Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 7:22:20 GMT
Being a freelancer in the digital world means dedicating part of your working time to selling yourself , limiting your time to the work that truly satisfies you, with a widespread side effect: anxiety. This phenomenon, although common, is not inevitable. It takes courage, a lot of courage : the courage to become yourself. Easier said than done, but it is necessary if we care about our mental health. The final objective is one: to be proud of our being unique , proud and unrepeatable. Black Friday of the soul The army of freelancers in the digital economy, for better or for worse, find themselves having to deal with the need to continuously promote themselves and their business online.
From personal branding we quickly moved on to social selling : listen to me, click and buy. The forms are the most disparate, as are the calls to action to which friends, acquaintances and followers dispersed everywhere are asked to respond: read and share this article, buy my newly released book, follow me on Instagram, click on the link , leave a comment and like, visit my shop page, leave a donation or review on my podcast, contribute to the fundraiser, follow my webinar on YouTube, retweet my tweet, share with the campaign hashtag. Ruth Hong Kong Telegram Number Data Whippman in the New York Times calls this phenomenon the Black Friday of the soul . We are born salespeople or not, we find ourselves seeking attention and relentlessly promoting our skills and our services or products. There is no Saturday or Sunday, nor office hours beyond which we can dedicate ourselves to anything else. Every opportunity must be seized, to keep the attention of potential customers high.
All this has an insidious and sneaky side effect: we end up measuring self-esteem and happiness (or success) based on how many followers we have collected , how many interactions we have generated, how good we were at amplifying the message we wanted to communicate, before still to evaluate how much these actions have influenced the last line of the statement. What then is the negative effect, in terms of social relationships, on those who are perceived not as a friend or a person, but as a salesperson for their company? Those who find themselves living in the same situation understand us, but don't love us . The others, if not completely accustomed to the dynamics of (social media) marketing, look at us with suspicion, as if there was something wrong with us. goes on.
From personal branding we quickly moved on to social selling : listen to me, click and buy. The forms are the most disparate, as are the calls to action to which friends, acquaintances and followers dispersed everywhere are asked to respond: read and share this article, buy my newly released book, follow me on Instagram, click on the link , leave a comment and like, visit my shop page, leave a donation or review on my podcast, contribute to the fundraiser, follow my webinar on YouTube, retweet my tweet, share with the campaign hashtag. Ruth Hong Kong Telegram Number Data Whippman in the New York Times calls this phenomenon the Black Friday of the soul . We are born salespeople or not, we find ourselves seeking attention and relentlessly promoting our skills and our services or products. There is no Saturday or Sunday, nor office hours beyond which we can dedicate ourselves to anything else. Every opportunity must be seized, to keep the attention of potential customers high.
All this has an insidious and sneaky side effect: we end up measuring self-esteem and happiness (or success) based on how many followers we have collected , how many interactions we have generated, how good we were at amplifying the message we wanted to communicate, before still to evaluate how much these actions have influenced the last line of the statement. What then is the negative effect, in terms of social relationships, on those who are perceived not as a friend or a person, but as a salesperson for their company? Those who find themselves living in the same situation understand us, but don't love us . The others, if not completely accustomed to the dynamics of (social media) marketing, look at us with suspicion, as if there was something wrong with us. goes on.