#24072
For a tech writer, creating a web site is a sort of online resume. You can use this as something for potential clients to look at once you've established contact in some other way. Invite them to see your web site, and they will get an impression, hopefully good, of both your experience and your writing and design abilities.
#24071
If you're a freelancer/contract tech writer, you need to promote yourself. Think of yourself as a store with exactly one product, namely your time. You can only sell that product to one customer at a time. What you need to do is make sure each sale is a good one, and that you sell as much of your time as possible, because no one pays you for down time if you're independent.
Tech Writing Jobs. Careers>Freelance>Writing>Technical Writing
#24073
Some website that might be of interest for technical writers.
Tech Writing Jobs. Resources>Directories>Writing>Technical Writing
#24064
Advice and information on finding tech publishing jobs and contracts.
Tech Writing Jobs. Careers>Job Listings>Writing>Technical Writing
#24070
Most contract technical writers work through agencies. If you know anything about relational databases, you'll understand why this is so: just as the way to solve the problems of 'many-to-many' relationships between two tables is to create a third table, routing the relationships through it so that they become manageable, so, too, with tech writers and customers.
