5 Ways of Promoting Yourself Without Tooting Your Own Horn

Your Personal Brand is only valuable to the extent it is visible.

Here are 5 ways of making yourself visible without being too self-promotional

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1/ 📢 Work out Loud

This is the corporate version of building in public.

Take people behind the scenes. Show them how the sausage is made.

Take care not to violate privacy or secrecy requirements.

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2/ 🧞‍♂️Tell more stories

Updates tend to be cold and analytical, but the stories behind the numbers rarely are

Bring status updates to life by sharing stories

Signing up a customer is cool - the story of how you lured them away from the competition is way cooler!

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3/ 💎 Share relevant insights from past work

Some organisations are good at knowledge management.

In most places it's people sharing war stories that promotes learning.

When you share your experience, people also learn more about you

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4/ 📹 Do a video-for-one instead of a long email

People are drowning in email and if you can save them reading another long one, they'll love you for it.

It's like being on a Zoom call, but without them having to be there at the same time.

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5/ 🛠 Create and share tools and templates

You've figured out the best way to do the most common tasks, and developed tools and templates to make work easier.

Sharing these not only helps others, it's also an advertisement for you

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