[smartwater]

Think about what kind of business would benefit the most from your skillset and experience. Contact them and explain how you could improve one of their projects, services, or products. If you can write well and you know truly know your stuff, people will notice, but you have to put yourself out there and make it as easy as possible for them to say yes. It's a difficult technique to master, but once you do, the world is your oyster.

[wikwocket]

More than this, think about the businesses/industries in which you may have insider know-how and relevant skillsets. It is a lot easier to find a pain point to solve, and convey the value of your solution, when you:

- Know the current way things are done

- Have experienced the pain-points from those processes first-hand

- Have seen existing solutions and have ideas on how to improve/revolutionize them