Do you have a unique story to tell? Something interesting that sets you apart from everyone else? If so, you need to get others to help you spread that story. You need to share it with everyone that you can.
I’ve been working full-time from home running several different businesses. When Galen Culver heard about my story he thought it was interesting enough to feature it on his popular TV news segment called, “Is This A Great State Or What?”
Culver contacted me in April of 2014 and said he would like to stop by my home office and do a story about me working from home drawing cartoons and operating Enid Buzz.
He stopped by and spent a couple of hours asking me questions and filming everything in my office. All of that footage and those questions were whittled down to a two minute segment on NBC’s KFOR News in Oklahoma City.
The segment was great and helped tell my story of creating businesses while sitting in a chair in my house. The exposure was not something that made me any money but it increased my brand recognition and added credibility to my knowledge of being an entrepreneur.
If you’ve got a great story you need to get in front of everyone that you can. Today there are TV segments like “Great State,” podcasts, blogs and video channels that you can book for guest spots.
Don’t be afraid to reach out to people especially anyone in your niche. Many content publishers are looking for stories, articles and guests. Build your brand and your reputation by appearing everywhere that you can.
Here is the video segment that ran on the OKC news station. Below that is the transcript from the show.
There are people who think outside the box and then there are people who actually drew the box they live in.
Curtis Tucker was a dreamer and doodler growing up.
“When I was in school,” he says, “I was either drawing cartoons on the chalk board or on the back of my paper.”
He quit his advertising executive job in the late 90’s and drew upon his skills as a cartoonist.
Tucker formed a whole series of companies that sold logos, clip art, even greeting cards.
For more than a decade he was at the top of the online cartoon heap.
Curtis says, “I think from the very beginning of Google I probably ranked number one for cartoon logos for 12 years.”
His technical acumen should have told him that things would change though.
Google changed its search format and his cartoon business dried up almost overnight.
But Curt drew on another talent, for staying anchored to what he liked, which is sitting at home and playing around.
“It was pretty cool,” he says.
Tucker started another website called Enid Buzz.
He kept working on it, slowly making his home office the hub of information for just about everything in his hometown.
Tucker made it profitable too, so he could stay right where he wanted.
“You’re just at the hub of a smaller universe,” observes an office visitor.
“Exactly,” he replies. “I have evolved. It’s always evolving.”
It’s not often we can shoot a whole story in one room.
It has to be a pretty interesting place.
Curtis Tucker made it that way, not by being outgoing, but by drawing enough people to him.
He’s still doodling, actually, just the way he wants.
The Enid Buzz website is www.enidbuzz.com.
You can also log on Facebook and find an active page there.
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