Scuba diving industry and the value of coral reef

by Charles Roring in Manokwari of West Papua - Indonesia

Scuba diving and coral reef are two terms that always have close relation. Most of the dive centers are located near coral reef. We can see them in Sinai of Egypt, Great Barrier Reef of Australia, Bunaken, Raja Ampat and Cendrawasih Bay of Indonesia and many marine tourist destinations around the world.

Although coral reef is important for marine tourism, its value is more. It plays a very important role in marine ecosystem. Coral reefs are home to millions of fish. They provide food for both the marine animal and human being. They do the photosynthesis thus absorbing carbon dioxide.

Therefore, the development of marine tourism must not jeopardize the existence of coral reef along the coastal region and its supported environment such as mangrove forest. Beach hotels must treat their wastes before discharging them. Fishermen, most importantly the modern ones, must be trained to practice sustainable fishing techniques. The use of poison, explosive and bottom net has to be banned by the government.

Every year, the number of scuba divers grows well. This is seen as market opportunities by owners of beach hotels and dive centers. Running a dive center needs expensive investment. Dive operators tend to invite as many divers as possible to reach their selling target. It is important for the marine park management board to limit the number of dives in certain coral reef that has been saturated. This is needed to minimize unnecessary pressures on marine ecosystem so that it can thrive and develop well.

As the source of food for human being, coral reef is important not only for the divers but also for the fishermen. When more diving centers are opened in certain location of coral reef region, they will have to respect the traditional fishing communities living in the region. Efforts on marine conservation should provide rooms for fishermen to continue fishing sustainably. It means that not all the area of the coral reef will be categorized as "No Take Zone" area.

If properly and professionally managed, scuba diving industry can get maximum benefit from the existence of coral reef without jeopardizing the interest of local fishing communities.

Also read: scuba diving and fishing communities

Diving In Milne Bay of Papua New Guinea

Diving in the Pacific islands has been a dream of every professional diver around the world. The tropical waters of Pacific islands have a lot of beautiful and pristine coral reefs. In the Easter Indonesia, there are diving sites in Banda islands, Raja Ampat islands, Bunaken islands, Cendrawasih bay. At the north of West Papua, divers can enjoy the clear water and colorful coral reef of Palau, together with numerous shipwrecks from US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy.

In Papua New Guinea, Milne bay is my recommendation. This is one of the best kept secrets diving sites which recreational scuba divers should visit. If you haven't visited this diving site, I suggest you to put it on your list. The coral reef there is unspoiled and full of various marine animals.

Besides enjoying the beauty of the underwater world, you can also see the unique life and culture of Papuan coastal villagers who catch fish using traditional fishing gear. They also practice certain fishing method that is interesting to see. Why don't you escape for a while from your daily routine and fly to Tawali resort? You will not regret diving and enjoying the nature of Papua New Guinea. Once you have visited the region, you will feel that you have to comeback again next time. by Charles Roring

What if I could not afford to scuba dive this year?

by Charles Roring in Manokwari of West Papua - Indonesia

Well this is a question every scuba diver may ask during today's economic downturn. Beach hotels in tropical region such as Bali, Manado, or Palau islands or Phuket Thailand try hard to promote their tour and diving packages to tourists from around the world. The competition is tougher this year as the number of scuba divers is decreasing due to the economic slow down in many parts of the world.

This trend, if I have to see it from positive point of view, is good for the coral reef condition. Fewer dives mean fewer pressures to the coral reef and the marine animals. I don't mean that I reject diving. But I have to say that not many diving enthusiasts will embark on a plan for a trip to the Pacific islands this year.

This will be a hard time for diving resorts. They need to lower their overhead spending, reduce the number of employees and even had to close temporarily - I don't know for sure.

Diving is seen as the backbone of many island countries in the Pacific region besides fishery. If they receive fewer divers this year, they will face economic hardships.

Actually, divers who cannot afford summer diving in the Pacific islands of Palau, Papua New Guinea or West Papua this year can support the local diving communities through many other ways. For instance, they can pay or buy entrance ticket through the internet which is only around 20 dollars. The money will be used by the marine park management board to do some conservation projects that involve the local villagers. Diving resorts can use this quiet time by making underwater film depicting the beauty of the coral reef in their region and sell it in the form of DVD at major bookstores or video stores in big cities around the world. I see that this might be a silly idea but producing film or movie for educational purposes about underwater world of coral reef will give bigger income to the diving resorts.

Many governments support the protection of coral reef since they know that every kilometer of coral reef can provide up to 15 ton of sustainable harvestable fish. Indonesia as the largest archipelago in the world is lack of educational materials that are needed to teach school students and public society about the conservation of coral reef.

I strongly believe that although the economic downturn has also affected the scuba diving industry in many countries, there are still many possibilities for the resort owners and professional divers to make money from the underwater world without having to destroy any single coral at all.

Planula larvae

Planula larvae is the Latin name of baby coral. Coral reproduce either asexually and sexually. Coral species are hermaphrodites. It means they are both male and female. They can produce eggs and sperm. In sexual reproduction, sperm swims into the mouth of a polyp containing an egg and fertilizes it internally. The young polyp or planula larvae grows within the polyp. The maturing of planula larvae is called brooding.

Every year, colonies of coral reef release "fertilized eggs" into the sea. These eggs then grow and become baby coral which will be carried away by ocean current to far away places. If they land on hard surface rock or substrate they will grow well.

Majority of the coral reproduction occur in sea water. During this process, polyps release or eject eggs and sperm into the sea. The sperm will fertilize the eggs externally, i.e. outside the polyps.

Experienced scuba divers and marine biologist like to watch the event of how the coral polyps eject eggs and sperm into the ocean. This happens once a year.

Japanese National TV station used to broadcast this event as an educational program to elementary and secondary school students in Okinawa islands.

The showing of coral spawning on TV brings positive impacts. Japanese people and those who were watching the program could understand and appreciate the importance of coral reef to the environment and livelihood of mankind.

On the average, one kilometer of healthy coral reef can produce 15 ton fish which can be caught or harvested sustainably. Coral reef is an important source of food not only to marine animals but also to human being. Therefore, it is important for all of us to participate in the protection and conservation of coral reef. by Charles Roring in Manokwari West Papua Indonesia

Scuba divers need to support the sustainable fishing practices

by Charles Roring, Manokwari, West Papua

Scuba diving has always been considered as an environmentally friendly tourism industry. Tourist divers who experience underwater world for the first time will be amazed with the beauty of the coral reef and various types of fish moving around them.

The fish that are abundant in coral reef are often caught by local traditional fishermen. They then sell the fish at the nearby market. If well managed, both the diving and traditional fishing can exist side by side without any conflicts of interest.

To realize this condition, owners of diving resorts and marine park management board must find a solution that the local fishermen can accept.

All the area of coral reef in certain region cannot be put in what is called as "NO TAKE ZONE." For conservation purposes, there has to be that kind of zone. BUT an area of limited fishing or sustainable fishing should be delineated in a coral reef region for the fishermen to the their fishing activities.

Traditional fishermen have applied a number of sustainable fishing methods. One of them is the use of fish-trap. In the pacific region, fish traps are placed among the coral reef to catch fish. These fish traps are safer than the modern method of bottom trawling.

The above photograph shows typical fish traps which fishermen in Mansinam island of Manokwari, West Papua use to catch coral fish. I support the use of this traditional fishing equipment. It is mainly made of bamboo or rattan.

If necessary, resort owners and marine park management board can allocate certain budget, collected from the entrance fee charged to the tourists, for the production of fish traps. This will discourage the application of blast fishing and help the fishmen keep the coral reef environment in safe condition.

I strongly believe that the traditional fishing communities can live side by side with the scuba diving operators in mutual cooperation.

Scuba diving in times of financial crisis

During the economic down turn, scuba diving is still possible to be done if we know how to do it efficiently, i.e. without having to spend a lot of money. Diving enthusiasts can try to explore new dive sites in their country if they think that the air fare to dive sites with pristine coral reef in the Pacific region is unaffordable. There are still a lot of unexplored diving sites in the world. Sometimes, we do not realize that some of them are located not far from our home.

If you insist that you want to dive in the Pacific islands such as the Raja Ampat islands and Cendrawasih Marine National Park in West Papua, you can still do that with minimum cost. Before flying to West Papua, contact other divers in your mailing list whether they want to join you in your trip. Going diving together in a group of ten to twenty people will help you save a lot of money both in transportation and accommodation costs.

When you travel alone, it is better to bring fewer diving equipment. You can rent diving bottles, BCD (buoyancy control device), wet suit, and mask in the diving resort that you stay. But you need to ask the resort owner if they have dive gear that is suitable to your body size and whether it is still in good condition.

Renting diving gear is cheaper than bringing your own during a long trip. The cost for extra luggage is increasing right now.

Many dive resorts now have websites which display underwater pictures of the coral reef which you might want to dive on. Visit the website and contact the resort owner the best time to dive in the area. The weather in your country might be different from the weather in your diving destination country. It is definitely clear that diving during dry season in countries such as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji will give you the best diving experience. These countries are located near the equator, diving during rainy season is not recommended. The visibility is very low due to the run of natural debris from the rivers closer to the coral reef.

When you have got all the necessary information for your next dive trip, you can begin your journey anytime you want. by Charles Roring in Manokwari West Papua - Indonesia

Coral Bleaching and Global Warming

Scuba divers and marine biologists observed that the global coral bleaching event had taken place between 1997 and 1998. During this time sixteen percent of the coral population died. Coral bleaching is caused global warming.

Human activities that burn fossil fuels produce large amount of CO₂ emissions and other green house gases that increase the temperature of the earth.

Coral bleaching does not only affect the scuba diving and marine tourism activities but also the whole world population. Coral is the source of food for fish. When corals die, many marine species will also die. So, the loss of healthy coral reef will also affect the fishing community around the world.

To stop the corals from bleaching, we must stop the global warming. It is not an easy task to be done. Reducing or stopping the global warming is the responsibility of everyone. Actions have to be taken in all such levels as governmental, industrial, domestic and even individual. The success of these actions lies on the changing of lifestyle.

Every concerned citizen can play his or her part in saving the coral reef environment. When going to the supermarket, shoppers can choose not to take plastic bag given by shop assistant. Instead, they can bring their own bags from home. They can also go to work by public transportation or riding bicycles. In addition, every concerned citizen can participate in beach clean up activities.

Large industries that produce huge amount of green house gas emissions must not only solve this problem by buying carbon credit from carbon reduction projects. They must seriously take actions that are aimed at reducing CO₂ and its equivalent emissions.

Diving resorts as the major player in marine tourism industry can play a leading role in cleaning up the beach and underwater environment. Resort and hotel owners need to organize regular beach clean up in their area as part of their corporate social responsibility programs.

The reduction of green house gas emissions will help restore the coral reef condition that is important to the marine environment and to mankind. by Charles Roring in Manokwari of West Papua - Indonesia.

Coral Reef and Beach Clean Up Activity

Coral reef that is located near coastal town and cities always face destructions due to the marine pollution. On shore human activities that produce domestic and industrial wastes often end-up at sea and damage the coral reef ecology.

To minimize the destruction of coral reef, scuba diving communities frequently voluntarily conduct under water clean up. As a matter of fact the cleaning up of coral reef is not only the responsibility of divers. Everybody who is concern about the environment can participate in this campaign.

It is understandable that the cleaning up of coral reef that is located more than three meters underwater has to be handled by diving professionals who have the skills and expertise to do works underwater. However, there is still a lot of garbage scattered along the beach. City or town dwellers can organize the cleaning up events every two or three months. When doing the clean up, volunteers should not step on or touch coral. They should also not harass marine fish that live among the corals.

After collecting the wastes, they need to sort them into containers according to the categories of the wastes. These wastes can then be recycled, incinerated, or buried in locations that will not harm the marine environment anymore.

Those who are involved in marine tourism activities can play a leading role in the cleaning up of the beach. Marine tourism operators are the ones who will be directly affected if the beach is polluted.

Coral reef is important to the marine environment. So far there are 93,000 coral reef species which have already been identified. Some experts have even predicted that there are more than 3 million reef species.

Regular beach clean up will not only bring positive impacts to the coral reef ecology but also to the whole environment. by Charles Roring in West Papua Indonesia

What city dwellers can do to protect coral reef

Protecting coral reef is not only the task of scuba divers but also everyone. The destruction of coral reef is now going on very fast.

The degradation of sea water quality to human activities living in big cities play a significant role. Scuba diving only causes very little destruction to the coral reef compared to the city dweller activities. Every day city dwellers throw plastic and metal garbage to the streets. During the rainy days, they flow to the river and then to the sea. Upon arriving at sea, the garbage covers the sea grass and coral reef which are the place where fish and other sea animals live and feed.

In addition, the rapid growth of population in big cities increases the consumption of food including fish. Marine fishing industry use more modern equipment to catch fish in larger quantity. Often to catch fish at the bottom of the sea, the modern fishing fleet applies the bottom trawling method that causes massive destruction of coral reef.

Other activities from city dwellers that bring more pressure to the coral reef is the construction of housings along the coastal area that creates solid and liquid wastes. These wastes flow or are dumped at sea. As a result coral reef environment located near the coastal housing or tourist centers suffer severe damages and most likely unrecoverable.

To restore the condition of coral reef, campaigns against marine pollution should be done. City dwellers can begin with such activities as beach clean up. These can be organized in cooperation with marine environmentalists or water sport associations in every coastal cities or towns.

The beach clean up can also be expanded into another educational activity which aims at providing information to city dwellers about how important the coral reef is to the environment. This can be done by broadcasting films about sea life on TVs or publishing articles about coral reef and the sea on local news paper.

City dwellers can also be asked to sort their domestic wastes so that they can easily be recycled instead of being end up at sea. Supermarkets and department store can also participate in coral reef awareness campaign by not providing plastic bags to shoppers or by giving discounts to shoppers who prefer to bring their own bags when shopping.

With more participation from city dwellers in coral reef awareness campaigns, we can hope that in the future the condition of coral reef will be better and able to revitalize the marine life again. written by Charles Roring in West Papua, Indonesia

A good book for home owner, designer and builder

I just downloaded a book tonight. Its title is Your Green Home - A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home.

The phrase new home is not intended only to newly built house but to any house which needs to be re-constructed or modified to be a green home.

I am planning to build my own house and I have been looking for information that is related to sustainable house construction. When I was surfing the e-book websites, I found this book. I haven't read all the pages of the book but I can say that the content is suitable for my needs.

The followings are the topics discussed in the book:

YOUR GREEN HOME

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: So YouWant to Build a Green Home

CHAPTER 2: Finding the Help You Need
CHAPTER 3: Where to Build

CHAPTER 4: General Issues in House Design

CHAPTER 5: The Structural Building System
CHAPTER 6: Energy Efficient Design

CHAPTER 7: Making Use of Renewable Energy

CHAPTER 8: Materials and Products for Green Building
CHAPTER 9: Creating a Safe Indoor Environment
CHAPTER 10: Respecting and ConservingWater

CHAPTER 11: Dealing with ConstructionWaste

CHAPTER 12: Landscaping and Plantings
CHAPTER 13: Costs of Building Green
CHAPTER 14: Living in Your Green Home

Steps in Building a House

Suppose that you plan to build a house this year. The first thing that you need to do is buying a land. The house should be constructed according to the condition of the land.

When you have known the size of the land, and its contour the next step is making the house plan. There are a number of technical drawings which you and designer need to make for constructing the house. Some of them are floor plan, foundation plan, roof plan, ceiling plan, front and side elevations. You also need to have such drawings as electrical and pipe installations for your house.

A floor plan can tell us the size of each room, the number of tiles and also the height of a floor compared to other floor in different rooms.

The foundation plan can tell us the length of the foundation which is important for the calculation of stones, sand, and steel rod materials for the house foundation.

When they are being made, make sure that the house materials that you are going to use are the natural ones. Avoid using materials that are not produced locally. Sometimes, people use pre-fabricated materials because its price is cheaper or stronger. For instance, pre-pressed wall is stronger and lighter than the brick wall that is constructed manually. Failing to plan is planning to fail. So, if you want your house to be comfortable and safe to live, plan it well before building it. by Charles Roring in Manokwari, Indonesia

Light and Air Circulation Requirements for Tropical House

by Charles Roring in Manokwari West Papua, Indonesia

Having a good and comfortable house has been the dream of every family. A house is a place where a family lives and rests. A house is a construction that protects a family from rain, snow, excessive sun light and cold.

A good house must meet certain technical requirements stipulated by such standards as ISO, DIN, JIS or SNI. As a guide, for instance the minimum requirement for light for a room according to SNI is 20% of the floor area. It means if the size of a bedroom is 4m x 4m = 16 m² then the window area should at least be 20% x 16 m² = 3.2 m². Usually a living room needs more light than a bedroom.

Besides having enough light, a house also needs enough air circulation. This is very important for tropical houses which are always exposed to warm temperature and high humidity. For houses, the openings for air circulation should be at least 5% from the floor area. For office buildings which accommodate more people during work hours, the openings should be at least 10%. In tropical region, people like to construct the walls higher to make to house cooler.

In Indonesia a good house does not only need sufficient light and air circulation but also strength to withstand earthquakes. When people in big cities use steel bars to strengthen their buildings, villagers prefer to use wood and bamboo. These materials can easily be found in remote regions in affordable prices. For hundreds of years wooden houses have protected the buildings from collapse during the earthquakes. Earthquakes happen in Indonesia nearly every year because this country is located in a ring of fire area. I will discuss more about this matter in another article.

Make Money from Forex Trading

by Charles Roring

Make money with your money is it possible? People who have a lot of money in their bank account might consider of trading hard currency as an alternative choice to make money from home.

I don't know if you have heard about this but I just met someone in my town who made 10,000 US dollars just by trading money.

How could he do it when there was no money or stock market here? I asked him in detail of how he could earn that amount. He smiled to me and said that he traded money online using the internet.

Yes, making money from trading hard currency in world financial market is now possible to be done from home now.

He told me that everybody can do the same. There are many websites that offer services to their members who are interested in trading money.

The term that he mentions is forex or foreign exchange trading. Actually trading foreign exchange or forex is not an every body's business. I personally haven't sign up to any financial institution.

My friend said that he signed up to Marketiva and has been trading money since he was a university student.

Well, actually, I am interested in this business but I'll have to study about it carefully to understand how the trading is conducted.

Atomic Blogging - what is it?

Atomic blogging may sounds weird to your ears. It is a phrase invented by Alvin Phang, an internet entrepreneur who makes more than 54,475.43 just from blogging. While many bloggers only make small change in one year, he claims to have made huge amount of money from blogging in twelve months.

What is Alvin's secret? I will not tell you in detail but his atomicblogging.com sells products that he claims can increase your earnings just within 72 hours applying his methods or techniques. Just visit his blog and decide by yourself whether you want to buy his products. I don't receive any commision from informing you about the atomic blogging.

Blogging is now seen as one of the most challenging yet profitable businesses at this time. Technorati records over 70 millions blog so far and the blogosphere receives around 120k of new blogs created every day.

People blogs because they want to express their ideas, communicate with friends or customers and make money.

Whatever your reason is, you will need readers for your blog. It means you need high traffic to liven up your blog(s). The easiest way to built traffic is promoting your blog through search engines such as yahoo or google. Others register their blogs in blogger communities such as technorati.

So, if you have worked so hard and feel that you don't make any progress in your internet money making endeavor, you might consider of giving up and return to your 9 to 5 conventional working system.

Actually, making money from the internet is possible. I by myself make money from selling books online and extracting dollars from Google Adsense. I don't make huge amount of money but I really make some money.

I don't know if Atomic Blogging works or not. What I know is that bloggers must update his blog every day to keep attracting visitors and search engine. Other tricks or strategies are possible but still "content is king." That's what I strongly believe.

I also make money from selling my drawings

Do you make money from home? How you make money? I make money from my drawings. I have a hobby. I like drawing. Every child likes drawing. I draw every day. I draw birds, scenery and human figures. I really enjoy this activity. Well, I can say that it is one of my favorite past time activities.

Before the era of internet, I felt that living as an artist in this small town was impossible. I would face difficulties in promoting or selling my drawings. Now, I don't have to worry about it anymore. I just draw objects that I like, and promote it through the internet.

Although I can't sell the drawing, I still make money by monetizing the website or the online art gallery that I run. Recently the request for my drawing is increasing especially for the human figures. Many people want to see more original drawing or pictures . I don't make drawing which would violate the TOS of Google Adsense or Kontera.

Well, I feel that I have to show you one of my sketches in this blog. It is about a young widow who just woke up in the morning not knowing what to do. This sketch generates a lot of comments in my Lembar Ekspresi blog. It is actually not a painting or real drawing from an artist who make a living from drawing this picture. It is only a sketch, a funny one, I might say. Some people said, she looks more like Michael Jackson.

If you see it and laugh, please give a comment on this post. The sketch generates more than one thousand unique visitors in by other blog. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

How mommy can make money from home business

Every homemaker will try to make extra income for her family. In today' financial crisis, working at home and earning money is a suitable choice. There are many home business ideas where homemakers can earn a lot of money.

I am not going to explain in detail of how mommy makes money. I will just inform you a good book which you can buy or download from the internet to look for a business idea which is suitable to your talent and condition. The title of the books is
200 Best Home Businesses
. Have you ever read this inspiring book? If you haven't you can try to find right now.

It is not only suitable for homemakers but also for everybody. I like this book although I don't read all of the pages. I choose some business ideas that are interesting to make money from home.

Some business ideas that this book offers are caterer, business plan writer and bed and breakfast entrepreneur and photographer.

I remembered ten years ago I read about how Conrad Hilton, the founder of a Hilton Hotel set up his business. He had to go to a train station to pick up a guest, carried his or her luggage to her family inn. Now, everybody on this planet knows that Hilton Hotels network could be found in every continent.

I like the way Hilton built his business. It is an inspiring story for everybody who wants to become a successful businessman making money from home. When you run a bed and breakfast inn this week, who knows that I will become a giant hotel network the next ten or fifteen years? Find the book and make money now! written by Charles Roring from Manokwari Indonesia

Why successful bloggers make a lot of money?

Because they work hard. They write every day. They do a lot of research and possibly they promote their blogs through many ways.

I read some successful bloggers and I find out that they just don't seat on the coach waiting for visitors to click the ads Google provides through Adwords. It is impossible.

Successful bloggers write every day. They also write books and sell them throughout the world through the internet, bookstore and of course through Amazon. I want to say that online business is a toughest business. Everybody can become famous and rich. The door is wide open to you and me to make huge amount of money from blogging. In reality, it is not easy to make money from the internet just by blogging. You have to be a superblogger not a superman.

Super-blogger knows how to write good quality articles or posts which attract many visitors or readers to read their story. Super-blogger knows how to promote his or her blogs using the books that he/ she writes. Super blogger understand how to communicate with people.

Last night I visited Money Making Mommy Online. It is a very good blog or website. I would recommend it to every homemakers that I meet. The ads placement, the quality of the articles and the lay out of the blog is very good. I can say that the webmaster or author of this blog is a super-blogger. Why? From the content, I can say that it is one of the best blog that I've ever read although I am not a mommy. The ideas are suitable for everybody. You just need some adaptation or modification if you are pops. They provide many information on how to make money from home. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

Can bloggers still make money this year?

My answer is yes. There are many bloggers who make more than 20,000 US dollars a year. Some even make that amount a month. Making money from blogging is possible but is not easy.

I run a website and some blogs. I have to write articles every day to monetize my blogs. Now, I am trying to find out whether I can make a lot of money this month just by blogging. In addition, I want to compare how much I earn from Google Adsense and Kontera - the contextual text link monetization program.

I just removed Google Adsense from this blog but I still maintain it in my Nature Lover blog. I will write the report to you at the end of this month to compare the revenue. Well, I have to be careful with this thing so that I will not brake the TOS of both companies.

Well, if you ask if I make a living from blogging, I will definitely say NO. Why because I just started. Even running this blogs cost a lot of money. I mean I must pay significant amount of money for my internet bill.

To support this money making endeavor of the internet business, I run a book selling business from home. So far this is the largest contributor of my income. I could make 27,500 US dollars last year. I hope I can increase it this year.

Well , back to the question at the above title whether bloggers can still make money this year, I will say that I will not rely wholly on blogging. I still run my core home business now. At the same time, I will try to write more posts to maintain my blogs every day. I hope I can make more money from this blog anytime soon. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

Make Money from Home by Writing Business Plans

Do you have business writing and communication skills? Why don't you open a home business that offers services in writing business plans. Today, a lot of people set up new businesses all over the country. Even in your neighborhood, there are moms and pops new home businesses which have just been started or are about to start. They will need to make business plans.


A good business plan is a valueable document. It can be used to assess the feasibility of a business in making profit from the goods or services it offers. It is also important for bankers to decide whether a new business is eligible to receive loan. Many investors are willing to invest their money in new businesses that have good business plans.


If you think that you can open your home business that helps other people in preparing and writing their business plans, then you can begin with very little start up cost.

Every writer needs a computer or laptop and office software such as word processor (word) and spreadsheed calculator (excel). Today, buying an office software is not a must. There are a few open source packages that are good and reliable for your office or business needs. I used to try Open Office.org. This is a complete solution which you can use without having to pay the license.


After buying a computer and installing the necessary office software, you need to promote your business plan enterprise to the public. The fastest one will be advertising your company in local newspaper. You can also persuade bankers and business owners in your town informing them that you provide this kind of service.


When running this business you act both as counselor and consultant. The market for business plan writer always exists. All you need to do is setting up your service right now. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

Bed and Breakfast Home Business

Suppose that you have a large house in suburb area and now you find that it is hard to pay your morgage. Perhaps you have just been laid off by your company and you are thinking of running your own business.

If this is your condition, I have a business proposal for you. You can start making money within one or two days from now. Make your two extra bedrooms as money making machine. Convert it as Bed and Breakfast business.

People who live in big cities often need to escape from their routinity. A peaceful home in suburban area will be a better choice for them.

When you are ready with your bedrooms, go to yahoo.com or google. Type local business workers or local business communities in their groups directory. You will find offices workers list from a nearest city. Sign up to these groups and offer your service. Be ready to receive a phone call or an email which says that they want to be your guests this weekend.

You can also use Adword service that Google provides. This is one of the most powerful marketing tool nowadays to reach thousands and even millions of people within just a few seconds.

Running a home business bed and breakfast is similar to running an inn or lodging. You need to be professional. Don't worry if you are short of capital to do that. Start your business now and grow gradually.

Maybe you need some extra cash to repair some parts of the bedrooms before starting your bed and breakfast business. If that's what you think, why don't you repair them by yourself to minimize the cost? I believe you can. Paint the walls and mend the roofs, make the breakfast, clean the floor by yourself . This was what Condrad Hilton the founder of Hilton hotel did and he ran his family inn.

Make Money from Home from your hobby in photography

Make money from home now offers you a nice idea. Begin your home business today by being a commercial photographer. You can begin anytime if you have a camera. There are markets for the pictures that you take everyday. It is really a good business. Making money from your home with your hobby in photography can be a fun and enjoyable activity.

Professional photographer does not need big rooms for their photography business. They work most of the time outside their home taking pictures and meeting with people. Maybe when they have returned home, they need to work on the computer editing the pictures they had taken in the afternoon with adobe photoshop or corel photo paint.

if you have many pictures stored in your computer and you want to sell them, you can log on to the internet and start looking for companies that want to re-sell or buy your pictures.

Photography is a profitable business. Todays technology enables photographers to edit the pictures into many products, post card, calendar, travel brochure and etc. So, you will not only sell service to people in your studio but you sell your pictures to buyers from around the world using internet.

If you want to sell your pictures now, you can do it right away. There are many companies on the internet that re-sell pictures which photographers make.

Make money at home by being a Caterer

One of the most profitable money making ideas is selling food from home. Delivering Food is a fast growing business which you can run at home. If you choose to deliver lunch to offices and corporation, it means you are going to be a caterer. To do that you must have good know-how in cooking, and communication skills.

Making money from catering has been done by many housewives around the world. Professional caterer needs good kitchen equipment to operate. As a profitable and enjoyable enterprise, catering is seen as the best solution for many housemakers who want to get additional income but do not want to leave home.

Catering prospective clients include delivering food for private banquets at hotels, furnishing meals to airlines, cooking for parties, fundraisers or even serving as a professional cook in a company diring room.

If you are interested in becoming caterer, you can also provide services such as making gourmet wedding cakes, chocolate chip cookies for birthdays and other special occasions.

Other things that you must know when making money as a caterer is issues related to health, food safety and laws or regulations.

When you see that you get a lot of money from catering, you might consider expanding your business. Don't be hurry. You need careful planning. Expanding a home business means recruiting more staff, buying more cooking or commercial kitchen equipment and printing brochurers for marketing purposes.

Make sure that you always use fresh ingredients in the food that you deliver and maintain the cleanliness of your kitchen. Cooking can be fun but also a profitable money making business for you.

How to make money from your home business idea

Have you got a brilliant idea for making money at home? If you have why don't you realize it now. It could be your mosft profitable home business this year. Some people earn 600 dollars a day just by working from home. Others can get 30 to 50 US dollars a day trading foreign exchange or foreign currency. What ever your money making idea is, you have to devote all your efforts and work to make it as a success business. On the average my home bookselling business can make between 80 to 120 US dollars a day.

If you are a webmaster, you can make a lot of money from home just by designing websites of big companies. Sometimes, big companies hire home business entrepreneur to design their products packaging, labels or even their logo. A smart webmaster can make a lot of money by promoting a webcam program.

Another good idea is working part time from home by being a data entry personnel of big companies. There are many big companies in the world that need data entry workers like you. They will send a lot of data and you just have to fill them in forms that they have prepared.

Besides selling books from my home bookstore, I write articles to national magazines. I have written about this in my previous article. I have done many business ideas to make money from home. A potential profession which I think good is being an artist. I draw human figure, birds, flowers and scenery. I like figure drawing. I can take commission from people who wants to be drawn. I also sell my drawings through the internet. Many artists do the same. They sell their artworks at art galleries, and from home through the internet.

Listen, if you don't know what to do now to make money from home, you can type phrases like work at home network, or hot online home based biz in our search engine. You will find websites that offer deals related to work at home opportunities and legitimate home business ideas which you can find in those websites. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

My home business resolution for 2009

This is the first day of 2009. What should I do to make more money from my home business. Last year, I sell books from home. The selling could reach more than Rp. 275 million or around 27,500 US dollars. I also got some money from being a publisher of Google Adsense. I hope I can still earn more money or higher profit this year. The followings are my home business resolutions:

1. Maintain a positive cash flow. Every businessman knows how important cash is. I have to make sure that this year business is more positive. It means the margin between earnings and spendings have to be increased. If I review from my last year spendings, the biggest lies in internet bill. I can understand it because last year I did a lot of research of how to make money from home. I download books related to Google Adsense written by Joel Comm. I visited successful bloggers. And I watch many videos. I have to reduce my spending on this post.

2. I have to sell more books. Making money from book selling is my core business. It is done from home. In one month, I can sell up to 800 items. They range mostly from books, CDs and DVDs, cards and stickers. I have to add more books if I want to sell more books. It means I need more cash to do that. No, problem, I have secured another 50 million loan.

3. Increase earnings from online business. Besides selling books from home, I also sell them through the internet. Every week there are orders from every corner of this country. It is not my main target. i will give more time writing good posts in this blog, my home business blog and also improve my English learning website.

4. Paying back all the bank loan. Because I started this business from bank loan, I plan to finish it this year. It means the profit margin from my home business must be higher to enable me paying back all the debts in the bank.

5. Expand the business. Yeah, it is still the largest contributor for my income. I still need one more year to finish my obligation from the bank. This year too, I plan to expand it to a bigger one by opening a bookstore in a mall. It might cost me 1 billion rupiahs or around 100,000 US dollars. I don't know if I can make it this year or next year. I will try it. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia

How I spend my money?

How I spend my money? This is a good question. Well, I am not a hedonist person. A person who loves wordly things such as goods (materialism, woman and power). No, I am not that kind of person.

The followings are how I spend my money.

1. The highest spending is buying more books. I like readings. So I buy more books. I don't read all the books that I buy. I re-sell most of them in my bookstore.

2. I do research on the internet. I need this type of spending. I help my friend in an advocacy works supporting them in their efforts to claim their communal rights over a huge land and sea area that contains oil and gas. I also study about carbon trading and deforestation that is very complicated.

3. I love art. So, I visits many artists' website especially those who do the figure drawings.

I don't any plan to travel around this year. Last year, I traveled three times to Java and Kalimantan. Of course I have many personal plans on how I spend the money but I cannot tell all of them here in this blog.

Maybe I am interested to build a diving resort. If I can get a lot of money this year, I'll realize it. It is a profitable investment actually but I needs huge amount of money. Indonesia has many beautiful coral reefs. Can I realize it this year? It depends on my earnings. We'll see. If it is possible, I'll write its story here in this blog. written by Charles Roring in Manokwari Indonesia