Most of the time, I assume my clients are working from a traditional business setting. No matter who they are, I envision a nice, air-conditioned office, a telephone answering service, regular working hours, and a professional wardrobe that puts me to shame. Working from home is still new enough to me (and seemingly incredible from [...]

Feast or famine. It’s a term we hear a lot in the freelancing world. One day you may be overwhelmed by the number of projects on your plate, while the next leaves you wondering if you’ll ever have a paying gig again. We’ve found ourselves on both sides of the fence, and [...]

One of the interesting things about working with a business partner is that we don’t always agree on everything. This could be a terrible burden, of course, depending on exactly where the disagreement falls.

Let’s say we disagreed on how to split our money, for example. Well, that’d probably be a deal breaker.
What [...]

As the 4th of July approaches, I find myself looking forward to a great holiday weekend. We have big plans involving boats, lakes, fattening foods, and fireworks. Lorna is popping out of town for a few days, and my social calendar is filled to the max.
Still, I have work to do.
I am a strong advocate [...]

I have a confession to make. I haven’t been reading your blog lately. Yes, I’m talking to you. I haven’t been reading your blog, and I feel incredibly guilty about it.
The fact of the matter is that I currently subscribe to 79 blogs. In addition, I have four of my own [...]

Most of the time when financial experts talk about passive income as a means to indulgent wealth, they are talking about real estate (and it’s usually on one of those infomercials or websites that promise hundreds of thousands of dollars per month no matter what your IQ level). Passive income is basically money that you [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called “Acknowledging Success” wherein I talked about the fact that Tamara and I were really starting to reap the rewards of our hard work. We’re getting more business, and we’re getting higher-paying business, too. We feel pretty good about all of this, as we’ve put [...]

“The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This week, all I talked about was money. How we split it, where we keep it, and how we make sure that Uncle Sam gets his fair share. I just wanted to take a moment to remember that while being [...]

I generally tend to stay pretty positive here on the blog, but I’m just really ticked off about something, and I have a feeling some of you will be able to commiserate. Yes, this is one of those posts that weighs more heavily on the “parent” side than the “freelance” side. Basically, I [...]

 Happy Earth Day to all you freelancers out there. It hasn’t escaped me that the best way for me to observe the day would probably be by not doing my job . . . After all, I use a ton of electricity sitting at this computer, not to mention the natural gas to heat the [...]