Quotes About Self-promotion

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

You are your first cheerleader and business promoter

Cuando uno está borracho, va por ahí contando su historia. El talento de un hombre equivale a la historia que vende de mesa en mesa cuando está borracho.

striking—a guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

I see his presidential bid as just another commercial for himself. It wouldn't surprise me if he were to name the Hamburglar as his running mate.

I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.

There's nothing wrong with advocating for your own company.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them - all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.

When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

I run all my social. I post everything, all the videos and stuff.

Whenever I see a camera, I just want to perform for some reason. If I was getting paid for it or not, I would still be posting random videos of me on the Internet.

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.