So, if you’ve been keeping up with us this week, you’ll know that we’ve been talking about different ways to make sure that you have plenty of freelance business over the holidays. Here’s what we’ve talked about so far:

Steady Customers Can Sustain Your Freelance Business during the Holidays
Plan Ahead to Make Sure You [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]

Several weeks ago, Tamara and I realized that we were both wanting to go out of town during the first week in August.  “Hey, let’s close down for a week and take a real vacation!”  It sounded like such an awesome idea.
Awesome and totally, totally doomed to fail.
My little family arrived here in Seattle this [...]

My daughter has always been a very verbal child. Which is a euphemism for saying that when she wants or needs something, she demands it at the top of her lungs. Everything from getting a drink of water to a barrette falling out of her hair is a matter of the utmost urgency. I’ve always [...]

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 [...]