Neither me nor the girl really have any family left. I do have a Soild Friend base (usually make them for life), it only goes so far. Now your advice to advertise or somehow promote that is where I've been saying I need to be heading for the last year because everything kind of went to crap right around Christmas last year
Unfortunately, I had to give work away for dirt a couple times to get my reputation up and able to charge accordingly. Most people won't or can't afford to do that. But for me it's always worked, add the correct directed faith.