Quotes About Self-promotion

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

I'm my best billboard.

I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.

Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

Hey Internet. Look at the books I read. I sure do read a lot. Everyone should think I'm very intelligent and sophisticated. I'm glad there's a website I can constantly remind them with.

Million Dollar Consulting Orchestration: if you don't blow your own horn, there is no music.

I love having my picture taken. I love doing interviews.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I wanna hear myself everywhere.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

People think they need to hire someone to do their PR, but 99 percent of PR in the early stages is stuff you can do yourself. It's just like business development - there's the warm-up intro, followup to build relationships, then add something of value.

There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the 'Waking the Fallen' record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

People say I'm attention seeking by coming off the Twitter, but that's not the case. If I wanted to attention seek I could drive my Lamborghini to the Trafford Centre in my underpants.

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

If you run for president and lose, you promote yourself into all sorts of more lucrative, possibly more influential and surely more fun media opportunities.

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself.