
PublicityFinder.com every day.
Publishers
Weekly
Publishers Weekly is a 32,000-circulation international news magazine of the $23
billion book industry.
Radio
Interview Promotion
Radio expert Bryan Farrish offers more than two dozen articles covering every
facet of radio publicity, from how to pick a radio show to target to the
importance of having a toll-free number if you're selling products.
Radio Locator
This site claims to be the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the
internet, with links to more than 10,000 radio station web pages and more
than 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
Radio-TV
Interview Report
Radio-TV Interview Report: The
Magazine Producers Read to Find Guests (RTIR) is a trade publication that goes
to over 4,000 radio/TV producers across the United States and Canada. RTIR is
published three times each month.
Radio Publicity
Radio publicity expert Alex Carroll is a veteran guest of more than 1,264 radio
talk show interviews. He'll show you how to get yourself booked on hundreds of
radio shows.
Self Help Salon
This site, created by author Suzanne
Falter-Barns, helps self-help book authors write proposals, create their
platform, promote their businesses and market their services.
Self-Publishing Help
Jorlan Publishing offers services that will help you self-publish your
book, quickly, easily, and affordably. Services include proofreading, editing,
book design, and printing.
ShoppingCart
If you’re
looking for a powerful good shopping cart that will manage your ezine list, stop
wasting time comparing the features and prices of the dozens of carts on the
market. This free ebook will show you exactly what to look for when buying a
cart.
Small Publishers
Association of North America
A great trade association for small publishers, including a super print
newsletter chock full of publicity and marketing tips.
Speaker Match
If you're looking for speaking engagements, you can sign up for this
subscription service. Speaker Match will forward leads from meeting planners who
are looking for speakers for either free or a fee.
SpeakerNet News
If you’re
a speaker who wants weekly tips on how to improve your speaking and get
publicity in the process, subscribe to this free ezine.
TalkRadio
A website devoted to talk radio shows, history, news about the hosts, and other
industry gossip.
The Summit Group
A multi-discipline association of individual, professional consultants,
including media relations consultant Joan Stewart a.k.a. The Publicity Hound.
Tips Products
International
Paulette Ensign, a.k.a. "The Tips Booklet Queen," shows you how
to publish inexpensive tips booklets to upsell your customers to other products
such as books, speaking engagements and consulting services and to create yet
another profitable revenue stream. Her products are packed with content, and
I've used her consulting services before creating my own profitable tips
booklets.
TradePub.com
Qualified professionals can get a free subscription to one of more than 300
trade magazines, in a wide variety of industries, by filling out a short
questionnaire. You can search for magazines by industry, topic or keyword.
Travel Publicity Leads
Get immediate access to the most recent editorial calendars for the travel
media, weekly leads from travel writers on the kinds of sources and photos
they're looking for, and lots more.
U.S. Copyright
Office
If you need to copyright an article, book or something at your website, learn
more about copyright law first.
Whatsnextonline
BL Ochman's website includes free articles, educational tools and
lots of helpful tips on how to get free publicity online.
White Papers
Perry
Marshall, one of my coaches, has an excellent free 5-day email course on how to
publish and publicize White Papers. It’s free, and it explains how you can write
a short White Paper in just a day or two.
Winning PR
Campaigns
Sharpen your skills by learning about the most exciting and successful media
realtions campaigns of the year by subscribing to the free biweekly
e-newsletter, Bulldog reporter's Winning PR Campaigns.
Womens Calendar
Add your women's event to the WomensCalendar, one of the more popular
websites around, with many links between other organization's sites, so your
event is sure to get plenty of exposure. Most events can be added for free.
Wooden Horse Publishing
Magazine news and a searchable,
subscription-based magazines database with more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian
consumer and trade print publications, complete with reader demographics,
writer's guidelines and editorial calendars. Sign up for their excellent ezine,
chock full of info on new magazines and what's new in the magazine industry.
WordTracker
Find the
best keywords for your website, press releases and articles. Amateurs guess.
Professionals know. With WordTracker, you’ll know which are the best keywords to
drive more traffic.
Worldwide Arts Resources
Search for
magazines, ezines, journals, catalogues, and newsletters dealing with the arts,
drama, theater, feminism and gay issues.
Writer’s Market
Contains a searchable database of more than 1,000 books and magazines, including
some that have guidelines for writers so you can submit your articles for free
publicity.