TRUMPET BLOWING AND BLOGGING
By Helen West
Whilst sitting with my foot in plaster and having been ordered to keep it elevated for at least 3 weeks, I’m sort of restricted in all areas of my life! My Consultant said he would give me sick note for 3 months – who do I give it to? Myself? I’m running my own business here and I don’t want to be out of it for 3 months!!
Mobility considered –I’m not able to get out to meet people at the moment, so it’s a good opportunity for me to update my Social Media, read blogs etc because that’s what everyone is advising me to do. I have embraced social media and am really enjoying learning more about it every day and meeting people on-line (even though I prefer the face to face meetings)
Like everybody else in the business world, I am trying to let everyone know what we do and inform them as to what the benefits would be to them by working with Redvoice.
I’ve been thinking about Blogging. Blogging is big and every day there are 500,000 new blogs uploaded and that is only on WordPress!!!! What makes a good blog? What makes you click on a link to read one? (I’m sure there are 100,000 blogs answering those questions!)
Blogging is a way of getting you out there, for people to see who you are and what you do (or for those who like it to be able to post a long, incomprehensible, boring sales pitch that nobody wants to read)
I’ve had a chance to take a peek at a few whilst sitting here; so many overpromise and under-deliver on interesting content! I want to see and read the personality behind the blog that makes me go back for more.
One blog I particularly liked was one by Jennifer Holloway from Spark Personal Branding, who posed the question “Why do men make better Trumpeters than Women?” http://www.sparkexec.co.uk/2011/07/03/why-do-men-make-better-trumpeters-than-women/ This is all about ‘blowing your own trumpet’ and why it’s ok to do so.
I started thinking about blowing the Redvoice trumpet, and I am going to do exactly that in my next blog, but it isn’t going to be a sales pitch, it isn’t going to be about me or Victoria, it’s going to be about what other people think of us and how it has impacted on them. I want it to be something that will make you stop for one second and think about how it could impact on you too. Blowing your own trumpet is good but it is also about HOW you do it.