What You Should Know About Online Mistery Shopping? Well, many know about what mystery shopping is. Mystery shopping is done by people who pretend to be shopping for goods or services and pose many questions to get answers. These people are paid to give complete feedbacks about the products or services they investigated in secret.
But what about online mystery shopping? How is it done? Its just like the traditional mystery shopping, the only difference is that shopping is done online. Many online businesses invest much on these secret shoppers in order to improve the shopping process in their site.
Feedbacks could help them improve speed, prices, product quality, website ease-of-use, procedures, and customer service. Employing online mystery shopping strategies ensure success of their online marketing plan. [More]
Do you want to start buying and selling online but you don’t have your own blog or website to list and sell your items? Ive been seeing this new player for quite a while now since they have been visible in most google ad spots in some of my blogs.
AyosDito.ph sounds like a youth oriented blog or website but visiting the site, I found out that its actually a new online classified ads where you can buy and sell online much like eBay.
Its not that easy for a new site to be visible, It takes a lot of money to advertise and to have online visibility but the fact that they have money to spend makes them more reliable in my own opinion.
AyosDito.ph Online Marketplace
Right in the homepage, a map of the Philippines represents different regions in the Philippines where you can buy and list items for sale. If you are located in Quezon City and you want to look for an item for sale, you may want to click on NCR in order for you to transact seamlessly with a seller in the same location and in that way, you can also meet up with the seller and check the items condition. [More]
If you’ve always dreamed of a life and career as a freelancer, here are the steps you can take to become one:
Understand your skills
It’s not enough that you know what your skills are; you need to know how well you can do them. There is a level of expertise required in many jobs, regardless of what their nature is, be it copywriting, graphics, editing, photography, blogging or programming.
Familiarize yourself with your competition [More]
Its new year again, aside from our own new years resolution, some of us are thinking of putting up a small home based business to start the new year right.
Before starting you new income generating endeavor, make sure to consider some of these things :
- Decide What Products Your Business will Offer – Since its just a start up, start with few line of items then as you grow, you can start adding related products.
- Know Your Market and Your Competition – Ask your friends, check for possible dealers where you can consign your products and make a list of possible clients. Also check your competitors outlet and distributors, you may want to send samples to them as well.
- Have proper training and Check your resources – TLRC and DTI are some of the government institutions that provides training on some cottage industries. Make sure you have enough capital and equipment before you start up. Make Sure You Can Do the Tasks Needed Before Starting a Small Business. Determine Your Start up Costs to make sure your business will operate continuously.
- Understand Legal Barriers and Government requirements before Starting Your Business – Is your product patented? Check out if you need to register your own business. Remember some clients requires official receipts and OR’s are not issued by BIR to non registered businesses.
- Assess your Cash Flow – If you are already earning and you think that you can now leave your day job. Check out first if it can really support your needs and if your market is stable. Consider Your Break Even Point, Start buying additional equipment when you think you have already recovered your start up costs.
- Ask support from your Family – Since your business is new and its expensive to hire additional manpower, you may consider asking for help from your family member.
Good Luck and Happy New Year to All!
Virtual Assistants are getting more and more in demand nowadays and the demand is coming from different industry or businesses. In the Philippines, Ive known a lot of freelancers who are now offering a the service of being a virtual assistant. By hiring an online assistant, you can increase your manpower without paying a full time employee. According to an online forum, Filipino Virtual Assistants are the most effective since they are English speaking and they can easily understand their clients requirements.
In compare to a full time employee, a virtual assistant is more efficient and yet less expensive and can definitely provide you with full support depending on your requirement. Generally, all Filipino virtual assistants are computer literate and most of them has a college degree. They are also known for being reliable, hardworking and trust worthy.
Virtual Assistants are paid based on hours rendered and they are not entitled for any benefits like hospitalization and Holiday incentives. You can also save on utility bill and office equipments since they are using their own computer in their home office. If you are just starting your business and you cant afford to hire a full time employee, consider hiring a virtual assistant and see the difference. [More]
You might be surprised how many work at home job offers you are getting each week on your email inbox and most of them are urging you to sign up and try their income generating opportunity. More and more Filipinos are getting hooked on doing freelance jobs but some of them are skeptical since a lot of people are also being scammed.
Apart from good testimonials from freelancers, we are also hearing bad experiences from people who are scammed. So do you think Is it the right time for you to try this work at home opportunities? Home based jobs have become a popular money making alternative which makes more and more Filipinos convinced that working from home is the simplest way to earn extra cash. [More]
