Yes, blogging has helped me a good amount. It has led to all of: job offers or longer term contracts (some accepted), consulting work, and training work. Multi

Yes, blogging has helped me a good amount. It has led to all of: job offers or longer term contracts (some accepted), consulting work, and training work. Multiple clients have mentioned that they got to know of me via my blog [1], while searching for either consultants or trainers on areas where they needed work done or training conducted. It has helped me get such work involving Python, PDF generation [2], Unix / Linux, C, Ruby, to mention some areas. But of course it can work for any area. E.g. I've got some project management consulting work, in the past, although I do not focus on that area much nowadays. [1] My main blog: https://jugad2.blogspot.com https://jugad2.blogspot.com Open source projects can also work. What I said above about my blog helping me get work, applies to my open source projects too, e.g.: [2] My xtopdf project (a Python toolkit for PDF generation from many other data formats): Overview: https://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf https://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf Project repo: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf It needs some cleanup and more docs, which I will work on over some time, but is basically usable and works for what it is meant to. It's also in use by some organizations, such as Packt Publishing, UK (for their book production workflow), the Software Freedom Law Center, USA (for e-discovery) and ESRI, NL, among others.