Category: Information and Communication Technology

What’s The Best Business for OFW’s?

I have been receiving inquiries from overseas Filipino workers asking whether there’s a particular good business that they can start in the Philippines while they are out of the country.

First of all, I believe that any kind of endeavor and project that a person desires to enter into requires physical presence and hands-on management.

In the same manner, starting  a business in your home country while you are working overseas means you have to take the risk of entrusting your hard-earned money to a close relative, a friend, or to a hired qualified professional.

So before I give my personal suggestions on what specific business can be run while out of the Philippines, let me ask back the inquirers these 10 questions first: Continue reading What’s The Best Business for OFW’s?

How To Set Up Your EIP Account with COL Financial

About two weeks ago, I posted a topic how to invest in Philippine stocks via the broker COL Financial.

While that post was mainly intended for overseas Filipino workers or OFW’s who do not have the luxury to go back to the Philippines to open their first stock market portfolio, anyone interested to start investing via COL Financial may refer to the procedures and requirements I wrote there.

I know it’s a bit overdue and I have not posted yet the procedures on how to set up your EIP stocks via the COL Financial platform should you opt to open an account with them. Continue reading How To Set Up Your EIP Account with COL Financial

My First e-Passport Renewal Experience Overseas

I went early yesterday morning to Dammam to renew my passport through the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh’s “Embassy on Wheels” or the EOW program. Thanks to a colleague, who’s also a volunteer for the EOW, for giving me a lift to the Al Jazeera International School (Philippine School of Dammam).

I booked an appointment with the Embassy through their website way back in August. I was trying to get a booking for their September or October tour but the online appointment was already full so I had to settle for the December schedule.

So I advise the Filipinos in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia to book their renewal as early as 6 months prior to the expiration of their passports to avoid any problem.

Let me take you to a virtual tour on how the renewal process went on yesterday morning. Continue reading My First e-Passport Renewal Experience Overseas