If you’ve seen our anniversary video, then you know that the previous year was full of some amazing experiences for the Berry-Brewer team.  One that we carry with us proudly is when Michael Stelzner named us to Writing White Papers’ “Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2007/2008.”  At the time the list was published, my husband was still wrapping [...]

Please note that this post was written as part of a Problogger.net group writing project. You’d be amazed at the random search terms that bring people to Freelance Parent. Of them all, “guru.com sucks” is probably the most common. I find that a little distressing, as I kind of like Guru. I’m continually surprised and [...]

A bit of conversation on yesterday’s Eight Things NOT to Rely on as a Freelancer post was the catalyst for today’s post. I mentioned that using Wikipedia as a primary research source is a big no-no. A couple of readers chimed in and said that many Google-based “informational” sources are also not valid (one even [...]

Unlike death, taxes, and computer malfunctions right before a deadline, not everything in this world is reliable. Here are just a few of the things I’ve learned to plan for as a professional freelancer. 1. Don’t rely on a single revenue source (or even two or three). Not only can a big-time client dry up [...]

I was orginally planning to get all mushy and wax poetic about marking the one-year milestone for our company. Instead, I spent three days making a video about it. Why do I do these things to myself? As far as home-based businesses go, freelance writing has been a dream come true for us. We’ve had [...]

To continue our celebration of reaching an entire year as professional freelancers, I’d like to review a post we wrote fairly early on – Setting Goals for Your Freelance Business. In this post, we shared the goals we put in our business plan. At that point, we had not yet even hit the three-month mark, [...]

It’s a special week here at Freelance Parent.  One year ago, Tamara Berry and Lorna Doone Brewer officially launched our freelance writing business.  We had big aspirations and a lot of fears, so it is amazing to be here at the anniversary point. Please join us this week as we celebrate by looking back at [...]

As a joke, my husband’s coworkers recently created a CD of songs he absolutely abhors. It features such timeless artists as ABBA, N’Sync, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, and Hannah Montana. When he received it, he popped it into the car’s CD player, laughed once or twice, and promptly shoved it into the deep recesses of [...]

Over the course of the life of Freelance Parent, Tamara and I have very decidedly shied away from giving legal advice on the blog. We are not attorneys, and we are certainly not interested in getting ourselves into any trouble for steering someone astray. It turns out, though, that we have a direct line to [...]

I will never condone shoddy, mass output work. I think that regurgitated information is the bane of the Internet’s existence and that all employers who want quantity in place of quality deserve to be fired. Okay, that disclaimer is over and done with. Now that we all know where I stand, I am going to [...]