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Many of you might by now have established a profile on LinkedIn, the social networking platform for career professionals, for the purpose of self promotion through showcasing your bio, achievements, and other vital career information to share with other professionals.
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Charlotte Frost, arts writer and writer of blog: PhD2Published.
If you’re just setting out, the thought of writing a regular blog can be daunting. Even the most prolific of minds run dry from time to time. But the key thing about blogging is that you don’t have to think as big as you think – you see?! No?!
Read more on 5 Ways to Generate Ideas for Outstanding Blog Posts…
No doubt many of you are making use of social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to connect with others, share your work, play around, and maybe even dabble in getting jobs through them.
Read more on 10 Ways to Attract the Attention of Clients Using Social Media…
Much is said about the importance of being focused on one thing in your area of work that you become good at and well known for. This is contrary to the idea of being a ‘jack of all trades’ whereby you will inevitably lose some of the rigour and credibility that comes with specializing in many areas.
Read more on How to Heat up the Passion for your Work you Already Have Inside of You…
The Internet is a truly useful tool for gaining exposure for your brand and your work. One of the many ways to get some solid exposure is through online classified ads sites such as Craigslist, Yahoo, AOL, Gumtree and USFreeAds.
Read more on How to Use Classified Ads to Increase Traffic and Market Your Work…
A lot of independent creative professionals, who have a service and even products to offer, might find occasional success in getting paid work and selling products.
This might be all good and well, but if you have any interest in staying afloat in the industry over a substantial period of time, it is essential to understand a system that allows for winning new projects and selling products regularly over the long term.
Read more on Why a Sales Cycle is Crucial in Getting More Work Over Time…
I think one of the biggest hurdles restricting us in getting out there and making valuable contacts and marketing our work, is a concern, or even fear, of what traditional networking entails.
An often overlooked tool that you, the creative professional, can use to make big differences in the effectiveness and far-reaching capability of promoting yourself, is the information product.
Particularly with the ease in which material is transmitted and shared on the internet, such products as training videos, ebooks and articles, have become an incredibly powerful means to get your brand in front of many targeted people. Creating information products can help you gain exposure to potentially thousands of people, no matter what your profession.
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Right, so you’re working hard actively marketing the work you have, your services, your brand, your products.
This could be in various ways, on and offline, including the ways in which I’ve talked about here and in my ebook, such as bringing targeted traffic to your blog, making connections through social media, engaging with prospects on forums, and introducing yourself via email to your prospects.
Read more on Set Results-Oriented Targets for Marketing Success…
Back from a long break in Japan and Korea, I’m ready to get back into sharing more online self promotion ideas with all of you!
Today’s article clarifies using MySpace as one base from which to effectively promote your services and products, and to eventually create and build large networks of relevant people, which is described in detail in my new ebook on self promotion.
Read more on How to Get Properly Set Up for Self Promotion through Myspace…
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