Tips for Writers Looking for Work

I wish you luck!  The basic problem is the supply outstrips the demand when everyone and their brother is blogging, good quality or bad quality, literately or illiterately...

Just a suggestion:  If you are fairly fluent in Spanish make the rounds in person if you can, to newspaper offices in Colombia and specifically Pereira, pitching to them an on-line English-language section/column or translation services from Spanish into English for some of their articles.  It may at least give you a foot in the door for future work.

Thats actually a great idea, to talk to local newspapers.

I am the only blogger in the Coffee Axis though....well the only one who writes with regularity on both websites. And, in other publications I have been called an authority on the topic (of the coffee axis) which I don't really see other bloggers in Colombia talking about. Even Colombia Reports has very little on the Coffee Region.

figure out the difference between blogging and reporting. Once you have done that, your can call yourself a proper journalist, and if you're good, you won't find it hard to find outlets. The world doesn't need bloggers, it needs reporters.