Tamara and I, being the word geeks that we are, love the idea of closing out each week with a relevant quote. This week’s Freelance Inspiration comes from Marian Wright Edelman: Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. We talked a lot about [...]

Any of you who read my other blog know that I am a big believer in setting goals. It’s really hard to get what you want if you haven’t even defined it for yourself. I believe that setting a few goals for your freelance business is definitely one of the first steps you can take [...]

I have been excitedly reading all the interaction on our blog so far. It is great to see so many people reading our posts and putting in their own thoughts, opinions, and ideas. In her original welcome post, Lorna mentioned that we are likely to get as much assistance from our readers as we are [...]

This starting-a-business stuff is pretty scary. As I’ve mentioned before, I am acutely aware that I am not earning as much money as I would if I just sucked it up and got a nine-to-five gig. For some people, that really is a dream come true. They want nothing more than to have a stable [...]

The issue of what to charge your future clients for your freelance services is one of the most important things you will tackle as you begin (or move along) your business. It is also one of the trickiest. Without a set of universal parameters to turn to, you are pretty much sailing alone in a sea [...]

Last Friday, we left you with the question “What are your freelancing dreams?” In general, the responses seem to have a lot to do with making some money and improving quality of life for you and your families. Something I noticed, however, was that nearly every person who has responded so far has mentioned both [...]

This week, Tamara and I each wrote about why we decided that freelance writing was the path for us.  I talked about how writing fulfilled a sense of self worth and how freelancing satisfied a entrepreneurial lust within me.  Tamara looked at how her love of reading and the English language culminated in the discovery [...]

Pop Quiz: Why did Tamara become a writer? a) She tried to go to nursing school but found herself nauseous when forced to clean the scabby, cancerous wound of a sweet elderly lady. b) Her favorite activity no matter what the time of day or what the weather is reading; she couldn’t find a job [...]

Despite my nearly desperate attempts, I have had incredible difficulty trying to find my version of “it” in life. You know, it. I hear that it exists and that it is different for everyone. Apparently, many people discover what it is that they would like to do with their lives and then happily do that [...]

I am going to start this blog posting with an all-encompassing and very generalized disclaimer: everything I know about business structures and licensing was learned from a handful of books and internet websites. I am in no way an expert on this type of information, and as it has been told to us on several [...]