Now that election season has officially drawn to a close here in the U.S, it’s time for us to also bring an end to our ongoing debate with Men with Pens. We have a few more things to say on the subject, and since we called them out, it seems only appropriate to offer [...]

So, we’ve been debating Men with Pens this week on the topic of how much it costs to start and run a freelance business. I love the fact that after we named our post “The Cost of Freelancing,” James went ahead and named his “The True Cost of Freelancing.” Competitive much?
What Did You [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The question of how to charge more money (and how to make more money) as a freelancer is one that continually plagues us here at Freelance Parent. A little while back, I mentioned that we are just learning to walk that fine line between making good money and having enough work to keep us [...]

I’ve been around the blogosphere enough by now to come to understand that there remains one issue that freelancers skirt, avoid, and downright ignore: money. Oh, sometimes we talk about how much to charge or our goals for the future.  There’s even a fair amount of discussion about how to set freelance pay rates.  But rarely does anyone come [...]