Re: Freelance work

> Individual business owners are often good interviews...my biggest
> problems come with those little blurbs I end up having to do about big
> chain stores and multiple-site businesses!  I often spend more time
> trying to find someone *willing* to do an interview for a 75 word blurb
> about something one of the big chains is doing than I do getting an
> interview done with the guy down the street who owns a little cafe,
> salon or store featured in a full profile.
> I like doing the stories with local business owners...I really don't
> care for doing columns with blurbs about big banks, chain stores or
> franchises changing their names...opening a new outlet...whatever.

     Dominique,

     I haven't written about any large stores yet so I'll keep it in mind.  I
usually interview people who own their own small business.  I think the staff
writers of the local newspapers write most of the blurbs about the larger
stores and businesses.  Usually smaller business owners are happy to get
whatever free publicity they can get so the interviews go pretty well.
     I'm hoping to do a lot of photos because they bring in more money that
the stories/articles do.

               Rhia

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