While learning to network is essential to your success, it is difficult for many of us (myself included!) to get comfortable with the topic of promoting ourselves.
In a previous Business Masterclass podcast episode, Cultivate the Habits of Friendship, I offered some thoughts on one slice of this topic by arguing that each one of us does indeed need to develop what I called friendship skills -- the ability to earn relationships and build our network of people with whom we have sincere friendly relations.
In today's podcast, Self Promotions, I dig deeper into this topic, examining why self-promoting and networking are sometimes the hardest thing for professionals to do, and exploring tips and techniques you can use to get past your resistance and tap into your potential for success in self-promotions in any context.
Timeline
00:48 -- Two examples of self-promotion from opposite ends of the spectrum
01:08 -- The common awkward approach to self-promotion
01:46 -- The alternative effective approach you can model
02:22 -- How our personality affects our own self-promotion
04:11 -- A short quiz on self-promotion
05:06 -- VistageConsulting.com readers on self-promotion
05:12 -- Joerg Weisner on going against childhood conditioning
05:51 -- Bryan I. Schwartz on the fine line at the end of humility
06:18 -- Jordan Furlong on acting with class
07:53 -- Heidi Ehlers on belief in a product or service as the fuel for promotion
09:21 -- Shaula Evans on the analogy between self-promotion and cold calls
12:27 -- Deborah Katz Solomon on offers vs requests
13:41 -- Steve Roesler on delegating promotions to an expert
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4 comments:
Hi Richard,
Great podcast, you really hit on something with this subject.
As an artist I find self promotion very hard to do, although my paintings have been successful commercially and I receive great feedback from clients I sometimes feel that I am shy about promoting myself, almost not worthy of praise.
I suppose because in a way I am the asset of my business it can be uncomfortable to put oneself forward into the spotlight and say "Look I'm an artist aren't my pictures great" when you don't feel like a great artist, just someone who has turned a hobby into a money earner.
I recently started a separate venture selling Tshirts, I wanted to use Myspace to promote them so I created an alter ego as the boss of the company -- Tommy Tshirt.
This slightly ridiculous character has developed a life of his own and has become a great foil for me to post regular blogs and photographs of myself in disguise.
This method works well with the light heartedness of the products and the frivolity of the Myspace network.
I'm even considering doing a regular podcast as this character to build him up as a figure head for the business.
I'd recommend this method to anyone but don't take it too far or you may well experience an identity crisis!
Jim Markham
Sweden
Wonderful idea, Jim!
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Had a listen to your podcast, and thought it was very well executed.
Thanks
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