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Subject:Re: Using the Sunday paper From:Herman Holtz <holtz -at- CLARK -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:03:31 -0500
On Wed, 15 Mar 1995, Marcia Coulter wrote:
> As a free-lancer, I use the want ads in the Sunday paper all right, but
> I look for companies hiring programmers -- on the assumption that if
> they need them, eventually they'll need me too. Works pretty well,
> actually.
I used that as one of my most productive methods to build a mailing list
when I ran seminars on proposal writing.
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