{"id":59,"date":"2008-09-04T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-09-04T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:17:50","slug":"is-your-business-a-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/is-your-business-a-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Business a Contender?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter if you&#8217;re a newcomer or seasoned veteran of the Joyfully Jobless life, your marketing can get a big boost if you stay alert to media opportunities. One easy way to put yourself in the path of opportunity is via a free service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpareporter.com\" class=\"broken_link\" class=\"extlink\">Help Out a Reporter<\/a>. Three times a day, the energetic Peter Shankman sends a listing of a dozen or more story requests from reporters and freelancers in search of potential interviewees. It only takes a minute to scan the list (which is organized by subject area) and you never know when you might be a perfect match\u2014and suddenly find yourself catapulted into the national spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recent post which could also be an opportunity for you to enter your business into StartupNation&#8217;s upcoming contest. Here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Summary: Need Innovative biz that takes place in a house<\/p>\n<p>Category: Business &amp; Finance<\/p>\n<p>Name: Rich Sloan<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kathleen@bordersgratehouse.com\">kathleen@bordersgratehouse.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title: Founder, Editor in Chief<\/p>\n<p>Media Outlet\/Publication: StartupNation<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous? No<\/p>\n<p>Specific Geographic Region? No<\/p>\n<p>Region:<\/p>\n<p>Deadline: 6:00 PM PACIFIC &#8211; September 30<\/p>\n<p>Query:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;StartupNation is looking for innovative non-office businesses<br \/>\nacross a variety of categories. If you know of an innovative<br \/>\nbusiness that deserves recognition entries are being accepted until<br \/>\nmidnight Pacific Time on September 30, 2008 at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupnation.com\/homebased100\/enter\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\" class=\"extlink\">http:\/\/www.startupnation.com\/homebased100\/enter<\/a>. Winners will be<br \/>\njudged by StartupNation and a panel of judges who are each<br \/>\npassionate about non-office business and the Top Ten categories<br \/>\nhighlighted in this years competition. Winners of the non-office<br \/>\n100 find themselves at the center of a media storm that includes<br \/>\nrecognition on national and local TV, radio, in newspapers and<br \/>\nmagazines, and on some of the largest, most influential websites on<br \/>\nthe web, MSN and StartupNation among them. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to let me know if you win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter if you&#8217;re a newcomer or seasoned veteran of the Joyfully Jobless life, your marketing can get a big boost if you stay alert to media opportunities. One easy way to put yourself in the path of opportunity is via a free service called Help Out a Reporter. Three times a day, the energetic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/is-your-business-a-contender\/\"class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\"  title=\"ReadIs Your Business a Contender?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunity-knocking","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}