{"id":1881,"date":"2014-06-20T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2014-06-20T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:39:16","slug":"selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0802\"One of the things I love about going to the coffee shop is overhearing conversations. \u00a0This one in particular caught my attention in not just what was talked about but in the way things were presented. \u00a0As a freelance web developer and as a part time photographer I often have to try to sell myself to a potential client and give them reasons why they should hire me. \u00a0As a web developer I can show websites that I have worked on. \u00a0As a photographer I can show them my portfolio. \u00a0There are other jobs that require more selling and convincing. \u00a0In hearing this conversation, I don’t know if I was sold.<\/p>\n

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There was a mother talking to another lady. \u00a0From what I can gather, the mother was interviewing the lady about possibly hiring her to be her nanny. \u00a0I only caught bits and pieces of the conversation but I could tell that the lady was confident. \u00a0I feel confidence is a definite must in these kind of interviews but confidence can quickly turn into arrogance depending on the way it’s presented. \u00a0For example, when the matter of cooking came up, the lady’s answer was this, \u00a0“Oh yes, I love to cook. \u00a0Some people tell me that I should open up my own restaurant.” \u00a0This was just one little sample of the overall conversation. \u00a0Apparently, this lady had a lot of different jobs or interests other than being a nanny. \u00a0One side job that she had was as a makeup artist. \u00a0She said, “There are people who won’t let anyone else do their makeup for events other than me.” \u00a0The conversation about makeup continued and later she reenforced her qualification as a makeup artist\u00a0by saying, “There’s this Asian lady, she’ll only let me do her makeup.” \u00a0She was a caucasian lady, and being Asian, I wasn’t offended by her statement but I found the statement kind of strange. \u00a0I think what she was trying to say\u00a0was that she was very versatile and could handle all kinds of skin tones. \u00a0Either way, something was\u00a0lost in translation.<\/p>\n

Selling yourself can be a very difficult process. \u00a0I know it is for me. \u00a0I have a hard enough time talking to new people in general, let alone talking about myself to them. \u00a0I also realize that there are two sides to a presentation, the presenter and the audience. \u00a0The determination of whether a presentation is\u00a0successful can be very subjective. \u00a0I will admit, I don’t know the back story and even the exact details of this conversation. \u00a0This mother could have been totally impressed and blown away by this lady. \u00a0We may never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I love about going to the coffee shop is overhearing conversations. \u00a0This one in particular caught my attention in not just what was talked about but in the way things were presented. \u00a0As a freelance web developer and as a part time photographer I often have to try to sell myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}