I am not great at selling myself, and have always relied on word of mouth.
May be you have not tried yet ? I have been in the same company for 17+ years, and the company got changed three times :) , going to other hands. But I have seen people selling themselves nicely to other big companies for better compensation. I also need to learn to sell myself.
I am not good at selling myself, or even explaining what I do! :D I do what I do okay though...
If I rely on my charm and good looks though... I will starve. :)
I am sure, you do better, not just okay.
I am also bad at selling myself. Recently I planned to sell a piece of my art to local pizza place. I intended to ask a 120 or maybe 100 eur for it. But when I walked in I just said that this art piece is a gift for your pizza place. Here on Hive I also seen some other artist describe their own work as great drawing and saying other similar words. The artwork in question was indeed quite nice and interesting. But I don't remember ever writing a post saying that my art is great. I wonder If I should do that- be more cocky about my art. I also saw on facebook another artist asking 2000 eur for one piece. Her works are great indeed. But those prices also makes me feel that I am too shy/ modest about my art. Right now I have posted on facebook saying that my art pieces are on sale till december 10( my birthday). I am asking from 120 to 200. I believe that my art is worth much more than that but I don't dare to ask higher price. I read that Picasso asked 10 000 for a very quik drawing. His reasoning was that it took him 50 years to be able to draw it so quickly. I been making art since 2017 so perhaps it is time to start having more faith in my own art...
That's the right spirit, you should also do that.