Are you still waiting for your Payoneer Mastercard? Do you even have a Paypal account that seems to be taking forever to get verified? Enter Moneybookers: it is an another payment method available to oDesk providers to withdraw their hard-earned funds right into their favorite Philippine bank account.
For oDesk newbies, Moneybookers is the most accessible [...]

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As a Filipino living life here in the Philippines, I noticed that the majority still uses cash for payment. These majority think that cash is the safest, most secure means of payment. In my family alone, my parents prefer using cash as their payment means, rather than using their ATM or debit [...]

Mastercard has a list of ATMs – amazingly they have a list for the Philippines. I tried to locate on in my location (Baguio, Philippines) and I really found a lot of ATM machine locations listed – enough to for me to save on gas in finding an ATM around town.
Mastercard ATM Location List in [...]

Chances are, freelancers have experienced working in an office setting. The transition from office to freelancing can be quite difficult, as freelancing involves a different set of skills. The successful freelancer has inherent skills that guarantee his or her success in this kind of workplace, which could be a lot different from that is experienced [...]

In the job assignments that I had, most of the communication is done by email or chat. I use Yahoo messenger and Google Talk as my main means of instant messaging.

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Some clients prefer Skype as a medium, but with a slow connection that I still have right now, this is not yet [...]

As a freelancer, one of the basic skills that I needed to develop is time management.
Except for the last stint that I had with a semiconductor company, I was not all too skilled at managing time.
But having the freelance life as the only means of income forced me to abide with the deadlines. The most [...]

I have not found any resource on adding oDesk mail to be able send oDesk email using Yahoo mail. The one that is written on site is for Gmail and Apple mail.
In Yahoo mail, this is simply accessed by starting with Options at the upper right portion on the screen, then clicking Mail Addresses under [...]

UPDATE: The steps illustrated here is obsolete. Here’s the new tutorial on how to verify Philippines Paypal account using Unionbank EON.
Chances are, you got into this post because you need a Unionbank EON card to verify your Paypal.
If you have a Payoneer card already, you can use it to verify your Paypal account in a [...]

I was able to successfully verify my Paypal account using two cards: Unionbank EON and Payoneer card from oDesk.

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Freelancing has kept me busy once more. I was swamped with a lot of projects, that had kept me from updating this blog.
Now that I have less to do, I am back to being myself once again. I like to share my experience with freelancing so far.
And I have also realized that [...]