Comments on: How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer – Great New Resource

By: lhoylhoy

lhoylhoy — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:09:03 +0000

i haven’t read it yet but i already have a copy just finishing how to be a rockstar wordpress designer

By: Catherine Lawson

Catherine Lawson — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:04:11 +0000

I like the book title and it has some great content. Plus, as Darren says, it is actually showing people how to become successful freelancers – not claiming that it will make you a millionaire overnight.

This is a refreshing change from some of the rubbish that’s out there.

Unfortunately there are a few e-books that give the rest a bad name, which is a shame, as writing an e-books is a smart way for a good blogger to monetise their website.

And I can’t imagine for one minute that a good blog is going to churn out a bad e-book, as it would damage their reputation.

By: Louisa Nicholson

Louisa Nicholson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:08:52 +0000

Unfortunately I was very unhappy with the contents, production value and price of the book. I wrote a full review at the web site. I’ve been a huge fan of theirs from FreelanceSwitch.com and it’s much better reading the site instead.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:17:54 +0000

The title of the ebook is intriguing – I’m a bit of a sucker for ebooks and my credit card over the last year shows it! Might give this one a whirl in the new year as I definitely want to move on from my current job which is wearing me down.

Alan

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:29:15 +0000

i don’t do paid posts/reviews supaswag.

I do use affiliate programs and there is one with this resource – however this is a genuine recommendation – take it or leave it.

By: supaswag

supaswag — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:14:30 +0000

paid post!
paid post!
paid post!

..and by the way “Freelancing like a Rock Star” ..LAME. What’s next? “Blogging like a Porn Star”? “Link Building like the CIA”?? ? You guys really make me laugh.

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:57:16 +0000

I’m sure the ebook is supreme. Freelance Switch is a great read, eye catching site, and very well done. I recently began bidding on some projects at http://www.esalesguru.com I am slowly getting into the freelance biz.

Maybe this book is something I need.

By: pavs

pavs — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:04:51 +0000

Everyone (premiere bloggers) seems to be trying to make money out of e-books. First Leo from Zenhabits now Freelancer, I am sure there has been other cases in recent past.

There is a great way to make money expecially if you have a huge reader base. If you have 20,000 feed reader and even 1000 decides to buy this book will result in $29,000. That’s a very good amount of money for the amount of work that will be put into it. (I am not implying that the book isn’t worthed, since I havent read it yet, nor am I implying that a lot of work/time hasn’t been put into the book.)

Since I don’t have a huge reader base like these bloggers, I have approx 200+ rss readers, I am going to give away my first e-book for free, which will be about 200+ pages long and fair amount of work is being put into it. By the time I will be done with this book, I am guessing I will spend about 50+ hours on it. Obviously the main goal for the e-book is to increase reader-base for my blog.

Maybe later I can think about charging my readers for e-books.

And no! The ebook is not about making money, its on the subject matter of my blog (computer Security)

By: Chris Hanel

Chris Hanel — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:42 +0000

I am no longer freelancing and I’m actually happy for the change. Maybe it’s just the stability of a salaried job, but the stress has gone down. Maybe I was just a bad freelancer and could have used this resource! :D

By: BoladeProa

BoladeProa — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:59:45 +0000

It’s already on my wish list for Christmas!

By: flash

flash — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:18:47 +0000

This is great, there are so many freelance websites and resources out there, hopefully this will be the one that puts them together in a useful and readable fashion.

By: Karri

Karri — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:36:03 +0000

This sounds interesting… and really useful too. Come to think of it – I may as well check this out.

Covering the whole “freelancing-scenario” is a tough one. There so many different elements in it. These elements require decent amount of focus just to handle them individually – not to mention handling them altogether. Sales, Design, Working, Creativity… you name it, they all are different areas that people are still studying individually. This kind of book is a much needed tool – and it should be used also by people who aren’t dealing with freelancing everyday. This would be a good lesson.

By: GangsterVideos.com

GangsterVideos.com — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:25:51 +0000

Freelancers can make some serious dough…I hope there is a chaper titled “How to Party like a Rockstar!”

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:57:04 +0000

I’m going to be picking up my copy once it comes out at LuLu in book format. Looks really good and I’ll be promoting it as an affiliate just because these guys are so good at what they do, I’m putting faith in this book

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:31:52 +0000

The cynic in me is screaming “this looks so much like a paid post!” but we all know Darren Rowse wouldn’t do a paid post without labeling it such. Or, maybe I’m just overly tainted by the smarmyness of the typical ebook that I can’t accept that any ebook has any value.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:23:01 +0000

Darren, I think you missed off the obligatory ‘this post contains affiliate links’ statement at the bottom.

Other than that, it looks like a book worth investigating further.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:14:12 +0000

You can win a copy over on my blog just for commenting on the announcement post :)

By: Dustin Brewer

Dustin Brewer — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:45:40 +0000

I have already ordered my copy, I’m just trying to find some time to read it. There is never enough time in the day for everything.

By: Richard B

Richard B — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:17:01 +0000

I bought this earlier today too. I’m only three chapters in but it is a really good read. It’s good to know that others are enjoying it too.

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:09:32 +0000

I read about this book on PSDTuts earlier today (one of Collis’ blogs), I may have to actually buy this now!