Using Guru.com for Our Freelance Business

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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 [...]

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Top Ten Blogs for Writers Announced

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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 [...]

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Eight Creative Marketing Campaigns Adapted for Freelancers

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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 [...]

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Berry-Brewer Freelance Agency, Year One

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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. [...]

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Our First Freelance Income Report (aka, Show Me the Money)

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Not too long ago, Tamara took a risk and shared her freelance income here on the blog. To be honest, we didn’t know how people would react. Would other freelance writers think we lacked class for talking about money? Would they laugh at how little we make? Would they be inspired [...]

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67 Freelance Niche Writing Markets You May Have Never Considered

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We noticed that a lot of new folks are stopping by the blog via Digg and StumbleUpon.  Welcome!  Please feel free to poke around some of our older posts, add your own Digg/Stumble, or even subscribe to Freelance Parent via RSS using that orange box up in the top right corner.  If you’re interested in [...]

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How Do You Make More Money?

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I have to admit that I’m a little nervous about putting up this post. I think it could be such a great resource, but I’m worried that people will think I’m merely being nosey. Perhaps it’s my own preconceived notions that are causing me to doubt myself, as I was raised to think [...]

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Acknowledging Success

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When we started writing this blog, our purpose was clear. We were chronicling the process of starting a freelance business from home. From the very beginning, we’ve tried to be exceptionally transparent so that anyone wanting to do the same could learn from both our successes and our failures. Today I want [...]

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Hitch Your Wagon to a Star

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 A few weeks ago, Tamara and I chatted on the phone about our combined vision for our freelance writing company. We do this quite often, actually, and it helps keep us enthused about what we’re doing. We chat about our goals and whether or not we’ve reached them. We lay out our schedules for the upcoming [...]

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Ghost Writer for Hire

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It’s always so interesting to explain to people just what it is that I do. They all have the same question: “What do people pay you to write?” And I never quite know how to answer it. I usually start out with, “Well, we write a lot of web content.” [...]

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