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Don’t Drink From Hotel Glasses

By Joan Stewart   |   August 28, 2010

The next time you stay in a hotel, you’ll think twice about drinking out of the glasses and coffee cups if you watch the 4½-minute video at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7f_1194813218

It’s an I-team investigation from a TV station, presumably in Atlanta, Georgia. The team took hidden cameras into guest rooms at three major hotels–Embassy Suites, Holiday Inn and Sheraton Suites. In all three instances, housekeepers never used soap and water to clean dirty drinking glasses and coffee cups. Read More »

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The College Exam Nightmare

By Joan Stewart   |   August 14, 2010

Did you ever have the nightmare in which you’re taking a final exam for a college course, and it suddenly dawns on you that you’ve never attended one class?

Or how about the bad dream in which all your teeth fall out?

Or the one in which you’re going about your business, usually at work or in a public place, and realized you aren’t wearing any clothes? Read More »

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Why I’m Crying Elephant Tears

By Joan Stewart   |   July 28, 2010

I love getting success stories from readers like you.

But sometimes I cry big, fat elephant tears when I learn about missed opportunities, or how people who generated fabulous publicity didn’t follow up.

Sue Lowery of Chattanooga, Tennessee saw a short news item on one of her local TV stations about how the Bliss spa in Dallas, Texas pampered an elephant the day before it was making its Dallas debut at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. Read More »

The Easy Way To Sell Anything To Anybody

The simple truth about sales is your prospect will always do a better job of selling themselves than any sales person ever can. Discover how to use this simple strategy and close more sales with less effort. Click here »

Freelancers & In Flight Magazines

By Joan Stewart   |   July 14, 2010

One of the big advantages to forming relationships with freelancers is that most of them write for multiple publications. So if they sell a story that includes you as a source, there’s a good chance they’ll interview you again for another story for a different publication.

Stacy DeBroff, also known as The Mommy Expert, got a nice spike in book sales at Amazon, and traffic to her website,  when her book “The Mom Book” appeared in a May issue of Go, the inflight magazine for Airtran. Read More »

How To Cash In On Social Media Marketing

Listen in as 8 top social media experts reveal their innermost trade secrets to using free social media tools to pinpoint and profit from hungry buyers in any market before it's too late. Click here »

Don’t Ask the Wrong Question

By Joan Stewart   |   June 28, 2010

Here’s what usually happens when somebody scores a big publicity hit, either in their local newspaper, or on a major TV show.

They see a big spike in traffic to their website. Then, within a week or two, the traffic slows to a crawl.

That’s when they email me and ask, “How can we keep the buzz going? How can we turn this publicity into even more publicity?” Read More »

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Pumpkin Soup & Sea Moss Punch

By Joan Stewart   |   June 14, 2010

Having problems conceiving?

Go on vacation to a resort where you can dine on pumpkin soup and drink a sea moss punch three times a day. Relax, enjoy a romantic dinner for two, get a massage and then let nature do its thing.

That was the key message in a wildly successful PR campaign for Starwood Hotels and its resorts worldwide.

Quinn & Co., its PR firm, discovered that the locals in the Bahamas had been using pumpkin soup and sea moss for generations to help make babies. Certain spa treatments and lots of relaxation also helped. So the PR firm came up with the idea of “The Procreation Vacation.” Read More »

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Pan For Gold at Amazon

By Joan Stewart   |   May 28, 2010

If you’re trying to position yourself as an expert, hop on over to Amazon.com and start panning for gold.

The popular website where you can buy everything from books to wireless telephone service is one of the best places on the Internet to promote your expertise, get in front of a targeted audience of buyers, and really flaunt your stuff–even if you aren’t selling anything. That’s because Amazon gives you 17 ways to show what you know.

Just ask Don Mitchell. The management consultant ranked as the Number One non-fiction book reviewer on Amazon. He’s so well-known by business authors that he’s flooded with galleys and new books from eager publishers who literally beg him to offer his comments. Read More »

Which Words Will Make You Rich?

Discover how to quickly and easily multiply the selling power of every promotion you create to increase your income by hundreds of thousands, if not, millions of dollars a year. Click here »

Can Your Purse Make You Sick?

By Joan Stewart   |   May 14, 2010

When I discovered a big splotch of dried chocolate ice cream on the bottom of my Coach purse last week, I was mortified.

How long has THAT been there, I wondered. And how many people have seen it and said nothing?

The next day, I read the first item in Marilee Tolen’s ezine, titled “Can Your Purse Make You Sick?” And suddenly the dried ice cream didn’t seem that bad.

Marilee calls herself “The Home Spa Lady” and teaches you how to turn your bedroom, bath and kitchen into a spa. Her ezine referred to an article she had read that discusses the germs, bacteria and other nasties that attach themselves to the bottoms of women’s purses– and sometimes end up on our kitchen tables, where many of us routinely routinely drop them. Read More »

The #1 Way To Multiply Your Online Profits

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What Big Magazines Want

By Joan Stewart   |   April 28, 2010

Aching to get into a major magazine like Time, Cosmopolitan or AARP?

The easiest way is to start writing briefs on timely, controversial or fun topics, then submit them to magazines on your media list. Read More »

The #1 Way To Multiply Your Online Profits

You'll find out exactly how to transform your website into a lead generating, sales producing success. Whether you just launched your site or it's been up for years, this is the quickest way to increase your online income. Click here »

Involve Bloggers In Your Product

By Joan Stewart   |   April 14, 2010

Here’s a great tip for anyone creating a product–either a physical product like a widget or an information product like an ebook or special report.

One of the very best ways to have the blogging community embrace your product is to involve bloggers in its creation.

That’s right. Let’s say I’m writing an ebook on how to get a job in public relations. Here are ways I can involve bloggers: Read More »

How To Build a Seven Figure Income

Find out which five essential, low cost marketing activities, when used together, can help you automatically attract more new top paying clients every month and generate more repeat business every year. Click here »

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