I am trying to do exactly that. One establishment would not post the flyer "because it might be a pyramid scheme." So simply being free seems insufficient.
Not in this case. I live in a town with a high unemployment rate and lots of homeless. I am newly off the street and would like to help people in dire straights. They don't have money to spare.
I work for a service called Textbroker. Unlike Upwork, it is not a race to the bottom. You can start off making very little and grow your income, potentially to a middle class level. It helped me get off the street.
I sometimes recommended them to online friends who had just lost a job or whatever, but they didn't get it. They didn't see what I saw.
So, I started a blog to try to explain how to make it work for you:
A couple of people I know socially are interested and have given me some useful feedback. I updated the flyers and one website because of the feedback I got.
I think I need to make local contacts and establish trust. Maybe do some volunteer work. I am not sure.
I would like to start here, but also actively encourage people to get into things like Etsy. There is good internet service in this town. But, I think they just need to get the word that it can be done. Remote work and gig work seems to be kind of big city, cosmopolitan culture. This is an area that historically did a lot of logging and fishing.
There is interest in, for example, IT related meetups. But nothing seems to actually be happening.
Well, at the moment, I am just trying to direct people to a couple of websites. I have created flyers and I am looking for bulletin boards to post them. I would be willing to do meet-ups or something.
Maybe if I were representing some religious organization, people might buy that I am just well meaning. But, I don't do religion.
But, thank you.