Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired!
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I read a ton of blogs. There’s just so much good content out there and I’m always interested to see what other people are thinking (especially about freelancing and small business). So I thought I would start sharing my favorite posts with you each week. Here are a few of my favorite blog posts for freelancers [...]

Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you [...]

Yesterday I introduced you to Jan B. King, an author consultant who created a training program for VAs to become Virtual Author’s Assistants. This is a very high-demand niche simply because the number of authors increases drastically every year. You can read Part One here if you missed it.
Here is Part Two of my interview [...]

Branding isn’t usually at the top of most freelancers’ “to-do” lists.
When you’re setting up a business, trying to find work, completing projects, handling administrative tasks, and trying to be a good parent at the same time, “branding” tends to sit quietly on the “when I have some free time” list. And we all know what [...]

If you work from home as a freelancer or virtual assistant, no doubt it’s been pounded into your head that you need to have a niche, or a target market. You need to define a group of people (NOT the population at large!) for whom you want to work or who need your specialized skills.
Recently [...]

Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday. Each week we’ll share some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired!
This week’s “Spark [...]

Coming up with project estimates (and waiting for the client’s response) might be one of the toughest things about freelancing.
How do you know how long a job’s going to take? How do you know what to charge? And then how should you present it to the client – hourly, per word, per page, flat fee?
It [...]

Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired!
This week’s [...]

Let’s admit it: freelancing can be scary.
There are so many things to worry about (especially if you’re a worrier to begin with). What if you don’t make enough money this month? What if your client hates your work? What if your quote is too high? What if this whole freelancing thing is a giant mistake? [...]