[Hidden-tech] How to Spin Living in a Small Town

[Shel Horowitz]

My clientele was mostly local until about 1995, and I did worry when 
I moved to the country in 1998 if the need to have a car would be an 
obstacle to clients. It hasn't been, but in the late 90s my business 
started shifting toward a mostly nonlocal clientele, for whom it's a 
non-issue. If anything, it's an advantage, because with a $700 
mortgage, I don't need to charge anywhere near what copywriters 
charge in large cities (and make this clear to them). My farthest 
client has been from Japan; the most consistent source in California. 
Local clients are less than 25% of my business.

For me, knowing that you're doing the library thing would be a 
virtue, Marcia--but I'm a library kind of guy.

>On 8/3/06 5:56 AM, "Marcia Yudkin" <marcia at yudkin.com> wrote:
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>>  If you love living in the Valley, as I do, how do you "spin" your location
>>  to big-city clients?
>>
>>  Here's an article I recently wrote that contains reflections on this topic:
>>
>>  http://www.yudkin.com/spinning.htm
>>
>>  Comments welcome!
>>
>>  Marcia Yudkin
>>  Goshen
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