Do You Want to Work From Home?

Well, a lot of us say "yes" when people ask, "Do you want work from home?"

We all think it’s some kind of fantasy (that's impossible) or it's heaven (I wish...).

If you're wondering about the details like what to expect, how much can you earn, and want to know more about how you can do this "work at home gig" then meet one of my favorite mentors.

Listen to the "work at home" expert Jomar Hilario as he trains you on how you can start making steps to leaving your stressful work at the office and just staying in your bedroom all day ... while earning!

Click here to know more.

Here’s the thing, you have two options. You can either attend the VA seminar or you can join the ONLINE version of the seminar.

To find out more about this amazing opportunity, don’t forget to Click here

Try it out. It’s about time you spent more time at home. Make your dreams come true and still have more time to bond with your family!

25 Reasons Why I Love Working From Home

25 Reasons Why I Love Working From Home:

1. I get to spend more time and share meals with my family.

2. Everything I need is right within reach; this makes my workday very easy to handle.

3. I don’t have to wake up too early, get dressed and deal with traffic to get to my workplace.

4. I learn more without getting bored because I can vary my tasks and juggle them all day long.

5. I can choose my clients and am actually working for the most generous client I’ve ever met.

6. I work with professionals who are focused on business and less on personal/office politics.

7. I am a subcontractor for a company made up of professional yet gentle leaders who take good care of me and are constantly working to make sure that we have the best work system.

8. I can go walking, go to church and generally do what I want after work without wasting time going home from the office.

9. When it rains, I’m happy I’m indoors and safe and don’t have to go anywhere!

10. I have come to appreciate the value of integrity, transparency, professionalism, dedication, and am learning how to think like an entrepreneur.

11. I learn new things every single day and you get over your fear of clicking a button or opening a website and generally get comfortable trying new things.

12. I get to spend time on my own blogs after work and actually apply what I am learning from my daily work routine.

13. I am growing as a person and as a professional and have become better at multi-tasking.

14. I am becoming a better content & SEO writer, virtual assistant, task and people manager.

15. I am constantly bombarded by internet marketing and copywriting lessons and I love it!

16. Work is so much fun! No hassle, no worries, no politics!

17. I am right where I want to be – working from home.

18. Working from home is awesome because you learn the value of discipline and avoiding distractions and interruptions.

19. I now have a better understanding of the value of time and task management and having a system that works.

20. I am now more flexible, better at juggling tasks and more detail-oriented. Reports are my friend and my love for analyzing things is very useful.

21. Working from home has made me realize that perfectionism is both a weakness and strength; I just had to draw the fine line between the two.

22. I can define my limits, set attainable goals, while still working independently.

23. Working under less supervision has a whole new meaning when you work from home.

24. I get to learn using so many tools – videos, flowcharts, PowerPoint presentations, Google docs, new and advanced software, iTunes podcasts and so much more. I am also learning about Internet Marketing and SEO, which I can apply on my own ventures.

25. At the end of my workday, I can just log out, turn off my computer or turn on my music player and bond with my family or commune with nature. No commute, no traffic, no pollution, less stress.

So there you go. This is the best job I’ve ever had which is why I am so grateful. In my opinion, it's best to find mentors, people who are willing to share what they have learned with you. Find out how you can work from home wherever you are.

If you would like to learn more about Internet Marketing and being a Virtual Assistant, you should visit Jomar Hilario's blogs. He's the Internet Marketing guru and go-to guide for Filipinos who are serious about becoming entrepreneurs and working from home. He also offers lessons about becoming a Virtual Assistants and Social Marketing.

P.S. Jomar Hilario is actually giving a 50% discount for his one-year online mentoring club. I suggest you check it out if you wish to be successful at this. He'll check your work and guide you for one whole year. How cool is that?

P.S. 2 Don't worry, this is no s-c-*a-m. I know the guy. He’s very good at what he does and you’ll learn how to work from home without leaving your comfort zone. You’ll learn what your strengths are and how you can capitalize on them so that you can work from home too. Read and judge for yourself. Click here.

Lessons In Humility -- A Day In The Life Of A VA-Writer

Working on websites all day can be so much fun. Most of the time, it doesn't even feel like work. It's like surfing the net all day, reading about interesting stuff, learning new things and trying out new stuff. These are the perks that come with being a Virtual Assistant-Writer. Well, my previous contracts used to say Content Writer but now that VA work has become in demand, I've decided to grow and go with the flow.

Yes, being a VA-Writer is so much fun but a warning for those who would like to try it -- never do anything before reading the manual -- online or otherwise. You can watch video tutorials or read the actual rules and policies of what you need to do but one thing that I will always hold close to my heart and mind is this -- our learning curve is dependent on a few things, one of them is the willingness to try new things and the other is the determination to succeed at it. And that could mean a whole lot of research. This is not to discourage anyone, far from it. I just want to write this down in case I forget this golden rule myself.

Even the key to writing great, credible content is research, research, research. Remember when real estate agents said it was about location, location, location? Well for us VA-Writers, it's all about research. You can try as many ways to use new software or install a plugin or two into a website but at the end of the day, not knowing what we're doing could be stressful. I learned this the hard way. The up-side? I just got glowing remarks from my client for a quick turnaround -- conducting an evaluation about our project and writing a report about it. Sure, it was hard work but at the end of the day, knowing that you finally nailed it is such a great feeling. It's too bad it rained today cuz I was oh so ready to head off to church today and give thanks to God for making all things possible.

This is one of the reasons why I so love working from home. Even though it can get lonely at times being cooped up in my room, staring at my computer for hours on end, I just love the fact that at the end of the day, I can just "step away from the computer" and do my thing. Spend time with my family, go to church, go walking around our neighborhood, pay our nearby grocery shop a visit and buy V-cut. lol. Private joke between me and my uncle and aunty. But yeah, I so enjoy working from home because I don't have to waste time, effort and money on travel, I get to share home cooked meals with my family (I don't usually cook but I intend to start soon).

But then, I digress. I just wanted to share this lesson which I learned the hard way -- not doing your research can be harmful even to your own health. The best part about my work is that even though it's not my business, I feel like such a part of our "family." Also, I learn to think on my feet, because no one else is here to do that for me. Yes, I still ask a lot of questions and I keep hoping my client and teammates don't get irritated but that's my way of learning. I love sharing ideas with others and hearing their input on the things we do on a daily basis. Plus, as each system is set up then redesigned, our workflow improves by leaps and bounds. We actually see results.

One more thing I learned, which I should have done in the first place, is not to read every single email that comes along. It can be taxing trying to keep up of who sent what and where this email came from and whatever else happens, at the end of the day, keeping your focus on the task at hand brings you the greatest feeling. Doing things one step at a time does pay. And it's the best way to get things done.

I'm currently using a system where I prepare a Things To Do the day before, then review it in the morning and send it to my client, then do one task at a time, crossing each one off as I go along. Then if I have some pending tasks, it goes into the next day's list, and so on and so forth. So yeah, now I have a system that I'm really happy with. It works for me and I intend to develop this and try to share new tips each day, if I'm not too tired. For now, my eyes are a bit droopy so I'll bid you Ciao until next time! God bless us all! :)

I Received An Inspiring Message in My Inbox

Dear Misty,

As you know there's an upcoming Webinar (online live question and answer) on November 3,2010. Wednesday in the evening. Who can attend? Those who attended the online VA seminar (they did it by downloading the materials) and those who will attend the Oct 29/this friday seminar.

In that webinar our guest is from CEBU, a VA and here's her ENTIRE SUCESS STORY for you to read up and hopefully be inspired to take the steps she took.

See you online or on FRIDAY.

Now live a marvelous life,

Jomar Hilario

P.S. Click here to read up on an actual Virtual Assistant's story.

P.P.S. Click here for more information.

10 Things You Didn't Know About Working From Home

10 Things You Didn't Know About Working From Home:


1. You'll suddenly realize that housewives are totally busy people -with hardly any breaks.
2. You'll be challenged not to work because your cute baby is staring at you, saying "play!".
3. You'll be asked constantly, "What do you want to eat today" by your spouse.
4. If you're not careful, that DVD collection will be your #1 distraction from work.
5. You don't remember when was the last time you took a bath/shaved.
6. You're suddenly more interested in nice looking shorts and pajamas in the mall.
7. Your cellphone isn't getting much use unlike before.
8. When you walk to the neighborhood park, pool, all you see are yayas and their wards.
9. When it rains, you're happy you're indoors and won't be going anywhere!
10. In the hot months, you're happy that you can afford an aircon for your room!
-Jomarhilario.com


So there it is --the honest good and bad.  Find out how you can work from your nice bahay --even if you're already abroad.


Kristina A. Godinez


P.S. Don't worry, this is no s-c-*a-m. I know the guy. Read and judge for yourself.

Yet Another Reason Why I'll Keep On Writing

What an amazing day! It's very late but I can't sleep so I'll share this news right now. I was amazed to find out that I got 1,539 Unique Views for this page: Because God Wants Me To Share My Success Story. And when I checked the page, it was the response I wrote to one of Jomar's emails where he asked us to itemize our success. (Thanks Jomar). What was even more suprising was that people left comments!

The title doesn't refer to the page views (though it's an exciting discovery too). The title is about the views shared by people. Happy to have touched their lives. Thank you all for the visit and for reading my blogs. :)

It's so nice to hear such inspiring comments from nice people. What started out as a random analytics review became a heartwarming experience of reading inspiring comments from others. I've always been very open about my feelings and I usually do that through writing. I love it when people react, because that means they get inspired too. And inspiration is something that would be awesome to share because it brings out the best in all of us. Praise God!

So You're Thinking About Working From Home ...

Learn How to Work from Home

Well, a lot of us say "yes" when people ask, "Do you want to work from home?"

We all think it’s some kind of fantasy (that's impossible) or it's heaven (I wish...).

Why not stop the speculation and learn more about what to expect, how much can you earn, and know more about how you can do this "work at home gig."

Listen to the "work at home" expert Jomar Hilario as he trains you on how you can start making steps to leaving your stressful work and just staying in your bedroom all day ... while earning!

Click here to know more.

Here’s the thing, you have two options. You can either attend the VA seminar or you can join the ONLINE version of the seminar.

Find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Try it out. It’s about time you spent more time at home. Make your dreams come true and still have more time to bond with your family!

36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For you To Make Your Life Easier

Note: I learned this from the Virtual Assistant Seminar and I have decided to share this interesting information with you. If you're considering working from home as a VA or if you're thinking about hiring one, this article is definitely worth reading. It sums up in detail the most important things you need to know about VA's.

36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For you To Make Your Life Easier

What Busy Thing Can Virtual Assistants Do For You Personally Or For Your Business?

1. Tell your compelling message to thousands of members of social networks and receive happy messages in return from the recipients.

2. Enable you to open, maintain 30 or more social network identities while still getting messages from each and return messages to those who require a reply.

3. And since you’re a member of lots of networks, any message you bring out can be propagated to each one, while checking if the message was correctly posted in each.

4. Say you went on vacation or an event and took lots of pictures and videos. VAs can take all the photos, erase the blurred ones, rotate the ones that need it, and give you the result – all renamed with the correct keywords and even watermarked with your “brand”.

5. After “fixing” the photos, they can upload it to your social networks

with the album name you specify.

6. When I say maintain social network accounts, I mean “approve all friends, reply to all emails and messages using your FAQ or standard reply or cut and paste from your “reply” message collection.

7. If you have an event, they can put the event details into both social

networks AND event calendars, thus creating links to your event website or blog.

8. They can blog hop according to your specifications, leave a personal comment to the blog owner (they can read the blog if you want them to).

9. They can spice up your presentations using “interesting” graphics from either online creative commons sources or your paid graphics source.

Of course, you must train them on the quality of graphics you’re thinking of and what constitutes beauty for your PowerPoint.

10. If you can type the step by step, they can create whole PowerPoint presentations based on your instructions. I once asked my VAs to create the entire process (each step, literally) in signing up for onlywire.com and ALL it’s supporting websites. I then used that presentation as a bonus to a product I was selling.

11. I had a long list of emails that were not separated by commas. I had the VA “clean it up” so that the emails were separated by commas.

12. Check your website if the links actually opens the right website that it says it opens. Link checkers can only check if the link works, but not if it’s the right link (what the words say opens to the correct link).

13. Using SMS, I asked my VA to find me the nearest ATM in my location (I was outside) and have no internet connection.

14. Call up major hotels and event venues in Bangkok to see if they have facilities for an internet-connected workshop for 40 people.

15. Manually inspect my client’s forums for people who are spamming or advertising and delete the user and posts - do this daily.

16. Edit blog posts that are outdated.

17. Do keyword research using the Adwords tool.

18. Create a blog based on the keyword research.

19. Populate the blog based on a strategy of creating original posts.

20. Replicate daily videos using TubeMogul and other video syndicating sites.

21. Change the text links unto a graphic link, many, many times.

22. Welcome people into your membership site, using whatever process is necessary.

23. Locate 10 online greeting card sites and show you screenshots of each.

24. After you’ve decided which greeting card site to use, they can create greeting ecards for your clients – so you get to greet them ALL – even if it’s just online.

25. While they’re at it, they can send a special offer message to the birthday celebrator, asking to buy a birthday discounted (available only to him!) offer or maybe even a free one.

26. Check your other VA’s work.

27. Go to a website, download everything there – that you need. For example, dolectures.com or ted.com

28. Create a list of forums where you can promote in, based on number of members, response to previous promotions and answer direct questions as well as behave like a human being in the forum to maintain the accounts in the forums.

29. Take a long 4 column html table and convert it into a single column text file. As it turns out this is a list of keywords, so they create a website for each.

30. Link websites based on rules you specify, like words surrounding the link, link text and direction of the links.

31. Cross refer an excel file containing PayPal payments, another one with Bank Deposits and a membership list they extracted them your membership site to determine who paid using which payment method. Do this at each month end and email you the result.

32. Watch a video daily, determine what the video is talking about, upload the video to multiple sites while entering the correct keywords.

33. Edit a poorly constructed sales letter using a correctly created sales letter as template.

34. Locate the lyrics of all the songs of a CD and insert the lyrics onto each MP3 file that you supply. (So you can sing to it while playing on your iPod or iTunes).

35. Open your Facebook account, get your real friends birthdays, send them a greeting using an email scheduling service WHILE sending you a note one day before it happens.

36. Funny thing is, my VAs have done all of the above one time or the other and some of them aren’t even university graduates. Not even high school graduates.

GOOD STORY

If your VA knows your ultimate goal, example: “I need to fill up this seminar hall with 60 people each paying the regular high fee.” You can get concerned messages asking you if their efforts last weekend were able to bring in more people. If not, they’ll keep working on promoting to get more people in. Maybe even suggest what else to do.

One of my VAs belongs to a company. After a major typhoon (that’s hurricane for you), the electricity was expected to be out for days. The VA company boss purchased a generator to keep the service up.

Look for more forums to promote in, websites you don’t even know exists.

If you ask for more people to work for you and your VA is a part of a VA company or a VA family (yes, there’s such a thing, they work in one house, they’re all related by blood) – you can ask for extra hands to work on your rush project – with very little advance notice.

Again, if your VA belongs to a VA company, if you think your present VA is not giving you a good performance, you can have the person sent out for retraining and be assigned a new much more experienced VA.

NOT SO GOOD STORY

Asking for advance payment. Usually a school related issue is given (their kids) or a hospital emergency (parents?) when they ask for 2-3 days’ advance on their pay.

Disappearance. They don’t report for three days in a row. Even after getting an SMS message from you (all Filipinos have SMS capability or access to someone who can lend them a phone if they truly want to be reached).

It turns out someone or they have been hospitalized and are just afraid to say it.

I asked them to create 3 posters based on a single one taking creative commons images. They selected not very creative images and overlaid the detailed filled images with the text. Result is the text can’t be read.

Really need to train them about “creative image selection” and “positioning of text for posters for better readability.”

From Jomar Hilario, Internet Marketing Guru

http://www.jomarhilario.com/

How to Get your Dream Job -- A Simple Guide to Self Improvement

If you're tired of dealing with traffic and office politics and expensive fast food that offer nothing but empty calories, if you're sick of dealing with irate colleagues and boss, if you'd like more freedom to do what you've always wanted to do like spend time with your 5-year old or go on a spur of the moment vacation, or enjoy home-cooked meals with you family, would you be willing to give up your precious spot in the corporate world and work from home?

Everyone has dreams -- whether you want to succeed in life, be happy, start your own family, launch and sustain your own profitable business or land the job you've always wanted -- your dreams are what drive you to do the impossible and take risks. Your dreams are what inspire you to try, your dreams motivate you to do everything you can to turn them into reality.

It helps to map out your steps so that you'll have proper direction. Here are some tips to guide you on your way to landing your dream job or get you started on that business you've always wanted:

·    Know what you want – Prior to filling in an application or taking that first big leap, it helps to have a clear idea of what you want to do. Ask yourself, “What do I want to do in the next five years?”

·    Use your imagination – Visualize your future. It’s a simple yet very powerful exercise as it reveals your dreams.


·    Find mentors - These days, it's not enough to actively look for help. We must be proactive. Search for people who are willing and more than capable of helping you fulfill your dreams. What's more, find mentors who can help you reach your full potential. Being someone's Virtual Assistant (VA) or Executive Assistant is one of the best jobs in the world. It's like being an intern, an on-the-job trainee where you get paid for learning how to do business, except that you get to participate and witness as the business grows. How cool is that?

·    Be creative - There are many ways to discover your dreams. Read self help books, inspirational books in particular can be quite helpful. Listen to self help audio books, self help mp3s and CDs, watch self help DVDs from your favorite mentors. Do some research and compare notes with others like you.

·    Trust your heart - Your dream is already in your heart. Remember, your dream job is out there, waiting for you to find it; that means your battle is already half won. List down your dreams and you’ll find out what you really want to do.

·    Rely on your instincts – Once you have a clear idea of what you want, your dreams and goals, you will know your dream job and what field you should pursue. Follow your instincts and you’re bound to succeed.

Look out for part two of this article! For more details on how to get your dream job, visit my Self Help Blog and discover many ways to improve your life. Be blessed!