Many Marketing Consultants, Coaches and Social Media advisers are often on broadcast mode, boasting how much money they've made, how many mailings they've done and the respone they got recommending other people's products to their list. They often get invited to do talks at their mate's events and sell at the back of the room to those from their mate's list who who were invited to attend the event.

But in the words of Stephen Covey, Should they not seek first to understand, then be...

When you’re promoting yourself in online, are you focusing on what you do, have or know…?

…or do you focus on what others will get from having engaged with you and take advantage of what you offer?

Or are you simply out to extract cash from them and don't care about them or your long term future - at all?

When marketing yourself online either via your blog, forum posts or in the groups on various online social networks, it always pays to be you….the real...

Do you have belief in your abilities? Do you have belief in your product, service or solution that you offer your target market?

Is it an "info" product, software, app, or perhaps you offer a service such as backlinking, coding, web design or coaching?

Do you believe that you are on the right path doing what you're doing?

Do you genuinely believe from the bottom of your heart, that your product, service or solution can and will genuinely help...

What are the different tactics and strategies that you use to engage with your fans, friends, followers, prospects and customers online and offline?

What are the PROACTIVE engagement tactics that use to communicate with your target audience?

Do you blog, participate in online forums, groups , have you created your own digital assets for sharing on various document sharing sites such as slideshare or docstoc.com?

What are the RESPONSIVE engagement tactics...

Are you prepared to get up early, get to bed late and stay focussed and committed to the project you believe in?

Or is it a struggle to get out of your bed in the morning, and do what you need to do to promote your products/services?

The author of "The Road Less travelled" - M. Scott Peck, got paid just $5000 as an advance by his publishers to write the book. In the first 365 days that the book came out, he did 1000 radio interviews to promote it. He then committed...