How does this happen?

[susandennis]

I work up this morning to two identical notes from a guy I'd never heard of (not spam becauseof my nifty verification service) asking me if I would do freelance copywriting and marketing writing. His note was not too informative:

Hello! I need some freelaning [sic] help with some marketing and web content development (copywriting and content development) . Are you interested in helping me? What is the typical cost?

And going to his website, he's right, he really does need communications help in a big way.

I wrote him back and told him that I didn't do freelancing work but thanked him for his inquiry and wished him luck. Had his communications skills been a bit better, I would have loved to have asked him how he came to send me the note in the first place.

Freelancing is way too harder a job than I want to take on in my old age. With no built in community, you have to make sure you get one of your own to draw on for ideas, support, news and info. The older I get the farther away I want to get from any community. And I'm just not that good a writer without a net. I'm a good co-writer.

But why would someone, out of the blue, bypass all the usual and obvious outlets for this kind of thing and lob a request to me? Curious.

Comments

[the-park-ranger.livejournal.com]

Clearly your fame has spread far and wide.

[estis.livejournal.com]

This was by the way your 1500th post to LJ (being anal I notice these things) so perhaps he read a few and like what he saw.

[susandennis]

WOW!!!! You are the best friend to have. My weather thing had been coded wrong since forever until you found it. And now you've noticed my milestone entry which I would have never remembered to look for. (And I'm a sucker for the odometer in my car...)

Wow. Cool. Thanks!