Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters: 68 Marketing Gurus Share Secrets, Strategies and Unique Ideas That Will Take You to the Next Level of Success [Paperback]

...I think everybody that has something they love and are passionate about should be a shameless self promoter. -- Mark Victor Hansen, co-author & creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul

...too modest with the title of her book, which should be, Confessions of Shameless, Sensible, Successful and Solid Self-Promoters. -- Jay Conrad Levinson, Author, "Guerrilla Marketing" series of books

Confessions of Shameless Self-Promoters (tm) is packed with a wealth of information and shamefully successful marketing secrets. -- Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Five stars for Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters! Debbie Allen did us all a big favor... -- Raleigh Pinskey, author of 101 Ways To Promote Yourself and 101 Ways to Promote Your Book Online

Do you feel comfortable actively marketing yourself? If not, you are losing to your competition. "Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters" is packed with a wealth of information and shamefully successful marketing secrets.

This unique marketing book includes proven strategies and fun stories by 68 of the top marketing gurus. Contributors provide you with marketing strageties, step-by-step guidelines and secrets to your success.  

To be leading edge you must be shameless – this book will show you how! Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Every page of this book offers enlightenment,served up with warmth and humanity. The lessons this book imparts should be mandatory education for entrepreneurs. I give this book a shameless and enthusiastic high-five! - Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing

"Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters" is definately the Self Promoters Bible! What an incredible gathering of creative marketing ideas! - Success Showcase Publishing

When a friend of mine first stated, "I'm a shameless self promoter," I laughed. Then I thought for a moment, and I realized that I'm a shameless self promoter, too. I had never thought of my marketing approach as being shameless before. I would have described myself more like the Energizer Bunny. I just keep on marketing and marketing and doing whatever it takes to make it happen. I had never thought of this as shameless, unless it's shameless to believe in something so much that you want to tell everyone you meet. I call it good marketing!

Introduction

This collection of shameless marketing concepts, unique ideas, and marketing strategies comes from well known authors, professional speakers, and successful entrepreneurs. Through all the contributions runs a common thread: a true belief that self promotion has helped them to rise above their competition, time and time again.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with tips, tools, and ideas to help you market and promote yourself and your business to another level of success. Whether you feel comfortable marketing yourself or not, this book will help you to understand why shameless self promotion is a must to be highly successful today.

Shameless simply means having a strong belief in yourself, your services, your products, and what you have to share with the world.

There is no other marketing book quite like this. You will discover the secrets to shameless self promotion and how it will dramatically increase your business with easily implemented ideas. Confessions will jumpstart your brain with tons of creative ideas on how to successfully self promote. The stories will make you laugh along the way.

The contributing authors not only shared their marketing secrets, they confessed to me their deepest, darkest marketing failures and turn-around success stories as well. You will discover some of the best, proven, incredibly successful and gutsy self promotional marketing ideas on:

.The science of self promotion, why and how it works
.Building a strong referral base of shameless fans
.Giving away your service or products to create more business
.Networking skills and strategies to showcase your expertise
.Branding your identity and business, why this is crucial in today’s marketplace
.Unique direct mail strategies to make you stand out from the crowd
.Cutting-edge Internet marketing secrets to expose your business to the world
.Getting tons of media attention to lead you to shameless stardom

.Why you should write a book for self promotion and how to market it
.Fun stories and much more !

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I have enjoyed creating it. If you learn from this book--and you will!–tell your friends, family, strategic alliances, and business associates about it so they can learn and enjoy the confessions of success as well. But, don’t tell your competition. You want to be shamelessly out-marketing them in no time!

As an entrepreneur, Debbie Allen has successfully created, built and sold numerous businesses. As a business owner for over two decades, her acute business and marketing sense and thirst for knowledge is teamed up with her enthusiasm to make her a dynamic presenter. Now as an International professional speaker and author of two books on business marketing, Debbie Allen shares her knowledge and passion for business. She helps business to out-market, out-sell and out-profit their competition and has shared her message with audiences around the world.

Debbie's expertise includes self-promtional marketing and retail business. She is the recipient of the 1997 Blue Chip Enterprise Award sponsored by the National Chamber of Commerce and past president of the National Speaker Association Arizona Chapter. In addition, she is the founder of Self-Promotion Month (October).