10 Effective Ways to Promote Yourself

This is a competitive world and people are too busy to take note of you. Therefore, it is in your own interest to promote yourself. Promoting yourself is to build your reputation, get trust from others. It is also to let others know you are there so that you can get ahead and grow your career.

1. Keep your boss posted: You may be a competent worker, but don’t just work quietly. You must keep your boss informed regularly about your work in progress. When your boss is aware of what you do, it is easier for him or her to decide in your favor when there is a promotion or a career-enhancing assignment.

2. Learn something new and share: After you have attended a course or a seminar, prepare a summary of what you have learnt and pass a copy to your boss and circulate it to your co-workers as well.

3. Update your profile at social networking sites: Your profile at the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn needs to be updated constantly. Highlight your achievements, courses taken, or movements in your career.

4. Write articles: One effective way to promote yourself is to project an image of authority in the field of your expertise by writing articles of your niche. Build a blog and start writing and inform others through your social networking sites whenever you publish a new article.

5. Contribute ideas: Contributing original and unique ideas at work is a great way to impress others and create a positive image of yourself.

6. Offer solutions to problems: Similarly, taking an initiative to solve problems at the workplace is another marvelous idea to create a positives self-image.

7. Networking offline: Get to know more people in your industry and introduce yourself. Give your business card when you meet someone so that your new acquaintance will know what you do for a living.

8. Publicity: Volunteering to do public speaking and engaging in media interviews are some of the sure ways to let others take note of you and remember you.

9. Obtain testimonials: What others say about you is more convincing than what you tell the world about yourself. Collect and keep appreciation and thank you letters. Provide links to other blogs that say a positive thing about what you have written. These are proof of what you are capable of.

10. Showcase your accomplishments: Nobody knows what you have achieved. It is up to you to keep others informed of your successes in a subtle way.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. ~
Francois de La Rochefoucauld