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 personal finance bloggers who posted about the income matrix. The reason why

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 I get from

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 chicken or the egg? But guess what, even if you

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. Well… it looks like they have been proven wrong. I

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 Blogger then WordPress. So much has happened since then

So you’ve finally made a jump into beginning a freelance writing career. But, let me tell you something: competition is tough. And, unless you decide to up your game, getting a long-term client or simply snagging a one-off gig can be difficult. Most companies will have designated people for particular tasks, to help streamline their processes,

Blogging has become very popular nowadays and quite understandably so: it is extremely uncomplicated to set up. However, when you get all caught up with the hype, it becomes pretty easy to screw things up. We tend to think over the bigger picture too much but it’s actually missing the small details that make us miss

If there is one thing that online business owners and expert bloggers will recommend that you do (aside from creating evergreen pillar posts), it’s building an email list early on. An email list can be considered as a valuable asset for most sites and they can be used for many reasons: filter out the people