'Look what marketing's done to my body' - On the compulsion of (not so) creative self-marketing

As much as I enjoy designing and running workshops and it always feels like meaningful work, there is one activity that I simply hate: marketing. Begging people to please please please recognize what a great job you're doing despite the huge competition and that they come - not just because it's a profession and you want to make a living from it, but also because it would be too sad if workshops had to be cancelled due to low numbers of participants. While writing announcement texts is still fun for me, the horror begins when I realize that I've been sitting in front of Facebook for hours, searching for one Conscious and Sensuality group after the other like a hunter and putting myself to work posting the event link with an inviting text everywhere interested people might find it - always with the ulterior motive that some groups have become a limbo of just such posts...