Nowadays diets tend to have a bad name. Overly restrictive and
temporary, they often ensure that people revert back to their old habits
quickly, thereby eliminating long-term results. This year I've discovered
a new way to apply the idea of a diet to a host of goals that have nothing to
do with food. I've found that if I focus my attention on a specific topic
and do one small task related to every day
for 30 days, by the end of the month I've achieved remarkable
things I never anticipated.
It's
official: British singing phenom Susan Boyle's video clip is the most
downloaded in a single week in the history of the Internet. She's
made fans of Oprah, Jay Leno, Elaine Paige, Simon Cowell, Demi Moore and millions
of people who have watched her sing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables.
With a three minute performance, Susan Boyle rocketed from the depths of
obscurity to the heights of fame in a matter of days.What can Susan’s experience teach business
owners?
Those of you who would
welcome media coverage of your company but are not sure how to get started, let
me give you a great tip: editorial calendars.
An editorial calendar is simply a written plan of topics a media outlet
will be covering in a given year. Many of the publications you read most often
have editorial calendars they work from, as it gives them a structure to plan
their content.
In my over 15 years of doing public relations work, I’ve learned a few media relations strategies that can result in more success. They involve a bit more time at the outset, but they can lead to a much bigger, more in-depth story down the road.
Do you have
a life philosophy?For the past decade mine
has been “proximity is destiny.”This
somewhat opaque saying speaks to me because it reinforces a basic fact of the
universe – we become what we think about most of the time.And we tend to think about that which
surrounds us, either in place, time, order or relation.