{"id":337,"date":"2019-05-10T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:27:54","slug":"you-are-your-own-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/you-are-your-own-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Your Own Billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Who is the best salesman of your business?\u00a0 Who best represents your business? Your brand?\u00a0 Well it should be, and it is you.\u00a0 To that end when you are out networking, running errands or even socializing for that matter, do you do your best to represent your business and brand?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I was at an after-hours poker game at the office of a prominent business coach.\u00a0 There was probably 20-25 people playing cards or waiting for a seat to open.\u00a0 A player to the left of the host asked him: \u201cSo what do you do?\u201d and the host replied: \u201cRight now I\u2019m playing cards.\u201d End of conversation.\u00a0 I was stunned, this was a host of a networking event and a coach.\u00a0 Perhaps he was coaching how not to be your own billboard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The point is no matter where you are: networking, socializing, dining, working out, shopping, etc. you never know who you might meet and who that person may know. So you always want to put your best foot forward and represent yourself and your business and your brand in the best light possible. You also want to instill this kind of thinking into each and every one of your employees to represent themselves and your company in the best way possible at all times. No exceptions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Girl-with-TRG-sign-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"339\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sounds tiring, always being on, doesn&#8217;t it? But when you think about it are you really that different away from work than you are at work? If you answered yes, that leads to the question of why are you so different away from work? why the work persona? I would think that THAT would be tiring. Isn&#8217;t it much easier to simply just be yourself wherever you are, and be the best version of yourself at all times? If you think about it that way, then being your own billboard becomes a very easy proposition, and one that you should happily take on.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the best salesman of your business?\u00a0 Who best represents your business? Your brand?\u00a0 Well it should be, and it is you.\u00a0 To that end when you are out networking, running errands or even socializing for that matter, do you do your best to represent your business and brand? I was at an after-hours &#8230; <a title=\"You Are Your Own Billboard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/you-are-your-own-billboard\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Are Your Own Billboard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[17,16,14,15,21,22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}