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As exciting as career changes can be, they do bring about their own challenges.

A major part of rebranding myself after my own career change lies in transforming my network.

I spent nearly 14 years building my oil and gas network. How can I speed up making connections with my new peers, those interested in marketing, tech, and writing?

While I haven’t yet mastered how to break through with the marketing and tech crowds, I do believe I’ve found the secret to connecting with writers.

Wanna know my secret?

Writers love typos.

Okay, I admit that’s click baity and attention-grabbing.

But writers love when you point out their typos. Or they usually at least appreciate it.

Because writing is hard.

Writers have to come up with awesome ideas and awesome words and awesome images and awesome promotion tactics.

Writers obsess over their work and cut and rearrange material they worked so hard to research and create.

They massage it numerous times and then they hit the Publish button even though they know their work isn’t perfect.

And seemingly no one notices.

Until you come along.

And say you: Hey, I know you put so much time and effort into this. And I want to help by pointing out something simple that slipped past you. So I’m making the effort to bring it to your attention.

Because I care about what you’re doing.

How sweet.

While I don’t have data to backup my claim, I do have anecdotes.

Pointing out typos on websites has led to a few new LinkedIn connections and even a free Udemy course.

So give it a shot.