In 1999, with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering safely tucked under his belt, Jon Orana marched off the stage and easily landed a job as a programmer for a service provider.
After a year had passed, he became restless and wasn’t sure he was cut out for the job. Feeling trapped in a world of the eight-to-five, he soon got bored with the routine.
The restive spirit of the Adamson University graduate led him to look for other options that would allow him to test his wings in other related fields. A friend who had lent him a book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by best-selling motivational speaker and businessman Robert Kiyosaki, who “teaches people to become millionaires,” opened his eyes to a brave new world.
Without leaving his full-time job to ensure that he had a stable income that would provide for his security in the meantime, the young professional ventured into trying out whatever Kiyosaki had taught millions of his readers worldwide.
His initial ventures as a small entrepreneur earned him tiny profits, but not enough to make him content. Soon enough, he had to plow back more money into the ventures that before he knew it, he was losing hard-earned revenues, and piling up debts.
That made him realize that he may have too much on his plate, so he decided to say goodbye to his office job to concentrate on what was then a fledgling enterprise that few had heard about: the e-book industry.
In 36 months, he was able to sell 24 million e-books online.
Sensing that the Internet was the wave of the future, Orana began upgrading his skills in the field, and despite his lack of a business background and with no mentors to help him along the way, he stood his ground believing that good fortune was just around the corner.
His success, which did not come by overnight, was enough to prompt him to teach others what he had acquired by dint of hard work and a motivation to get ahead, by engaging in consultancy work and coaching first-time online entrepreneurs.
Through the years, Orana’s home-based business has expanded to include setting up online programs like Internet Business Masterclass, Blog Academy and Money Tree System that have taught over 1000 neophyte online entrepreneurs.
His blog www.eskapology.com now have over 100,000 email subscribers. He has also sold over $1 million of his digital products to an eager, receptive and growing online market.
Hundreds of glowing testimonials continue to flood his mail from satisfied and grateful students of his online courses who attest to the effectiveness and viability of Orana’s innovative approach in attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs to the wide and lucrative world of business on the Internet. Finding his niche did not come easy, but Orana is a sterling example that one can do it, if one is willing to learn and test the waters.
For someone who claims he “has no high IQ and barely finished his college degree.”
Those interested to attend his e-books online seminar live in Manila on Nov. 19, Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., can register via email to [email protected] or visit www.NegosyoUniversity.com or call his local office at (02) 650-0843.