After our episode on Evaluating your Year, here's another solo episode where I talk about some tips on How to Plan for the coming year. I'm sure that you have a lot of hopes and dreams for the future. So my challenge for you for 2015: Dream big. But commi

It's the end of 2014. That means it's time for some personal evaluation. How did your year go? In this episode, I give you six questions that will help you evaluate this year. These questions will help guide your thinking and your evaluation process. The

In this episode, I interview Mr. Massi Oracion, the Philippine Business for Education program manager for FutureYou.ph, a website dedicated to helping High School students, college students, and career-shifters plan for their career path. Along the way, w

It's the end of the year, which means that employees who receive a lot of bonuses (13th, 14th, or even 15th month) may need to pay extra taxes on top of the regular rate withheld by their employees. But why do we really need to pay taxes? What exemptions

In this episode, I chat with Heinz Bulos of Learning Curve about the Freelance Camp Manila 2014, which is a great event for Filipino freelancers who want to learn more about freelancing and pursue a viable career in this field. We talk about the impact of

In this episode, I chat with Celine Roque, who is one of the authoritative voices on freelancing in the Philippines since she has been in this industry for more than 10 years. But here's the thing--she built her career, not on the bidding sites of oDesk a

Raket.PH is perhaps the Philippines newest site for freelancers. Its model is different from oDesk and Elance, but it's definitely a great way to showcase the skills and services offered by Pinoy freelancers. Since officially launching in May, Raket.PH no

This week, I'm posting my interview with Oliver Ramos, Marketing Manager of JobsDB Philippines and Mikey Cadiz, PR & Communications Officer of the same company (just a correction: in the audio of the podcast, I mistakenly referred to him as a manager) whe

In this episode, I chat with Eli Avellanoza of Busyok.info to explore the job of a freelance graphic designer: how he got started while in College, and how he discovered the process of selling stock graphics to different websites and online graphic market

In Part 4 of our Freelancing series, I interview Jay Pasana about his journey as an online freelancer--from his first year as a virtual assistant for entrepreneurs on Multiply and Sulit.com to his Virtual Assistant stint, and how he eventually transitione