How Do You Get Enough Experience to get a Programming Job?

How to get experience to get a software development job?  Eli the Computer guy is one of my favorite Youtube sensations out there that give relatively good advice.  I've been a C# .NET developer for around 6 months right now and finding a job in development has been difficult.  I don't have the long years of experience that employers are looking for yet because they usually want someone with 3 or more years of job experience.

What should I do?

In the meantime, I've been trying to market myself by doing web development for people.  I just started about a month ago and getting jobs have been rough.  I'm trying to find niche's in Wordpress development in my area where I live at and trying to get on social media accounts.  For example, exposing my skills to media sites, such as Facebook, Reddit, Youtube, and Google+.  I've been researching how to market my website http:\\www.logizticsdesigns.com.

Marketing with SEO takes a long time.  I don't think I can take being cooped up in the house very long.  I've been on the computer day and night, so I hope this pays off.

Getting Out There

A web designer on Youtube mentioned that he gets clients every time when he hands out business cards in local malls and stores.  I imagined what a perfect idea to gain experience.  Therefore, I ordered a bunch of cards to hand out to local businesses in the area.  I'm terrified at just showing up at someone's door, but I need to start some where, so I need to get over rejection.

Speaking of getting over my fears.  One day I was just out and about with my husband and I decided to randomly ask the owner of a liquor store if he would be interested in having a donated website.  Hence, free website!  His wife apparently told me they he wouldn't be interested.  I was rejected by two old people who owned a local liquor store.  I thought to myself, who wouldn't want something for free?  That's dumb.  Don't ask old people because I figure they are not up to speed with today's marketing and they are already set in their old ways.  Lesson learned I told myself.  When I told my husband the people rejected my free offer for a website.  He said, "they just don't care."  Yeah, okay whatever.  I'll ask someone else, next.

Just Waiting For The Right Time

I've done just about everything imaginable out there to get noticed.  I'm getting on board with social media, posted blogs, and told everybody what I'm up to.  Therefore, it's just being consistent with posting stuff and writing quality articles every time will be my duty for now and playing the waiting game.