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For the first time in eight years, Tin Shingle has an office on the Main Street of the small town in which it is headquartered: Beacon, NY. And what can you do with an office? Bring great people like you into it to make your life better! Tin Shingle readers and members live all over the United States (and across national boarders!), so you probably don't live in our city, so we have made sure to make our first workshop available to you to stream live!

Ashley Broussard is in charge of collecting Tin Shingle's Editorial Calendars from magazines as they publish them, and her fingers have been flying! Now find 2017 Editorial Calendars for the following publications, with more being added!

Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine
FamilyFun
Allrecipes Magazine
Shape
Parents
Woman's Day
Traditional Home
House Beautiful
Good Housekeeping
Food Network
Boston Common
Bloomberg Businessweek
Food Network
House Beautiful

Editorial Calendars for 2017 are trickling in online. We've got 2 of them for you: Food Network and House Beautiful, with more to come. If you're a Media Contact or an All-Access Member of Tin Shingle, you can log in now and find these Editorial Calendars in the Member Resources tab.

UPDATE: This Sale Has Ended. The current rate for membership is in effect.

This is happening. Tin Shingle's biggest sale ever on the All Access Pass of membership. Today only. Possibly Tomorrow's Today, that's why you need to act now. Last chance to lock in your rate at the $39/mo level!

Hello Tin Shinglers!

The following media outlets were updated to Tin Shingle's Media Contact lists:

Crain's Chicago Business
Crain's New York Business
Crain's Cleveland Business
Chronogram - Hudson Valley, NY

Remember these tips as you are researching for the right person at a media outlet:

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You've got big plans, let's make sure they happen! Tin Shingle's PR Challenge kicks off for the Fall/Winter season of your success on Tuesday, October 11th. The PR Challenge is a group of Tin Shingle members who meet virtually online, using our computer screens to see each other face to face. The group meets every other Tuesday for 6 sessions:
Oct. 11
Oct 25
Nov. 8
Nov. 22
Dec. 6
Dec. 20

Tomorrow's live broadcast of the training TuneUp focuses on blogging - what to do with that blog on your website that sits up in your navigation, but you aren't sure what to fill it with. Below is a little video originally delivered on Periscope and saved here for you to see any time. Go sign up for the TuneUp, and I'll talk to you soon! (ps: if you're reading this after 9/28/16, then the recording of the TuneUp is in our TuneUp Training Center for you to stream).

Today's Member Update focused on a new Media Contact available to members of Tin Shingle. We have republished it here to give you insight into what you could also be receiving every Monday to kick-start your week of promoting your business! Join Tin Shingle today if you haven't yet.

In collecting Media Contact research for Tin Shingle member who requested it for FamilyFun, we discovered that super famous tech writer David Pogue had recently been published in FamilyFun. Being that FamilyFun is a smaller magazine, many of their writers are contributors, so the best way into a magazine like this is to get to know the contributors, their styles, and to pitch them directly with your product or service.

In perusing David's website, his writing style on Contact Us page did two things for us: