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Promoting yourself in your institution

Written on November 5, 2010 by TeenPublish Dude

Filed Under: Establishing who you are

Promoting yourself in your institution

Recently, someone very close to me had his first gig  as a DJ in a high school Sadie Hawkins dance.  He had been learning, preparing and honing on his skills as a DJ for several months. I went there to help him manage his first gig, and to promote him.  First mistake: we didn’t promote him enough beforehand.

Listen and hear others

The first step to properly promoting yourself is, you can’t be shy.  If you notice, every well known person or person providing a service has something interesting to say, or is very outspoken.  Yet there are many popular people that stay reserved as well.  But one thing they have in common, they are GOOD listeners. While being reserved is different than being shy, being quiet at the right time has many advantages.  For being a good listener, you show the person you are communicating with that you are providing your full, undivided attention to them.  The advantages you get, is that you get to gain knowledge and extract the milk of every conversation.

Build a hype

If you notice, the best and brightest online companies somehow build a crazy hype before releasing the beta of a product, or the beta itself becomes the hype.  So the same works in DJing, in order to get as many people to know who’s in charge of the music of the next party, we should have built a hype. Read More

Making the Right Choices

Written on February 1, 2010 by nanamecedo

Filed Under: Advice, Establishing who you are

Choices. Something everyone dreads, but something absolutely necessary in life.

The choices you make

As teenagers, we’ve reached that point in our lives where we may very well be making the most crucial decisions of our lives. But as teenagers, maybe we’re not all quite ready for them. I know I wasn’t. At a critical age, we’re faced with questions like “What do you want to do with your life?” “Where do you want to see yourself in ten years?” And let’s face it, we would all be pretty happy seeing ourselves rich and worry-free. But who can really get that? So even if that is our goal, how are we going to get there? In these inconvenient economic times, no one wants to take any chances with their future. Living costs money, and money requires a job. But with national unemployment up to 10%, this generation is on thin ice. It’s easy to decide you want to make the big bucks. But what kind of sacrifices are you willing to make to get there? Read More