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| Sean Doherty, Charlotte Harbor Visitor & Convention Bureau, Makes a Call During Telphone Sales Blitz, July 26, 2010 (Photo credit: JenniferHuber) |
So you've got something really cool that you want people to know about. You've written your book and even have publishing arrangements made. You've started a business that people are going to love. You've developed a product that everybody will want. Now to sit back and wait for those customers to beat a path to your door.
You might be waiting awhile. If few people or no one knows about what you've got for them then they're not going to be contacting you just because you have it no matter how great it is. Making contact with the customers is the job of the marketing campaign. And the process starts with you.
You have to initiate contact. Blogs are great for doing exactly that. Once you've made contact with others in a community then you can ask for their help when you need help. Same thing goes with others with whom you come into contact in other aspects of your life.
Let the world know what you can do or how you can help them. Then offer your services. Make yourself available for interviews or to be on panel discussions. Wherever you see an opportunity to grow your personal brand, take it and use it to your best advantage.
Here's an example of someone who initiated contact by making her need known to others:
Another New Life
by Sydney Aaliyah Michelle
Publication Date: June 2, 2014
New Adult Contemporary Romance
**This book contains adult subject matter. Not intended for young readers.**
Another New Life
“From the first day we met, it was Troy and me against the world.”
Another New Life by Sydney Aaliyah Michelle
New Adult Contemporary Romance
Miranda Preston is a walking contradiction. Talent, smart and beautiful on the outside and insecure, haunted and damaged on the inside. Despite these contradictions, she’s ready to start Another New Life.
When her talent wins her a piano performance scholarship to the University of Texas, Miranda arrives on campus determined to experience everything college has to offer and to keep her secrets in the past where they belong.
An easy task, until the first guy who catches her eye happens to be someone, she’s known all her life.
Eight years have passed since the last time Miranda and Troy saw each other. He reminds her of the best and worst times of her live, but she can’t think about one without dwelling on the other. As they grow closer, every day their attraction reminds them they are no longer kids.
The epic romantic love story that is Miranda and Troy seems to be destined for a happy ending, but Miranda knows it’s only a matter of time before her secret is discovered. A secret that will not only destroy their relationship, it will destroy Troy, too.
Can Miranda focus on her future with Troy while preventing her past from tearing them apart all over again?
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Sydney Aaliyah Michelle is a New Adult Contemporary Romance writer, a voracious reader and movie fanatic who
Sydney has been blogging at sydneyaaliyah.com for three years, where she interviews people about their tattoos, discusses her favorite movie quotes, reviews books (New Adult & only the ones she loves) and journals about her writing and editing process.hailsfrom Texas. After surviving 5 1/2 years living in China, she had the courage to finally pursue her passion and become a writer.
Sydney's self-published debut New Adult Novel Another New Life will be available June 2014. An active tweeter, she is also a JuNoWriMo (2x) and NaNoWriMo (2x) winners who notes the sci-fi action flick "The Matrix" as the best representation of her life in the past. She is blessed to be awake now and doing what she loves.
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Have you received help from other bloggers to get a message out for you? Do you ask for others to help you promote your causes? Are you willing to talk to strangers in order to sell yourself or something you want to promote?
