In this #JasSuccess epidose we are featuring one of our succesful FLIPpers, Bituin Azurin Glorioso.

In this interview we tackled different aspects, including:

✅ How a Tourism Teacher for 3 years and a call center agent for 6 months conquered the world of freelancing.

✅ How Bituin earned her first 100k in just 7 weeks.

✅ How she transitioned from being a teacher to a call center agent and now a successful freelancer.

Watch this interview and discover how Bituin proved that freelancing is not all about the skills. She attributes her success to her strong faith in God.

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Notable Quotes:

• You're still a little bit new to the freelancing world, not super newbie, pero not super experienced naman, but you achieved so much, You Already hit 6 digits. You're already around the 100k mark within 7 weeks.
• I'm into dreaming hitting 1 million per month. This coming month. I'm more into it, I'm positive that I can do it.
• I trust God, na parang his leading me on something bigger on those things.
• Yung trust namin sa panginoon andun pa rin na hindi nya ko pababayaan na gagaling ang baby namin and at the same time, he'll provide.
• Hindi worth it para i-sakripisyo lahat para sa kakarampot na sahod.
• Sabi nung client "One thing that they check is the salary because it reflects the quality of works".
• You don't want to be too low you don't want to be extremely high as well outside clients budget, that's a very good strategy, you want to be mindful of how much your bidding you have to deliver a quality of works or otherwise baka ma-bad feedback ka lang.
• Yung mga negative na nangyayari one step closer to your dream.
• Inaalis ako ng panginoon sa simple situation na ito kasi may ibibigay siya na mas higit.
• When you set a goal, you have to really put your mindset in achieving the goals. Faith without action is dead.
• God let us this happened because, He wanted us to feel the realization.
• Kapag tinitingnan nila yun profile mo, So iba pala iniisip natin iba iniisip nila, sabi nung client one thing that they check is the salary, kasi it reflects the quality of work.
• Like when I post the job, because I'm on upwork, let say my budget is $10 per hour for something for that job, those that bid like three, four, five per hour they automatically  eliminated, and those that bid, mga $25 above also nominated, you don't want to be too low you don't want to be of course extremely high with the clients budget, that's a very good strategy, you know, you want to be mindful of how much your  bidding you don't want to see unprofessional, by bidding too low, and of course you have to deliver the quality of work, that is worth it naman, so if you're bidding one hundred dollars, you have to make sure that your work is good din, otherwise baka mabad feedback ka lang.
• dinadaya lang daw po tayo ng kaaway when the devil input na you're a loser talunan ka, na lahat ng nangyari sa buhay mo na palayo sa pangarap mo pero, actually yun mga negative na nangyayari, one step closer to your dream, so instead of thinking na ladder siya pababa , isipin mo na it's a ladder going upward.
• Kahit anong nangyari parang pray against the storm na ipanalangin mo yung mga bagay , ipagpasalamat mo i-claim mo na sayo na kahit wala pa, maririnig yan ng panginoon.
• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
• If you do well in small things, God will give more things, that's will approach every single task that we have.
• Make a personal connection with the client.
• There are 3 Elements to your Success 1. Faith in God, 2. Perseverance 3. Care to the client.
• If you care for the client, they will compensate you.
• Deuteronomy 28:1-14-1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: 3 you will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. 4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. 8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. 9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. 12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend too many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Bituin Azurin Journey to Freelancing

• Way back 2012 after the graduation; she started teaching a college student for 3 years.
• She tried to apply in a Hotels and Travel Agencies but got rejected so many times.
• Her husband told her to apply to a call center agent; she got a job as a telesales agent. Due to circumstances, she decided to stop working as a call center agent and try focusing being a full-time mom due to her baby's condition.
• By the month of February 2017, her attention caught by the pictures posted by Jayson Dulay and she started on the free VA Course.
• Her first created account was in freelancer.com, 99design and upwork. She started as a Graphic design, she joined the contest and she devoted time and effort revising her work but she felt devastated of what happened.
• She praised and thank God, even she didn't have the work yet.
• While still waiting for the right client, she updated her Profiles very well.
• She waited for at least 3 months before landed on her first Long-term Job.

Q&A Highlights

What were you doing before then what was that AHA Moment / Magical Moment that you found in a Freelancing or you were looking for something new?

Umpisa niyan actually is wayback 2012, Right after graduation naimbitahan po ako magturo sa isang university,and it’s actually a blessing co’z I started a family earlier, nagkababy po ako 20 lang ako. So after ko grumaduate in-offeran ako magturo, even though my course is about tourism, so medyo malayo po sa pagtuturo, but then I enjoyed it, and I lasted 3 years sa pagtuturo ng college student .It’s a bit challenging kasi medyo kaedad ko lang  po,  but medyo rewarding kasi yung outcome naman po ay get to inspire them teach them as well, and maging friends na rin, so nagging okay po yun stay ko sa school.

Did you ask the client about increase nun nabago or nadagdagan yun task mo? Or si client na po mismo nag offer?

Nun nag discuss n kami about dun, parang na overlooked ata niya na yun 1000 is for full time, akala niya yun rate ko full time, sabi ko po part time siya. sabe niya para to be fair sa naunang team member namin, eto yun ibibigay kong rate, pero yun rate niya po na binigay sakin parang 4x na nataas sa dati ko sweldo , yun kinikita ko po sa corporate for a month nakukuha ko na po sya in a week lang. Nagbibigay po sya saken ng commision every sale.