Today, Darren Rowse, Founder and Owner of Problogger.Net sites, launched a book titled “ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income”. Darren writing this book with Chris Garret.

What’s the book’s about? As mentioned on their official book sites, here is the preview of Darren’s book:

Blogging has become a popular and fascinating pastime for many, but more and more bloggers are finding it can also be an excellent source of direct or indirect income.

Although the barriers to starting a blog are low, without expert guidance it is easy to get frustrated when success doesn’t match expectations. Written by the creator of the world’s #1 resource for making money with blogs, ProBlogger takes the reader from absolute beginner to earning money from or as a result of blogging. Through step by step practical lessons the reader will choose a blog topic, analyze the market, set up a blog, promote it and earn revenue.

Unlike other books that are big on potential and theory, ProBlogger provides results based on the authors own experience of what really works through practical, tried and tested advice. Inside readers will learn:

• How Bloggers Make Money
• Direct Income Earning vs. Indirect Income Earning methods
• Why Niches are Important
• 20 Ingredients for a successful blog post
• Optimizing advertising
• Which advertising platforms work best
• Expert analysis of Technocrat’s Top Blogs - why they work

and so much more.

As an online entrepreneur, I thought this is “must-buy” book, worth to spent money on this. So, are you ready to steal the secrets from six-figure income blogger?

On my previous post, I already tell you about tips to become successful freelancer. This article was the second part. This tips was written Indonesian, so if you not native Indonesian, try to grab some dictionaries to translate this article. Here we go, the original article written by Freelancetech.info.

Tips - How to Become a Successful Online Freelancer #1:

there is some tips and trick for freelace online :

1. Jangan takut untuk mendaftar disemua freelance online. cari tau kelebihan dan kekurangan masing-masing agensi freelace tersebut.
2. Karena kamu newbie, jadi jgn terlalu berani untuk bid (lelang) dengan harga tinggi. walaupun kualiatas kamu di indonesia sangat ternama (or jago banget deh)
3. Bid antara $30-$100 or $100-$300 di GAF begitu pun di RAC, tapi kamu jgn memberikan bid harga tertinggi $100 or $300, kenapa?? karena saingannya kamu itu seluruh dunia (apalagi orang india), mereka (calon klien) belum mengetahui kualitas dirimu, karena kamu belum ada rating or review. saran saya, kamu memberikan bid 1/2 harga, misal $50-$75 or $130-$160.
4. Raihlah review or rating sebanyak-banyaknya dengan kerja rodi sedikit. nanti kalo rating or review sudah 10, kamu boleh sombong dgn menaikan harga
5. Berusahalah meminta YM id, MSN id, gtalk id and email for keepntouch
6. Jangan pernah mengenal lelah untuk ngeBID, bersabar, dan mengetahui selah dari BIDDING
7. Selalu memberikan PM (Private Message) kepada klien mengenai project tersebut dan selalu berikan penawaran-penawaran kepada calon klien kita
8. Bila kita mendapat klien jgn lupa kasih mereka report progress, walaupun progress yang kita lakukan belum banyak. toh ini juga progress report
9. Jangan sampai melewati DEADLINE
10. Berbaik-baiklah kepada calon klien or klien, agar mereka menjadi klien tetap kalian. gue sudah mendapat 2 klien tetap. wow its fun

Tips - How to Become a Successful Online Freelancer #2

Alhamdulillah dapat melanjutkan tulisan tips yang ke #2, insyaallah dapat berguna bagi freelance newbie :mrgreen:. oh ya…. thanks bagi Zeusbox yang membagi ilmunya untuk mengetahui tips and trik memilih proyek di site freelance, cool dude..:d

1. Gunakanlah angka bid yang sifatnya seperti penawaran harga ganjil, seperti $499, $999, $89. hal ini juga dapat menambah peluang kamu untuk mendapatkan suatu project.
2. Berikanlah Private Message yang bertubi-tubi, agar mereka (klien) mengetahui kamu ada, tapi PM yang dikirim selalu mempunyai kualitas (tidak spam), nanti akan karma sendiri
3. Selalu baik terhadap klien, jangan selalu menanyakan tentang project yang kita kerjakan… misalnya seperti kehidupannya dia, sehat or tidak, bagaimana dengan keluarganya. Semakin dia nyaman dengan kita, semakin baik hubungan maka…kerjaan akan mengalir kepada kita
4. Apabila kerjaan kamu load (apabila kamu sudah dapat memegang 5-7 project sekaligus), jangan ragu untuk outsourcing ke temen-temen kamu yang mempunyai potensi yang baik. karena jangan sampai kita mengecewakan klien (dari kualitas hasil dan waktu)
5. Selalu bertukar pikiranlah untuk mengasilkan kualitas yang baik, tapi jangan sampai kamu terbawa arus olehnya…yang nantinya akan timbul revisi-revisi yang tidak diinginkan
6. Jangan jadikanlah Freelance online agent ini sebagai pegangan hidupmu, kenapa? karena secara tidak langsung kamu akan dirugikan oleh potongan2 dan tidak membuat dirimu mandiri untuk menjadi freelance sejati (halah… apasih? :D), jadi diusahakan di freelance online agent hanya sebagai tempat mengumpulkan banyak teman (yang pasti bisnis, bukan temen main) dengan jangka panjang long term relationship. alhamdulillah saat ini banyak klien yang mengajak aku untuk project lanjutan tanpa menggunakan freelance online agent
7. Say hey to your old client. basa basi untuk long term project, bisa melalui Yahoo messanger, email, or skype
8. Jangan buat dirimu jenuh dengan load pekerjaan yang menumpuk, usahakan punya planning untuk VACATION and DONT DISTURB BY YOUR CLIENT
9. Menabunglah, karena kita tidak tahu sampai kapan kita akan mendapatkan pekerjaan ini. mungkin saja dalam 1-2 kita belum dapat project. so… survive your self and your family
10. Berani menolak pekerjaan, apabila kerjaan kamu sudah mempunyai load yang tinggi atau kamu mempunyai hanya 1 pekerjaan yang diharuskan menghasilkan kualitas yang baik (hal ini mungkin bisa menjadi referensi portfolio yang diandalkan)

Mungkin dengan 10 other tips and trick ini, mampu membuat kamu lebih handal dalam dunia persilatan freelance online. jangan mudah menyerah dan gak perlu takut. karena menurutku pekerjaan ini hanya mempunyai resiko yang kecil dengan hasil yang banyak. lumayan dapur istriku agak mengebul…:mrgreen:

The last, this is a tips from experienced freelancers:

• Mencari Project Dari Luar Negeri Itu Mudah

Are you smelling dollar perfume here? Of course you do, cause in this article I will tell about blog income report. Unfortunately this is not my blog’s income but it’s my friends other people’s blogs which has famous name John Chow.

Let me tell you about him. John Chow is one of not many “six figure blogger”. He earn all of that money from his blogs in a month. From writing and selling stuff on his blog. You can look at reviewme banner on the top right corner of his blogs. $500 each review! It’s a good money isn’t it? If he writes 10 articles a month then he will get $5,000 only from writing.

This is really good opportunities for you who might want to start a business, especially internet-related business. How about starting investments? Don’t worry, it’s cheap! What you have to do is build a websites and start develop your web. For your information you can purchase domain with $10 only with hosting cost not more than $1, 000 per year. Believe me, this is an big business with low cost start-up investments.

This article are going to talk about one of many internet business opportunities. This is about freelancer. There are many freelance work available on the internet, starting from basic task - like writing - until task that need some special skills - like web programming (this is the topics I want to share here).

Let’s start this article by comparing freelance job in our country with online freelance job (which is basically comes from foreign country). From my subjective views, freelance in Indonesia almost have no “value”, I’m seeing from salary point of view. You will see different case if you talking freelance in foreign country, especially US, Europe and Australia. The most easiest comparation is from salary because they paid freelance usually in US dollar, which is have more values compared to Rupiah.

Let’s take a look at this sample:

A web development company based in Brisbane, Australia is looking for a talented Indonesian (lived and based in Indonesia) to join our team. Job opening are for Remote Full-Time or Project-Based Advanced PHP Programmer.

1. Have good understanding on PHP4/PHP5 Object Oriented Programming and MVC.
2. Have worked on a project that cloned websites such as Facebook, Youtube, Dating sites, Ecommerce site.
3. Have excellent query and MySQL database skills (understand other RDMS would be a plus).
4. Understand CakePHP framework would be a plus.
5. Understand HTML tags.
6. Discipline and on-time.
7. Able to read, write and speak English fluently.
8. Have a 24/7 internet connection and willing to stay online during working hours.

Working Hours: 8 hours/day 5 days a week
Expected Salary: Starts from US$50/day for full-time (project-based fee will apply hourly rate).[source]

Look for the sentence which I make bold and underlined. The salaries for that project STARTS FROM $50, this means you still have a chance to proposed for higher number. Can you imagine, how much is the money if it’s converted to Indonesian rupiah? Even the same jobs in Indonesia doesn’t paid that much :). This is just few example from many online freelance opportunities.

Everyone can try applying for freelance jobs, almost no limitations and the most interesting part is you can do the task from home, as long as you have internet connections.

I thought this article already long enough, I will continued in another post. Don’t go anywhere!

Basically, the best way to learn about entrepreneurship is by start your own business. From there, you’ll know what’t right and what’s wrong with your business setup. Get your hands dirty - it’s the key. Don’t be afraid to be failed, make it as an investment. If you failed for your 1st or 2nd business, never stop, I’m sure you’ll get there soon.

But, maybe for some of you, doesn’t have a clue at all, how to start a business, what business should I choose, where the trusted place I can ask or is there any good reading should I go? Here, I give some useful links to start of, some in English and some in Indonesian (local entrepreneur):

1. Entrepreneur.Com
2. Purdi E. Chandra - The Founder of Primagama Group

Only this resource available for now, I’ll update again this post, if I get another good resources.