“Get Sourced. Get Quoted. Get Famous: www.helpareporter.com -
Putting Journalists and Sources together, one quote at a time.”
Have you seen the acronym HARO floating around online lately?
No? Hmmm, well, now you can crawl out from under your rock and join the magic. HARO stands for Help A Reporter Out and is the brainchild of Peter Shankman, who is otherwise known as @skydiver. His website says he is:
“An entrepreneur, author, speaker, and ingenious worldwide connector, Peter is recognized nationally and globally for radically new ways of thinking about social media, PR, marketing, advertising, creativity, and just about everything else, as well.”
But the ladies at Mom Generations just call him the Hottest Male Blogger. What? Playboy did it to the ladies!
HARO itself is this amazing little club/mailing list/magic tool (with over 14,000 users) that connects ordinary people and companies to journalists - journalists who want quotes and experience and all the stuff that they NEED for their stories.
I promise you from receiving the query emails each day that there truly IS something for everyone (no, SERIOUSLY) and have found many queries to answer myself, including ones for educators, moms, entrepreneurs, bloggers, twitter users - and the list goes on. I could share more, but it’s truly just too diverse to truly explain all of it.
The process is simple:
You register for HARO
Reporters submit queries to Peter
Peter compiles them
You get emails up to 3 times/day from Peter
You choose to answer queries or not
You might become famous or get your product or company quoted in a major publication
Easy as pie.
And honestly? Peter’s HARO query email intros are probably the best and funniest things I read all day - and I read a LOT.
So, head on over and……………. “Get Sourced. Get Quoted. Get Famous”
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It really is such a genius concept. And with Peter at the helm, anything is possible! ‘Cause, you know… he’s the hottest and all. ;-)
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Great idea, Kate - thanks for the link. I have followed your lead and have taken the liberty of blogging HARO too.
John
This is a fantastic idea. It makes me wonder how many other un-met needs like this are still out there just waiting for someone to run with such a simple solution. Thanks Kate!
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Getting a kick out of the new HARO emails. Makes me want to see some of the finished articles. Thanks again for this tip.
It really is a great service. Two different friends emailed me different articles that were a perfect fit in the last month.
I’ve now signed up to help me track all the opportunities to help my promote my award winning board game GiftTRAP
http://www.gifttrap.com/
And also our Facebook app
http://apps.new.facebook.com/gifttrap/
I’ve already had 3 bites from journalists and bloggers.
I just hope it doesn’t suffer as it grows, this is just going to keep on growing for sure.
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