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Is anyone like me: A tech writer with a love for layout and some
journalism experience to boot? One who really likes publishing *news*,
not just the facts on some new software revision?
I've published some newsletters, and with the possibility of losing my
full-time job looming on the horizon, I'm wondering how hard it would
be to start a sideline publishing newsletters for stores and other
entities. I was just talking to someone who has a business that could
really use one, to make customers aware of how much value there is
added to the things they're buying. I wasn't even pitching -- I just
found myself saying "You really need a newsletter!" And she agreed.
Hmmm.
The quality of what I see out there makes me think that people must be
working pretty cheap, and with minimal experience. Maybe I'd have to
bid so low that it wouldn't be worth it; maybe I'd have to have three
or four going before I'd make a profit on any of 'em. Maybe I'd end up
making about $2 an hour.
I could still contract on the side, you know . . .
Any ideas? I'd even be interested in pointers to books or a newsletter
publishers' list, but I wanted to check with my tech writing cronies
first.
