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. [...]

Most of the time, I assume my clients are working from a traditional business setting. No matter who they are, I envision a nice, air-conditioned office, a telephone answering service, regular working hours, and a professional wardrobe that puts me to shame. Working from home is still new enough to me (and seemingly incredible from [...]

I have a confession to make. I haven’t been reading your blog lately. Yes, I’m talking to you. I haven’t been reading your blog, and I feel incredibly guilty about it.
The fact of the matter is that I currently subscribe to 79 blogs. In addition, I have four of my own [...]

 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.” [...]

I’ve kind of been having a little love-fest here lately when talking about how we have been able to start working with a freelance marketer here in our own town. Work is progressing on that front, and we’ll hopefully soon be able to share our new logo and the facelift our website has received. We’re [...]

Before Tamara and I started the Berry-Brewer Freelance Agency, we both worked for the same company. She was a full-time employee, and I was a contracted freelance writer. For a short time, in fact, she was my supervisor. I wonder if she’s ever sorry that part’s over.
Anyway, when I was hired on by [...]

One of the most exciting parts of working on this Freelance Parent blog is the feedback and support we get from our readers and our community. Throughout this process, we have been fortunate enough to find invaluable resources for jobs, professional services, and plain good friends.
So of course, it is incredibly thrilling to find that [...]

Are you totally awesome?
I’ll bet that someone thinks you are. Heck, it’s possible that I think you are. What’s really important, though, is that potential clients think you are.
Q. How do you convince potential clients of your totally awesome status?
A. Have someone else do it for you.
It’s true that freelancers in [...]

As we’ve mentioned previously, things have been going really well for us since the beginning of the year. New jobs are coming in, and we’re figuring out what kind of division of labor is going to work the best for us. There are ups and downs, of course, but I think the “downs” make the [...]