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The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You’ll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them. There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.
An early showdown came over employee badge numbers. Scott assigned #1 to Wozniak and #2 to Jobs. Not surprisingly, Jobs demanded to be #1. “I wouldn’t let him have it, because that would stoke his ego even more,” said Scott. Jobs threw a tantrum, even cried. Finally, he proposed a solution. He would have badge #0. Scott relented, at least for the purpose of the badge, but the Bank of America required a positive integer for its payroll system and Jobs’s remained #2.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
We’re all interested primarily in ourselves. No one wants to hear about your successes and why they should help you achieve more of them, but they do want to hear about how you can help them be successful. The primary way you’re going to achieve success in your marketing efforts is to help others to do the same.
Zig Ziglar said it best when he said, “If you help enough people get what they want, you will get what you want.” This is the primary strategy that you should use in marketing yourself. It will be more effective than any other technique.
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