#1534 - Software Engineer Publishes Technical Writing Guide
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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After a computer programmer with a knack for technical writing is approached for a freelance gig, he ends up writing the book on the subject.
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| 0:35.2 | What if you have no platform? |
| 0:37.2 | What if you have no social media followers? |
| 0:40.2 | You're not a famous blogger or an Instagram influencer or you have a lot of podcast listeners or YouTube subscribers, |
| 0:47.0 | whatever the metric is, whatever the medium, whatever the format. |
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| 0:52.0 | You think, well, I have a great idea for a product or service, but I'm just a voice in the wilderness here. |
| 0:57.4 | Who is going to care about it? |
| 0:58.4 | How am I going to reach the people that matter? |
| 1:00.6 | Well, in that case, the answer is you have to get creative. |
| 1:03.2 | The stock answer, what you hear from people when you say, what do I do if I have no platform, |
| 1:07.2 | the answer that you hear back is leverage someone else's, like find a way to gain access to somebody else's platform to reach their community. |
| 1:14.2 | If that sounds kind of nefarious or negative in some way, it's not meant to at all. |
| 1:18.6 | It's just a fact that some people have access to communities or people who would be interested in this thing. |
| 1:23.0 | How do you do it? |
| 1:24.4 | That's the question. |
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