I was just talking with somebody in a thread who was complaining about how nobody wants to help promote their stuff, even though they promote other people.
Meanwhile, they were defensive to everybody in the thread, and their grammar was horrible. Like so bad that you could barely understand what they were saying.
So, I'm going to give you a secret to getting people you promote you, because people ALWAYS want to promote other cool stuff. They want to look cool to their own audience and frankly there just isn't enough cool stuff that people do on their own to be able to feed an audience enough.
So, there's ALWAYS a chance for collaboration, networking, or promotion...
...but you have to bring your A-game to every interaction, and then show up when its time to deliver.
You have to be presentable. Your work has to be crisp, clean, and unique. You have to be saying something interesting, or working hard, or making something awesome happen...
...because everything…
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