How Do You Relate to Self-Promotion? Self-Promotion Part Two

September 3, 2008 · Posted in Entrepreneurs, Sales techniques, Self Promotion, Women in Business · Comment 

In the first part of this series, I discussed some common limiting beliefs that women have when it comes to self-promotion. These limiting beliefs are culturally based and therefore, pretty challenging to overcome. i.e. “Bragging is unbecoming for a woman.” “People will think I’m pushy and aggressive if I talk about myself and they won’t like me.” etc.

How we view our place in the business world as women is key to our success. If we accept these limiting beliefs as the truth; if we believe that we need to be humble and take a back seat, we will certainly end up in the back seat in our careers and business.

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