Another neat idea that came up with a recent client was the idea of advertising through technology. This can present an opportunity that may feel more comfortable than face-to-face advertising for some clients.
Mike is very covert about his stuttering. He took a big step and emailed me about his experience afterwards! I’m sure many of you can relate to him.
I was chatting on-line with a girl from yoga (why can’t I avoid these yoga women) and we were talking about my job search. She said I should network more and I immediately realized this was the perfect opportunity to say that my speech therapist recommended the book Smart Networking. She inevitably asked why I’m seeing a speech therapist and I explained that I stutter sometimes. And as strange as it may seem, typing “I stutter sometimes” was as hard as saying it. (I bounced around my apartment, typed the words, and then bounced around my apartment some more.)
But I did feel much better about myself after I said in chat that I stutter. It’s funny because there was a pause in the chat after I wrote “sometimes I stutter” and I was envisioning in my head what she was thinking. But then, like you said, I realized I shouldn’t be assuming what the other person is thinking.
And a while ago I used a text message to advertise to [another woman] that I stutter. You said that was probably a first for your clients. So have any of your clients used an on-line chat to advertise?
Have you ever used technology as a vehicle to advertise your stuttering to someone? Or maybe even to many people at once?
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