I used to love that song, “You Don’t Know My Name,” by Alicia Keys when it came out in the early 2000s – the inspiration for part of today’s title. I thought it apropos because you, reader, don’t know my name…well, most of you don’t…at least some of you don’t…or maybe I should just leave it at I don’t post my name, because these days people can find anything whether I post my name or not. I really don’t know how many of you know my name.
I purposely don’t put my name on this blog for several reasons, but mainly because I don’t want to be associated with it. It’s not perfect. It’s not up to my standards. I mean of course it could be worse, but it could definitely be better, so I guess I just don’t want to be judged by it. I guess ultimately I just don’t want to have to meet people face to face who’s read my blog. But in today’s tech savvy world people know how to uncover my name whether I give it to them or not, so there’s that. Plus, you know nowadays when you meet people at networking events, they don’t ask for your phone number or email like the used to do, they ask are you on Instagram. Why I don’t lie, I don’t know. But the people I meet at events are probably not reading anyway, plus I pretty much never see them again, so it’s not as bad as say a coworker (I know some from past jobs had gotten to it) reading it. But I don’t have those now either so…It’s just the thought of people I see on a regular basis reading it that irks me.
But anyway, this is the beginnings of a marketing story (the other part of that long ass title) and it recently dawned on me that if I’m going to market this book, I will have to reveal my name, and so, I’ll be doing that soon. But in the meantime, I’ll continue to bask in the comfort of you not knowing my name.
Anywho, oddly enough, I didn’t think much about creating a marketing strategy when I embarked on this self-publishing journey. Now I’m kind of excited about creating one. I actually think that marketing just might be the fun part. Because overall this process has been grueling and riddled with anxiety. Of course many factors have contributed to that as well. Nothing happens within a vacuum.
Now, to accommodate the marketing campaign, I think I might have to push my pub date out till August. I don’t want to do that, but I’m thinking I will probably need about three months to market it. But I don’t know. We’ll see. I’ve been doing some research which seems to suggest three months of marketing may not be necessary, so yeah, we’ll see.
But yeah, that’s all I got for this Sunday. I just haven’t been in the mood to write as of late – feeling very sluggish and tired a lot lately. I just ordered an elliptical/stationary bike off of Amazon yesterday which should be arriving soon, so I’m happy about that. I haven’t been getting out much or exercising. I used to go for walks much more, but I’ve just not been in the mood. We used to have an elliptical like this before and I rode it quite frequently. I even built muscle and loss weight, so I’m hoping to repeat or surpass those previous results. I have a great playlist.
Okay, this time that’s really it. Bye for now.
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