Any technical writer working as a contractor knows the importance of self-marketing. Although referrals and agencies are fine ways to secure contracts, finding a new client completely on your own is as exciting as discovering buried treasure. Just how do you find unadvertised companies in need of technical writers? Here are five less-traveled routes. They [...] Continue reading ...
Your Own Best Ad: Promoting Yourself as a Contractor
Editor’s Note: The following piece by Bruce Byfield is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal: But the good name never dies Of one who has done well. –Havamal (Translated by W.H. Auden and [...] Continue reading ...