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Q n A: Online Jobs
I’ve been receiving emails about ways to find home-based/online jobs, and I thought I’d share them here.
Greetings!
I am one of the people who visits your site regularly. I am interested to try working homebased. But first i would like to try to do data entry jobs though I don’t have any idea how to go about it. I tried going to some other sites but it seems that they require people to pay first.
And what about the pay or salary? How do they usually send payments? How sure am I to receive it? I am so sorry to bother you with my questions but I would greatly appreciate it if you respond.
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Gladys Noblejas
Depreciating Dollar Hurting Freelancers: How to Cope
As of this writing Inquirer’s Forex section shows that the exchange rate for every dollar is Php44.915. If I’m not mistaken it (dollar) is in it’s all-time low this year.
This maybe great for the Philippine economy but not much for Filipinos who are earning in dollars which include OFW’s and us home-based freelance workers working with US clients. So how do we deal? Read the rest of this entry »
Another Family Member Bitten By the Work-at-Home Bug
My sister-in-law who’s been working for a few weeks now as a virtual assistant doing telemarketing and data entry tasks for an American businesswoman, will be getting her first pay today! That is, if she finds any open Xoom cash pickup location on a Sunday. We’re really crossing our fingers!
After so many sleepless nights of waiting for her daughter to sleep so she can concentrate on sending applications and getting interviewed by a number of people looking for virtual assistants, she finally got hired by one client.
And the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award Goes To
I’m pleased to announce that Yvonne Russel of Grow Your Writing Business shared with me the fun of being given the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award, it’s now my turn to tell you about the great women bloggers who continue to inspire me everyday.
So please go visit the blogs of these ladies who I consider as spankin’ Rockin’ Bloggers:
Sharon Sarmiento of EsoupBlog, a half-Filipina virtual assistant who blogs about productivity, business stuff and working virtually, is one rockin’ blogger because her blog helped me fall in love with the VA industry.
Annabel Dalusung of Sweet Annabel’s is one rockin’ blogger for her realization that blogging can help in marketing her new business venture - chocolates for all occasions. Oh, and she’s my auntie. 
Ree of Confessions of a Pioneer Woman - a city girl turned into a housewife living with Marlboro Man and their kids cooking the most sumptuous man-pleasing meals everyday. You gotta check out her sinful but heavenly recipes.
Lori Baltazar of Dessert Comes First, a master baker and restaurant reviewer who never fails to make my mouth water with her food pics. If you’re a foodie, her blog is a must-see.
Noemi Dado of Touched by an Angel - the groovy mom whose blog I don’t fail to read because of the posts froth with practical tips on family life, golden wisdom and the unusual calm I get whenever she chronicles her recovery journey for those who have lost someone.
3 Home Based Workers in the Philippines
Found this great read from Inquirer.net about people who chose to work for themselves in stead of remaining as corporate slaves.
Get a glimpse of how these three successful Filipinos are balancing the pros and cons of working from home:
Rowena Cuyco, a home based financial planner, emphasized that resilience and discipline are the key to her success. Cuyco also shared that you always have to on your toe on expanding your client base since any moment clients may lose interest in your product.
Virtual Assistant Hourly Rates
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?
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Home-Based Translator Job (English to Mandarin)
Freelance writer and work-from-home dad J. Angelo Racoma is looking for someone who can translate a blog into Mandarin.
This is for the translation of several dozens of existing articles on a high-profile blog, and then a regular undertaking henceforth. Expected output is about 3 to 4 articles per day. We’ll have to discuss compensation privately.
Read more about the details of this work-from-home job as a translator.
Work at Home Watching Surveillance Cameras
Martal Exterminators, Inc. has posted a home based job opening for people who can monitor surveillance cameras installed at home.
The company installs surveillance cameras in their clients’ homes for about three days. These cams can be monitored with the help of MS Explorer. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Earn Money from Your Blog
Blog monetization methods have been discussed by oh-so-many successful bloggers out there. But some are not applicable to Filipino blogs. Here are the most helpful from my own experience and other netpreneurs:
Online Ads - Blogs with good traffic can earn some quite decent sum and sometimes an obscene amount of money from online ad networks such as AdSense, Text Link Ads* and Adbrite*.