Your Filipino Virtual Assistant (VA) – 5 Best Practices to Boost Productivity

One of the critical keys for small businesses to survive in their respective niches is productivity. Small business owners often ask us: Can small business owners do more than their competition? Even with limited resources and workers? The answer is YES. If you have a Filipino virtual assistant, you are one step closer to achieving […]

Should You Buy A Laptop For Your Virtual Assistant?

One of the issues surrounding outsourcing to the Philippines is providing equipment for your virtual assistant. As you interview candidates, some of them might say they don’t have a computer or internet connection. That raises the question, should you shoulder the cost? We get this question a lot at Onlinejobs.ph and I think it’s about […]

How To Hire a Filipino Web Designer

A website designer creates the layout, visuals, text, and user-friendly navigation for your website. As a small business, your website design has to capture and communicate your brand or online identity at a glance. Do that right and you stand a chance to compete with large corporations. Knowing that, you may be considering outsourcing your […]

So, You Want To Hire An SEO Specialist

SEO has steadily been one of the most popular responsibilities to outsource because it’s such a tedious job. It takes constant effort. You really have to stay on top of the latest updates. As a result, most entrepreneurs have a tough time personally handling SEO while also focusing on their core business and growth. So, […]

How To Hire A Virtual Assistant To Help You Manage Facebook Ads

Social Media has become the most important component in a lot of people’s lives. Facebook tops the list of social networking sites that people frequently visit and that it has continually been a haven for advertisers to mine valuable customers since its inception. As more internet marketers turn to Facebook advertising to unlock new opportunities, […]

Outsourcing within the Philippines – Locations and Tradeoffs

The Philippines has always been an outsourcing destination since the 90’s. For years, outsourcing talents has been concentrated in the country’s capital, Manila. To decongest the capital, the government made an effort a decade ago to distribute resources, allowing other cities and regions in the Philippines to undergo a massive industrial and digital transformation. This […]

Outsourcing to Philippines, Getting Work Done in Your Time Zone

Between New York and the Philippines, there is a 12 hour difference in time zones. On the west coast, there is a 15 hour difference. And for us at Onlinejobs.ph, we operate on Mountain time where there is a 14 hour difference. One of the constant client issues we get asked at Onlinejob.Ph is this: […]

How A Real Estate Assistant Can Help You Grow Your Business

One of the ways you can grow your real estate business is by freeing up the time you spend on mundane and administrative tasks. For many realtors, it’s often cost-prohibitive to hire an assistant, when salary, taxes, benefits and other expenses are included. Many realtors have capitalized on the opportunity to hire a virtual assistant […]

4 Reasons to Hire Filipino Writers – 5 Ways to Make it Happen

Writing is a key function you should consider outsourcing to the Philippines. In fact, increasingly small- and medium-sized businesses are contracting major portions of their writing tasks to Filipino workers. And the trend of hiring Filipino writers isn’t something we see that’s bound to die down soon. 4 Reasons Why Outsourcing Writing to the Philippines […]

Philippines Or India? Which outsourcing destination is better?

  I wrote about the 4 reasons why the Philippines is better outsourcing destination extensively in my LinkedIn post. I have another reason to add to that list. This infographic was created by one of my virtual assistants in the Philippines (who is a writer by training) using free software. She pitched me the idea of […]