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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Location: The Woodlands, Texas Publicity Office
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Welcome to your weekly publicity blog post!
With money tight and book launches often done on ever-shrinking budgets, I’m often asked what authors should be doing …
MARKETING MATTERS: Top 3 Cost-Effective Essentials for Telling the World About Your BookRead More
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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Location: PR Office, The Woodlands, Tex.
Are you Twittering yet? I certainly hope so!
That means you’ve dipped your toe into the pool of social networking. Bravo! Now what? Send your Twitters out where they will reach …
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Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’m rubbing my hands together in anticipation because, next up on my to-do list is working on proposals from my clients. Some agents find this work drudgery …
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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo, Publicist
Location: PR Office, The Woodlands, TX
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Last week, I talked about Twittiquette, the rules of etiquette on the popular social networking site Twitter. Assuming you’ve all learned how to be a …
MARKETING MATTERS: Five Top Tips for Twitterific PRRead More
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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Location: PR Office, The Woodlands, TX
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For those few of you who haven’t heard, Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networking sites on the Internet. Nielson Online predicts the number of …
Marketing Matters: Twittiquette – How to Avoid Fleeing FollowersRead More
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Publicize your book in 15 minutes or less? Yes!
Here are five of my favorite tips for activities that can be achieved in 15 minutes or less:
1. Set up a Google alert for your name, your book title, and …
MARKETING MATTERS: 15 Minutes to Fame, Reaching Your PR Goals in 15 Minutes or LessRead More
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“A public relations professional is part business manager, part sociologist, part cheerleader, and part confessor, and part pit bull.” Lucas Westcoat, Waggener Edstrom, Seattle, WA
Two years ago, I began discussions with agent Janet Grant regarding what was to become …