Client Proposal

These days, its all about who you know, actually its probably always been about who you know. It can be difficult to get your foot in the door of any industry and its invaluable to have contacts in positions of power. Networking is an important social and professional skill to have, i planned to exercise this at the Job Fair a couple of weeks back, held at the Jury Inn. But the opportunities were more like punishments, moderator for some Disney social networking site chatroom for 5 year olds, or another square eyed Second Life programmer. It seemed they were really scraping the barrel. No thank you.

However there was one ray of sunshine. I did speak with Aleks Krotoski, who is a freelance writer. Im familar with her technology blog on the Guardian Unlimited site and have enjoyed reading her work many times. We spoke briefly about the advantages of freelancing and what i typically write about and how to best contact the editor. She advised email, and although this does make the most sense, im always dubious about editors mass deleting the content of their inbox's. Freelance appeals to me because you aren't committed to any single employer. Now although a consistent input of work is never guaranteed, you are a lot more free to work in your own time and for who you chose. That's how i like it.

For the Client Proposal i plan to contact a number of different magazines that ive been interested in over the last few years. These will include, Adbusters, Vice, Volume Magazine, Philosophy Now, Bad Idea and The Guardian. These publications range from the well established national broadsheet to the underground press hunting for new talent. I think it best to spread myself over a variety of printed editions in order to generate a number of different relationships with editors and have a diverse selection of magazines in which my content could be printed. Ive also been in discussion with Kristos about collaborating on some work, he's illustrated a piece of mine before for the student magazine Show Pony and it went down a storm. Move over Hunter and Ralph, Zac and Kristos demand some space!