Raleigh Pinskey - Branding Publicity PR

Keyboard Culture
Experts

Feeds

FREE Feeds and
Social Bookmarking
E-Course

Learn all about blog feeds, social bookmarking and other ways to interact with the Keyboard Culture Experts in our FREE e-course

	Email this Blog to Your Family and Friends!

Fear of Promotion Archives

December 15, 2007

Conquering the Fear of Promotion, Marketing, Branding and PR. Part 1

In this three part series, we’re going to talk about a common fear with many faces, faces that wear the terminology of PR, Branding, Marketing, Public Relations, Publicity, Promoting Yourself, and Self-promotion.

Fear of Promotion, Fear of Self-Promotion or Fear of Promoting Yourself … no matter what you call it, it is an attitude. And this attitude makes up a large percentage of the underlying discussions around the failure for you to succeed in your business.

The Small Business Association reports that the top two reasons businesses fail in the first two years are poor management and lack of promotion. I would make it three, adding attitude to this critical measurement.

I founded my PR, Branding, Marketing and Publicity Company The Raleigh Group, in 1980. Through my best selling books, seminars and information products I’ve mentored millions of people who are just entering the business arena, seasoned veterans, and the scale markers in between.

Continue reading "Conquering the Fear of Promotion, Marketing, Branding and PR. Part 1" »

Conquering the Fear of Promotion, Marketing, Branding PR and appearing on Radio Talk Shows and TV Talk Shows: Part 2

It’s Raleigh Pinskey, author of the international best selling book 101 Ways to Talk Your Way Onto Talk Shows and let’s talk about believing in ourselves. Here’s the scenario. People get excited about the idea of doing self-promotion. Whether you call it PR, Branding Marketing, Public Relations, or Publicity, it is all about putting your name in front of your target market.

The Radio Talk Show or TV Talk Show contacts you and asks you to talk about your business for two or three minutes, for a six or twenty minute segment, or, even better, for the whole hour. Then you start to feel a little strange. It is the fear of promotion creeping in. Up comes… “Oh no, maybe I’m not articulate, and maybe what I have to talk about is not innovative or informative. “

After all, while I was growing up I was constantly told that “what I had to say was not that important, that why would anyone want to listen to what I had to say? I barely got through school, what do I know that would be unique and interesting?”

Continue reading "Conquering the Fear of Promotion, Marketing, Branding PR and appearing on Radio Talk Shows and TV Talk Shows: Part 2" »

	Alan Altmann Sales Training
	Ken Blanchard Business Management
	John Bradshaw Inner Child
	Rodney Burge Marketing Strategies
	Colette Chandler Green Marketing
	Deepak Chopra Mind-Body Medicine
	Art Copes Scoliosis
	Dr. Steven Dell Health and Wellness
	Wayne Dyer Intention and Spirituality
	Paula Fellingham Stay at Home Moms
	Valerie Fitzgerald Working Women
	Joyce Gioia-Herman Future Workforce Trends
	Al Gore Global Warming
	Steven Halpern Meditation
	Cathy and Gary Hawk Life Purpose
	Louise Hay Spiritual Development
	Dave Horne Career Builder
	Corbett Kroehler Global Warming
	Dalai Lama Peace and Compassion
	Ken Matthies Healing Stages of Grief
	Raleigh Pinskey Branding Publicity PR
	Lori Prokop Keyboard Culture
	Suzy Prudden Healthy Lifestyles
	Anthony Robbins Personal Empowerment
	Kathleen Salzano School Improvement
	Patricia Sherman Healing is Possible
	Jinsoo Terry Leadership Training
	Jinsoo Terry Multicultural Education
	Brian Tracy Human Potential
	Marianne Williamson Peace and Spirituality
	Marc Woolf Personal Finance