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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