I love silent auctions. Bidding on donated items is fun, especially if you’re the winner. At the event, charities or organizations raise funds and awareness. And, donating items to be displayed online or at an event is good publicity. Everybody wins: the organization raises funds, your business gets promoted and the winner gets a service they need. Ideally, you will reach new prospects and the auction winner will become a client.

Last summer I donated a social media consulting session …

How do you promote seminars and workshops these days? When I pulled the media contact list for LinkedIn Power Strategies, I knew it was time to branch out into other places. A calendar item or even a feature will only reach a select group of readers once. To publicize your business events, create an event site on eventbrite. Buy a domain for your event, in this case – http://wiredbranding.com – and then post information on craigslist, GarysGuide and other online …

Do you know what RSS stands for? Do you care? You do, if you want to get news delivered somewhere to you automatically online. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s like ordering online subscriptions to blogs, news sites, twitter updates or any content that has an RSS feed. Sounds kind of fancy to have your own syndication system when you think about it, but every blogger and person on twitter does.

If you’re on our email news update list [powered …

Groups give speakers get all kinds of gifts: flowers, chocolate, gift certificates. One of the best “gifts” you can give a speaker is a recommendation. Although I use critique sheets for reviews, it’s not often that a get a group review like this one from West Suburban Women Entrepreneurs.

What I like about this format:

includes group comments
talks about usable ideas
gives ideas on how to expand the presentation

Professional Speaker Recommendation for Barbara Rozgonyi’s How to Build Your Business with Online …

Thanks so much to Mary-Lynn Foster and  George Krueger for interviewing me as a The Bigg Success Expert Session guest.

It was fun to talk about how to promote your business for free as a radio show guest.

You can listen to the preview for free and I’m pleased to let you know you can purchase the entire The Expert Session interview at a very reasonable price.

Get your copy of The Bigg Success Show Expert Session with Barbara Rozgonyi …

Looking for tips on how to be a radio show guest and get free publicity?  Here’s the short answer: you need two things- a hot topic and a station. This post previews my upcoming interview with Mary-Lynn and George on the Bigg Success Show. Bigg Success is the how-to, can-do place for people on the move.

Before my interview, I listened to Mary-Lynn and George interview Seth Godin about his new book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. …

Two years ago today on September 19, I wrote a post called PR Takeaways: Talk Like a Pirate Day. At the time, there were 130 Google News searches for talk like a pirate day. Today’s count: 340 talk like a pirate news stories and counting.

Google’s even getting in on the act. Hat tip to Steve Rubel for tweeting about it; that’s how I found that Google is going ahoy.

steverubel Cool. Google Pirate launches for Talk Like a Pirate …

After writing about Google’s Chrome comic book, I asked Brad Shorr, who frequently writes about business humor and is a business cartoon writer to guest post and talk about  . . .

Why Don’t Companies Use Cartoons in Their Marketing?

By Brad Shorr, guest author

As a business cartoon writer, this question crosses my mind more often than I’d like to admit. Naturally, I think cartoons are a superb way for a company to market itself, strengthen its brand, build customer …

Searching for popular blogs to follow? Yahoo’s Blog directory lists blogs by category. Shown here is a screen capture I took this morning. At the time, Wired PR Works was number one. So . . . I told my newsletter subscribers about it. [Apologies to my newsletter readers for letting this news get me too carried away. You'll be pleased to know my ego is back in check.]

And then . . . I decided to take a look at …