More on Making Money in the Philippines — Rethink the Phone
A while back I wrote about making money in the Philippines with a phone, which was mainly a link to a free book on outsourcing that I thought was very valu8ble … mainly for its suggestions on ways to run businesses over distances.
I intended to add some more specifics about phone, what you can do with them, what I recommend and how they can certainly fit in with your plans to live in the Philippines, retire in the Philippines and even to earn a living here in the Philippines.
First of all, you need to change your phone concepts if you’re over 30. For years we were brought up with the notion that phone calls were a scarce, expensive commodity … and indeed they were. So the idea of using the phone frequently, especially for trans-oceanic calls.
It is just not the same world anymore. You can call me any time on 1-719-966-4295. That number rings on my computer and if I am here, I’ll answer it. If I’m away, it will go to voice mail. Cost to me? Zero. Cost to you … only what it costs to call a 719 number from your home. Skype … check it out. If you haven’t made the move to the Philippines yet, many of my friends recommend Vonage. Basically unlimited calls for a low monthly7 rate, and although Vonage doesn’t ship their boxes here, they work here just fine in the Philippines. I often call my American friends on their US Vonage or Skype numbers, it’s much cheaper for both of us than using our cell phones or Philippine land-line long distance. If you are already here and want to know how to get a Vonage box or another equivalent service, just call me, or drop me a line via my secure, no-spam contact page.
So why am I talking about these free or very cheap telephone services? Simple. making a living here in the Philippines can be very problematical to a foreigner. Making a living, especially as a part-time venture in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, et al is quite a bit simpler. So you have to stay home until you grow old like me before you can live your dream, right?
Absolutely dead wrong, my friend. If you can make a living … and believe me, there are ways to make a good living writing, providing services to others, basically finding a need and filling it, then there is typically no reason you can’t work the same business from the Philippines.
A woman I used to work with made a good living setting appointments for real estate agents. The agents found her services invaluable because she would insure that clients were ready to be shown houses and that property owners, whose houses were going to be shown, were ready for the realtor and prospective clients to arrive. A pencil, a calendar and a phone were her only tools. Absolutely no reason a business like this wouldn’t work here in the Philippines, with the only real issue being you would have to adjust your work/sleep hours a bit. You don’t need a web site, you don’t need to join any "soap selling" schemes, you don’t need a license, college education, business license … nothing except a desire to make money, a pleasant speaking voice and the courage to stop listening to the nay-sayers.
Frankly, when I used to sell for a living back in the US I would have leaped the chance to hire this lady … service like this is not limited to real estate. It’s an absolutely proven sales technique for a salesman or woman in any field to double or triple calls made on prospects by having a third-party call and set appointments. people who think nothing of slamming down the phone on a sales cold call will almost never do the same to a polite lady who says "I’m trying to set an time for Mr.s Smith to call on you and present the information."
Oh, and do you think you need callers from outside a local calling area in the US? Ones who might balk at the specter of using "long distance" to call to your business? Just get a local 1-800 number company in the US or Canada to provide you a toll-free number that will ring on any phone n8mber you specify. I had one for years for my GPS tracking business, cost me a grand total of $2.95 USD per month plus the per-minute charge of people calling me … 5 to 7 cents a minute. believe me, I loved it when people rang me on my 800 number. Not only were they typically much more inclined to talk and tell me about their business needs, the 800 number service automatically stripped out call blocking so I had real-world phone numbers to call clients back on and detailed tax and sales record information, automatically. Once one of my major competitors called me using a blocked number …while saying hello and making nice nice at the beginning of the call I called up the number calling in via my 1-800 number management screen and found out who it was … let’s just say when they asked me questions about pricing and other offers I was featuring they did not quite find out the answers they thought they would 
So, there’s just one business idea, you need nothing more than a phone and a pencil, and I already told you how to get the phone. What else is holding you back? The only real reason you aren’t here in the Philippines already is that you truly want to be where you are more.
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- Making Money In The Philippines With A Phone
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- Using the Phone
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