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[...] What Do Fishing and Personal History Clients Have in Common? [...]

By: Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:28:01 +0000

@Pat McNees. Thanks for your comments. What you say makes a lot of sense. As well, I think for people starting out in the personal history business it’s really important to focus their marketing efforts and not use a scatter gun approach.

By: Pat McNees

Pat McNees — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:56 +0000

Most of my clients for personal histories have been men. One woman hired me to help her husband write his memoirs. Nobody has been poor, but they also haven’t necessarily been rich, and having enough extra money to purchase my services is definitely a factor. Those who hire me to do organizational histories may be men or women, and the person doing the hunt for the writer is not necessarily the person whose idea it is to do a history. The person who gets inspired to do a personal history or an organizational history may then have no idea where to find someone to help them. The people you want to educate about your availability are the people they may ask for advice. They may be young or old. The age of the storyteller/legacy leaver and the age and gender and status of the person looking for the personal historian may be two different things.