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3 Tips To Assist You Overcome The Uneasiness, Anxiety And Stress Of Self Promotion.
It's a fact the saying it's not enough to be a (insert your profession / trade here) you also have to be a great marketer of (insert your profession /trade here). Now for a lot of people the very thought of marketing themselves is uncomfortable, distasteful even, but it doesn't need to be that way. You can overcome the fear of self promotion, it's the same as anything else, with the right tools, strategies, support and most importantly the correct mind set you can discover the fun in self promotion to where it becomes effortless self promotion.
Perhaps the first thing you to do is to stop thinking of self-promotion as a project and start incorporating it into your daily business activities as a vital business advancement tool.
Such as a "keep-in-touch strategy." That is easy if you use a an autoresponder service.
There are many autoresponder services to choose from, do your research and choose the one that best suits your needs.
Make it a habit of regularly sending your clients and prospects emails, personal notes and useful articles.
It means: giving before you get building and nurturing relationships and honoring your commitments.
Ultimately effortless self-promotion is about establishing:
- trust
- credibility
- respect, and
- creating a credibility in the marketplace.
Three things you can start doing yourself today are:
(By the way if these techniques don't resonate with you, you really do have to get over it, you simply must overcome the fear of self promotion and do it, as just a fact of life - in business, at work, home, school)
1. Set small daily self-promotion goals.
- write someone a quick note,
- joining a networking group,
- donating your service,
- writing an article,
- promoting a blog,
- or showing up at an networking event.
IT MAY TAKE MONTHS TO SEE THE END RESULT OF NEW CLIENTS, but it gets you into momentum.
Reality check - clients will come to you when the time is right for them, not you, and you have to be available to serve them when that time comes.
You won't build your business / your career / you life without doing those little steps every day.
2. You need a website, but not just any website, a direct response based website that grabs your target prospects attention and compels them to give you their name and contact details.
3. Use your initiative - follow up, follow up, follow up.
- Keep in touch tactfully.
- Thank them for choosing you and your service.
Even if your customers only use you once a year make an effort to stay in contact.
Keep your potential customers up-to-date of your activities, send them your newsletter, specials etc.
Sometimes it's difficult to stay in touch. People change jobs, move around have different needs, budgets and so forth.
The onus is your responsibility.
Remember in the end marketing your service is about marketing YOU.
You need to sell your prospective clients on you:
Your value, your brand, your value - what you have to offer.
You will find it hard, even impossible to achieve vast recognition or sustained success without the willingness and capacity to be a ruthless self-promoter.
If you come at it with the right attitude you will discover the fun in self promotion
So go ahead, make it fun, enjoy it and promote yourself now!
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