From Totally Blind Freelancer to 9-Year Old Global ICT Consulting Company Founder -- Here's How...

Nov 12 2015 UPDATE: Found below is the page in the BBC website where parts of my interview with Fergus Nicoll and Vivienne Nunis for BBC World Service and BBC Radio London were published ...

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The Blind Entrepreneur Building a Call Centre Empire

Nov 8 2015 UPDATE: Watch the video below to learn what I'm doing now. I talked to BBC News Fergus Nicoll and Vivienne Nunis last Thursday (Nov 5 GMT+8) about our one-of-a-kind revenue share model with our multilingual call centers. This interview is for their Business Matters program in BBC News, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. This video was taken from an Android phone, since we can't post the entire thing until my interview's official publication in the BBC network ...


Decided to re-post this in its own thread because I reckon this could perhaps be seen by more people who could possibly be motivated by the things below, especially since I've noticed a lot of threads lately where people ask for the quickest 0-investment ways to earn money online, probably due to desperation, which I think's the wrong way to look at things -- Instead, I think it's best to build and follow through with a plan that can allow you to earn stable income that'll consistently resolve your time-sensitive concerns, all the while preparing the foundations of a sustainable real world company for you to start and run when the time's just about right...

First, something from Winston Churchill -- SUCCESS is NOT FINAL. FAILURE is NOT FATAL. It is the COURAGE TO CONTINUE that COUNTS...

Second, if you really need (in say two to three weeks from now) something to do that can earn you good money, then one out of many ways to earn decent income from home is to do the following:

Provide telecommuting services, i.e. If you're into video games and computers and tech gadgets and can develop videos using your computer and have good communication skills (multiple languages, better) and have (or could easily) learn remote computer troubleshooting and repair, then you could search for related local companies in your area who may need telecommuting subcontractors, zone in on those with recently launched products, call or email the key persons in those local companies by searching for their contact details in their LinkedIn profiles, pitch yourself as a telecommuting content developer or remote PC technician / tech support specialist and offer a trial period agreement (of course a paid one, with or without discounted rates -- It's up to you) in your telecommuting subcontract...

Third, a story that could possibly interest you -- I've been TOTALLY BLIND for MORE THAN 10 YEARS NOW...

I've lived all my life in the Philippines, a developing country that doesn't offer N-E-THING significant to people with disabilities;

I was abandoned by both my parents when I was 14, was left totally blind permanently after being gunned down twice in 2003, was in the middle of an academic scholarship at the premiere university here in the Philippines so was unemployed when this happened and was also with my wife and daughter to support and was 23, and since I was unemployed at that time, I initially got a telecommuting subcontract with a local tri-media BPO company that became our first client, and I moved fast to close another albeit much much better telecommuting subcontract with a prominent North American corporation that soon became our first bluechip corporate client;

Here's a video that was produced by the Asia Pacific Center on Disability of the United Nations (I'm the guy in the video):


In 2008, I was recognized by our national government as the MOST INSPIRING ENTREPRENEUR of the PHILIPPINES, and our national government's official presidential consultant on business and entrepreneurship handed me this award, and this was after my wife and I along with our employees and associates helped a Canadian corporation's carrier product to be GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED as the BEST SELLING MICROSOFT WINDOWS OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE in 2007 and was after we helped a Malta-based corporation's website to be GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED as ONE of the TOP 20 TECHNOLOGY WEBSITES in 2010 and was a time when my wife and I GREW IN BARELY A YEAR a TEAM of FOUR WORK AT HOME MOMS and DADS, my wife and I included, into a GLOBAL ICT CONSULTING COMPANY with MORE THAN 140 EMPLOYEES and SUBCONTRACTORS combined, 20% of whom were PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES;

In mid 2011, we LOST 80% OF OUR BUSINESS to the global financial crisis as two of our corporate clients needed to ABRUPTLY CHANGE our annual contracts so as to cut down their monthly costs by 80% and reduce their inhouse staff lay-offs by 20%, and so for the next one year, we signed up many much smaller clients, expanded to other industries and kept on trying to get new smaller clients (we noticed in our 9 years of running our company that a significant number of smaller clients usually come and go due to personal reasons, especially individual Internet marketers, affiliates running one-man operations and so on), in an effort to regain the business we lost;

From mid 2012 up until today, our 9-YEAR OLD GLOBAL ICT CONSULTING COMPANY has NOT ONLY REGAINED the 80% business we lost in 2011, BUT INSTEAD GENERATED 300% MORE BUSINESS on top of this, upon re-focusing on our original target industries and upon expanding to the multi-lingual call center industry and upon becoming a registered Microsoft Partner and upon covering a specialized segment of the software development niche that aims to expand the market reach of our clients by the inclusion of persons with disabilities as a decently sized user base; and

The video below was created from clips taken at a United Nations conference about the role of ICT in providing gainful oppurtunities to persons with disabilities around the world and at the recently concluded 2014 3rd Filipino Technopreneurship Summit where I was invited as a guest speaker and key panelist alongside Manny V. Pangilinan, principal of the Philippines' largest telco (PLDT) and mobile service provider (Smart), and Diosdado Banatao, principal of Tallwood Capital Venture and a Silicon Valley pioneer who invented the GPU in the mid 1980s, among other CEOs and founders of the top 25 largest and fastest growing ICT companies here in the Philippines, in front of more than 600 business owners and 7,000 educators and students from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao:


So, blaze new trails and build new roads to your dreams, and best of luck!