11 Sites for Virtual Appointment Setter Jobs

What do you need to be a work-from-home (WFH) virtual appointment setter (VAS)? Nothing but imagination, guts and a doer spirit. High school or college dropouts may try if they have the three qualities mentioned. Better if you have college degrees and some webinar training conducted by appointment setter (AS) experts. English literacy? If you're not that confident with your English, try chat-only AS.

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How do you become an appointment setter? Attend paid webinar trainings. Well, first you attend a free webinar where they give you intros and ideas about the job and hints about how much you make per hour in US dollars. But to get to the nitty gritty of the job, you need a paid webinar which usually includes personal coaching that later helps you land on a job and hit your first appointment setting. How much is the webinar? Somewhere from 5k to 8k. Or more.

Or you can do it on your own if you're an adventurer who likes to learn hit or miss. To get some basics, study some Youtube videos on it. I'd say watch intently 5 videos before you launch. As you apply for work and do the job you'd learn along the way until you master everything in due time. Sometimes you need to reinvent the wheel or invent to improve on the wheel everyone's acquainted with. Sample videos below.

Here's full training on the basics.

What's an appointment setter? 

Simply put, you contact people from your prospect list and set them for an appointment with your boss. Your boss does the selling. In some AS arrangements, you get a commission per prospect you send to your boss that buys. That's on top of your basic pay, which is somewhere around $5 to $10 an hour. Or more. 

Where do you get a boss? You apply to them as their VAS. Where?

1. Indeed
2. Jobstreet by Seek
3. Jora
4. Upwork
5. ZipRecuiter
6. Freelancer
7. LinkedIn
8. FlexJobs
9. Facebook
10. Outsourced
11. Glassdoor

What do you need to apply? Send your best resume, application letter and portfolio to the employers. I mean, do your best to come up with the best you can manage. If you're a high school or college dropout, put in your best relevant work experiences and job skills. If you don't have any experience yet, write the best application letter (along with your resume) you can compose and explain how you're willing to do everything that it takes to do the job position. 

Here's what you should do. Send your resume, letter and portfolio to 10 employers a day. Do this for 25 days. That's a total of 250 applications to 250 employers. That should do it. If you still don't get hired, do it again next month. And again. And again. Until you hit 3 WFH part-time VAS jobs. If each job pays you $5 an hour and you work 4 hours each, you get a total of $1,200 a month or Php 66,000 just working from home part-time. Not bad. You have plenty of free time left.

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What You Need to Know about Freelancing and Virtual Jobs

What do you do if you're running a small business in the US or any developed country, and your business is doing well so that running it alone becomes too burdensome for you? You hire an assistant. But paying an employee a minimum wage plus social security will be too much for a fledgling business. So you look for cheap labor. Where? Offshore, in some developing or underdeveloped country, like the Philippines, where a pay of US$ 500 to 1,000 a month is A LOT.

What's 1,000 dollars in the US? That's almost nothing, especially if your rent is 700 dollars a month, which would be rent for a small room. But here in the Philippines, that translates to Php 56k a month. Because you are a freelancer, the employer in the US can forget about your SS and other benefits required by law. You, Pinoy, are happy and content with your US$ 1,000, and your employer is happy with the cheap salary he is paying you.

That's freelancing and virtual job in the Philippines which have the potential to gradually and quietly create an underground economic boom very soon. A lot of freelancers who have become experts at this make something like US$ 3k to US$ 5k a month, and sometimes that's just for one client. Some freelancers manage to handle more than one.

Here's what astounds me about this. High school or college dropouts are making big money here, so are folks with carabao English. You would think that a gig like this requires good English. Nope. Because it's mostly scripted. I mean the appointment setter gig. You schedule prospects for appointments so sellers can meet with them. You do this solely on the chat box where you copy-paste most of your responses. So, no need to talk to anyone face-to-face in English. 

Other freelancing or virtual jobs involve light tasks like emailing, filing, documenting, chatting, and typing or encoding. Other heavier stuff include content writing, copywriting, graphic arts, video editing, admin assistance, and accounting, among other things. But all these generally eats up only about 3 to 4 hours of their time everyday. No wonder some freelancers can do 2 to 3 clients simultaneously and make US$ 5k a month or Php 280,000. A MONTH.

And these are high school dropouts. 😕

Some folks look for fulltime jobs with dollar monthly pays as employees of a US or multinational company, working from home (WFH). Well, it's either WFH all the time or reporting for work just a few times. Some work remotely (another term for WFH) for Pinoy companies getting paid Php 30k to Php 70k a month minus the hassles of daily commute. 

Definitely, the employment landscape is slowly but surely transforming and freelancing and virtual jobs will soon eliminate or delete traditional employment, and this is not to mention trends in online e-commerce and drop shipping. And what about the slow rise of affiliate marketing?

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New, Proven Tactics to Beat Job Interviews and Get Hired in Cool Ways

The trend today is being interviewed online through Zoom or Gmeet. I will discuss this in a later blog article. Still, there are companies who want to meet you in person aside from the biodata you sent through email. How do you beat face-to-face interviews?

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I'd put it more directly---how do you beat interviewers at their own game?

I've been into interviews for decades both as an applicant and an interviewer and yes, interviews are nothing but a game. Take them seriously but don't take them seriously 😅. Na-gets mo? I mean, interviews never killed anybody or totally wrecked careers or lives, so don't worry. Just prepare enough and then thoroughly relax during interview proper. Play with the interviewer while observing some interview decorum. The trick is to come up with a balance between the two---playing the game and being a bit serious about it, too.

Just a bit serious. We don't want to annoy interviewers with your drama.

Now here is the main thing. I have an e-book on how to beat interviewers at their own game, even making them play somewhat by your rules. You may even turn the tables and interview them or set the interview atmosphere to your liking. You call the shots, at the same time making the interviewer feel good, comfortable with you and in control of the whole thing.

It's a win-win situation. And it's not just my opinion or theory. Get the rest of the story in my e-book. This e-book (picture above) is based on my actual experiences as applicant and interviewer, being part of the hiring team of a big company, once upon a time. And I add some actual stories I heard from other interviewers and applicants. It's FREE!

How to get my FREE e-book? Simply email me at choyscut@gmail.com. You'd get a reply back in about 10 to 20 seconds with a link you click on to get to the free PDF download. You may opt to donate some money via my GCash to support my independent house church ministry, but don't worry. With or without donations you may get your FREE copy of the 50-page e-book and start conquering F2F job interview appointments. Bilisan mo na 😄. Wag na magisip.

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Using Your Weakness for Power

Failures, frustrations, disappointments, fall-shorts, bad looks and even illnesses. Why does God allow them? If I had a sick dog I'd lose no time to take it to the veterinary clinic for a quick remedy. You can't stand seeing your pet suffering there continuously, can you? So why do some "bad lucks" linger and keep you failing at what you do and seem to do so forever? There must be a reason.

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And it should be a valid reason. The good news is, there is. Everything has a purpose, even negative things. Or perhaps I should say, especially negative things. Good things served you on a silver platter is all the reward you'd get. Nothing more will follow. Adversities, however, have bonuses, perks, incentives and residual benefits if you know how to use them. You must learn how to use your weakness for power.

Take advantage of your helplessness, unfitness, powerlessness, indisposition or low station in life. They're put there because God wants you to have power. The bible says "power is made perfect in weakness," and this is why we should feel blessed to be weak, despised, rejected or all of the above. For the bible adds, "When I am weak, then I am strong." No wonder Jesus emphasized how "the least among you is the greatest."

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So much emphasis is on leadership today, so we see leadership seminars left and right and people eagerly grabbing seats. Everyone wants to be a leader because everyone wants position and power. I wonder why there are no followership seminars for leaders when the fact is good leaders should first be good followers.

Anyway, God is serious about his business of making the least the greatest through power in weakness. That's what true success is all about. It's not about advantages, positions, connections, money, possessions, titles or degrees. So if you think you're a loser or failure, you're blessed and favored if you see things as God sees them and act and live accordingly.

Through experience, I'm telling you there's nothing like using your weaknesses for power.

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Why Marriage Gets Sweeter in Old Age

It should get sweeter as you both age together. That's how marriage is designed. It should start very sweet and go on being sweeter each day. And I mean each day, through old age and all that, until death do you part. That doesn't mean love ends during death, because it continues in the hereafter. Nope, there's no marriage anymore in heaven, but love and sweetness go on there. 

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And anyway, who says you need to re-marry in heaven when you're already a couple?

When something grows, it's alive and it progresses to something better, by the day. Right? Anything that has life in it behaves that way. Even if a plant dies eventually, it's fruits have seeds to make it go on multiple times. Jesus said, "...but when (the seed) dies it produces many seeds." It continues. Yes, meroong forever. 😉

Dates Get Sweeter

Dates should increase and intensify in sweetness during marriage more than in courtship or engagement or in between. I'm speaking from experience. I and my wife still date at our age and get more excited each time. And I mean each time. It's not some theory or idea or wish, it's what we have each day since June of 1995.

And we don't need anything fancy to have a good time. Kahit Paotsin siomai or Yowell frozen yogurt with lots of blueberries (Php 50 per cup) plus a cup of gulaman lang yan, it's already a special date for us. Or enjoying food at Savory Classic restaurant now and then, pag me time. Sometimes we try junk foods like the giant Purefoods hotdog sandwich at the grocery area of Waltermart in Munoz. 

Minsan lang naman 😁.

I still have a big crush on her! I still see her as a wonderful lady who never fails to amaze me and keeps me in love like a silly teenager. It still gives me pleasure to make her laugh, appreciate all she does, and concoct for her the best mug of coffee in the world each morning.

Extreme Intimacy

Intimacy in marriage should get more extreme as you age together. It's bible truth--the two shall become one flesh. ONE FLESH! When God said this HE wasn't joking. I become my wife and she becomes me. Your unique personalities remain intact but you become one. Most importantly, you have one spirit and soul.

When God looks at you, HE sees one person, one flesh. It won't do like what other married couples have when they try to avoid each other's company as they age. They have separate hangouts and companions and just see each other a short moment at home when they're already tired and sleepy. Sometimes, they don't even share the same room or bed. 

It's just like what Jesus and HIS true church have. They're one flesh. Jesus is in them and they're in Christ. It's no longer they who live but Christ lives in them. Intimacy and sweetness should increase as the church is one flesh with Jesus through the years--in ever-increasing glory or from glory to glory. Thus, church gets more excited and in love with Jesus like a silly teenager, younger and sillier in love as the teenager matures. 

It's not the programs or activities that make people faithfully go to church---not the worship service or worship team or the top-of-the-line musical instruments or good sound system or good preaching. You can take them all away and true believers will still go to church ecstatic to worship Jesus together with gusto even over some cheap siomai or squid balls and gulaman to share with.

It's because they know they're married to Jesus in spirit and are one flesh with HIM.

So, what's the secret to getting sweeter with your spouse even in old age? Together as one flesh, nurture a sweeter and more intimate relationship with Jesus as you age. Get more in love with HIM like a silly teenager. And this is not of works or your own effort. It's by HIS grace and mercy, if you grab the grace and mercy with all excitement each moment of your lives. 

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Why You are Not Efficient

Most folks will say they're both--hardworking and efficient--or at least believe they should be. But efficiency really eliminates hard work. Hard work often loses sight of the goal and focuses on the work itself, instead of figuring out a way to get things done the smartest way possible. Being work-focused often make work harder than it really is.

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Being efficient is different. You weed out backbreaking, stupid work, effort or processes, get to the point and focus on what really is essential. Most hard workers think doing tiring, arduous work is productive. Efficient workers opt not just for productivity but especially success  at hitting targets with minimal hard work, cutting long, stupid processes short with common sense and diligence, choosing the simplest and most effective ways to accomplish things. Efficiency means less work. 

Investopedia says:

The term efficiency can be defined as the ability to achieve an end goal with little to no waste, effort, or energy. Being efficient means you can achieve your results by putting the resources you have in the best way possible. Put simply, something is efficient if nothing is wasted and all processes are optimized.

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In short, efficient people get straight to the point, what really needs to be done here, and do just that. Like in church ministries, for instance. Efficient believers do what God wants done as Jesus had done it in the Gospel---because he is the epitome of success in God's eyes. The rest we add or invent as "church works" are garbage. 

Diligence is a key idea here. Here's what I gathered from Google. Diligence is "careful and persistent work or effort," which is different from plain hard work. Diligence is carefully choosing only what gets the job done and being persistent with that, trashing what is wasteful, irrelevant and unnecessary.

It's also "steady, earnest (strong desire) and energetic effort." Diligence is powered by vision, inspiration and enthusiasm while hard work is often a drab, done only to finish a task and get paid or please people.

Another idea is "devoted and painstaking work," where painstaking is "done with or employing great care and thoroughness," or being "meticulous."

Last is "assiduity," which is "constant or close attention to what one is doing." 

These definitions may sound like what hard work is, but they really refer more to efficiency and diligence which always opt for simpler and more effective ways of working and getting the job done in the best manner.

Mass Production is Not Always Success

Producing a lot does not always equate to success. Big or large or many does not always mean better. The path to destruction, says Jesus, is broad and wide, "and many enter through it." The point here is not to produce as little as possible, but to not think that big and numerous is always a success---because people blinded by mass production (or, in ministry, those oriented to the mind of the world) always has this perspective. As long as you produce a lot, you're okay.

Hard work forgets about innovation and creativity and sticks doggedly to a traditional, boring pattern. Often, blind hard work establishes its own idea of "smartness" and "efficient work" based on a narrow-minded concept of what success is. It thinks that anything done hard is successful. Anything that costs you sleepless nights and overstress is "success." Hard work is plain work, period. Drudgery. Sticking to a fed program like a robot. Hard work was what God gave Adam and Eve after they proved inefficient with plain and simple obedience and opt to do things the hard way. 

So, are you hardworking or efficient?

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Increased Blood Sugar Even with Zero Sugar? Here's Why

I see lots of cases where blood sugar levels shoot up even with "zero sugar" intake--or so people think. They have eliminated all sugars from their diet, no sodas or softdrinks, no sugar in coffee, no iced teas, milk teas, shakes, frappes--nothing. In fact, no more rice and meat but only fresh vegetables and fruits.

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Fruits? No wonder. There's your culprit, especially fruits in the morning.

Fruits are good, don't take me wrong. I love them and make sure they're part of my diet. But the thing is, I have normal blood sugar levels. Do you? It's due to God's grace and mercy on my health, first and foremost, and I workout regularly. Besides, I watch what I eat. Even with good blood sugar health, I don't always eat fresh fruits.

Why?

Because most fruits have natural sugars, and natural sugars are still sugar. Specifically, fructose (natural sugar in fruits) is still sugar and in fact sweeter than sucrose or white sugar. If you have elevated sugar levels, minimize or avoid fruits that are sweet, like bananas--more so ripe bananas. Half-ripe bananas have less sugar and carbs, but less sugar is still sugar.

Eat instead fruits that are sour--lemon, kalamansi, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, santol, kamias, etc. Avoid pineapple and mangoes. Avocados are good. But always eat in moderation and consult your doctor first. The good news is, mushrooms are not just delicious vegetables but also have anti-diabetes properties. 

Here's what the National Library of Medicine-National Center for Biotechnology Information or NCBI says about mushrooms:

In vivo and in vitro data revealed that treatment with mushroom polysaccharides displayed an anti-hyperglycemic effect by inhibiting glucose absorption efficacy, enhancing pancreatic β-cell mass, and increasing insulin-signaling pathways. Mushroom terpenoids act as inhibitors of α-glucosidase and as insulin sensitizers through activation of PPARγ in order to reduce hyperglycemia in animal models of diabetes. In conclusion, mushroom polysaccharides and terpenoids can effectively ameliorate hyperglycemia by various mechanisms and can be used as supportive candidates for prevention and control of diabetes in the future.

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Like mushrooms, nothing beats ginger when it comes to lowering insulin resistance and inflammation. I enjoy freshly brewed ginger with green tea when I happen to eat sweet foods because I had no choice but to eat them. But ginger, green tea and even your maintenance meds are no excuse to indulge in foods that are bad for you.

To have a healthy mindset and discipline to go with it, you have to understand the real power in you which God put in your inner self to overcome all odds.

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