Below is the exact and complete message as delivered to targeted print and broadcast media contacts. We use our DesignWise Constant Contact email manager account to maintain a private media contact lists and to publish and distribute our PR. This permits us to track the open rate and the click-through links. Then, we report this back to our clients regarding the success of each campaign. The story is an example of creating authentic earned media, a method of advertising that I feel far outweighs purchased advertising in both cost and effectiveness.

PRESS RELEASE – For immediate release

November 14, 2011

Contact: Lori Manns
Phone: 920.615.4646
Lori@psychiclori.net
www.PsychicLori.net

Psychic Lori
133A S. Erie St.
DePere, WI, 54115

Gallery Readings with Psychic Lori in Milwaukee at the Brumder Mansion on Sunday, December 4

Psychic Medium, Lori Manns returns to Milwaukee’s “romantic” Brumder Mansion Theater on Sunday, December 4 for Gallery Readings from 7 – 9 pm.

Psychic Medium, Lori Manns

The first psychic experience that Lori Manns can recall took place at the age of five. She was in a classroom when she saw her Kindergarten teacher’s father standing next to her on the first day of school. She told her new teacher that a man was standing next to her and that he was trying to tell her that everything is OK. Lori did not realize who the man was at the time, and before her teacher could respond, they were interrupted by the School Principal.

Lori’s new teacher hurriedly left the room after speaking briefly with the Principal and did not return to the classroom for approximately 2 weeks. The next day, a substitute teacher explained that their regular teacher would be away for a time as her father had unexpectedly passed away the day before.

The next 30 years of Lori’s life was full of similar such experiences, comprised of her mediumship and psychic nuances. In her early 40s, she decided to begin refining her natural gifts of psychic awareness and spirit communications by enrolling at The Arthur Findlay College in London, number one metaphysical college in the world. There she was regarded as exceptionally intuitive.

Following that, she abandoned her “day” job and became a full-time professional psychic medium. Now, she travels all over the USA and Canada doing private readings, house parties, business conference appearances and guest spots on various broadcast media channels. Most recently she was in Milwaukee at the annual Brumder Mansion Halloween Hunt.

“We had such a wonderful and paranormal Halloween at the world-famous Brumder Mansion, that I have been asked to return for a series of Gallery Readings” says Psychic Lori. “While they call it romantic in the official guide, it’s almost effortless to dig deeper into the ‘historical’ aspect of the Brumder B&B to find out that it is considered to be one of the top paranormal hot spots in all of Wisconsin.”

According to Haunted Places to Go, “It has been established that there are at least three ghostly spirits in the mansion that are believed to be intelligent hauntings. This basically means that they are able to interact with the living. It is said that the spirits are welcoming, though if experienced firsthand, they may be a bit frightening, simply because they may catch you off guard.”

With that in mind, you are invited to stay the night in order to experience Brumder to the fullest by reserving one of their 6 beautiful suites. All of the rooms have fireplaces and are surprisingly reasonable, ranging from $89 – $169 per night – with 4 of the 6 suites having hot tubs. But, enjoying the accommodations is not a requirement in order to join Psychic Medium Lori Manns for Gallery Readings in Milwaukee at the Brumder Mansion. All are welcome, but seating is limited to approximately 50 persons. Tickets are $40 for the 2-hour session. Reservations are recommended and are easily secured  by calling the Brumder front desk at 414.342.9767.

Psychic Lori will also be providing half-hour and one-hour private readings (at $65 and $120 per person) by appointment before and after the Sunday Gallery Readings and again on Monday. Please, email Lori@psychiclori.net or phone: 920.615.4646 to secure your spot.

Brumder Mansion Bed & Breakfast is located at 3046 W. Wisconsin Avenue, a main street that runs from downtown Milwaukee, past Marquette University and runs parallel to I-94. Brumder Mansion is on the corner of North 31st and West Wisconsin, in the historic Concordia District. Call 414.342.9767 with questions, to RSVP for the Gallery Readings or for room reservations.

Contact Psychic Lori by email at Lori@psychiclori.net or phone: 920.615.4646.
Join in the conversation… www.facebook.com/PsychicLori.

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Today, I had an opportunity to sit in on a marketing pitch being delivered to one of my clients by a radio advertising salesman. I was there for an eventual meeting about the development of my own plan for an “integrated” advertising campaign – one that would include earned media in the form of traditional press releases, coupled with a strong emphasis on the rapidly emerging forms of social network media.

In that later meeting, I would provide the following quote from Sut Jhally, Professor of Communications at the University of Massachusetts and founder of the Media Education Foundation:

“Advertisers have to go to where the audience is… if they want to sell products. They have no option but to go where the audience has gone. If the audience has gone online, gone to iPods, gone to Facebook – wherever the audience has gone – that is where advertisers must go.”

As I listened to the “old-school” radio pitchman trying to encourage my client to buy his packages of “spots,” I envisioned the sharp changes that are sweeping over the worlds of journalism and marketing, as we transit from broadcast to networked media. I saw those radio spots floating away in the breeze like the dry seeds of a dandelion blossom…

Maybe they would land somewhere on favorable ground and sprout forth as a new plant. Most of them would simply blow away like dust in the wind.

It is time that universities, online or otherwise, get up to date with their curriculum.

I realized that I had come to help my client plant and grow a garden. That’s the profound difference between traditional broadcast media (radio, TV and newspaper advertising) and networked social media… In the old school, we continually threw out spots, hoping someone would eventually see or hear one. In the new school we intentionally plant and cultivate a growing presence in new media resources that remains and grows larger in size the more time we invest.

I am talking about new social media tools like:

• a blog-based Web site with an ongoing stream of fresh content,
• a well-crafted business presence on Facebook (500M members),
• a YouTube channel (2nd most popular search engine) with homespun videos,
• micro-blogging your message and joining in the conversation taking place on Twitter,
• learn about sites like FourSquare and the rapidly expanding dimension of location-based technology
• pay attention to public review forums like Trip Advisor, Yelp and others,
• take advantage of the free and ever-evolving set of Google’s gardener tools.

The difference is apparent… it’s no longer a question of “if“ you decide to employ new media. As newspapers shrink and disappear right before your eyes and radio audiences now listen to what they want on iPods and smart phones, it’s now a matter  of “when” you decide to plant that garden.

How does your garden grow?

Contact Social Media Consultant, Stephen Kastner to discuss the most effective ways to plant and grow your social media garden.

Old media is scrambling to become new media while new media keeps expanding and improving. I am watching Jay Leno’s last night show this morning on NBC Direct.  I don’t watch network TV anymore… as a rule. But, I got here via Yume. And, I am enjoying the show, in part for the clever use of video in both the Leno Show and in the embedded advertising.

The fact remains that this is still an attempt to put old media into some ill-fitting new shoes. While the pros in the Leno Show’s editing booth have concocted some funny video clips, the developers at NBC and their counterparts at Mitsubishi need to go back to the drawing boards, ‘cuz this is a miserable way to try to watch a TV show. By maintaining their control over the content, they have succeeded in destroying mine.

After reloading the locked-up automobile ad, I figured out how to step past the 30-second roadblock to get to the second segment… and the Leno Show streamed on. The second ad from Honda had a larger video footprint, looked better and worked without locking up my screen. The third ad was a major improvement built with Flash rollovers – like the fourth ad.

Meanwhile, on the open-source social media network, major businesses like Pepsi are abandoning the Super Bowl and investing in growing their own social media footprint. Small businesses can do the same and even faster… because this is marketing at the grassroots level where handmade and homemade are often more successful than major corporate productions as evidenced by NBC, Mitsubishi and Honda.

LINKS:
Social Media Spending to Hit $1.3 Billion This Year

Alonzo Bodden on Leno…

Brilliant!

“Puff pieces” that have no valid news content will most likely be sent to the trash bin by any news agency. However, if you have a special event, a workshop or if you have earned a genuine award, completed some advanced level of training – anything that might make up an authentic news story – then you deserve to have it circulated in the media. A well-written press release should get picked up as news by all types of media including: print, TV and radio broadcasters and to Web publications, bloggers as well as the emerging social media sites.

Stephen J. Kastner

Having been a professional photojournalist for the New York Times papers in Florida and having written hundreds of news columns and press releases for the print media for over three decades, I have learned to write newsworthy stories. Having the skills, the contacts and the experience lets DesignWise Studios provide our clients with an advantage over their competitors who try to create do-it-yourself, in-house PR.

Earned media vs paid media (advertising) may also include show appearances on radio, television and the Internet, letters to the editor, editorials, and polls.

“Earned media is positive news coverage that you actively work to get.” – NHTSA has much more to say on the subject of earned media.

Please, contact me if you would like to learn more about how I can provide you with a means of generating earned media…