Pandemic Crisis How to Battle Unemployment

The global Covid-19 pandemic crisis which started this early 2020 is affecting a lot of people around the globe.  It affected the first world countries as well as the third world countries, regardless of race and status of life it dawned to anybody a surprise whether affected by the virus itself or been unemployed.  Most companies, big or small companies declared bankruptcy from the recent months.

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Due to this crisis, unemployment rate increased.  Are you one of these people who got unemployed?  Hope may seem uncertain but a positive outlook in life can be done to battle the unemployment.  Here are things that you can do to move forward during this pandemic:

• Health is wealth.  This pandemic has given us a lesson to go back to basics.  Previously people tend to abuse self by working so hard neglecting health.  In order to move on, the physical health should be a top priority.

• Evaluate skills and self. If you want to get a new job, evaluate and list down the skills and interests that you have.  Your previous experience should not limit you for getting other opportunities beyond your working experience.  

• Improve skills and knowledge.  Getting unemployed is a challenge to improve skills and knowledge to be enable to be more marketable and be able to get a new job.  The Internet is a venue for learning and being in lockdown in the house means you have more time to learn.  Learn the latest trends in career development and the application tools might the prospective employer may require including the conferencing tools such as Zoom, Webex, Google Meet and similar tools.

• Update your resume or online profile.  Be creative and use current online tools to improve your data.  

• Freelancing and other online work opportunities. Remote online jobs increased after the pandemic, more and more companies are giving opportunities to work at home jobs to augment the unemployement and fill their vacancies.

These are basic tips that you can follow and the success will always depend on how you want the new job and do what you have it takes to get it.  

Tips in Buying Clothes for Women

Buying or shopping clothes is one of the things that women likes to do be it on the shopping malls or the many shopping marketplaces from the Internet.  But in buying clothes, we should see to it that we are buying what is our money’s worth.  Some clothes are of low quality even if they are expensive.  We should know how to look for a quality and yet affordable one.  There are items that are really expensive but worth buying because of its high quality of workmanship and materials.  Some women  are impulsive buyers especially if this is done through online shopping where shopping is just a click away.  

Here are some tips in buying clothes at the stores or through online shopping:

• When buying clothes, it should fit our body and comfortable to wear.  
• Design or style is considered but if you are not comfortable with it better not buy it.  Check the materials and how workmanship is done.  
• When choosing color, it should match other clothes so you can mix and match saving you from buying more clothes.
• Be smart in buying online, scam marketplaces or sellers are rampant in the Internet.  Just buy from reputable online shops and read reviews before buying.
• More and more independent sellers are now being recognized with same quality with the branded ones.
• Look for shopping deals to get more of your budget and save money.
• Think twice of many times before buying an expensive product so that you will not regret later buying impulsively.

Share some thoughts and comment if you want to add more tips on the list.  Enjoy shopping!  

Online Marketing to Increase Sales

Increasing the sales of the company is always the main goal of a business.  To achieve goals, promoting and other marketing strategies are needed to reach its target market and turn into potential customers. 

Build a good website that clearly showcases your products and services.  A good and professionally designed website is a good platform to generate sales enquiries that convert to sales.  High quality photos of your products are also an important aspect.


Online marketing is a major factor in increasing your business sales.  Aside from the traditional marketing, the use of social media helped a lot in promoting things such as online advertising, email marketing, e-newsletter, use of video ads, creating a business blog, and creating online profiles from various social media sites.

Time Management: Getting Busy or being Idle

Time management is an important factor on being successful.  Time is gold for those who have handful of activities where 24 hours are sometimes not enough. You cannot even find time to sleep because there are things to do. But for those who are lazy and bored, idleness is a way of life. 

Days are counting but you are still unproductive.  Getting busy or to be  idle is a choice you have to make on a daily basis. It is a choice if you are going to be lazy or do productive activities. If you choose to be idle, it means you just hang around the house or your room, watching television being a couch potato, staying on the internet just browsing without having an agenda of researching or working online.

If you choose to get busy, you have a plan for your daily activities and  motivated to accomplish what you have planned. Sometimes things did not happen the way you planned, but you can adjust and be flexible.

During these Covid-19 pandemic days, time is slow while you stay at home.  This is a great opportunity to use time wisely for family, home improvements, self discovery, enhance skills and knowledge.  Sharing for unfortunate people during this pandemic is also needed either giving our time doing DIY faceshield, cooking meals for others, and other ways to help.

Time management means you value your time and also respect other's time.

Updated August 21,2020

Ergonomic Chair for Writers

Ergonomic chairs are becoming in demand nowadays because more on more people are glued in front of the computer or their notebooks for personal or business purpose. How many hours do you sit down in front of the computer? Do you have intervals? One of the causes of back pains are bad posture with long hours in front of their workstation. 

Manufacturers have created ergonomic chairs to augment the needs of the market. There are traditional and offline stores who offers various types of ergonomic chairs depending in your budget. Choose with lumbar good support features, right height but most of ergonomic chairs are adjustable, and the quality of the material should be considered the most.

Tsu Social Network Threatens Facebook and Twitter?

Tsu is one of the biggest social media news today as they launched this October.  Founder Sebastian Sobczak is giving 90% revenue to its members and leaving 10% for them.  This is quite surprising but they realized that it could be a great potential unlike their rivals Facebook and Twitter.  By just posting and interacting, you can earn.  But like other money making websites, there is no quick money here.  Enjoy it first and the money will follow.

Here are some tips to grow your network at Tsu:

Be active in your daily posts

Follow more people

Interact with your followers and friends by liking their post, commenting, sharing their posts to others.

Check your followers list from time to time, you might need to follow them too.

More and more people are joining Tsu including celebrities.   Will it be a threat to giants Facebook and Twitter? 

Have fun, and join me at Tsu

Read more   Tsu The Social Network that Pays Back

Blogging: Using Website Analytics and Hit Counter Tools

One of the blogging tools that is mostly used by bloggers is the website hit counter. It is a powerful tool to analyze blog traffic which helps determine the effectivity and popularity of the blog. There are various types of website hit counters with various designs and sizes. While the website analytics tool shows the visitors behavior while viewing your blog.

There a lot of online sources for free site analytics and hit counters. Some of them are gostats.com, statcounter.com, bloggerhitcounter.com, free-stats-counter.com, totallyfreecounter.com.

Start using this tool to optimize your blog.

Pinterest : The Next Big Thing in Social Media

Pinterest is a social photo sharing website or called the "virtual pinboard" where users share photos of their   interests pinned in various  boards.   With this fresh concept, Pinterest users grown rapidly since Ben Silbermann founded it in March 2010.  They are now considered as the next big thing in social media which comes close with social networking giants, Facebook and Twitter.    Most users of Pinterest are mostly women with popular pin board categories such as fashion, family, home décor, food recipes, DIY, travel, holidays, deals coupons, arts, and hobbies.  The popularity became more eminent when famous personalities joined in like the first lady, Michelle Obama, Ellen De Generes, Oprah Winfrey, Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities. 

Upload images as pins by providing the link source for the photo uploaded.  While Twitter has “Retweet” feature, Pinterest  introduced “Repin” images pinned by others.  Usual features such as leaving a comment, “like”, “follow”, and share buttons are available.  The search feature can help find similar interest.

What can Pinterest do for your business?

Pinterest not only caters for the personal use of individuals but more businesses whether an a large business scale or small retail businesses see a new advertising platform where graphical presentation of their products can be more enticing and effective to consumers.   A strategic “pin” backlink to their own websites or blogs is a good marketing.  Business in arts and design, real estate, events management, wedding, photography,and alike will most benefit from Pinterest.

The internet continue to evolve which affects the way people live in the world wide web.  New things do come and go, we can go with the flow and enjoy the best of what it brings.  See you at Pinterest!

Internet Threats: Protect your Children from Online Attack

With the digital lifestyle that children has these days, online risk is just at their fingertips.  Mobile phones, iPad, tablets, and other latest gadgets are equipped with online access for children plus the proliferation of social media websites where they spend most of their time.  A vigilant parent is a must by knowing and teaching the children the danger of online attacks. 

Cyber bullying, identity theft, virus attack, other online attacks, and worst online crime related incidents are among the disadvantages of being wired.  Children and teens are vulnerable to these and they are the most target of online predators. But sometimes, predators who commits these acts are not actually strangers but so called “friends” or acquaintances from the internet.

Here are some reminders to protect our children:

• Before buying children of their own computers or gadgets, think twice if they are already old enough to be responsible in using it.  Although small children can already operate gadgets, there should be a certain age that they own one.
• Let them use a shared computer and  place in the living room so this will be more accessible to all and easier to check them.  At times, join them in browsing the internet or playing games while you teach them.
• If possible, set a limit or schedule for the online activity of children.  How long will they be allowed onlineThey should know what websites are safe and what is not.  .  Set rules and consequences for them.
• Orient them about how online culture works, and that there are bad people doing bad things online so they should be careful. 
• Observe proper online etiquette, avoid profane words and respect for others.  Children are too young for forum websites.
• Never give personal information to others online.
• Never give credit card information even to friends.
• Never share password even to friends.
• Never entertain unwanted mails or chat messages, inform the parent or adult about it.  They should ignore the sender right away.
• Monitor online activities of children, in some way or another they can across inappropriate  content such as obscene, violent, pornographic, or other offensive materials. 
• Find filtering software and other internet tools to filter their online activities.

It takes time and courage to do these things especially if you are  not up to computers, but as parents, we need to sway to the dance on today's generation.