Comments on: The Ultimate Hangover

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:22:10 +0000

Good job, Cyndy! Felt good, didn't it? :) And excellent advice.

Jesaka, couldn't agree more. The updates get you somewhere. Just got a note from an employer thanks to a Twitter note I sent out today. You never know!

Hanging in there, Chuck! How've you been lately?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:55:55 +0000

A Yeoman's effort, Lori! Keep up the good work.

Chuck

By: Jesaka Long

Jesaka Long — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:32:00 +0000

Hangover, indeed! That is definitely a harsh reality - but look how quickly you started planning. That's a great inspiration.

Where am I finding clients right now? Referrals, referrals, referrals. I know that can't last forever, but I am benefitting from seeds planted last fall.

One tip: you never know who's paying attention to your LinkedIn and Facebook updates. Several new clients said they had kept me in mind, but it was updates about some of my projects that helped inspire them to pick up the phone.

By: Cyndy Kryder

Cyndy Kryder — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:14:00 +0000

I agree that good clients are still out there looking for good writers. So I've made a commitment to find them by spending an hour a week on each social network to which I belong (LinkedIn, Biznik). I'm also beefing up my involvement in the professional organizations to which I belong to see how I can better contribute. Seems to me, too, that we should spend some time evaluating our customer service and polish those skills as much as we can to make us the writers people want to work with.

And in the continuing promotion of Writers Worth Day, I turned down a low-paying job that I knew in my gut would be more trouble than it was worth. And I'm glad I did!

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Thanks for the plug, Kirk!

Yes, the follow-up part is the one we don't quite do, isn't it?

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Sorry to hear your bad news.

I need to get better about following up on job contacts. I contact so many people, they all start to run together.

BTW I just plugged WWD (no, not Womens Wear Daily) over on the Virtual Vocations forum:

http://www.virtualvocations.com//forum/i/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3667