5 Publicity Tips from Jessica Simpson, Madonna and Paris Hilton
Jessica Simpson, Madonna and Paris Hilton.
Love them or hate them, these famous celebrities are media darlings. They know how to get and keep attention. Attention in today's hyper competitive and noisy markets equals power.
There are powerful self-promotion lessons to be learned from these ladies. Here are 5 Power Publicity tips that you can apply to get your business and ideas, the attention and name recognition that you deserve.
1. Let your personality shine through
Drop the grey, corporate speak already, let your own unique personality shine. Share more about your story. What personal challenges did you overcome to get where you are today? Are you a natural at what you do? When did you realize that you were going to make this your chosen career?
2. Share your problems and challenges
Jessica Simpson's recent divorce, further increased her popularity. Why? Because people can relate to others who are facing problems that they are struggling with ourselves. So inspire your target audience to continue working to overcome their challenges, by sharing your own personal battles and triumphs.
3. Develop your own satisied clients into active, vocal fans.
The average joe can give you a brief life overview of Paris, Madonna and Jessica in fifty words or less. Are you leveraging your satisfied customers or clients to tell your story?
When a client is pleased with your service, get more than a verbal thank-you. Get them to send in a letter, preferably along with a picture of them using your product, that you can use as a testimonial.
4. Break out of boring, traditional boundaries
From Material Girl to devoted mom and children's author, Madonna has successfully reinvented herself by pushing the boundaries. Likewise, you can step outside your industry soap box. Sponsor a community group, start up your own awards service. Remember, no one ever talks about the plain vanilla
5. Escape the -perfection trap- Name any major talent that Paris Hilton has? At best she's an ok actress and a sub par cover singer, but she does not let that stop her from putting her work out there. Stop waiting for your ideas, projects to be perfect, they will never be. Do the best that you can to get your ideas out there and let your audience tell you what they want more of.
As the level of advertising noise and daily distractions continues to rise, finding a way to get noticed in your marketplace is becoming harder and harder.
Free publicity is in many ways is now even more valuable than paid advertising, as your audience becomes time strapped, ad weary and cynical.
So you are a hard working author, real estate agent, chiropractor or small business owner and you want to get your share of the publicity goldmine- but you don't have access to the family trust fund to hire a publicist on a $10K monthly retainer. What can you do to get noticed?
Simply leverage the awesome power of free web2.o publicity and the hot popularity of web2.0 sites like myspace.com
You can win the web2.0 publicity game. The lowest hanging goalpost in the web2.0 free publicity game is My Space.
The best part is that MySpace makes getting into the free web2.0 publicity game quick and easy. It is free to join myspace.com and you can establish your online presence in a matter of five minutes or less, with a host of free tools that MySpace places at your fingertips. See you on myspace.com
You too can Mine the MySpace Free Publicity Goldmine. Make sure you get your Free AUDIO on How to get Free Publicityon MySpace. Warning:Getting many Friends on MySpace is just the beginning of Life as a MySpace Legend.
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