Freedom — Page 4

What It Feels Like To Be A Corporate Slave

When I was still a corporate employee I felt like a fish out of water.

Nakakita ka na ba ng isdang wala sa tubig? Naghihingalo. Nagpupumiglas.

Deep in my gut I know I’m not supposed to be in a cubicle doing the same work every day again and again. Tapos maghihintay ng maliit na sahod pag dating ng kinsenas katapusan.

Early on I knew employment is not for me.

So I decided to pursue business. Malaking problema nga lang.

I don’t how to start and run a business.

I don’t have large capital to start. Magkano lang naman sahod sa Pinas right?

I don’t have friends or anyone that I know that are successful in business.

Worst of all, I have a lot of ideas in my head what business to start. Sa dami, that I’ve been paralyzed and don’t know where and how to start.

But then I realized, I have to take action. I have to do something with whatever I have.

No action = No results

Results can be bad or good.

Truth is, in life you succeed by taking action. And if it produces negative results, you adjust things so you get better results.

You can’t expect na first try mo lang e successful ka agad. It happens but rarely.

So what do you do?

Let me share with you a simple analogy.

Minsan ba na experience mo nang may mahulog sa ilalim ng upuan, couch, or table? Yung tipong kailangan mong abutin at kapain kung nasaan?

Hindi mo sya makita at kailangan mong kapain?

That’s exactly how you’re going to succeed in business and in life.

Try mong kapain sa kaliwa, pag wala dun, adjust mo ng konti.

Pag wala pa din dun, kapain mo banda sa kanan.

Pag wala pa din, abante ka ng konti. Until makuha mo ung gusto mo.

Life is very much like that.

First, define what exactly you want. Be specific.

It’s not enough to say “I want a lot of money.”

How much money do you want? P10,000 per month? P1 Million per month?

And then, you take action towards achieving that goal.

You will mistake along the way. Accept it. It’s part of life.

But for each mistake, use that as feedback mechanism and adjust your action or strategy until you succeed.

Trust me, if you’ll only take action and won’t give up on your dreams, you’ll eventually find it.

To your freedom,
Jon Orana

Join The Revolution of EntrePinoys

by Jon Oraña 6 Comments

In the last 3 years of coaching Entrepreneurs in the Philippines, di ko na mabilang ang mga OFWs na sumulat sa akin.

There are times na pagka-haba haba ng sulat. Meron naman simpleng thank you message lang.

But all their emails are saying the same thing…“Jon, gusto ko ng umuwi at makasama ang pamilya ko.”

I personally met many OFWs in my lifetime.

Marami sa kanila, nasira ang pamilya. Nagloko ang mister. Nag sakabilang-bahay si misis.

Naparawira ang teen-ager na anak. Nalulong sa drugs. Nag asawa ng maaga.

Sometimes, I feel like I’m Joe De Mango giving relationship advice.

All of them, they simply want to have a comfortable life with their family. But because there are not enough job opportunities in the Philippines lalo kung may edad ka na, they are forced to go work abroad.

I salute these people. I have so much respect to them. My dad was an OFW too for 10 years.

That’s why I can’t help but to reach out to more Filipinos and teach them how to start and run a profitable business.

Truth is, running a business isn’t easy.

But at least, people have options rather than being away from the families. At least they have a fighting chance to make more money than begging their boss for a salary increase. At least they more control of their lives than a BIG corporation dictating how much they should make each payday.

Hindi lahat pwedeng negosyante pero hindi din lahat ay tamang maging empleyado lang.

Unfortunately, our culture breeds “employee.” Traditional schools are like a huge manufacturing company. Each year they produces “employee.”

On the other hand, “negoyantes” were produced by real world experience and training or what I call “The School of Life.”

Pag nadapa, tatayo ulit at lalaban. Pag nadapa ulit, bangon na naman at itutuloy ang nasimulan.

Whether you’re aspiring negosyante or already running a business, join me in the new revolution of EntrePinoys.

Like us on Facebook and inspire each other to succeed.

Go here: https://www.facebook.com/NegosyoUniversity

To your freedom,
Jon Orana

When In Doubt…Do This!

by Jon Oraña 22 Comments

Minsan sa buhay natin may mga gusto tayong gawin pero di natin sigurado kung magwo-work.

Naiisip mo…”E, pano kung mag fail?” or…”Totoo kaya ito?”

When my friend, shared to me an Internet business selling e-books, I felt the same way. Sa isip ko…
“Paano kung walang bumili ng e-book ko?”

Pero sabi ko na lang sa sarili ko…”Di naman ako mamamatay kung gagawin ko ito e. So what if I fail.”

I thank God for giving me the strength to overcome my fears and doubts.

The result? I got $242 in my first month. Here’s the screenshot back in August of 2008.

$242 in my first month.

Sure, hindi naman ako naging milyonaryo agad. But all big income started small. All success started with baby steps.

And that was the beginning of my multimillion online business.

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“3 Trade Secrets” In My e-Book Business

by Jon Oraña 22 Comments

In my last blog post, I shared to you how I started my online business selling e-books. Ang negosyong nagpalaya sa akin sa pagiging empleyado. Read the story here.

Today, I want to share to you “3 trade secrets” about this Internet business and how I sold 24 Million Pesos of e-books in the last 36 months.

Trade secret #1: People will give you money if you help them save time.

People are willing to spend money on e-book not only because of the information it contains but it saves them time.

Instead of them wasting their precious time searching the web, they would rather pay someone else (that’s you) to do all the research for them. That’s why if you go to amazon.com, you’ll find over 4,900 books about “Time Management.”

That’s one of the trade secrets in this business. You’re not simply giving people information but you’re in a business of helping people find a solution to their problem fast.

Trade Secret #2: People will give you money if you give them specific solution.

My success in this business didn’t happen overnight. I had a lot of failures too. Maraming hirap, takot, luha, at sakripisyo ang dinaanan ko.

But I didn’t give up on my dream of owning a business. And through the years, I discovered “the secret sauce”, the kind of information that people are willing to pay for and the easiest to sell.

Ang pinaka-madaling ibenta are “How To” information.

Topics like…

“How To Get Out Of Debt”
“How To Improve Writing Skills”
“How To Train Your Dog”
“How To Become A Better Speaker”
“How To Study The Bible”

Because this kind of information is a solution to a specific problem. Mas specific ang problem at solution mas malaki ang pwede mong i-charge for your e-book.

Some of the best-selling books of all time are how-to and self-help titles. Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, in print since 1936, has sold 50 million copies.

Since its publication in 1970, Richard Bolles’ “What Color Is Your Parachute?” has spent 288 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and has sold more than 8 million copies.

Last week, I typed the words “how to” into Google. The search returned 1.87 billion results. That’s right … 1.87 billion … not million.

People are hungry for information and if you apply what I’ve been teaching you, you can easily sell e-books for $7 to $47 and create as short as 15 pages.

No doubt, malaki ang kikitain mo sa negyosyong ito. Big enough para makapag-quit ka sa trabaho mo or makauwi ka na sa Pilipinas kung OFW ka.

Trade Secret #3: People pay more for this “in-demand” topics.

If you’ll ask me “Jon, ano bang magandang topic for my first e-book?” Here’s the third trade secret for you.

Start with these Top 10 In-demand Topics or Categories:

Saving and Making Money
Saving Time
Sex and Relationships
Investing and Trading
Collecting – Collectors are one of the hungriest markets out there.
Hobbies
Marketing
Small Business Advice
Self-help
Pets

It’s almost guaranteed that you’ll sell a lot of e-books if they’re in any of these in-demand topics.

Why? Because even before the Internet, a lot of people are already buying this kind of information from a local bookstore.

Obviously, now with the Internet, you have more potential customers. Mas maraming customers, mas malaki ang kikitain mo.

Remember, sa Internet, kahit nasaan sila, pwede silang bumili sayo.

I have customers from over 100 countries.

Can you imagine the opportunity it can give you?

Part 1 – Revealing My Online Business

by Jon Oraña 57 Comments

After receiving hundreds of emails asking me “Jon, ano ang naging negosyo mo at nakapag-quit ka sa job mo?” I’ll reveal it now.

I’ve been selling digital books (e-Books) in the past 6 years. And in the last 36 months, I sold over 24 Million Pesos e-Books.

Best of all, I’ve been running this simple business at the comfort of my home, working just few hours a day, and with no full-time employees.

And in the next series of blog posts, I’ll reveal some of my trade secrets and how you can do it too even if you think you’re not good in computer.

First, let me tell you why e-Book is the perfect to sell on the web.

Well, just consider the advantages of e-books over every other type of product being sold online today:

Virtually 100% profit margin – An e-Book cost nothing to print because it’s an electronic file.
Simple and inexpensive to produce. Your initial expense is just few thousands pesos – even less if you do the work yourself.
You can deliver e-Book automatically. There’s no manual labor involved and you don’t need employees.
No printing cost, zero storage costs and very low overhead costs.
Higher perceived value than regular books – e-books are typically less than HALF the length of regular books … yet they sell for 2 or 3 times more!
It’s easy to sell because customers can access the information in 5 minutes after their purchase.
Customers love it because it’s cheap and they don’t need to pay extra for shipping cost.

Not only that, since more and more people now owns devices like iPhone, iPad, and mobile phones…

…there is a continuous flood of new customers.

How I Discovered This Highly Profitable and Low-Risk Business

Somewhere in 2002, I read the book of Robert Kiyosaki “Rich Dad Poor Dad”.

He mentioned how the rich get richer and he said…through Business and Real Estate investing.

Since, I don’t have money to invest for real estate, I started part-time businesses.

While employed, I started a restaurant, pharmacy store, retail (sari-sari), and graphic design services.

Nalugi lahat. I lost all my savings, humiliated, and earned Millions in debt from my bank.

One day, while chatting with a friend he introduced me to online businesses. He shared various ways to make money online. There are a lot of possible Internet businesses.

But what excites me the most was selling information products like e-Books because I myself am a customer buying e-Books. I love reading.

So I decided to create an e-book that I can sell. And since I’m not really creative and I’m not a good English writer, here’s what I did.

I simply compiled over 200 Bible verses, categorized them by topic, and turned it into an e-Book.

Since these verses are free online, I didn’t write anything except for the title and subtitle of the book. I just copied and pasted Bible verses in MS Word and converted it into a PDF file.

That was my very first e-Book.

To be honest, I’m not sure if someone is going to buy it. Why? Well the whole Bible is free for anyone over the web right?

Pero sabi ko sa sarili ko…”Well, what do I have to lose?”

So I launched it around 11:45pm of August 4, 2008. Sell it for $17.

I woke up 7a.m the following day, had a good breakfast, fire up my laptop….

And to my surprise…

…two customers bought my product that day.

I can’t believe my eyes. That month, I made $242 in profits.

Hindi na masama for my first try right?

BUT what fascinates me is the information in my book is free and available on the Internet. I simply copied and paste them and turn it into an e-book (PDF Format.)

In my next blog post, I’ll reveal to you the “trade secrets” in this kind of business.

You’ll learn the kind of information that people are willing to buy.

Let me know your thoughts below.