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| Bucharest, Romania |
In the middle of 2011, during my stay in
Romania as an OFW, I was struggling with so much loneliness, pain and
lots of hardships at work, dealing with strangers and foreign people
around me, nobody to talk and turn to but my connection and personal
relationship with God and through my daily rosary, that was the time when I stumbled upon Bo
Sanchez’ Kerygma Family page www.kerygmafamily.com,
it became my home for my spiritual thirst and inspiration to fight
back against loneliness and homesickness being far away from my home.
Bo’s words and stories inspired me in so
many ways, he is my constant spiritual mentor and as I kept on following
his articles, few months later, this paved me the way to reached unto
Jomar Hilario’s page at the www.filipinova.com.
Being involved at Jomar Hilario’s Mastery Group gradually opened up my
mind, giving me many possibilities and realizations that I too, like
Jomars many virtual assistants, can possibly work from home and earn
something without sacrificing myself being away from my family most
especially my sickly aging mother at 77 and my 11yr old son.
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| My awesome mentors Jomar Hilario and Bo Sanchez |
At the last quarter of 2011, as I kept on
following Jomar Hilario’s group, the desire in going home kept stronger
every day until I’ve decided not to finish my remaining 6 months
anymore in my 2yr contract, I went home not even thinking what will
happen next in leaving my work abroad.
I believed, it’s God’s way of answering my
prayers trusting only on His will and plans for me. My eagerness and
desire to be with my family and the chances I foresee that awaits me
working at the comfort of my home drives me more in going home and
joining one of Jomar’s course Online Mentoring Club 2 (OMC2).
At OMC2, we got 2 downloadable VA seminar
bonuses, started learning then and doing my assignments gradually. I
admit, due to a lot of family obligations I faced when I got home,
needed to earn badly to sustain my family’s needs, I was focused on my
once part-time direct selling businesses like Avon, kitchenware,
purified water consignment, shoes, RTW’s, herbal food supplements and other networking products, and as a sales
agent of a memorial products and services. But from time to time (fewer
times to be honest) landed on doing my assignment pacing slowly with my
course.
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| Me-working at home |
In just few months of doing my assignment,
I learned a lot of things especially in creating my own blog. That’s
the time I realized, that as a sales agent, I need to do my own blog as a
site for the products I am selling, for I concentrated more on direct
selling, going house to house, looking for customers and clients that
would interest my product.
Suddenly, it gave me enough reasons to
try, why not? If it won’t work then at least I’ve tried, right? Would
you believe that this simple blog I made brought me a lot of sales
within the area where my memorial products and services were covered?
In just working at my computer at home, I invited all my FB friends
within the area reachable of my products and services, even the friends
of my friends abroad with family and homes in my area were not spared of
sending them the links of the products I offered on my blog.
My so simple blog was then a big help,
not really thinking what I did was already internet marketing, I just
understood it well when I heard from my mentor during one of his
webinars about the success of online businesses. And would you believe
also that in a matter of two months since I created my very simple
online marketing blog I closed deals of 22 accounts with an over-all
quota of 30 accounts in a year? That was a fantastic 2012 for me. And
gave me almost 40 thousand pesos commission, and a 5 thousand December
bonus being a 2nd top seller.
I never thought that in just months of
being at OMC2, I will earn something I never expected. I was really so
thankful to my mentor Jomar Hilario for his patience to his slow-pacing
OMC2 member like myself, at least the investment I made at 9,750 pesos
for his OMC2 course has already been rewarded. Hurrahh!!
http://familyhealthcareplanmemorialservices.blogspot.com/
My only experience as a virtual assistant
is helping a close relative prepare her financial statements, legal
documents and other documents related to her small starting-up business
in Google Docs as an administrative assistant, and I am not demanding
any rate at all because of my willingness to help a family, but
considerately, she’s paying me a favorable monthly rate because I’m just
doing the job 2hrs a day or 10 hours a week, it doesn’t really eating
my time and not a problem to me. What matters most is I’m helping her
reach her goal, and if she succeed then it feels great to be a part of
it.
Same thing with my CCH virtual group
composed of Cadiznon all over the world, sharing something and helping
our lowly and underprivileged kababayans changed their lives. I am
presently a physical volunteer helping in taking care of every projects
and programs created, and was in-charged of our groups’ financial
reports which was also done online, and as a part of my advocacy, volunteering my service wholeheartedly without expecting anything in return. And I am happy doing this in the name of love and service to others.
Believing with my skills, I am very
optimistic that one day I could find one good client with reasonable
rates that will trust me with their businesses. Being a virtual
assistant is a very good start in earning online, but I’d still prefer
to hire someday virtual assistants for myself that could help me with my
business as an online marketer. Nothing to lose in aiming and dreaming
something bigger, right?
Anyway, I still need to learn more from
Jomar Hilario’s courses, still need to pursue some skills that could best
enhance my capability as a virtual assistant or an online marketer.
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| Me, my son and my mom |
As my spiritual journey continues, I never
regretted at all any single moment with my decision in going home for
good. The joy it brings being with my family around taking care of my
sickly aging mother and son until the end cannot be bought by any material
possessions here on earth.
The prime purpose of staying here is my
desire in serving God and the joy of serving others will go on until my
last breath, may our good Lord will just continue using and blessing me
to be a blessing also to others, especially to the lowly and weakest
ones. May we continue our struggle to lead a righteous path and keep
on praying and asking for His wisdom and guidance in everything that we
do because God only sends miracles to those who ask and believe.
“To God Be All The Glory!!”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”- Philippians 4:13
Live A Life That Matters!!
Stay blessed,
Nonie f.
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