Building an online enterprise during this PANDEMIC

What is my mission why I have built this website and created this weblog?

This website will be a family enterprise platform.

Another reason is to monetize so that this will be a source of passive income to support my family.

Anything legit that can put food on the table during this PANDEMIC, will be good.

My background:

I am an experienced Overseas Filipino Worker. I have worked in different diversified overseas projects as well as local ones.

I started working abroad since 2004 in KSA and in UAE and went home to marry my longtime girlfriend and now my wife, Carmel in September 2011. She got pregnant and are blessed by God with a daughter in 2013.

I worked locally again since 2012.

Then I have the opportunity to work abroad again on February 2016. This is a need during that time as we are expecting our 2nd daughter that year.

We are still renting our place, and our expenses are increasing while our source of income stays the same.

Although it is emotionally tough to leave my pregnant wife and daughter during that time, we have persevered, for the sake of our goals.

We have acquired a small house and lot on July 2018 through a company loan.

Then PANDEMIC struck the world and affected the global market this year 2020.

A lot of businesses were forced by the circumstance to close. Many people lost their job. I am affected as well as 50% salary deduction was implemented in the company across the board since April this year. Unfortunately, my wife lost her job too she held for 15 years.

To adjust our expenses, we have to withdraw one of our ongoing investments; a lot only property. We have applied for a reimbursement from the developer, stating that we cannot be able to continue paying the lot.

We are in loss actually with the cash back as 20% of that total amount we have paid will not be given back to us.

To deal with our existing company loan, we asked her company to favor us to continue our loan repayment as per the original tenure, so that we can capitalized her small gratuity payment.

We asked the company if I can use my existing savings equal to 80% of my loan as form of collateral promising that we will not withdraw it until we have finally settled our loan worth Php248,000 (4,953 USD).

What is now?

Anyway, to cut the long story short, I forced myself to make a website to support in marketing our products, and will include my services as well.

Initially, I have planned it as an online grocery ordering and delivery store, catering the downtown Davao and nearby districts, but realizing that my wife is pregnant and to be in-charge of sales, packaging and delivery, it will be a difficult task for her. So I decided to make it a hybrid of a family enterprise blogging, product and service review, trading, affiliate marketing and job list (for additional site traffic in the future).

I have posted as well; my wife’s flourishing beauty products, for more chances of sale.

During this time, without any budget to outsource web development, I forced myself to learn web designing and development through WIX.

WIX is an easy drag and drop website-making platform.

The challenge is on how to develop a web concept that will synchronize our family’s existing enterprise, which includes the following:

1. My wife’s existing beauty products, frozen tuna and chicken products

2. The services I can give.

3. Our existing and future digital products.

4. The outsourcing business I am dreaming about.

There is a potential opportunity as well to earn passively through advertising and affiliate marketing. So I join this to our website as well for monetization.

As of this date, our website is still on the draft stage. I am focusing to make it ready before I will buy a domain for 2 years.

Money and resources are scarce during this time, and it is not easy to throw single penny without the potentiality of return.

If ever this enterprise will succeed, we can share this platform with our children.

At least, in this stage and situation of my life, I have started this family-oriented blog, and will be the best thing I can do.