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By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:45:47 +0000

PB, you can learn to market yourself and be a successful businessman… but it does take marketing… take it in small steps. Ask the current client for a testimonial and a couple of referalls… check out Peter Bowerman’s Well Fed Writer, Back for Seconds… he shows us all how to market – bit by bit.

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By: PB

PB — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:28:17 +0000

For five years before I moved to this city I was a confident, well-paid editor for a large R&D company. Shortly after I arrived here, the local economy fell apart and I was laid off from my new dot com job. Didn’t see THAT coming.

I spent the next three years trying to find a comparable position, but jobs were scare and the line of applicants ridiculously long. What a nightmare! My self-esteem and savings dwindled no nothing. I finally took a job selling shoes. When the store manager introduced me to his district manager one day as “my PhD,” I hit my wall. Drawing unemployment seemed nobler somehow.

For the next two years, I continued to grapple with my long-held belief that success meant being an “organization man.” Frankly, I was terrified of becoming a free agent, no matter what Daniel Pink said. I preferred being a line worker; let others worry about the administrative crap.

But being desperate for work, I eventually took a couple of short-term writing gigs. Encouraged by those successes, in September I finally decided to commit to being a self-employed freelancer. I currently have a single client who provides semi-regular assignments, but I know I have to market myself, build a client base, and establish myself in the business community.

I’m overwhelmed by all that I don’t know. I can write and I can edit, but can I be a successful businessman who earns enough money to live comfortably? Change is good, they say. But it’s also pretty intimidating.

Any advice?