(Guest post by Donna Jackson)
Just recently I posted on my blog over at www.digitalmoneyworld.com about working online and the hazards of invoicing, getting paid via palpal or ebullion and registering as a soloist for tax etc. Many freelancers who work on line like us bloggers, writers, social network engineers and the like, need to be paid. Yes we have mortgages and grocery bills too! So how do you get paid? And even before that, how do you find companies or individuals willing to hire you for the services or brain power you’ll bring them.
The answer is networking. Yes that little old nugget “networking�. However, just going out to dinner,coffee mornings and wine bars with people who you want to do work for, and just hoping they will hand you a contract, probably won’t work. People may be fascinated about your writing and even envy you, but they don’t understand how you get your money.
So how do you make peace with promoting yourself?
Plugging into a peer group can really help you to get with the movers and shakers. Here at b5media we have that big peer group of bloggers. We are a community, we write to, we learn from, we feel with, we advise, one other.
There a great conference going on in Switzerland this Friday called “going solo” www.going-solo.net Visit the site and see if you can attend, pass the word around, or put a badge on your site.
Going Solo has cutting-edge PDF posters too.
Donna Jackson blogs about digital currency for the b5media network at Digital Money World.
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