Why Outsourcing to the Philippines Works for Entrepreneurs

February 3, 2013 By

Being an entrepreneur always entails the risk of not earning profits within a year or so. Entrepreneurs are courageous business-minded individuals who take this kind of risk; thinking that after a few years of hard work, they will earn more than they could ever foresee.

Though this is the nature of the entrepreneurial world, you can possibly avoid the worst case scenarios of not earning profits or bankruptcy if you know how to outsource your work. A lot of big companies and small businesses venture the outsourcing road. What does it really mean to outsource your work? It can save you a lot of money, especially when you hire people from Philippines. The cost of labor in the Philippines is cheap. If you find 300 USD as just a little penny, this is already considered as gold for the Filipino people.

There are a lot of work you can outsource in the Philippines through the following websites:OnlineJobs.ph, oDesk.com and EasyOutsource.com. This includes content writing, SEO, website design, graphic design, and even personal assistants.

Content writing

If you don’t have the knack and nerve to write several articles, ebooks or blog posts, you can delegate this work to Filipinos looking for part time or full time home based jobs. You might raise an eyebrow since English is definitely not the native language of Filipinos. However, Filipinos are actually great when it comes to the English language.

Just post a content writing job either on Online Jobs, oDesk or Easy Outsource. Within a few minutes, you will see that a lot of people will be applying to your work.

SEO

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is some kind of technique wherein you make your website ranked higher in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. The most common techniques in making your website ranked higher are link dropping, blog commenting, submission to article directories and guest posting.

Filipinos can do SEO even if they don’t have a degree in IT related subjects. Have you heard the 13 year old Filipino boy who earned dollars using the “making money online” as a niche? That’s how talented Filipinosare.

Website Design

Website design mostly entails of the maintenance and graphics of a particular website. If you will browse Online Jobs, oDesk and Easy Outsource, you’ll actually find Filipinos who are quite talented in this line of work.

To see if they are really capable, you may ask them to see some websites they have worked on, or you can just subject them to a trial task before hiring them.

Graphic Design

Traditional or digital, Filipinos can make something artsy as long as they have the means. Graphic designing mostly consumes a lot of working hours. If you need something immediately done, hiring the best and most creative Filipino graphic designer will be your only solution.

Personal Assistants

Working with Filipinos can be a great experience since there is someone working for you even while you sleep. This is because of the different time zones. Filipinos are smart personal assistants. They can do your administrative work. You can trust them on their work and you can only give them minimal supervision.

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Why Filipino Workers are Perfect to Hire

February 1, 2013 By

Outsourcing work has never been too easy as you need to carefully scan numerous applicants from foreign countries. Issues like talents and trust often arise when an employer needs to outsource work from people who are not even his fellow countrymen. If you want to narrow down your choices, then you may opt for hiring Filipino workers.

Other countries may see Filipino workers as incapable people since the TV news show that the Philippines is a poor, corrupt and flooded country. Though this might be the current condition of the country, Filipinos are actually rich in terms of positive attitude and talents.

Filipinos have high regard to their families. We would do anything (righteous) just to earn money, even a few bucks to save ourselves and our families from drowning in the pits of poverty. You could say that Filipinos are money-driven. We work hard to be justly compensated. We can work above the usual 8 hours of labor. Filipinos work like horses. Some even work 20 hours. The remaining 4 hours would be their only time for them to sleep.

Smart and honest – these are the top qualities of Filipinos. Filipinos are not only smart in terms of academics. We are also capable of figuring out solutions to problems without depending on anyone. If there are power outages in the area, Filipino workers usually try to find some ways on how to get online and work. In my case, I borrowed the battery-powered laptops of my dorm mates until I’m able to finish my work. Or I would go to a nearby computer shop and I would do my online work there. If there are no other means, I worked double or triple to cover up my lagged work because of the power failure or storms.

Filipinos are also honest. We show our honesty by keeping our promises; being true in our words. In terms of outsourced work, we usually tell our clients upfront yet politely if we can handle the task. We meet deadlines. If not, we provide proper explanation. We don’t make several excuses. We know how hard it is to work.

Aside from that, Filipinos are good in English. Though English is not our native language, we are very good at it; whether speaking or writing. Worried about the Filipino accent? Worry not. Filipinos are great in imitating American and British accents. We are also good writers. We can write about anything. Though there might be a few grammatical errors, pardon us. But we don’t write something trashy and useless.

We like working with foreign companies. They often offer us payment which is higher than our daytime job. Of course, some foreign employers pay a little, but we don’t usually mind that. As long as it can augment our income, we’ll take on the job. Working online never seems like work for us since we enjoy it. We can do it at home in flexible hours.

Filipinos take pride in their work. Even if the pay is just little, we don’t leave things undone. Filipinos always do their best, hoping that foreign employers would regard their hard work and compensate them even more.

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