Category: Business

Earning Through Blogging – A Crash Course on How to Build a Profitable Blog

The OFW UsapangPiso Forum and Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy bring you another online learning event entitled “Earning Through Blogging:
A Crash Course on How to Build a Profitable Blog”.

Fitz Villafuerte, a personal finance advocate and now world-renowned blogger with his Ready To Be Rich site, will be sharing his blogging knowledge, experience, and expertise to our beloved followers on October 19, 2013, Saturday at 3PM (Philippine/Singapore time) – 10AM (KSA/Bahrain/Qatar/Kuwait), 11AM (UAE), etc. 

Duration of the webinar is estimated to run from 2 hours to maximum of 3 hours.

Here are the details of the paid webinar: Continue reading Earning Through Blogging – A Crash Course on How to Build a Profitable Blog

Can OFW’s Invest in Funds Overseas Aside from the Philippines?

For the past year, we’ve been receiving inquiries from OFW’s and even from those based in the Philippines on how to invest in pooled funds such as mutual funds, unit investment trust funds (UITF’s), exchange-traded funds (ETF’s), and others. And we are so glad for having been able to help most of them open their first accounts and start investing either for their retirement of for their children’s education.

Recently, there were also some Filipinos based overseas who are wondering whether they can invest in other emerging and developed countries other than the Philippines.

Jess Emerson Uy, a financial consultant based in Singapore, will let us know and explain the options on how to invest in equities from different regions and in bonds issued by different countries and corporations globally. Continue reading Can OFW’s Invest in Funds Overseas Aside from the Philippines?

It’s My Blog’s Anniversary Today!

I’ve been blogging for over a decade already starting out with my online/email newsletter called “BURN! Express” back in 1999-2002. It was actually an unofficial fun/entertainment newsletter which I headed for the then current and former employees of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Philippines (C.L. Manabat/Navarro, Amper & Co currently).

By 2003, I started using Friendster and LiveJournal alternately in writing my thoughts and opinion about politics, religion, trekking, sports, personal advocacies, music, UFO’s, and relationships. I was also contributing articles to newspapers, reflection guides, and youth-oriented magazines and the experience was simply overwhelming. Continue reading It’s My Blog’s Anniversary Today!