[james_marks]

Publishing articles, etc to demo your skill helps you stay top of mind.

Even if only the 5 people in your network see it, they are the 5 people that need that steady reminder of your skills and availability.

I’ve also hired people outside my network this way, when I happened to stumble on someone with a great article in the exact thing I’m working on.

[bob1029]

I've started thinking about this. Articles/blogs/repos to generate interesting opportunities.

It's one thing to network and talk about your skills. It's a different thing to demonstrate them.

[zelphirkalt]

In my experience, admittedly not that long term yet, no one even looks at repositories. I got really good stuff in there, that demonstrates my developer skills, but hiring people never seemed to even have taken a look, nor shown any interest in what I might be able to present to them. Instead they me gave BS ad-hoc coding tasks in the interviews. Could also be, that they are unfamiliar with any of the not mainstream stuff I did and did not dare ask questions, because they felt out of their own depth.

[brudgers]

Yes they are different. Sales is much much harder.

Clients don’t care about your skills.

Clients care if you can solve their actual problems.