Bold Pick of the Week: M.E.
Comments (3) If you have been to a Starbucks lately, you’ll know that they’ve started an eight week campaign to promote their various bold coffees. Each week a different bold coffee is featured. It’s a way for customers to change up their usual pick, and try a new bold one instead. You might be curious as to how bold coffees relate to my usual blog topics and I’m getting to that, now.
Recently, I signed up for an account with Brazen Career* after hearing about a scholarship opportunity via the National Society of Collegiate Scholars website. (Yes, I have been a very busy body). Brazen is one more way for me to network with peers and professionals. According to a quote on the website Brazen is like, “Twitter meets Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Gen Y,” and I definitely agree. Amongst other features, I have really enjoyed the surge of responses, thoughts and opinions one will receive when they post questions or thoughts in a status-like box. For instance, I asked for suggestions for blog promotions and received a varying degree of similar responses. They all drove me to this solid conclusion – I need to be much bolder with how I present my blog. I realized that I have been rather timid in promoting From M.E. to You simply because it is not a “professional-level blog.” That needs to change.
So if I’m not being bold enough, how is it I am the bold pick of the week? It’s really quite simple. I am starting my own bold campaign. I am becoming more aware of the fact that as a marketing student, I have to start with selling my own skills and services. Just like Starbucks is presenting a new bold coffee to try each week, over the next few weeks I am going to be experimenting with new ways to promote my blog and myself. I know some methods may be more noticeable or successful than others, but that is all part of the process. In fact, I will be publishing some mini-posts throughout the process to update readers on the success, or lack of success for the promotional methods I do try. Now, let the campaign begin!
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