{"id":6034,"date":"2010-08-14T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:29:08","slug":"the-college-exam-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/public-relations\/the-college-exam-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"The College Exam Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Did you ever have the nightmare in which you&#8217;re taking a final exam for a college course, and it suddenly dawns on you that you&#8217;ve never attended one class?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or how about the bad dream in which all your teeth fall out?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or the one in which you&#8217;re going about your business, usually at work or in a public place, and realized you aren&#8217;t wearing any clothes? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dream expert Lauri Lowenberg says those nightmares and others are good for us because they teach us a lesson about something that deserves our attention.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/publicity.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6060\" title=\"publicity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/publicity.jpg\" alt=\"publicity\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lauri used her &#8220;nightmares are good for you&#8221; pitch at the National Publicity Summit in New York City years ago, and immediately caught the attention of a booker for &#8220;The View.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On October 29, 2004, she was a guest on the Halloween episode in which Meredith Vieira and Company wore costumes and talked about spooky stuff like bad dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the publicity summit, Lauri also successfully pitched a story to the Hackensack Journal in New Jersey. A producer at ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; read it and booked her for that show on November 29, 2004.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Her publicity campaign suddenly grew on its own<\/strong>, like a giant snowball rolling downhill. CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper interviewed her twice, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN&#8217;s chief medical correspondent, interviewed her once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What can national publicity like that do for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; <em>Joan<\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"8\" cellpadding=\"8\" width=\"450\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"450\" height=\"0\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/joan-stewart\/\">About Joan Stewart<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\"><strong><br \/>\nRelated Resources<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/author\/jstewart\/\"><br \/>\nMore Posts by Joan Stewart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To discover the easy and inexpensive ways <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anyone can attract more clients and maximize their profits<\/span>, sign up for your<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/free8-s.html\">FREE <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/profitrules-es.html\">Profit Now <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/profitrules-es.html\">Report<\/a>. <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever have the nightmare in which you&#8217;re taking a final exam for a college course, and it suddenly dawns on you that you&#8217;ve never attended one class? Or how about the bad dream in which all your teeth fall out? Or the one in which you&#8217;re going about your business, usually at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}