Patty N. was responding to some questions from a new WriteSpeak workshop and gave some great advice for all aspects of the WriteSpeak process but one is a first-rate and reliable idea for not only FAQ opportunities, but also for self-promotion.
As i said earlier, the best kind of self-promotion is showing everyone how clever you are at what you do. The best way to do that unselfconsciously (and be even smarter than you thought you were) is to problem-solve for others, as you know by now.
And one great way to do that is to seek out bulletin boards and discussion groups where people are thinking about your area. And the easiest place to find that is on my bulletin board at www.barbarasher.com/boards.
Here's what Patty suggested to someone who helps people think about 'freestyle careers.'
>> My subject is 'Freestyle Careers.' Do I have enough original stuff to say to fill a book? <<
patty sez:
How to find out:
- Go to www.barbarasher.com/boards
- Find five or six people looking for ideas on how to find a freestyle career or make the one they've got profitable.
- Answer their questions as best you can.
You might be surprised by how much original stuff you've got and how much of the tried and true you can present in a way that makes it suddenly clear to others who've heard it before.
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And this is how to develop a reputation for being really good at what you do.
There's a quote I can't remember correctly (if you know it, and its source please tell me):
"Doing first rate work is good living. Doing it in front of a reporter with a camera is good business."
Friday, November 2, 2007
Friday, November 2 - WS ppl, start at the bottom
This is a blog of some self-promotion ideas you should know about. The more specific ones are in the earlier blogs, so don't start up here, go into October and start from the bottom.
Talk to you Wednesday the 14th.
Talk to you Wednesday the 14th.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Nov 1 - "90% of Success is Showing Up"
PROMO LESSON: 99% OF SUCCESS IS SHOWING UP A LOT AND SHOWING OFF HOW CLEVER AND ORIGINAL YOU ARE.
PROMO LESSON: FIND ONLINE DISCUSSIONS ON YOUR TOPIC AND ADD SOMETHING USEFUL AND INTELLIGENT.
If you're helpful and interesting, you'll attract people to your site and your events. Just include you site when you sign your name under your post.
Spend 20 minutes a day looking online for bulletin boards and discussion groups that might be a good place for you and jump in to do some reading and answering whenever you have a few spare minutes.
Be sure to do this in many places, many times, even if you don't have any event to tell them about.
PROMO LESSON: START SOMEPLACE SAFE, WHERE YOU'RE WELCOME.
Feel free to start with my bulletin board at barbarasher.com/ Just scroll through a few discussions until you find one that could use your input, and jump right in and say something helpful. (Clever and original are good, too, if you have it available at that time.) In your profile, be sure you've included a special email address -- Yahoo! might be the best -- where people can write you. Don't use your personal email address since bulletin boards are scoured by spammers looking to mess up your life.
PROMO LESSON: FIND ONLINE DISCUSSIONS ON YOUR TOPIC AND ADD SOMETHING USEFUL AND INTELLIGENT.
If you're helpful and interesting, you'll attract people to your site and your events. Just include you site when you sign your name under your post.
Spend 20 minutes a day looking online for bulletin boards and discussion groups that might be a good place for you and jump in to do some reading and answering whenever you have a few spare minutes.
Be sure to do this in many places, many times, even if you don't have any event to tell them about.
PROMO LESSON: START SOMEPLACE SAFE, WHERE YOU'RE WELCOME.
Feel free to start with my bulletin board at barbarasher.com/ Just scroll through a few discussions until you find one that could use your input, and jump right in and say something helpful. (Clever and original are good, too, if you have it available at that time.) In your profile, be sure you've included a special email address -- Yahoo! might be the best -- where people can write you. Don't use your personal email address since bulletin boards are scoured by spammers looking to mess up your life.
Nov 1 - Patty's Newsletter announcing her teleclass
*PROMO LESSON: Sending an announcement or a newsletter to your people is a very good idea.
Having an *event* to announce is a very good idea, too.
I am unable to transfer the *newsletter* with its nice graphics, but below is Patty's *email* announcement to her *mailing list.*
*PROMO LESSON: Email is the biggest and best 'killer app' of them all. For the first time in history you can contact people without spending money on design/printing/mailing and without breaking the bank or cutting down trees.
*PROMO LESSON: Having a mailing list means you have a business. Creating your own list from people who want to be there means a smaller list, but it's golden.)
Today I'm talking about one way Patty is promoting her program, * 'How to Enjoy Being Married,'
< www.enjoybeingmarried.com > ...
*PROMO LESSON: When you're mentioned anywhere, including on someone's blog like Patty today, make sure they link your name to your *website.
Let me remind you that a month or two ago, I mentioned in my *newsletter her presence on my *bulletin board* and asked the people who receive my newsletter to go to the bulletin board and engage in conversation with her. As well as having a useful discussion that will help Patty write her book and prepare her speaking engagements, being mentioned in my newsletter got a number of responses and therefore, a number of additional names for Patty's mailing list.
*PROMO LESSON: Find a way to get mentioned on someone else's newsletter. Some ways to do that are:
1. Write a short, fascinating, relevant article and send it to someone with a big mailing list
2. Be in my classes
3. Send a dazzling kudos
Here are links to Patty (and her classmate, Patrice) on my bulletin board:
Patty on my bbs: http://www.barbarasher.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=20612
Patrice on my bbs: http://www.barbarasher.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=20616
Now, after that drive around the block, here at last is Patty's excellent announcement.
*NOVEMBER 2007 NEWSLETTER
Thank You
I really appreciate your subscription. I'm Patty Newbold, and this newsletter is my way of letting you know about my Enjoy Being Married teleclasses. You'll receive it toward the end of each month, plus a brief reminder right before each class.
Perhaps I shouldn't call them classes, as I expect to learn at least as much as you will. These group phone calls are my way of hearing from real people in real marriages as I write about how to enjoy being married. I want to hear your questions, your problems, your successes.
For 21 years, since I discovered how to enjoy being married, I've wanted to write down what I learned, tie a bow around it, and give it to my niece and nephews, my son and his wife, my empty nester friends, and every single person who tells me about pain or emptiness in their marriage or life partnership. I'm finally doing the writing, and I need your help to get it right.
Upcoming Teleclasses
Please call in if you're interested in a topic, and please forward this announcement to anyone else who might be interested. If you've received this announcement through forwarding and would like to join the mailing list, please visit www.enjoybeingmarried.com.
Why Can't We Just Agree? Stop Fighting and Win
Thu November 1 at 11am PDT / 12n MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
How to Enjoy Being Married from Thanksgiving to New Year's
Wed November 7 at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST
Your Health Choices, Your Spouse's Health Choices
Wed November 28 at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST
The calls last 45 to 60 minutes. I record and transcribe all of them.
What to learn more about my take on love and lifelong relationships? Visit my blog at www.assumelove.com
How to Participate
A few minutes before the starting time, please phone this number:
1-xxx-xxx-xxxx
When asked for the teleconference access code followed by the pound sign, enter this on your telephone keypad:
xxxxxxx#
This should connect you to the conference call. If you have any trouble connecting, just hang up and try again.
If your telephone does not have a mute button and you're in a noisy environment or have a noisy connection, please enter *6 to mute your phone while you're listening. To speak, just enter *6 again.
Although the conference call costs nothing, connecting to it is a long distance call. If you pay more than 2 cents a minute for long distance, send me an email and I'll be happy to suggest trustworthy sources for phone cards you can use to keep the cost low.
Your Tip of the Month
Long-term, stable marriages have at least five positive exchanges for each negative exchange. Drop below that, and you're in trouble. This comes from one of the best known marriage researchers, John Gottman. He has a remarkable track record of predicting the state of your marriage four years later based on watching only a 15-minute conversation about some problem the two of you face.
What does this say about where our attention is focused? It takes five smiles, agreements, shared laughs, head nods, or loving touches to make as big an impression as one critical remark, raised voice, or eye roll. We watch like hawks for the negative ones. The researchers watching the video replays watch for both.
This month's tip: look harder for the positive ones, and it might take fewer to get you past the occasional negative. And when you notice a negative one, assume you are loved and take a second look. You just might avoid sending the most important person in your life an unexpected and undeserved negative.
Enjoy Being Married, LLC, PO Box 1657, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA
To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit:
http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?LCyczCwMtCyMzIysbCzs
.............................
*PROMO LESSON: When you see something done well, copy it.
Okay, that's today's discussion of Self-Promotion. Good luck and thanks to Patty for giving me such a good example to teach with.
Having an *event* to announce is a very good idea, too.
I am unable to transfer the *newsletter* with its nice graphics, but below is Patty's *email* announcement to her *mailing list.*
*PROMO LESSON: Email is the biggest and best 'killer app' of them all. For the first time in history you can contact people without spending money on design/printing/mailing and without breaking the bank or cutting down trees.
*PROMO LESSON: Having a mailing list means you have a business. Creating your own list from people who want to be there means a smaller list, but it's golden.)
Today I'm talking about one way Patty is promoting her program, * 'How to Enjoy Being Married,'
< www.enjoybeingmarried.com > ...
*PROMO LESSON: When you're mentioned anywhere, including on someone's blog like Patty today, make sure they link your name to your *website.
Let me remind you that a month or two ago, I mentioned in my *newsletter her presence on my *bulletin board* and asked the people who receive my newsletter to go to the bulletin board and engage in conversation with her. As well as having a useful discussion that will help Patty write her book and prepare her speaking engagements, being mentioned in my newsletter got a number of responses and therefore, a number of additional names for Patty's mailing list.
*PROMO LESSON: Find a way to get mentioned on someone else's newsletter. Some ways to do that are:
1. Write a short, fascinating, relevant article and send it to someone with a big mailing list
2. Be in my classes
3. Send a dazzling kudos
Here are links to Patty (and her classmate, Patrice) on my bulletin board:
Patty on my bbs: http://www.barbarasher.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=20612
Patrice on my bbs: http://www.barbarasher.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=20616
Now, after that drive around the block, here at last is Patty's excellent announcement.
*NOVEMBER 2007 NEWSLETTER
Thank You
I really appreciate your subscription. I'm Patty Newbold, and this newsletter is my way of letting you know about my Enjoy Being Married teleclasses. You'll receive it toward the end of each month, plus a brief reminder right before each class.
Perhaps I shouldn't call them classes, as I expect to learn at least as much as you will. These group phone calls are my way of hearing from real people in real marriages as I write about how to enjoy being married. I want to hear your questions, your problems, your successes.
For 21 years, since I discovered how to enjoy being married, I've wanted to write down what I learned, tie a bow around it, and give it to my niece and nephews, my son and his wife, my empty nester friends, and every single person who tells me about pain or emptiness in their marriage or life partnership. I'm finally doing the writing, and I need your help to get it right.
Upcoming Teleclasses
Please call in if you're interested in a topic, and please forward this announcement to anyone else who might be interested. If you've received this announcement through forwarding and would like to join the mailing list, please visit www.enjoybeingmarried.com.
Why Can't We Just Agree? Stop Fighting and Win
Thu November 1 at 11am PDT / 12n MDT / 1pm CDT / 2pm EDT
How to Enjoy Being Married from Thanksgiving to New Year's
Wed November 7 at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST
Your Health Choices, Your Spouse's Health Choices
Wed November 28 at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST
The calls last 45 to 60 minutes. I record and transcribe all of them.
What to learn more about my take on love and lifelong relationships? Visit my blog at www.assumelove.com
How to Participate
A few minutes before the starting time, please phone this number:
1-xxx-xxx-xxxx
When asked for the teleconference access code followed by the pound sign, enter this on your telephone keypad:
xxxxxxx#
This should connect you to the conference call. If you have any trouble connecting, just hang up and try again.
If your telephone does not have a mute button and you're in a noisy environment or have a noisy connection, please enter *6 to mute your phone while you're listening. To speak, just enter *6 again.
Although the conference call costs nothing, connecting to it is a long distance call. If you pay more than 2 cents a minute for long distance, send me an email and I'll be happy to suggest trustworthy sources for phone cards you can use to keep the cost low.
Your Tip of the Month
Long-term, stable marriages have at least five positive exchanges for each negative exchange. Drop below that, and you're in trouble. This comes from one of the best known marriage researchers, John Gottman. He has a remarkable track record of predicting the state of your marriage four years later based on watching only a 15-minute conversation about some problem the two of you face.
What does this say about where our attention is focused? It takes five smiles, agreements, shared laughs, head nods, or loving touches to make as big an impression as one critical remark, raised voice, or eye roll. We watch like hawks for the negative ones. The researchers watching the video replays watch for both.
This month's tip: look harder for the positive ones, and it might take fewer to get you past the occasional negative. And when you notice a negative one, assume you are loved and take a second look. You just might avoid sending the most important person in your life an unexpected and undeserved negative.
Enjoy Being Married, LLC, PO Box 1657, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA
To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit:
http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?LCyczCwMtCyMzIysbCzs
.............................
*PROMO LESSON: When you see something done well, copy it.
Okay, that's today's discussion of Self-Promotion. Good luck and thanks to Patty for giving me such a good example to teach with.
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