self help book

I very often see blog posts with a title that reads “Shameless Self Promotion” followed by a small blurb about their new product or their new self help book.It is really strange to see how many people out there use those words.  I get blog posts daily related to self promotion and the majority of them are start with the words “a bit of Shameless Self Promotion”. 

You might think that the title “Shameless Self Promotion” appears once in a while here and there on a blog or a website. No, I’m talking 80% of the internet posts that talk about self promotion start with some variation of “Shameless Self Promotion”.  This inspired me to write a self help or self improvement book on how to market and self yourself.

Do you think people don’t like selling themselves?Are you afraid that others will not like you because you are selling or marketing or promoting? What’s going on?  For starters, most of these internet entries come from people that have great content on their websites and blogs, so promote it, otherwise people will never find out and benefit from that content.

Maybe I can change your mind on what Self Promotion is and why it is never shameless.  You see, self promotion is an impulse that started with survival, with a primal instinct of self preservation.  Soon after it turned into a social skill that also required helping others to survive and strive in society in order to have more people helping each other and, yes, helping you.Self preservation started it all and now we have self promotion.  

Now, you also have to remember that if you have a good product or a good service and people will benefit from it there is no shame in promoting it.Always remember, your products, servicess, content, blog, is providing a solution.This single thing is the premise of this post.  –If you provide value you need to promote it- This value can be with a product or service and it can also be form your advice, expertise, stories or blog posts.This new strategy or way of living is now part of a book “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion”. 

Unselfish Self Promotion means that you provide value first. You provide value to family, friends, stranger and even customers or prospects.  You provide it in content, products, advice and friendship.If you are unselfish and provide value you are using self promotion, or “unselfish self promotion”.

Jorge S.Olson is a Professional Motivational Keynore Speaker & Author. Jorge is professional motivational keynote speaker, entrepreneur and has a new book.  You can find his latest book ‘The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” on http://www.UnselfishPromotion.com