Your assignment while I’m on the road
April 20th, 2008
TBYB is on vacation. Your assignment this week is to go back and implement one of the suggestions you’ve read about in a previous article. Here are the steps:
1. What do you want?
What would you do if you won the lottery? Write down the first thing that came to mind. Now think of a tiny way your life could be more like that today. This will be the topic of your ad.
2. Create an ad
The process of making a personal ad can be as elaborate or as simple as you want. Here’s a list of articles about various ways to make ads for yourself. Many of them include step-by-step instructions.
3. Deliver your message
You want to place your ad someplace where you’ll see it frequently. Here is a list of suggestions, both technical and non-technical, for methods you can use to deliver your message.
We’ll return next Monday to your regularly scheduled blog.
Join in!
- Have you made ads for yourself that you're willing to show to the rest of the TBYB! community? Mark them with the tag tbyb in your Flickr account and they'll be automatically displayed on the new Your ads page.
- Or if you're a blogger, post a photo of one of your ads on your blog and send me the link to post on the Your ads page.
- Join the conversation about personal marketing by sharing your thoughts about this article in the comments.
- Take the TBYB reader survey to help me improve this site for you.
- Order a copy of Phrases That Sell
to help yourself write slogans for your ads.
- Buy a flexible Gorillapod tripod for your small
, medium
, or large
camera so you can easily take your own picture.
- Subscribe to the TBYB! RSS feed so you don't miss a single article.
- Recommend this article to others with Blinklist, Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, reddit, StumbleUpon, or Technorati.
- Try out personal marketing and let us know how it works for you!
