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issue of : August 2006
- QUOTE OF THE MONTH
- PTA Featured Service:Our ALL NEW COLLEGE NEWSPAPER TELEPRINT CONFERENCE - New Service: College Teleprint Conference
- PTA'S FREE TELESEMINARS
- SURFIN' - A Source for Websites
- WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY? - PTA's Recent Bookings
- LOOK WHAT'S COMING UP!!! - Events You Have To Know About
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it."
—Steven Brust
If you've got a great quote you want to share, send it to kohand@plannedtvarts.com. Many thanks!
PTA Featured Service:Our ALL NEW COLLEGE NEWSPAPER TELEPRINT CONFERENCE
If you or your author is trying to reach 18-22- year-olds, utilize PTA's newest service to get your message to the nation's leading college campuses. The College Newspaper Teleprint Conference campaign allows you to hold a press conference for an hour, by phone, with at least a dozen editors and writers from the major newspapers of the nation's leading colleges. We need approximately 5-6 weeks advance notice to execute the campaign. For more information, please consult Brian Feinblum @ 212-583-2718 or feinblumb@plannedtvarts.com.
PTA'S FREE TELESEMINARS
Upcoming TeleSeminars (Please note the new time):
Remember, our TeleSeminars are free (excluding your call cost). If you missed our last TeleSeminar with Allan Hunkin, who discussed Podcasts or Jerry Simmons or WritersReaders.com you can dial the replay line at 507-726-3837 (Press the # sign after you dial in) to replay them or go to our website at www.plannedtvarts.com to download past TeleSeminars.
- Wednesday, August 16, 8-9pm EST with Steve Lillo
Steve Lillo, founder of www.PlanetLink.com, is an expert at designing effective Web sites for authors and books. He will discuss what you need to know when hiring someone to design your Web site and what should be included on it. - Wednesday, September 20th, 8-9pm ET with Linda Hollander
Linda Hollander, head of www.TheWealthyBagLady.com, will tell you how to identify and attract corporate sponsors for your book campaign, business or charity. She is the author of Bags to Riches: 7 small Business Steps for Women in Business. She also is the founder of the Women's Small Business Expo.
Here's how to participate:
Call 580-474-3600, then press in the code: 222089#.
SURFIN'
Maybe you are not an executive, but the advice given at The Wall Street Journal's career website can be helpful to anyone. www.careerjournal.com offers advice on job-hunting, salary and hiring info, and tips from top columnists on the job market. Also there's a database of (mostly well-paying) jobs. If you need to discuss an issue of sensitivity or just a comment on a company, they have an excellent posting board where members contribute and share ideas.
You're visiting New York and don't know which restaurant to eat at? That's a common problem. Fortunately, a friend will probably point you in the right direction and there are dozens of guides to send you to the cuisine of your choice. But none of them will tell you which passed the NYC restaurant health inspection. Just for fun you can check which restaurants have vermin or the workers are not washing their hands after going to the bathroom. The New York City Department of Health keeps this database current at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml. Actually, the vast majority of restaurants in New York City pass inspection and have no violations, due to stringent enforcement. But to decide how much contamination is acceptable in your next restaurant visit, take a look.
It's hard to keep up with the news when you have so little time. You know how friends or colleagues will email you an article they read in their local newspaper. Now you can appear as well read as them by having at your fingertips a database to every newspaper in the USA. NewsVoyager http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm provides direct links to most newspapers in the country searchable by state, city, frequency (daily vs. weekly) or specific section of newspaper i.e. classifieds, business, etc. Now you can seem all-knowledgeable by forwarding that interesting article about "Tourists Don't Mind Sharing Vacation With Hell's Angels" from The Powell Tribune (A local Wyoming paper.)
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY?
Here's a sampling of our latest bookings.
Getting A Good Nights Sleep by Dr. Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer (Cleveland Clinic Press)
- Ladies Home Journal
- Redbook
- Shape Magazine
- Self Magazine
- Parenting Magazine
- Fitness Magazine
HOPE: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future by Andrew Razeghi (Jossey Bass)
- The Boston Globe
- The San Francisco Chronicle
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- The San Jose Mercury News
Sink or Swim: New Job. New Boss by Milo and Thuy Sindell (Adams Media)
- Washington Post
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Toronto Globe and Mail
- Fortune.com
- Jim Pawlak (Syndicated Columnist)
- "Job Week" (Content that Works) - Syndicated Stories
- Training and Development
- Office Professional
- Bookpage
LOOK WHAT'S COMING UP!!!
These are dates that just might relate to a Morning Drive or Satellite TV Tour topic:
| October 2006 | |
| National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month | |
| Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month | |
| 1st | Yom Kippur Begins |
| 1st | Jerry Garcia's Birthday (1942) |
| 1st | 25th Anniversary of the MTV Premier (1981) |
| 4th | Anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela (1962) |
| 6th | First Woman Swims the English Channel Anniversary (1926) |
| 8th | National Children's Day |
| 9th | Columbus Day |
| 9th | Ann. Of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki (1945) |
| 9th | Nixon Resigns (1974) |
| 16th | Bosses Day |
| 19th | National Aviation Day |
| 24th | United Nations Day |
| 27th | Navy Day |
| 29th | Daylight Savings Time ends |
| 31st | Halloween |