"If you want to put yourself on the map, publish…

A business is said to be “on the map” when it becomes known to many and/or influential clients. “If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map” is a jocular one-line saying from All I Want Is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts (1985) by Ashleigh Brilliant. The saying is “Pot-shot epigram #651” at AshleighBrilliant.com.

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put something on the map
to make something famous

Wikipedia: Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (born 9 December 1933) is an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969.

Google Books
All I Want Is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power:
Even More Brilliant Thoughts
By Ashleigh Brilliant
Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press
1985
Pg. ?:
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Google Groups: rec.games.video
Ron Dippold
5/26/92
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If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Google Groups: rec.humor
One-line aphorisms, part 2 of 4
Alan Silverstein
12/4/93
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If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Google Books
How To Give It So They Get It:
A flight plan for teaching anyone anything and making it stick
By Sharon L. Bowman
Glenbrook, NV: Bowperson Pub.
2005
Pg. 150:
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. . . .Ashleigh Brilliant

Google Books
The Restless Generation:
How rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain
By Pete Frame
London: Rogan House
2007
Pg. 41:
The best way to put yourself on the map is to publish your own map.

Triumph of the Spirit
“Through God’s Eyes”—Sources of Quotes
This entry was posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM
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If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Pot-shot epigram #651 from Ashleigh Brilliant’s website; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail