Lorna and I are really great at meeting deadlines for our clients. We really are. However, we – and most work-from-home-professionals that we know – constantly put our own work on the back burner and fly past self-set deadlines like we haven’t a care in the world. We have a separate blog for our business [...]

Estimates say that it costs 2 to 40 times more to find and secure a new client than it does to simply retain your old ones. Most of the time, these figures have more to do with actual customers (as in retail) and clients (as in law firms), since these types of businesses have to [...]

If you read Freelance Parent—or even the blog’s title for that matter—then you realize that it’s not just about how to start and run a freelance business. It’s also about how to combine that with parenting; how to juggle both aspects of your life. Freelancing is an amazing career option, and a big [...]

When Epson gave us the opportunity to cover BlogWorld Expo, one of the big ideas was for those who couldn’t attend to get a feel for it as if they were actually there. For me, one of the biggest parts of any conference or convention is checking out the vendor booths. This one [...]

Last year when we were nominated for Michael Stelzner’s “Top 10 Blogs for Writers,” on his Writing White Papers blog we were more than a little surprised. I don’t think “flabbergasted” is too strong of an adjective, actually. Freelance Parent was still brand-new, and we thought perhaps it was a fluke.
That fluke has bolstered us for [...]

Overall, BlogWorld was a pretty great experience for us. Although we weren’t able to do as much as we’d hoped, we did meet some wonderful people and learn some valuable information. We’ll probably be talking about and offering up videos of our experience there for the next week or two, so I thought I’d start [...]

In light of the no-baby situation we’ve been experiencing at BlogWorld thus far, Lorna and I have been tag-teaming our approach to visiting sessions and meeting other bloggers. We were fortunate to run into some other parenting/mommy entrepreneur types. Here are just a few of the blogs and sites the parenting side of our audience [...]

So, yeah. Dot and I are hanging out while Tamara’s in a social networking session.

Here’s our very first attempt at video blogging, and we have the most adorable test subject. Enjoy!

As many of you already know, Lorna and I – along with most of the other bloggers here at Sparkplugging – are spending the weekend in sunny Las Vegas. We will be video blogging our experiences at the 2008 BlogWorld Expo, including all the incredible people we intend to meet and record against their will.
Stay [...]