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The Expertizing Extra #9
by Fern Reiss, CEO, Expertizing.com/PublishingGame.com
http://www.Expertizing.com and http://www.PublishingGame.com
Interested in achieving fame for your expertise and media attention
for your business? Welcome to Expertizing.com!
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You can’t always get a full-page media story on your product
or service, but tangential mentions can also be beneficial. And
the side benefit of a peripheral mention is that there’ll
be very little competition from others in your niche.
For example, on Friday I was quoted in a United Press International
article. (For those of you unfamiliar with UPI, it’s a
large syndication service, similar to Associated Press, that
places its articles in hundreds of newspapers across the country.
A single mention in one of the top syndication services can result
in millions of readers being exposed to your offerings.)
The article was on the bankruptcy filings of Wonder Bread and
Twinkies, and how the low-carb craze may have contributed. The
other experts quoted were James Greco, Chief Executive of Bruegger’s
Bagels, Scott Livengood, CEO of Krispy Kreme, and and Fred Pescatore,
a physician and former medical director of the Atkins Center.
But I was the first quote in the article—and I got a whole
paragraph.
So how did I get into this piece populated by CEO bakery experts?
“America’s donut days are dead. It’s the ‘branding’ of
carbs that’s killing sales,” I emailed the reporter. “America
is past the days when doughy fluffy breads and fat-laden donuts
are appealing; regular carbs are passé. From a branding
standpoint, the market is ready for the ‘new carbs’—crunchy
Italian baguettes, sexy seeded breadsticks, and vegetable-infused
crackers. Wonder Bread’s days are over. But the marketer
who is successfully able to introduce the new carbs is going
to hit gold.”
Fern Reiss, CEO Expertizing.com
I was the only marketer/branding expert quoted in the piece.
Probably, I was the only one who contacted the reporter—because
most marketers, unless they are responsible for marketing pastries
and donuts, probably wouldn’t have seen this as the golden
opportunity that I did.
So think outside your box, and see how you can apply your expertise
to seemingly unrelated topics, and go after those tangential
mentions. If you start seeing everything in the world as somehow ‘related’ to
your product, you’ll start getting a lot more media attention.
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Next issue: How to be quoted in any publication in America.
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