Use your talents for publicity
Today I was thinking about ways to publicize new projects and get my name “out there” and I thought about designing a WordPress theme. I would base it loosely on my design for The Poker Blog, since that had the most success. In the theme I would be able to include a link back to my site and my name – instant publicity. Even if only a few people used the theme it would generate backlinks on every page of their website.
Then I realized that anyone could use their talent to create publicity. My talents online are designing and coding websites, marketing websites, and writing. I can use all of those to my advantage to market my projects and get more publicity.
Maybe your talent it programming. Why not write a plug in for WordPress or create a plug in for Firefox that people can’t live without? It will get your name out to people who have never heard of you before. Maybe someone from Google will say, “Hey, this guy wrote a great plug in – lets give him a job.”
Maybe you’re great at installing hardware? Write some guides and post them on your blog. Include things that people can’t find everywhere else so that your content has more value than every other hardware site online.
If you want to be successful it’s going to be hard work, but using your talents to help you along the way will make it easier.
I agree. One of the best things you can do to create abundant oppportunity is to know your talents – and then be willing to share those talents with others.
For example: I can kinda make websites. Dodgy, non-web compliant ones, but websites nonetheless. I’ve used this skill to help make websites for some of my uni clubs. And now, as a result of that, I’ve been asked to make further websites for $$.