Ask HN: What is the best advice I can give my wife on finding freelance work?

My wife was a practising Solicitor in the UK until recently. She's now lost her job and using this change in circumstance as an opportunity to re-assess her life. She has previous experience in Copywriting, and is very artistic (but no DTP experience).

What is some good advice I could give her to help her find freelance work?

She's submitted plenty of bids on places like Elance and FreelanceGuru in the past few weeks, but isnt having much luck. Most of the work also seems to be targeted to SEOs