Work at Home Philippines

Social Media Marketing Trends

Alfa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:38:35 +0000

What’s in on keeping your products or services on top of the competition? It’s social media marketing a few years ago and it’s still social media marketing now. But what exactly is the magic ingredient that makes this type of marketing work? Is it the number of social websites you’ve joined? Is it about the [...]

Funemployment: Do You Enjoy Not Working?

Alfa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:50:39 +0000

Funemployment is a new term that means deriving enjoyment from unemployment by doing what others call soul searching, traveling, etc. It’s a growing trend for the 20-something and 30-somethings. But I do not think it will catch on in the Philippines. One of the top reasons for this is that our culture discourages us from working [...]

Public Domain: Source of Online Income

Alfa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:40:40 +0000

Have you ever used the public domain to make money online? I’ve never tried it before but I know that many are earning lots from this source of income. For the uninitiated, public domain is when a product such as a book, music, photos, software and other media’s copyright expires. These products then can be [...]

Co-Working: Home Office Sickness Solution?

Alfa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:48:01 +0000

Laura Spencer has re-focused the spotlight to co-working with her Is Co-Working the Next Stage of Telecommuting. Co-working is one working trend that allows telecommuters or home based workers to temporarily work with others ala old office setting. Co-working is known to solve one of the most popular setbacks of working from home – isolation. Due to [...]

If You Were to Work on a Job Without Pay What Would it Be?

Alfa — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:23:57 +0000

Do what you love and the money will follow. Are you one of the many haters of this piece of career advice? No? Great, we’re friends then. Kidding aside, I’m always for this . If I don’t like what I’m doing it will be very difficult for me to advance in that field. Because of that, [...]

Tell Me What Tuesday: Do You Work from Home During Holy Week?

Alfa — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:04:23 +0000

This might not apply to other religions, but for many Roman Catholics, the Holy Week (March 19-23) is a big deal and it should be observed properly. So if you are a work-from-home entrepreneur in the Philippines or even in other countries, how do you observe the Holy Week? My family’s usually extremely busy during the Holy [...]

How I Managed to Continue Working from Home While Attending My Grandpa’s Wake

Alfa — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:11:40 +0000

Actually, I wasn’t able to do it well – maintaining to accomplish some tasks for my clients while having to stay overnight for three straight days to attend my Grandfather’s wake, who passed away last February 20. It’s a good thing one of my clients whom I regularly communicate with via instant messaging was kind enough [...]

Tell Me What Tuesday: How Do You Keep Yourself Productive at Work?

Alfa — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:23:22 +0000

With lots of distractions nowadays – gadgets, text messages, friends visiting and in my case, a fidgety two-year-old niece, it’s a never-ending battle to keep your productivity in tip-top shape. So how do I keep myself productive? Currently, my to-do list written on a gigantic whiteboard staring at me the whole day makes me get things [...]

Mastering Email Management Essential to Virtual Assistants

Alfa — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:50:06 +0000

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 [...]

Successful PayPal to UnionBank EON Transaction

Alfa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:46:00 +0000

Yesterday, this silly girl felt like going to the church in the middle of the night. Why? She saw the freshly added balance on her UnionBank Visa EON cyber account. I’ve been crossing my fingers since January 18, the day I’ve withdrawn the money from PayPal and get it deposited to my debit card. Luckily, after [...]