Today, we’re going to do our best to answer some questions left by Susan Payton from Sparkplugging’s own Marketing Eggspert blog. She is interested to know how we use Guru.com, as she can tell from our monthly freelance income reports that we get a fair amount of business through that bidding site.
Here’s what Susan [...]

If there’s one thing that Tamara and I truly believe, it’s that the quality of your writing matters. In our opinion, better writers are worth more money.
Of course, being able to run your writing business—marketing your services and networking within the industry—is incredibly important, as well. Tamara recently mentioned the idea [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]