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Syndicates already have that marketing apparatus in place.
But it's as difficult marketing the material to the big syndicates as it is to market it on your own. Unless you write for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post or one of the other affiliated papers with the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, don't bother submitting the material., according to Managing Editor Kate Carlisle, the company only publishes material from its affiliated papers. Still, Carlisle said, she gets two to three calls a week from people looking to syndicate a column or with a story idea. When David Kahn, editor for ArtistMarket, first started out 25 years ago to market a puzzle, he mailed envelope after envelope containing his material. After several months of making no headway he got off his chair and headed to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to call on the syndication companies personally.