Proven 10 Websites for Pinoys who Want to Work from Home and Make Money

Contributed by Erick Sta. Ana, Los Baños, Laguna

Don’t let the “pathetic Internet speed” hinder your dream to become one of the top-earning Filipino freelancers. There are thousands of ways to make money online from home without investing into pyramid schemes and wasting hours into fake survey sites.

This writer has been working online since 2010 earning at least $3,500 (P155,000) a month without a demanding boss at home. You can too if you follow any of the sites that I mentioned below depending on your skills, experience, and preference. Making money online needs time and learning process. Being a freelancer is extremely rewarding and life-fulfilling achievement.

According to Elance-Odesk country manager Ron Cirujano, Filipino freelancers in Elance and Odesk earned P9 billion (US$199.8M) in the past four years. One of the top earners on Elance-oDesk earned P7.5 million in a single year creating apps and software for clients abroad, while a Filipino top earner from a competitor and biggest freelance site Freelancer.com earned P20 million from her home in Manila.

You may wonder why not many people mention this, and instead, people are focusing on overnight success schemes like pyramid schemes and the like. Freelancing is for people who are motivated, ambitious, and self-driven – an opposite of people who recruit other people to join in their scam programs and then disappear later on.

So how this freelancing thing is being done and where can we get more information about this moneymaking opportunity?

The following websites are top freelancing sites that offer services to both freelancers and customers. There are many freelancer sites out there but I pick only the ones I have experience working with.

1. Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is the biggest freelance website with almost 16 million registered users and around 8 million projects. Freelancer.com offers all types of programming, writing, transcription, tutoring, and all other-software and computer-based related jobs. You can join for free and place a bid for the jobs posted by the customers.

2. Elance / Odesk (Upwork)

Elance and Odesk are owned by the same company. Elance.com is one of the biggest freelance sites where most Filipino freelancers thrive. Odesk on the other hand is home of most Filipino virtual assistants. A virtual assistant job, depending on the employer requires from very basic to complex duties so, if you are a beginner, being a virtual assistant is the best job to start.

3. Fiverr

This freelance site is unique and the pioneer on its field. Almost all jobs that can be done by most people are offered here. I hired several people to do a voice over, draw me an anime, sing me a song and record it, say happy birthday to someone on behalf of me, etc – for $5.00. A lot of people already made thousands of dollars through fiverr despite of its $5 base rate.

4. 199Jobs

199Jobs.com is a Filipino version of Fiverr.com. The difference is that, instead of receiving a $5 payment per gig (Fiverr), you will receive P199 for every gig/project you made. You can ask someone to do your assignment and pay him/her P199.

5. Onlinejobs.ph

Onlinejobs.ph is a Philippine-based freelance site that specializes on hiring virtual assistants and at the same time offering virtual assistants’ jobs. This site is the top choice of most foreign Internet marketers especially from Warriorforum.com

6. Easyoutsource.com

Easyoutsource.com is similar to Onlinejobs.ph. It is also a Philippine-based freelance site that specializes on virtual assistant jobs and article and content writing. I hired a lot of writers from this site in the past two years when I first started my writing business.

7. Iwriter

Iwriter.com is one of the most active sites in hiring content writers. If your specialty is on writing web content and other types of articles, you should go to this site.

8. Itutor

Itutor.com is created for tutors. If you are fond of teaching English or Tagalog online, you should go to this site. There are thousands of non-English speaking people who are looking for tutor everyday and you are much needed to teach them. There is no qualification like TESOL, IELTS or something similar.

9. Neighborhoodhackers.com

You think this site is joking right? No. Nieghborhoodhackers.com is one of the most active sites in dealing with web securities. Large companies often hire hackers to test their system securities and pay them. Last year, Facebook, Sony, and Google paid more than $7 million to cyberspies who successfully broke into their system. If you are fond of hacking, don’t waste your talent in doing illegal activities and regret later on.

10. Youtube

You may be surprised why I included Youtube in this lists of freelance sites. Well, actually, a lot of people who have little or no talent at all are making a lot of money through Adsense on Youtube. It is easy to create non-professional videos and post in on youtube. You see a lot of ads in videos right? Owners of those videos are making money by showing ads. You can post original video from your smartphone or digital camera and make money even while you are sleeping.

The following is a screenshot of my Youtube earning data in the last 10 days. I have 21 videos online on youtube and my account is making extra money of around $150 a month, enough to pay my utility bills at home.

So, if you are wasting hours of hours daily on Facebook, twitter, and online games, why not try any of the sites above?

I remind you once again, do not be tempted to join in any paid surveys sites, get paid to sites, or any other sites that offers investments, referrals, or recruitment. Do not buy any marketing courses that promise you to make money because the people who are selling those materials are earning money by selling those materials – and not by doing what is written on those materials. Take action and good luck.

/Erick Sta. Ana/

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