do what you love, but solve for distribution
time to get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion
sari and
do what you love, but solve for distribution
self-promotion is important:
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!)
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Branding gets a bad rap, but it’s heart work, which writers already do by default. It’s asking yourself, “what is my work really about, what is its essence, what is its purpose, what does it evoke?” Branding is just taking the answers to those questions and making sure each decision you make about your work stays true to them.
Amanda B. Hinton • The Producer Behind Some of Substack’s Most Beloved Newsletters
As I prepare to transition from my “heads down building a product” era to “I’ve worked so hard to build this thing, get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion” era I need to fully embrace Austin Kleon’s mantra: “it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
Along those lines, this quote stopped me in my
... See moreAny AI application can be copied by other teams. The winner gets determined by:
1) whether people know you exist
2) whether people like your vibe
3) whether people trust you with their most sensitive data
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Lulu Cheng Meserveyx.comif you truly believe in what you do, self promotion doesn’t feel cringe because the feeling that the world needs what you’re sharing trumps any embarrassment to put yourself out there. sharing is only cringe when you don’t actually believe in what you do/it feels out of alignment
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