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Someone you know knows someone who needs a writer.
Unfortunately, when you get caught up in the excitement of working from home and writing for clients all over the world you can neglect potential writing jobs in your hometown.
Online resources guide you to the same online job boards as everyone else – increasing the competition and making it hard to distinguish yourself from others.
You can increase your client base by marketing your skills offline in your local area. Networking with the people you already know and the businesses you already frequent will help you find writing jobs in your hometown that no one is talking about online.
In this series I am exploring ways to market your writing services locally.
Writing Jobs in Your Hometown
7 Reasons The Client Next Door is Worth Two in Timbuktu explains why you should include local businesses in your marketing strategy.
Network with Friends and Family to Find Writing Jobs provides tips for leveraging your relationships to connect with writing clients…without destroying those relationships with a hard sell.
Writing Markets: Get Your Foot in the Door with Local Businesses encourages you to market all your skills to build relationships that lead to future writing assignments.
Find Writing Jobs Through Clubs and Associations offers strategies for networking in your social groups to find writing jobs and professional contacts.
Share Your Local Writing Experience
Are you are inspired to look around your hometown for local writing jobs? Your writing and internet marketing skills may be just what your local economy needs to recover from the worldwide economic contraction.
I will be adding to this series in the coming weeks. If you have an experience with local writing jobs, I would love to hear about it and share it in a future post.
If you have any other suggestions or questions, please comment below. I hope to learn as much from my readers as I am able to share.
This series was inspired by Dana Prince and encouraged by Sharon Hurley Hall of Get Paid to Write Online.
