Self-Promotion (Part 2)
So it's not quite the next day, but rather nearly a week later before you post what you were going to say. This will certainly not improve other people's perception of you, but what it will do, even if ironically, is highlight the need for self-discipline in managing your public image. Basically, all your talent will be for nought if the world doesn't know that your talent exists. Thus the importance of the business cards, the videos and the blog. Share those thoughts and tho
Self-Promotion
When you start out on a new career, it's important that people know who you are. You want to build a reputation and persuade people to come to you when they need help with something in whatever your field is. One way to promote yourself is with a web site such as the one I have. It's hard work, though, getting your name out and getting people to come to your site. (Costs money, too.) It also requires a healthy amount of self-discipline. So you push your sleeves up. You add vi
What I Saw at the Launch Party
You've heard this advice many times before, but good advice bears repeating: If you really want to do something, stop making up excuses not to do it and do it. That's how it was with me when I enrolled in film school in Humber College in Toronto. I'd spent so much of my life making up excuses not to be a filmmaker that I was in danger of not letting my dream happen. Finally, late one night in the middle of January, 2012, I forced myself to face the facts: I was 40 and my life