So you are a writer. Maybe you are a fantastic writer. One of the best the world has ever known. Or an artist. Your pictures would make art critics swoon. Or maybe you are a musician and you've got the hottest new sounds around.....

And your Broke.

Dead Broke.

Working at a bank, maybe serving coffee somewhere, digging ditches or pushing paper.

What the heck happened?

Where did you go wrong?

Well maybe its because it's just not your time in the limelight yet, maybe you haven't played those creative blues long enough to enter into those artistic halls of fame yet....or maybe.....maybe it's because you are not marketing yourself!

Well what do you mean by that you say? Do you really expect me to go out there and sell myself to the public?

Yup, darn right I do.

As an artist, writer and business woman, I learned many many years ago that I could be the absolute best at what I do and be dead flat broke at the same time if no one knew who I was.

Well.....lets back up a bit. I still have lots to work to do on that as I now swimming in the Internet world here- but in a nutshell what I am talking about is marketing your creativity.

No kidding.

You could be the very best at what you do and if no one knows of your product, or who you are, you may never get that lucky break to who knows where..

Someone very business savvy once told me it's not what you know but who you know. Relationships are key in marketing your creativity. So many artists are SO focused on their craft that they forget how vitally important is is that people know WHO you are. And the only way they are gong to know WHO you are is by getting to know you, up front and personal.

Like in meetings, networking groups, chambers of commerces, social bookmarking sites like Yuwie, MySpace, Twitter, Mixx, Digg and Facebook., among many others.

By pounding the pavement. Face to face contact. Talking. Faxing. Writing letters. Contacting. Blogging. E-mailing. Advertising on your car with magnetics. Vehicle lettering. Business cards.

It's called NETWORKING, NETWORKING, NETWORKING.

I've seen the success of this method in our former business. Networking provided key contacts for lucrative business accounts .People got to know me and my partner, and referrals started flowing in. Phones rang and orders were placed.

Not without a lot of face to face contact though.

No one would have known us unless we put ourselves out there squarely in the networking world.

I hope I've sparked that great imagination of yours enough to get you to thinking about this. There are countless wildly talented people out there that never get to where they want to go because they fail to market their creativity.

And the creativity is you yourself - your personal product whether it be music, painting or writing.

The only way you can market your creativity is by putting yourself out there in the world..........so that all can see the wonderful talents you have.

You've already done the hard part - defining your talent. Now all you have to do is market that creativity !

Now that's not so hard - is it?