About J.D. Lim Creative Solutions Inc.

How did my small ‘virtual’ company started? Let me share you an excerpt (with some parts edited) of the story taken from my personal blog here.

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I signed up for a quite popular freelance writing site. I saw their ad on a popular blog and I became interested to join. I thought I would be having a great time working for them. But, the opposite had happened.

What really pissed me off is that it would take them a long time before they can actually check your submitted articles. What’s more is that they require you to finish it within 24 hours because it is alwayas ‘urgently needed’! Yet, it took them weeks before they can actually check it. So is it really urgent? Or they are just forcing their writers to produce more so they could earn more? It is a clear case of exploitation.

Aside from that, their rates are REALLY low. Imagine, 60 pesos for a 500 word article? Your creative juices is just worth 60 pesos! Whereas, later I found out that writers can actually be paid a minimum of 100 pesos per 300 word article! Again, that got into my nerves.

So when they had been able to check my submissions, more than two weeks had gone by. Then, they are returning it to me for revisions! So, I thought it would be right for me to complain about their unfair policy. But then and there, they had terminated me for ‘insubordination.’

Anyway, this experience had made me decide to put up a company one day that would value its writers and not treat them as robots - which had been finally realized last Friday (15th of May 2009).

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J.D. Lim Creative Solutions Inc. is founded on these core values: I want my writers to feel that they are being valued, their works are well-compensated and give them the best opportunities to enhance their skills as a writer. It is a one-man company that is set to break barriers and norms.

It is a one-man company run by a 19-year old. But he believes that this company would grow and diversify its services and help others find a job and earn decent for their living. It is the biggest risk that this young man had ever taken ever since he dreamt of having his own business. It is a new venture made by one man that positions itself and aims to be the best company to be a freelance writer here in the Philippines.

It also aims itself to topple the so-called leader in freelance writing business here in the Philippines that has no heart and soul for its writers and treats them as article-churning machines. It wants to set a precedent for future freelance writers and companies in general to value its workers - not its profits. It wants to set an example that a company will exist without the need for huge profit targets and be able to decently give its workers what is due for the work they did.

But above it all, it is a ‘virtual’ company born out of his love and passion for writing.

I just hope, with the aid of that loving Guy from above, things would go well and our team would be able to hurdle all the obstacles awaiting this company in this new journey.