Philippines
PayPal Sends Money to the Philippines!
Oh my God. This is the gamechanger. Philippine PayPal users can now receive money.
Let that sink in for a second. Rural Filipinos can now sell their towns’ products directly to the world over eBay. Talented Filipina babes can become the next Happy Slip by posting their videos on Revver. The Philippines — indeed, individual Filipinos — can finally earn money in the global Long Tail of ecommerce.
My mind is now racing with the possibilities for my fellow Filipinos. For years, the government has talked big about globally empowering Filipinos through ecommerce. Guess what: the power is here.
Now the task is to show people how to use that power. Filipinos are so used to the oppression of the middleman that they’ll have to learn how to live with disintermediation.
I want to name so many more sites where Filipinos can make money through PayPal, but I can’t. I know they’re out there, in the thousands. I just haven’t kept track of them. We’ve lived without PayPal for so long, we’ve ignored all PayPal revenue sources. We all have to get used to the light after years in the darkness.
(Via John Cuneta.)
AdSense Pays Filipinos Through Western Union
Some Philippine webmasters have been testing this for a while, but now it goes public: Google AdSense now makes Western Union payments to the Philippines. Sweet. Long Tail online advertising dollars go a long way in the Philippines.
Oh, and it’s free. Say goodbye to $24 secure check delivery fees. Glad Google didn’t forget the Philippines in their ninth birthday blowout. 🙂
(Via Mark Verzo.)
