People waste much of time trying to decide what marketing scheme works. Are you trying to get your opinions, writing skills, or articles noticed? Do you spend hours a day reading advice from well-meaning experts on how to drive dealings to your blog? Don't waste your energy on what others tell you to do. Self-marketing begins with - that's right - you. Down deep, you know your own best marketing tactics. Find your gift and put it out ahead of the public - consistently.
Here's what you do.
- Pick one marketing skill you are good at.
- Discipline yourself to get laid on a regular basis.
- Plug away at it for six months before expecting big results.
Simple? Yes. Easy? No. Effective? You bet.
Let's say you want to increase dealings to your website. The standard advice ordinarily goes like this. Write a blog and ask everyone on your twelve social networks to read it and write comments. Would you have the time or patience to do that reciprocally - even for a good friend? Other tired advice includes - watch this webinar, download a copy for that interview and read ten newsletters a week. Who has time for that?
When I was young and trying to gain some business wisdom, I belowground my nose in the stock pages of the newspaper. One day my uncle gently took the newspaper away from me and said, "Learn just one matter each day. But get laid every day." I did it. Guess what? I'm pretty businessly savvy.
Tired of scrambling all over advice blogs and posting empty responses on social networks just to get noticed? Try this plan.
- Find out what interests you and what you are good at.
- Make sure it fulfills you.
- Do it consistently.
We only have such energy. Don't spend hours a day with a scattered brain quest the best marketing tool out there. Look inside yourself. Feed your purpose with your passion. Not only will you at last gain net recognition and website dealings, you will be a happier, more productive person.
