Your work is you.
Your creative work is an expression of your soul, of your perspective, of your innermost self. It’s completely unique to you.
So there is no “template” you can follow, because no one has ever done what you’re doing before.
And any time you start to try to adopt someone else’s “six-figure” system, or try to abide by “conventional wisdom” you get all itchy.
And then you procrastinate and you tell yourself all kinds of stories about how no one would ever pay you to do this and how there’s no market for it and how you’re probably not that good at it anyway and how the technology sort of freaks you out and what if you succeed and someone steals your idea or what if someone calls you a fraud and then you start criticizing yourself about your low self-esteem and how you never finish anything and maybe you should just forget this crazy dream of making money from your creativity once and for all.
Right.
Like that’s gonna happen.
You can’t give up on your dreams because your dreams never give up on you.
They keep haunting you.
Pulling at your sleeve.
And then you see some no-talent-hack succeed and you think, “I could do that!”
You’re right.
You can.
And maybe 2014 is your year to try.
I’m hosting a brand-new teleclass on Tuesday, Jan. 2 that’s all about Unusual Marketing for Creative People, and it’ll show you —
- Why you have a hard time talking about yourself and your work
- How you can easily overcome the self-doubt and shyness that causes you to stumble
- The ONE SECRET that will unlock the mystery of “marketing” for you for all time… if you let it.
So register for free here —> Unusual Marketing for Creative People
And of course PLEASE tell your friends.
After all, your friends are the coolest people there are, and they need to get their work out there, too, don’t they?
(Doesn’t it just make you crazy when your super-talented friend just won’t even TRY to get their painting, their writing, their healing work, their art, their whatever out there??? Yep. Me too.)
So please either share this blog with them or share this on Facebook, Twitter or Google + — here’s the link for them to register: https://sambennett.leadpages.net/unusual-marketing/
And of course I’ll make sure you get the recording and everything — but register first for free:
Unusual Marketing for Creative People
Tuesday, Jan. 2nd
12:45pm PT/3:45pm ET/9:45pm GMT
The recording will be available immediately after the event.
I can’t wait to help you solve the puzzle of how to get your work out into the world without feeling weird about it!
Remember: The World Needs Your Art.
(But they can’t get it if you never let it out of the house, you know what I mean?)
Any questions/thoughts, please comment — you know I love to hear from you.
Happy New Year.
P.S. What’s the real problem? The real problem is, you’re not selling widgets.
After all, you could talk about somebody else’s stuff all day long, right?
But when it comes to talking about yourself marketing yourself, selling yourself…you get all tongue-tied and squeaky.
Not to worry — there is a SIMPLE secret to solving this puzzle and I can’t wait to share it with you.
—–> REGISTER FOR FREE HERE
– ssb.
