Also a "so bad you should only touch them with tongs" list.
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Also a "so bad you should only touch them with tongs" list.
Or "so bad you should only touch them with a wooden stake"
So bad you should STAB them with a wooden stake!
So bad you should make them into furniture. (I always kind of wince when someone does that with good or ok books. Furniture made from books is kinda of cool looking, but I'm only OK with it if it is made from really bad books.)
Dear god, promoting myself is making my brain hurt.
It's good; I'm getting a lot of help, but I feel like someone beat me upside the head all morning!
I'm also trying to conquer the asking for people to say nice shit about me squick, and the telling the world how awesome I am squick.
Whew. I need a shower and food. And to get up off my ass for the first time since 8 am. This is like running a marathon, and I still need to write about 10 pages today. Good thing I have tea.
Doing the promotion and the networking can be very exhausting. One thing I've found is that the passive promotion isn't as strong in getting new clients as the active networking. Talking directly to people, getting a card into their hands, or having a current client recommend in person is golden. Always make sure your happy clients have a handful of your business cards so that they can hand one to a new interested party when they are busy talking about the great job you've done.
I still suck at promoting myself.
I'm also trying to conquer the asking for people to say nice shit about me squick, and the telling the world how awesome I am squick.
OH HAI I HAVE THOSE!!
Yeah, I can relate. Today I hit the regularly scheduled complete misanthropic portion of my fundraising summer. I'll get over it. But right now I'm only in week two, and I never want to talk about what I do or solicit money from anyone ever again. Right now I am just one burning wish to go home. But I recognize it for what it is, i.e., regularly scheduled, and it's culture shock as well, and it'll pass and I'll raise the necessary funds and I'll go home. Eventually.
One thing I've found is that the passive promotion isn't as strong in getting new clients as the active networking. Talking directly to people, getting a card into their hands, or having a current client recommend in person is golden.
Yeah, I'm STILL working on finishing up the website, but I have this silly idea I should complete the project I have going first. I've been working on it, but I had to address some time-sensitive stuff today that was active networking.
It's going really well (THANKS, BUFFISTAS!) but I am about wiped, mentally, right now.
I'm going to take a couple of hours to tweak some more networking stuff, and run errands (get milk, cat food and Tylenol) and then i will be just plain writing on this project tonight.
After the promoing stuff, it will be easy and peaceful.
amych, Ginger, I know! We'll have to work through this together. I could never be a hooker; pimping myself is too damned hard. "Please sleep with me! I have no fleas and I hardly smell! I take checks!"
Liese, that sounds like a total (but necessary) PITA. It's got be weird, as you are asking for money for an organization...but the organization is basically YOU, so there would be a strange thing. I would have no prob asking people to donate to an organization, but it would be more difficult if I were intimately connected to it fiscal responsibility.
Huh. But that's what I'm doing, I guess. But your org is altruistic; I mean, yes, it pays your bills, but you are helping the world. Sure, I'm offering services people want/need, but I'm...well, damn, I guess I'm changing people's worlds, on a small scale.
My mental processes, let me show you them...