Living from a Place of Possibilities

JJS -

> I was making several phone calls, lines were
> busy, my phone
> did not even ring I just noticed there was
> no dial tone and
> said "HELLO" and got back,
> "Hello, My name is Amy Flurry and
> I am a writer with Woman's Day
> magazine........"

>
> AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic! I've had similar publicity experiences though certainly not of the magnitude of Woman's Day. May I offer one piece of advice? (Ok. Two. *g*)

1. Make absolutely certain they include a link to your website or some other method for folks to contact you. A link would be best in my opinion, (or IMO).

2. Make absolutely certain that *you* and your business are ready for the influx of business and inquiries that could result. I don't know what the circulation of Woman's Day is, (don't have a Standard Rate and Data Service or SRDS handy), but I'm certain it's pretty large. Page views from even a fraction of the readers could strain your ISP. I would let them know what could be happening. Since your e-book is downloadable from your site you won't make one of the mistakes that I made when I was written up in The Boston Globe, (Or was it The Herald? I can never remember.) Anyway, I didn't have my free report ready nor did I make sure the paper included contact information so guess how many inquiries I got? Yup. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. That was an important lesson.

Looks like I need to get hot and send you the testimonial I promised you!

Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"