Making Money While Living in the Philippines Pt I
As promised, this week I am starting a series on making money while living in the Philippines. I will be posting quite frequently throughout the coming days, weeks, and months and all the posts won’t be just on this subject. Quite frankly as I have admitted, I’ve dropped out of corporate America and I don’t plan on making this site a place just for money grabbing people who want to spend all their time accumulating wealth. As the saying goes “You can’t take it with you” so kick back and enjoy life. There is so much more about the Philippines I want to tell besides spending all your time behind a computer. Right now I’m living in the states and making enough money to live above the proverty level and still allow me to do what I want to do everyday which includes spending a couple hours at a small coffee shop talking about life and philosophy with an old Chinese man I met there. But soon when I’m in the Philippines those hours will be spent with my nieces and nephews who have been teaching me Tagalog and Bisaya. I have a neighbor there in Laguna that I call tatay who will take the place of the Chinese man so I will still get my fill of philosophy.
So lets get down to what I will be doing to provide my wife and I with fish and rice. All of these things I have been doing for awhile but have really turned up the heat on since I dropped out of the rat race.
I will intorduce the ways I am making my living now and also let you in on my plans on what else I will be doing to provide. Below is the listing of what I am currently doing and plan on being my biggest income producers while living there but remember this world and the Internet is ever changing so if you plan on using these ideas you must be able to adjust.
My number one income producer currently is good old Ebay. I have been buying and selling on Ebay for about 10 years. I was there in what Ebayers call the Wild Wild West where you could throw something up for sell and double your money easily. Back in those days I could go to the Dollar Store and buy little figurines and list them on Ebay for $2 or $3 starting and get as much as $10 for them. Those days are gone now but there is still the opportunity to make good money on Ebay. Later on in the series I will offer some suggestions and introduce you to a couple of sources for information that will get you on the fast track to selling and making money on Ebay.
My second source of income comes through blogging and developing small niche websites and advertising on them. When I cover this I will touch on how I get traffic to my sites and how I sell through different types of advertising as well using ecommerce to make money. This topic will probably take more time than the others so I will probably split it up into more than one post. I will offer some great sources of information such as videos, blogs, and ebooks on making money while blogging.
The third source I will cover will be on writing articles for money. Much of this is still new to me because I haven’t been doing it for long but I have mentors and coaches that are helping me along with this and I’ll share my info with you.
Lastly I am just getting into an exciting hobby or whatever you call it of learing how to teach English as a second language. This seems exciting to me and may not be for everyone but this will be more of a fun thing than a money maker. Stay tuned Part II will be along soon. Salamat Po!
