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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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.” [...]