Pinoy Online Work at Home: OM versus VA

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Pinoy Online Work at Home: OM versus VA

To become an Online Marketer (OM)  or to be a Virtual Assistant (VA)? Even though I did not have a clear picture on what an online marketer is, mas gusto ko sumali sa Online Marketing Club 2 (OMC2) ni Jomar Hilario because of its 1 year mentoring program. I really wanted to learn more about online stuff and I was already thinking that I might have my own online business by becoming an OM.

However, from time to time, naiisip ko pa rin na maging VA because according to Jomar, it's faster to earn when you become a VA while sa OM, you will start earning in 6 months pa and it will also depend on how quick you learn and how fast you will apply the lessons. At that time also, malaking tulong din if I will earn some money as a VA while waiting to land a stable job.

Still unsure on what to choose, I decided to join Jomar Hilario's OMC2 because I thought that no matter what happens, I will still learn a lot from the OMC2 program which I can definitely use whether I would become a VA or an OM. Here's the OMC2 package:

1. 12 month mentoring program

2. 360 Minutes of Webinars

3. 40+ Click by Click Lessons

4. 365 Day Access to Jomar

5. Plus bonuses such as:

     a. How to do SEO (Jomar will teach how to do it),

     b. Step by step tutorials to complete the... VA ASSIGNMENT!

     c. 4 New Deep Internet Secrets Webinars

I was really excited to start accessing the lessons in the OMC2 site and start to learn at my own pace. Now I can finally immerse myself to the world of online marketing. Readyng-ready na ako... excited na excited na... then I got some good news! I was finally hired by my former employer and now meron na akong work at it's a stable job too! So, after 2 weeks of getting introduced to online stuff, very eager and motivated to learn so that I can work at home, kailangan ko munang bumalik sa earth and face reality. Work at the office first, do my day job then yung online marketing during free time sa bahay.

Now I have to think on how to manage my time since I have to work from 8am-5pm then I'm also anticipating to do extended work in the office. Of course while at home, I should also give time to my family. Paano ko gagawin ito will be the topic of my next blog post.

May your dream about working at home come true,

Marco

P.S.1 If you happen to be new in online marketing just like me, please share your early experiences by writing on the comments below.
P.S.2 If you want to know more about Jomar Hilario and his Online Marketing stuff, events, etc., click HERE.
P.S.3 Are you feeling HOPELESS? Click here NOW! so you can dream again!

Pinoy Online Work at Home: Ang Assignments, Bow...

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Pinoy Online Work at Home: Ang Assignments, Bow...

After I (accidentally) attended Jomar Hilario's Virtual Assistant Seminar, I was so excited to become a VA as I understood that it can be done part time. But the hard part was to do the assignments that were given during the seminar and we have to submit it after 2 months! At ito ang mga assignments na dapat gawin:

1. Select 10 tools or programs on websites

2. Self study how they work

3. Create a power point presentation for each tool or program

4. You have to reach 100 slides per presentation then save as PDF files when done

5. Upload PDFs to Scribd.com

6. Create a blog

7. Embed each tutorial into the blog

8. Create one tutorial per blog post

9. Sign in in Odesk then create a resume and take tests

10. Apply for up to 40 gigs in Odesk.

11. Make a new resume using Jomar Hilario's format

12. Upload 3 videos of yourself telling a story

13. Upload the videos in YouTube

Wow, I got overwhelmed noon sa dami ng assignments and I did not know how to start. But I had to push myself to learn one tool or program at a time and I started with Dropbox. Dropbox is basically a tool where you can save your files or documents in the web, and you can access it anytime you want (as long as you are online). So after 4 hours of learning and creating a Power Point presentation, I only made 10 slides for How To Use Dropbox and in draft form pa lang sya. Nakakahiya man ipakita, but here it is:

   Marco_DiazdeRivera_How to Use Dropbox


Since nagsawa na ako kay Dropbox, the next tool or program that I learned was Prezi, a presentation tool that helps you organize and share your ideas. With How to Use Prezi, I was able to reach only 18 slides and of course I accomplished nothing for this one. I also stopped exploring Prezi because I did not know what to "present". Although I'm not required to actually do a nice presentation, I felt that I needed to have a good topic and be able to present it using Prezi. Since I was not thinking hard (not thinking hard = lazy as Jomar would always say), so I failed again. Here's the Power Point presentation that I made for How to Use Prezi which I'm not proud of:

  Marco_DiazdeRivera_How to Use Prezi


Of course I did not give up and I still continued to fail forward and this time with How to Use Pinterest. Pinterest is a tool for organizing the things that you love by collecting/pinning pictures or images of your passions in your Pinterest boards. For this tool, I actually made a big improvement as I was able to create 81 slides but it was still incomplete as it had no arrows to give directions on where to click, where to fill-up the data, etc. Here's the Power Point presentation that I made for How to Use Pinterest:

  Marco_DiazdeRivera_How to Use Pinterest


From 10 to 18 then to 81 slides! I was making progress in the "How To" assignments but the problem was that I was not able to finish all of them. I was really struggling this early and I started to doubt if becoming a VA was really for me. Naisip ko tuloy yung offer ni Jomar Hilario during the VA Seminar about joining his Online Marketing Club 2 (OMC2). Hindi pa nga ako nakaka-accomplish anything from the assignments, and here I am wanting to join his Online Marketing Club. Now, the hardest decision was if I'm ready to pay the price, as in literally yung cost of joining OMC2 which for me was not cheap.

May your dreams about working at home come true,

Marco

P.S.1 If you happen to be new in online marketing just like me, please share your early experiences, especially your mistakes in the comments below.
P.S.2 If you want to know more about Jomar Hilario and his Online Marketing stuff, events, etc., click HERE.

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Pinoy Online Work at Home: How Did I Start

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Pinoy Online Work at Home: How Did I Start

Can I tell you a story? Say yes because I'll tell it anyway. Hehehe... So how did I become interested in Online Marketing? Actually, aksidente lang ang nangyari and it happened this way...

Last year, my wife resigned from her job to focus more on taking care of our kids. So she was looking for a part-time job and she wanted to try those which can be done from home. She got a referral from her best friend na nasa Japan at sinabi ng friend niya to try to visit Jomar Hilario's website. Before long, she registered and paid for the seminar about how to work from home.

On the day of the seminar, my wife needed to bring our kids to the doctor because they got sick the night before. Since the seminar will be held very near to where we lived, ako na ang kumuha ng slot ng wife ko. I did not know what the seminar was all about, basta it will teach you daw on how to work from home.

During the seminar, I was not interested at first but as the talk and the presentation went on, I realized na pwede ko pala syang gawin especially that I have plenty of free time because I was also jobless. At that time, I was working as a telecommunications engineer subcontractor but because projects were so lean, I ended up with no contract and therefore no job. So, nagustuhan ko yung presentation ni Jomar and right before the seminar ended, Jomar Hilario told the participants if we wanted to level up immediately by joining his Online Mentoring Club 2. This OMC2 is a 1 year mentoring course that will teach us how to earn online the right way and the long term way through online marketing.

So, while waiting for job openings or any contracts here in the Philippines (because I do not want to work abroad na except if I can bring my family and migrate somewhere), naisip ko na maging VA for the meantime because I saw this great opportunity that I can earn a decent monthly income (part-time) and sa bahay pa ang office ko, not bad. In addition, I have another option and this was to become an online marketer.

Now, I have three choices: 1. To become a VA. 2. To become an Online Marketer. Or 3. To find a job. At dito na magsisimula ang sarili kong telenovela, or I should say blognovela starring yours truly and I hope you will follow my blognovela as you might pick up some tips on how to succeed or how to fail as a VA or as an OM. Actually, I do not know what will happen to me so just relax (and see a movie) and enjoy the ride!

May your dreams about working at home come true,

Marco

P.S.1 If you happen to be new in online marketing just like me, please share your early experiences, especially how you get to know about online marketing by writing in the comments below.
P.S.2 If you do not have any idea about virtual assistant or online marketing and you are interested to know more, click here.
P.S.3 If you have read my last blog post, just pretend na hindi mo sya nabasa and I hope you won't notice anything. Hehehe...

Pinoy Online Work at Home: The Return of the Comeback

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Pinoy Online Work at Home: The Return of the Comeback

It has been more than 2 months since I last posted here in my blog, Pinoy Online Work at Home. I decided not to pursue my original goal, to become a Virtual Assistant and instead concentrated on becoming an Online Marketer. Gusto ko maging "Jedi" when it comes to Online Marketing. So I stopped doing my VA assignments and jumped into promoting a concert. Wow, promoting a concert agad?!? Well, akala ko I was promoting a concert but my mentor, Jomar Hilario, told me that I was just merely blogging, not promoting. The concert by the way was Swedish House Mafia's One Last Tour live here in Manila and they performed at the Mall of Asia Arena last Jan. 16, 2013.

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What happened was, I began blogging about Swedish House Mafia last December 2012 by introducing the members of the group, their top hits, their first album and all the tracks in it, etc. My goal was to at least be in the top 10 in Google's search engine when Swedish House Mafia One Last Tour will be searched. And unfortunately, I failed. In addition, the all time page views of my blog was only 396 and around 100 were from me and my wife! I also made a Facebook Page called SHM - One Last Tour and the total likes was only 53 and it only picked up after the concert. Ang sabi nga ni Jomar Hilario, let's fail forward and in my own observation, the following were my mistakes (teka, I do not know if it is right to be a critique of my own work):

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1. To start with, I'm not a Swedish House Mafia fan, so I really have no idea who they were when I started to blog about them. I only learned about SHM and their songs when I conducted my research. I think when you blog about a certain topic, it should be your passion or your hobby, or something that you are a fan of. If so, it will be easy to say something in your blog and your comments/posts will come out naturally. The only positive result for this promotion was that I became a fan of Swedish House Mafia!

2. Localize the blog address - I learned this from Jomar Hilario and obviously hindi ko sya sinunod. I used One Last Tour in my blog address and I realized that I was competing with the other One Last Tour blogs and web sites of Swedish House Mafia all over the world.

3. As Jomar Hilario pointed out, I was just blogging, not promoting. And then he added that I was LAZY! I think tama naman sya, as I did not use other ways and  means on how to promote an event such as joining a forum, using other social media networking sites other than Facebook, etc. Jomar also mentioned that I should have promoted to the fans of Swedish House Mafia in Facebook and not to my friends.

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There might be other mistakes that I did when I tried to promote (or blog) but I think the important thing is I realized those mistakes, learned from it and I should do better next time. Online work at home is really a challenge. I'm still struggling, nahihirapan din sa pag-motivate ng sarili ko to do this regularly. I'm also not sure if what I'm doing now is tama but I have to start somewhere. Yes, fail forward so that when the time comes and the opportunity will present itself, I will be ready. And for all those who want to work from home and you happen to read this, I hope that you will learn from my mistakes and hopefully this will help you on becoming a better online marketer in the future.

May your dreams about working at home come true,

Marco


P.S.1 If you happen to be a neophyte online marketer just like me, please share your early experiences, especially your mistakes in the comments below.
P.S.2 If you are already an experienced and successful online marketer, please share your online marketing failures and how you were able to correct it by writing in the comments below.
P.S.3 If you do not have any idea about virtual assistant or online marketing and you are interested to know more, click here.

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