Category: Pop Culture

On The Way to Blogging Success with Blog Academy Philippines

A month ago, Fitz and I run a webinar about how to earn through blogging. Fitz illustrated some tips and basic essentials on how bloggers make money online and how they get paid.

While that webinar is basically just a crash course, there is another on-going online project that will focus on helping Filipinos, especially OFW’s, learn how to build a personal brand that will create multiple income streams for them as an authority blogger and make blogging as a potential money-making machine.

Earlier this week, Fitz introduced me to another authority blogger, Jon Oraña, and invited me to become one of their partners in promoting this new project called Blog Academy Philippines. Continue reading On The Way to Blogging Success with Blog Academy Philippines

Playing CashFlow and Learning Financially in Dubai

Promoting financial education to most OFW’s is never easy. In fact, most people would typically shun away when you start to talk about budgeting, frugality, insurance, or investing because they think they sound either elitist or just plain boring. Talk about showbiz or sports and most of them will surely say yes.

Good thing Robert Kiyosaki invented the Cashflow boardgame. The game has been a helpful tool for financial literacy advocates to reach out to people and educate them about improving their finances and growing their money through different investment vehicles.

The OFW UsapangPiso Dubai team led by Cherry Murillo and Normie Pascua, conducted its 2nd Cashflow Game event for the year (and the 3rd major event for the group in 2013) last Friday, November 22, 2013 at the Sweet Pepper Restaurant in Karama.

The learning event was attended by OFW’s based in Dubai, UAE that the group has invited via a handful of social media pages and forums dedicated to promoting financial literacy. Continue reading Playing CashFlow and Learning Financially in Dubai

Dubai OFW’s, Are You Ready To Get Out of the Rat Race?

Investing is a skill that was not taught in school. Most of the times it’s only through experience, and recently, through exposure to the social media that are bringing people to get interested about the stock market, mutual funds, and other financial instruments.

But another effective and alternative way to learn about investing and planning your finances is through playing a board game. Exactly. Play the CashFlow Game!

CASHFLOW 101 was created as a fun, powerful, and experiential way to teach investing and wealth building. It also trains the player on how to manage assets and liabilities, trade stocks, and to fight his or her way out of the Rat Race (a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power). Continue reading Dubai OFW’s, Are You Ready To Get Out of the Rat Race?