Work at Home Philippines

Do you know how to use MS Outlook? How about Gmail together with Google Docs and GCalendar? Are you an expert in using these online tools to make them work for you?

If so, then there’s a good business from home that might be awaiting for you to start. If you can couple your being an expert in email management with other administrative skills such as call support, Internet research, and other online skills, you can be an administrative virtual assistant.

Having the time to check emails religiously, not the whole day, but only at a certain time of the day, and knowing how to answer queries can help you in getting hired by busy entrepreneurs needing people to handle their piles of emails.

Need to learn more about the potential growth in demand for email management skills? Check out Tim Ferriss’, the master outsourcer, discussion about it.

The following blog posts from the latest Daily Blog Tips blog writing project are the ones that I enjoyed most. I hope that you will love ‘em too:

Client Profiles: Secret Tips

10 Top Tips for Finding Internet Business Ideas

5 Tips to Being Interesting

Forgotten Someone’s Name? Use These Tricks

Tips and Tricks to Get More Out of Your Laptop Battery

Since I’ve been enjoying this online-job-matching thing and fortunately being of help to my sister-in-law’s quest for a virtual assistant gig, I have been receiving requests to assist people in finding online jobs.

Just yesterday, my father found me a new protege. He’s proud of me that much. She’s an accounting professional working for a Japanese company as a bookkeeper/payroll assistant who would like to augment her income with an online job.

Since I don’t know much about her abilities yet, I hired her as my part-time bookkeeper. This is for me to know what her skills are since I’m planning to add her in my team.

I hope this will be a successful project for both of us. Wish us luck!

If you are planning to get a job as a medical transcriptionist or even a general transcriptionist , whether home based or office based, it’s imperative that you know the salary range for this profession.

So how much should you expect to earn as a medical transcriptionist? If you are going to get an office based medical transcriptionist job in the Philippines, JobStreet’s salary report says that a medical transcriptionist should earn between Php8,000 – Php14,000.

But if you will be getting transcription jobs from foreign countries, say some companies outsource their transcription projects to you, the pay is either per line or per audio file, depending on your arrangement with your clients. I even found one transcription service firm offering fee-per-page model.

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Manila Standard has a feature article on home based businesses that could be done here in the Philippines: 

• Accepting sewing and alteration jobs 
• Printing digital photographs
• Consulting
• Running a one-man travel agency

A virtual assistant business and publishing either by maintaining websites or blogs are two viable options, too.

The boom of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines has made many new graduates resort to working as a customer service representative or a call center agent when they tire of looking for jobs in line with their degrees.

Why is BPO a very viable business here in the Philippines?

Aside from our innate hospitality that can be heard even through our voice (really?!), Filipinos’ accent is very easy to polish to mimic that of a native English speaker. We also don’t require that much of compensation compared to Americans because of the status of the Philippine peso against the dollar.

According to a call center trainor, another reason why the Philippines is getting more nods from foreign companies looking for customer service support is that Filipinos are more organized.

So there you go why Sykes, People Support, Sutherland Global Services, Convergys, ClientLogic and many other call center companies thrive.

But What if You Don’t Want or Got Tired of Working for a Company and Would Rather Put Up Your Own Home Based Call Center Business?

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Got this from my email inbox and thought I’d share it here since there might be Filipinos planning to put up or who are already running an Internet cafe business and are looking for some Internet cafe suppliers.

Internet Cafe Congress 2007, an exhibit featuring computer parts and equipment needed in the I-cafe business, is being held today March 10 until tomorrow March 11, 2007 at the MegaTrade Hall 3, 5th Floor Bldg B, SM Megamall.

There will be Internet cafe business seminars and lectures, discounts on computer equipment and freebies.

Admission is free.

I have learned through research that the average hourly rate of a virtual assistant is $35. It can even increase up to $50 if the virtual assistant will be entrusted with more demanding tasks such as conference preparation.

What a lucrative home-based job, don’t you think? If I’m not mistaken our Filipina nurses and caregivers are earning just as much. So, if you can be a virtual assistant in the Philippines while earning just as much as the more stressed nurses in other countries, why are there not much Filipinos taking on this online job?

Sure, the ”nurses are more in-demand” and “the benefits are not the same” reasons can’t be discounted. But if one is really after the benefits of being “more present” for his or her family without leaving the country, right? There goes my anti-brain-drain thing again.

Anyone who’s currently enjoying the benefits of being a virtual assistant in the Philippines, here? Any tips or help you can extend for those who would like to venture on this kind of home-based job?

For home business enthusiasts out there looking for new home based ventures, you might want to try the following, whichever interests you, of course:

1. Garage Organizing

In the Philippines, I’m not sure if this would take off easily since not a lot of Filipinos have garages that they’d spend on just to get it organized. But Americans are definitely a good market for this business.

2. eBay Business

Entrepreneur Philippines mag have already produced an issue that featured a successful Filipino eBay businessman. He resorted to selling old collectors’ item toys. Tips on how to start a home-based eBay selling business here.

3. Home-Based Outsourcing Jobs

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Carolynn Duncan has started one, and she’s blogging her Hundred Dollar Business experience.

It’s actually an experiment aimed at learning how far a $100 business will get her in 30 days and with regards to 10 business principles:

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