Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 146, originally published in June 2014.

Jason Mott is the New York Times best-selling author of, "The Returned." Mott wrote "The Returned" while working as a customer service rep at a Verizon call center. How explains how he was able to write while working. The book was haphazardly on a mail pile when a bored literary agent waiting for a meeting picked it up off an assistant’s desk and leafed through. He contacted Mott and sold the book to Harlequin. Brad Pitt bought the TV rights and sold it to ABC to create the new ABC TV series “The Resurrection.”

Jason Mott lives in southeastern North Carolina. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals. He was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize award and Entertainment Weekly listed him as one of their 10 "New Hollywood: Next Wave" people to watch.

Website:

www.JasonMottAuthor.com

Jason Hartman talks with Cameron Herold, host of The Second in Command podcast and author of Free PR, about how to get free PR, how to hold PR firms and employees accountable, as well as how to go about pitching yourself to the media effectively.

Key Takeaways:

[1:57] The potential monetary issue with hiring a PR firm vs an employee

[6:09] Sales people are the best option for landing free publicity

[10:24] Publishing press releases that get picked up by wire scraping websites gets you good link backs and helps SEO significantly

[13:54] How do you work best with remote PR employees and freelance PR people?

[18:43] Always think about your PR pitches to the media as how they can help their target market

Website:

www.TheCOOAlliance.com