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Hey there, my friends. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We're on episode one four zero.

And I got a great episode for you today. If you are in the U.S., today we are at the time of this recording is going live. We are celebrating Independence Day. We are celebrating Fourth of July and blowing stuff up and grilling. That's kind of like what we like to do here in America. So I hope you have a great and safe holiday week, but maybe while you're taking some time off or taking some hopefully time home with family and friends, I appreciate you tuning in and joining us for today's episode. Hey, today we're going to be talking about PR and press. And I got to be honest with you, and I talk about this with our guests today. I've never paid much attention to PR press.

I haven't put a lot of value in it.

And so I came into this with a little bit of, I don't know, is like, is this worth it? Is this going to move the needle at all? But some really great insights and thoughts that really kind of, I don't know, gave me a new perspective on PR and press. So I think you're going to enjoy today's conversation.

So today we're talking with my friend Janet Murray.

She is a go-to wizard when it comes to PR. So we talk through, you know, what's the point of PR? What's the point of press? We talk about should speakers even care about it at all? We talk about how do you know what journalists are interested in? We talk about how to not only pitch journalists on your ideas, but also to define the story ideas that they're already looking for. And we also talk through thoughts on press releases and much, much more. So a lot of great stuff. If you've always been intrigued, like, okay, do I need to be paying attention to the press? How am I going to use that? How do I find, you know, journalists or articles to be mentioned in, whether that's online or offline, digital or physical, whatever that may look like. Janet shares some really good strategies since then myself signed up for one of the services that she had mentioned here. That's a free service. I think you're going to enjoy. So let's get right into it. Here's my conversation with Ms. Janet Murray, all about PR and press for speakers. Enjoy. Hello, my friends. Today I'm hanging out with my friend Janet Murray from the UK. She has a

lovely British accent that's going to be soothing to your soul today. And Janet is a speaker,

author. In today's context, we're going to be talking about PR and press,

and she is a PR expert and wizard. So I'm excited to be hanging out with Ms. Janet today. How are you

today? Great to see you, yeah. Good to see you as well. We were together recently in the Philippines.

We were both attending and speaking at Chris Duckers Tropical Think Tank event, which was a lovely event.

But it was the last one, right?

It was the last one, yeah.

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