Comments on: 3 Lessons on Marketing Yourself from the 2008 Presidential Campaign http://joshuaclanton.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-lessons-on-marketing-yourself-from-the-2008-presidential-campaign/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Joshua http://joshuaclanton.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-lessons-on-marketing-yourself-from-the-2008-presidential-campaign/#comment-457 Joshua Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:29:17 +0000 http://joshuaclanton.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-lessons-on-marketing-yourself-from-the-2008-presidential-campaign/#comment-457 I agree with you about Ron Paul. If he was just aiming for monetary income rather than election as president, he would have already succeeded. :-) I agree with you about Ron Paul. If he was just aiming for monetary income rather than election as president, he would have already succeeded. :-)

]]> By: Jarkko Laine http://joshuaclanton.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-lessons-on-marketing-yourself-from-the-2008-presidential-campaign/#comment-447 Jarkko Laine Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:20:14 +0000 http://joshuaclanton.com/blog/2008/02/07/3-lessons-on-marketing-yourself-from-the-2008-presidential-campaign/#comment-447 Good points! As you say in your last bullet, luckily marketing yourself isn't always quite as hard as in the presidential campaign. When running for president, finishing second or third doesn't count. But if we think for example about Ron Paul, I think he has already done a tremendous job in marketing himself. He has made a name for himself, collected lots of money. That's not going to make him the next president, but for a regular freelancer like you and me what he has achieved is already pretty huge. :) So yeah, I think I'll follow your advice and not run for president either ;) Good points!

As you say in your last bullet, luckily marketing yourself isn’t always quite as hard as in the presidential campaign. When running for president, finishing second or third doesn’t count.

But if we think for example about Ron Paul, I think he has already done a tremendous job in marketing himself. He has made a name for himself, collected lots of money. That’s not going to make him the next president, but for a regular freelancer like you and me what he has achieved is already pretty huge. :)

So yeah, I think I’ll follow your advice and not run for president either ;)

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