Using Interns & Part-Time Assistants In Your Small Business

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As a small business owner or solopreneur, you may be short on help but wary of taking on the responsibility of a new employee. In this webinar, hosted by freelance writer and small [...]

This is a review of How To Make Money on Elance, an information product for freelancers produced by Alexis Rodrigo. Sparkplugging has not been paid to write this review but did receive a free review copy of the product. There are no affiliate links in this review.
In How To Make Money on Elance, freelance writer and [...]

Welcome to the fifth and final post in our “Build Your Own Freelancing Website” series! So far we’ve covered domain names, hosting, whether to feature a blog on your site, and customizing your site design.
In today’s post, we’ll cover the most important step: adding content to your website.
Step 5: Create Content That Converts Leads Into Clients
As a [...]

Welcome to the fourth post in our “Build Your Own Freelancing Website” series! So far we’ve covered domain names, hosting, and whether to feature a blog on your site.
Now it’s time to talk about how to make your site look good (without spending a fortune).
Step 4: Select a theme and then customize it.
Whether you’re working with Wordpress [...]

A designer friend recently told me that she was stiffed on a design job and how it really rocked her core trust in online business owners. This isn’t enough to make her jump back into the corporate world but she really took this slight personally.
I shared my own story here yesterday about not being paid [...]

Welcome to the third post in our “Build Your Own Freelancing Website” series! So far we’ve covered domain names and hosting. Once you’ve purchased your domain name and hosting package, you’re ready for…
Step 3: Decide whether you want to publish a blog and where it should go.
In my last post, I listed three options for [...]

Welcome to the second post in our “Build Your Own Freelancing Website” series. In the first post, we talked about choosing and reserving a domain name. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready for the second step – choosing a company to host your website and purchasing a hosting package.
Step 2 – Choose a web host and [...]

The week before last I asked you what you needed to know about building a website for your freelance business. If those who responded (by e-mail and on the blog) are representative of Freelance Parent readers as a whole, you’re looking for easy-to-follow instructions for creating a simple website and blog.
In light of that goal, I’ve [...]

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 to your blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired!
This week’s “Spark an Idea” [...]

If you have a website set up for your freelance business, and you think it’s perfect just the way it is, that’s great! You probably don’t need this post, although I would love for you to share your suggestions for other freelancers in the comments.
On the other hand, if you either (a) don’t have a [...]