It’s been a pretty hectic month for us. In addition to taking a weekend “off” to travel to Las Vegas for BlogWorld 2008, we had quite a bit of excitement here at Freelance Parent as we made the top ten list for writer’s blogs and also decided to start outsourcing some of the projects we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
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Thanks to our “open door” policy here at Freelance Parent, Lorna and I get quite a few queries from folks getting started freelancing. These curious individuals pose questions on just about everything: “Do I need an English degree to be a writer?” “Where is the best place to start getting writing jobs?”
Because I enjoy feeling [...]

Admittedly, Lorna and I didn’t get into the freelance business knowing a whole lot about marketing. In fact, most of the things we know we learned thanks to the marketing gurus we’ve hired from time to time.
At the same time, we know how hard it can be for new freelancers to lay out the cash [...]

I had a really, really hard time being productive last week. No matter how many things I accomplished, it seemed like ten things popped up in their place, much like those troublesome tribbles aboard the Starship Enterprise. Ever one to place the blame on someone’s – anyone’s – shoulders, I did a little searching and found [...]

I spend a good 50 percent of my actual writing time working on SEO articles. It’s not the most glamorous work in the world, but the projects are easy to slip in between my daughter’s demands for attention and the pay is pretty good. I suspect quite a few freelancers are in a similar boat.
Overall, [...]