When you work at home, you still likely need to have meetings with clients, employees, and others.   However, the format of the meetin...

Maternity leave can be a touchy subject in traditional outside-of-the-home jobs, but when it comes to from-home or telecommuting work, i...

If there's one mutual frustration among writer friends, it's this: clients can be difficult to work with, and some are not wort...

Anchor clients are great. You can count on them to hire -- and pay -- you monthly. They usually make up a good chunk of your writing...

Everything costs more these days, and you may have found it necessary (or just desirable) to ask your client for more money  for your fr...

One of the benefits of a 9 to 5 job is that you regularly come up for review and have the possibility to get a raise, even if it is j...

You may have built an amazing relationship with a client in a very short time, or maybe they are someone you’ve been with since the ve...

Everyone knows that a thriving business needs customers; finding them, however, is usually much easier than getting them to buy. Recen...

If there's one thing I LOVE about freelancing, it's managing every tedious aspect of my money. I love the control, I love ...

We share a fresh list of writing jobs every Monday, along with the rest of the work-at-home opportunities we find. Some of them requir...

I'm one of those Moms (and business owners) who thinks, "Yeah.. I'll back up my PC. Someday."  I'm also great at pl...

Soon, school will be out for the summer, and kids will be around. All. Day.  For those of use who homeschool, this is nothing new, but...

How do I get my first customer? This is by far the most frequently asked question that I get here and in my consulting business to moms ...

By Melissa Batai Every self-employed, work-at-home mom has to have one of these .  You know, the one client who you could talk to for ...

As an entrepreneur, you likely worry about not having enough work to do or not enough clients.  However, if you're good at your job...

By Melissa Batai When I first started working from home, I said yes to every job that came my way.  My husband and I desperately neede...

The holiday season is upon us, and with it more obligations, increased family time, and seemingly more responsibilities. You may th...

It's a competitive market in the work-at-home niche.  Some people recommend that you do some work for free to land new clients whil...

As I write this, I am staring out my office window at what was measured to be 8 inches of snow.  We had a blizzard in my county last nigh...

This week, I was asked a very interesting question from a friend who freelanced and didn't know how to ask for payment.  Was PayPal o...