Feb 27, 2021 | Blogging and Digital Marketing, Freelancing and Entrepreneurship |
Building an email list is one of the things that an online business owner often overlooks. It can be a very intimidating task because it requires a lot of tech steps, which is why a lot of people put it off until the very last minute. But the thing is that you...
Feb 20, 2021 | Freelancing and Entrepreneurship, Pinoy Freelancers |
It’s no secret to business owners and entrepreneurs: if you want to scale and grow your business, you eventually need to replicate yourself and hire other people. After all, there’s only so many hours in a day and your body can only do so much within that...
Feb 13, 2021 | Blogging and Digital Marketing |
You probably didn’t think it was possible to have more than one source of income when you work as a virtual assistant, right? Well, you’re wrong. Today’s post leans slightly towards personal finance because I was inspired by one of my favorite local...
Jan 23, 2021 | Blogging and Digital Marketing |
I love Upwork. I’ve been with the platform from the very start of my freelancing career, and it was still named oDesk then. Fast forward 10 years later and I am still using the job marketplace as a source of a number of my leads. In fact, about 70% of my clients...
Jan 16, 2021 | Blogging and Digital Marketing |
When I was starting out as a freelancer, one of my biggest struggles was putting together my portfolio. It’s very difficult to showcase your work when you have no experience in the first place… and this basically becomes a question of which came first, the...
Jan 9, 2021 | Blogging and Digital Marketing |
Crazy how the past year has turned our lives 180 degrees. A lot of people used to scorn people who work online… thinking that it’s nothing but a side gig and that work stability and financial security can never be replaced by traditional, corporate jobs....
Jun 25, 2019 | Blogging and Digital Marketing |
I’ve been freelancing since my college days – more than 10 years ago as of writing. WordPress was just five years old and I was just learning to blog. If I remember it correctly, my blogs started with Friendster and Multiply until I eventually moved to...
Jun 23, 2019 | Freelancing and Entrepreneurship, Pinoy Freelancers |
This year, I decided to register as sole proprietor – and it sure has its pros and cons. For starters, it comes with a lot of mandatory payments: taxes for you and your business AND taxes and government contributions for your employees, if applicable. Ignore...
Jun 23, 2019 | Freelancing and Entrepreneurship, Pinoy Freelancers |
As much as we hate parting with our hard-earned money as freelancers and business owners, there are just instances when we really need to. When it comes to government contributions, for example, business owners are required by law to keep this updated. Freelancers, on...
May 18, 2019 | Freelancing and Entrepreneurship, Pinoy Freelancers |
In 2015, I went full-time freelancing after quitting my corporate job of three years and getting fired as a work-from-home team member of a parenting blog. However, it wasn’t until this year that I decided to go official and register my business. I actually...