Teaching English Online

Today I had my first taste of teaching English online.  What can I say about it?  Well, it wasn't all that hard to tell you frankly.  Of course, it's hard when the people you're talking to can only say "yes" or "no" or "I don't know," and you have no idea if they really understand what you're talking about, but somehow it gives you the feeling that they're at least trying to understand you, probably because the lesson is already paid for.  When you have somebody's full attention, even if they don't know what you're saying, it gives you a good feeling.  So the experience today wasn't very positive as far as solid results go, but at least I got some positive emotions from it.  Unfortunately, my internet connection wasn't up to snuff, plus I kept on getting disconnected.  Maybe if I didn't have to turn video on, it would've sufficed.  However, audio AND video were required, and that overloaded my poor bandwidth.  Add the unreliable router that kept on disconnecting me, and I had the recipe for a disaster.  Good thing my students were kids aged 11 to 16, so they were fairly forgiving.  I shudder to think if those were professionals.  They'd have probably asked for a refund straightaway!

I don't really want to give it up so soon, because the kids were cute!  Particularly a little girl that even asked me for a present as her birthday is just days away.  But until I get the bandwidth I need, and a reliable router that wouldn't disconnect me intermittently, I have no choice but to put that project in the back burner for now.

There's another one coming up this Wednesday (12/22/2010), teaching English online w/o video...  That might be something I can manage.  If I pass the screening process, that is.

And I must say, my fiancée has been very supportive!  She told me "I'm proud of you.  As long as you tried, that's what matters."  I couldn't have gotten better praise than that!  She's my jewel, that girl.

Anyways, if anyone of you would like to try out this online English teaching stint, here are the qualifications:

• American accent, or at least a neutral accent
• Grammar proficiency (Hey, accent isn't everything!)
• A computer (duh!), webcam (don't get it from CDR King!), and a headset with a microphone
• A DSL connection with at least 300 Kbps down and 400 Kbps up.  1 Mbps strongly recommended
• The patience of an elephant (I'm not kidding!)
• The desire to earn $2.699 per hour (Philippine rate - Php120 per hour)
• A genuine desire to foster international goodwill through teaching (Debatable, I admit)
• Will not quit after 1 session! (I'm so guilty of this, but I felt it needed to be said)
• A fun, enthusiastic, and cheerful (dare I say perky?) personality

If you do decide that teaching English online is your thing, I bid you good luck on your endeavors!  It has the potential to be a very good source of income if you're a stay-at-home person such as myself.

For more ways to earn part-time income:

• Visit my website to learn more about Pay To Click (PTC)
• Read articles, learn something new, rate them, and make money!
• Got a product to sell?  Create your own website and start now
• Learn internet marketing
• Learn affiliate marketing

If you want to get the links for the videos I'm currently watching (internet marketing bootcamp), please e-mail me.  I would gladly share those links with you.

Well, I'm out for now, it's almost 2a.m. and I need my beauty sleep (*wink* to my sweetie).  Take care everyone, and be well.

Jon

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More on Internet Marketing

Hello again!  It seems I'm on a roll and my mind won't shut up.  I'm continuously reading up and watching videos here and there that my head is literally aching from all the information.  I came across a very nice 7-day video bootcamp that should prove to be very useful in my goal to make inroads in IM or internet marketing.  If you'd like me to send you the link so you can learn along with me, please feel free to send me an e-mail at manilenio.ptc@gmail.com and please specify that you would like to get the link for afore-mentioned videos.  That's all for now!


Later,

Jon

Building your first online business website

Okay, so a couple of months ago (or was that a year ago?), I was toying around with the idea of starting an online internet business.  I started making a list of what I would need: a domain, a web hosting service, a website, and of course, products to sell.  While buying a domain and getting a web hosting service weren't all that cheap, they weren't all that expensive either.  Those were the least of my concerns.  What I hit a snag on were the remaining pieces of the puzzle!

Building a website

Building your own site is no walk in the park, especially for a non-web designer person such as myself.  From my initial list, I now started a new list under "website."  Unfortunately, all I knew to put under that list is HTML.  Now learning HTML is not exactly a walk in the park, but it's not exactly rocket science either.  More and more people are learning it everyday, whether via classroom training or via online self-taught training.  The problem with this is the time it will actually take you to learn it.  So now I've learned it, along with CSS and Javascript.  What now?  Although I'm proud to say that I've put up my own website, it IS rather plain and uninspired.  A graphic designer I am not, undoubtedly.  More work in store for me, for sure, before I can start with my online business empire...

Products to sell

So assuming I had my own domain and hosting services, and I can competently build my own website without using Dreamweaver and the like, what was I going to sell?  Practically, one should sell what one has knowledge and interest of, right?  I guess to that end, I still would need to come up with a real list of niche markets I'll consider getting into.  I have a lot of interests: video games, electronics, movies, etc., so it's not going to be easy.

Bottomline

Fortunately for you, there IS a solution, at least for the first two parts of the puzzle (domain/hosting, site building).  An all-in-one solution, if you will.  I first came across this solution months ago.  I believe it to be a very very excellent value for money, especially for people who already have the third part of the puzzle figured out, but are not sure about the first two.  And I guess the only reason why I haven't taken this route is because I really wanted to learn how to code HTML in the first place.  I'm a purist, if there's such a thing.  Anyhow, as I was saying, there's this excellent all-in-one solution for people who do not want to be bothered with buying a domain and finding a reliable web hosting service, and do not know how to build a site, but already have an idea of what they would want to market online: Site Build It! or simply, SBI!  I can't even begin to tell you how much value you get from this site!  They give you a domain and web-hosting services, they give you a plethora of website designs you can choose from, and they will help you build your site from start to finish, AND they will give you tips on how to market your site!  They have an excellent support team that's committed to your success every step of the way.  And when you decide to stop using their services, the domain is YOURS.  You get to keep it.  Isn't that just sweet?!?

So again, if you're itching to get started with a great idea in mind, let SBI! help you get your site up and running in the quickest time possible, with solid support and years of experience that you can count on.  You can watch videos of hundreds of satisfied members to help you decide if SBI! is right for your needs.  You owe it to yourself to check on this opportunity right now.  Here's their homepage.

Me?  I'll be along pretty soon.  As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've yet to learn PHP, MYSQL, and JOOMLA.  When I'm done with those, maybe then I'll have an idea of what to sell.  But then again, maybe I'll  just get SBI! too :).

To our mutual success,

Jon  

Personal Investing

So recently I got it into my head that I want to get rich, sooner rather than later.  Obviously, I've been gallivanting around all my 39 years and I've gotten nowhere.  Now though, I've firmed up my resolve and I've decided to buckle down and do what it takes to round up some money so I can go on my merry way and get on with living, as it were.  To that end, I've been sniffing around and found out about affiliate marketing.  As part of internet marketing (IM), it's one that carries a very low risk, but has the potential for huge gains.  You don't carry inventory, you don't ship out anything, you just get paid.  Granted, this entails that you market aggressively via your own website, blog, and social networking sites, but if you know what you're doing, you could possibly quit your 9-5 day job and be your own boss!  This means you need traffic, lots of it.  You need a list of people to send e-mail blasts out, etc.  That's not as easy as you think, as I'm finding out now.  So I'm scouring the internet for the best leads, reading up on every material I can find, and hoping to high heaven that I finally find something that will guide me to become the internet marketer that I can be.  Along my journey, I discovered THIS, and maybe, just maybe, this is what I've been looking around for.  Save yourself the hassle and go check it out, and let me know what you think.

To our mutual success online,

Jon

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What have I been up to?

So what have I been up to? Well, I've been busying myself with trying to find alternate sources of income.  First thing I stumbled onto is Pay To Click or PTC, where you click on ads and you get paid for each click.  True, it's not going to make you rich, and truthfully it'll take 2 to 3 months before you could even check-out the measly $2 you were clicking on daily, but hey, it's money!  Next thing is affiliate marketing.  Actually, I'm just an affiliate for the PTC sites I'm a member of.  Thing is, I'm just gearing up for the "real" affiliate marketing, and this is great practice for me.  Why don't you check out my website: http://www.how-to-ptc.zymichost.com and look it over?  Who knows, you might find it interesting enough to do on your spare time.

Aside from that, I've also applied with Toyota Marikina as a Marketing Professional.  I'm still waiting for my final interview, but I see this as training to overcome my shyness, and make some money along the way.  Sounds like a great deal if you ask me!  And lastly, I'm also going to try teaching English online, to both Koreans and Japanese.  I really hope to pull it off.  It's one thing to teach my countrymen, it's quite another to go international...  But again, what's there to lose? 

What's in the pipeline: Life Insurance.  When I get around to that, I'll be sure to blog about it. 

Oh, before I forget, if you have a website, and you would like to try affiliate marketing and make some residual income, click HERE to find out more.

More next time friends, keep safe and be happy!

Losing

So after watching "Catch me if you can" (featuring Leo Di Caprio and Tom Hanks), and seeing how Frank Sr. lost everything in his life (his business, his wife), I was struck by how he kept soldiering on, despite his heavy losses.  I got to thinking about my life and how scared I was of losing.  Funny thing is, I don't have anything to lose anymore.  I can't lose my job because I don't have a job.  I can't lose my business because I haven't put it up yet.  I can't lose money because I have none.  My car is just another possession that can be replaced anyway.  In the end, I decided I actually have only 3 things in this life that I was really scared to lose: my son's respect, my fiancée, and time.  Since my previous marriage had been annulled, I see my son every now and then, and only when his mother brings him around.  Hopefully, when he's old enough, or mature enough, whichever comes first, I'll get the chance to speak with him about the circumstances of our relationship.  My fiancée, she who believes in me, she who gently pushes me forward while holding my hand, she who does not look down on me even though I'm penniless...  She's the reason I'm scared of losing time.  Time, once gone, cannot be regained.  It goes by without effort, without regard for anyone or anything.  I'm afraid of losing time because so much hinges on it, especially my prospects of a future life with her.  So help me, God, as I help myself, to make the most of the remaining time I have.

So do we need to rush?  Not really.  But we really need to define what we really want to achieve before we're gone, so we can focus our energies on those.  Once you've achieved those, everything else is just a bonus.

Good luck defining your fears.

Jack Lallane's Power Juicer: A Review.

So my dad bought a Jack Lallane's power juicer off the home tv shopping network for 10k or so.  The premise is good, you can juice fruits, vegetables, and use the leftovers for salsa or baby food.  Add to that, there's supposed to be less wasted juice, and is supposed to be easy to clean.  Let's get down to it: it does as advertised.  That is, it juices fruits and vegetables, and it does so with aplomb.  The catch?  Clean-up is a bi*ch!  The ad shows that very little is left in the pulp catcher, that's why you get more juice.  Well, while the power juicer does give you a lot of juice, the pulp catcher doesn't actually catch all the pulp.  Most of the pulp (and the fibers) get left behind inside the juicer!  What's more, the pulp is WET, not dry as advertised.  Truth to tell, if you wanted to trick your kids to drink fruit juice mixed with vegetables, this isn't a bad way to do it.  However, honestly, you're better off just eating the fruits and vegetables.  That way, you're sure to get EVERYTHING, not just the juice.  So, is it worth it?  Not to me.

Richard Gordon for President!

Richard Gordon isn't a waste of your vote.  Gibo is a relative nobody with charisma, chosen by the powers that be to be a puppet.  Noynoy is a haciendero who only has his surname for credentials.  He's wishy-washy and has no spine.  Villar looks like a crook, and smiles like one.  Jamby is... affected by monthly insanity.  Erap fails to see the seriousness of the matter, aside from being a crook and a joke.  Eddie Villaneuva is a pastor and might also be good for the country, but that's why there's separation of the church and the state, to prevent religion (especially zealots) from affecting the whole country.  Gordon is the only one with solid performance and credentials, with the patriotism, fervor, political will, discipline, and vision to make this country rise from this quagmire we're all in.

If you think Noynoy is the sure winner so you'd rather not waste your vote on someone you much prefer, then you ARE wasting your right to vote!

Vote wisely please...  We all deserve a better Philippines.