Bestjobs.ph, Onlinejobs.ph and more – A Comparison of Job Sites in the Philippines

If you’re looking hire directly a virtual assistant or a developer in the Philippines here are the most popular job sites.
 

Bestjobs.ph logoBestjobs.ph
Free to post jobs

This is a completely free site where you can post jobs and search for available staff. Bestjobs.ph is one of the top job websites in the Philippines and even though it is free it is still a useful resource for posting jobs.

 

Sulit.com.ph logoSulit.com.ph
Free to post jobs

This is the largest free classified website in the Philippines. It is quite difficult to post on this site if you are not from the Philippines as they have some questions to detect if you can speak the local language (Tagalog). If you do not speak Tagalog or have a local friend who can, you may not be able to complete the posting!

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List of Bug Tracking Software

 

As a company that maintains a large in-house software development team (for Staff.com and Time Doctor), we have always been interested in bug tracking software.

Two years ago, we had this public spreadsheet of bug tracking tools where we can choose the best software for us. This list includes popular paid options like Jira and Microsoft Team Foundation, but also has lots of great open source alternatives.

Jira has an interesting sales model where they offer the first 10 licenses at a minimal cost, and then charge for add-ons or for larger teams. I actually visited their office in Sydney Australia recently and they are a very successful company with around $100 million in revenue!

I hope you will find this list useful.

 

Also, this is a public google spreadsheet where anyone can collaborate and edit the entries.

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The Power of Customer Retention – Infographic

Which is better, retaining current customers or acquiring new ones?

While this has been been discussed countless of times in the internet already, only a few cared enough to provide us the math like Kapow Events did with this cool infographic. If you think you need to learn some more in client entertainment, then you have to check this out:
 

The Power of Customer Retention Infographic by Kapow Events

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Elizabeth Saunders and the 3 Secrets to Effective Time “Investment”

I met Elizabeth Saunders through email. She reached out to us through our chat app and I got one of the weirdest emails in history from Justin who mans our chat box. “Some woman wants to talk to you, says she knows you and she seems adamant.”

I was intrigued so I sent her my patented ‘Who the Hell are you?” email which makes me sound like a cross between an ass and a crazy person. One line that I was particularly happy with “Is your book scratch and sniff? If it is I’ll promote the hell out of it”.

She navigated my initial test email expertly and when she told me about the book I knew I had to chat with her. This is the product of this conversation.

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The Productivity Gurus

In our quest for perfecting our productivity software, we’ve been observing many visionary entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders who are wielding strong influence on today’s business landscape.  But when it comes to revolutionizing the productivity landscape, these are some of the people who we found were the most influential.

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21 Essential Strategies for Managing Virtual Teams

Virtual team members in over 9 different countries

I’ve been working with hundreds of virtual team members in over 9 different countries in the past 8 years. There have been times when I wanted to tear my hair out! Sometimes:

  • …I had no idea what my team was doing.
  • …Team members would “flake out”.  They’d work effectively for a while and then their quality of work would taper off or they’d quit.
  • …I was frustrated about not being able to communicate with them effectively.
  • …I had many issues finding and hiring great people remotely.

Now I know a lot more about handling tough situations and issues that come with the territory when dealing with virtual teams. The strategies I now use reflect my years of experience figuring out what works best to keep the teams coherent, productive and motivated.

These are also the strategies that we use at TimeDoctor, where we have over 50 full-time team members all working virtually, remotely, to create the best remote management and productivity software for individuals and businesses. Find out more


Salaries Around the World Awesome New Infographic

Ever wonder what the rates of tech developers are around the world? We did, too. We teamed up with the guys from www.infoactive.us to put together the average salaries of tech development employees from around the world.

Take a look at the different rates and as always check out www.timedoctor.com if you need help managing your remote employees from around the world. If you want to hire developers around the world try our sister site www.staff.com

Average Salaries Interactive Infograph

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Money Invested by Tech Giants

According to the World Bank, only 18 countries exceeded $500B in GDP. If Apple were a country, it would have the 18th largest economy in the world.

It is the largest tech company, worth more than Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon combined. The other four aren’t pushovers either, as Facebook, the lowest of the five, is worth more than some of the largest companies that have been around for decades, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, The New York Times, and Starbucks.

Have you ever wondered what Apple, or any of these tech giants, do with all their money?

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Do You Really Need an Office to Succeed in Business?

Office cubicles (image by M.Lokner)

For several years I thought that you needed an office to start a business. Somehow I had this subconscious idea that to start a business, you needed an office. A place to go to where the business “is”.

Later on, as my company grew to over 40 employees in the Philippines, I’ve set up offices for other reasons as well. One, to make sure that I knew everyone was productive (coming into work each day) and two, to facilitate communication within our team.

However, I noticed something strange. People would come into the office and sit at their cubicles, and then when they needed to chat with each other they would use Skype! Even if they sit next to each other, they still chat to each other through Skype.

So much for needing an office. Later on, I created the Time Doctor software purely for the reason that I wanted to shut down the office and all its associated costs and needed software to tie it all in together. Find out more


Hidden Gmail Labs Feature That Will Massively Boost Your Email Productivity

Gmail has some awesome email productivity features, so if you’re a person who gets hundreds of emails a day then you will want to make sure to check out this new awesome Google labs feature you can use to increase your email productivity.

Also we’ll cover several features within Gmail that you can use to increase your productivity.
 
The fundamental principles behind email productivity

A common problem with email is procrastination. You read an email and think, “I’ll deal with that later”, then you read it again the next day, skimming through and procrastinate again … and again. By the time you get around to completing the email you have probably read it 5 or 6 times and wasted a lot of time in processing emails.

The solution is to process all of your emails in one batch, handling every email completely. Find out more


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