Leslie Garcia Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Post Election EB Everybody's invited Quote Link to comment
icetip Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Anyone of you guys tried the stock market? Yup! I've always been into it. Why any questions? Quote Link to comment
Macy Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Good morning NEGOSYANTES!!!!..... hope everyone is having a great morning... can I ask a favor in behalf of one of our members, Sentinel? .... he wants to give a special Mom's Day gift for his wife.... could we help him do it? Hereunder is his request...... I want to give my wife something special this coming mother's day celebration. I wanted her to win the Manila Bulletin's "Funny Mommy" award. Wala kasi akong pambili ng gift sa kanya so I decided to try my luck by participating in this contest. Please vote for my wife, Nancy, in Manila Bulletin's Funny Mommy award. Tell some friends also from MTC to do the same. Just type the following in your cell phone: MB (space) funny mommy (space) your name (space) number 4 then send to 2299 for both Smart and Globe users only. in his behalf, i thank you in advance ladies............. Quote Link to comment
Anaheim Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 There is a computer program for the ancient Commodore 64 about Stock Markets. It is a simulation of playing the stock market. "buy low sell high" attests to its strategy. I think it will manifests to you the stock market basics. Quote Link to comment
ichi Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Be Your Own BossSidelines You Can Start Now Compiled by Joy Cabrillos, Anne Ruth de la Cruz, Millet M. Enriquez, Kia Ortiz-Luis and Arlene Wong This March, find out how you can earn extra cash without compromising your day job! Read, too, the story of five sisters who invested money that three of them earned while working overseas to buy their own house and set up a grocery and a preschool. Finally, find out how you can cash in on this year's election as we feature election businesses. FRUIT SHAKE VENDOR What will I be doing? Create your own fresh fruit shakes and then sell them to people who crave healthy beverages. Try using mango, melon and strawberry shakes blended with chocolate, yam or cheese. What will I need to start? Fresh fruits in season that you can buy cheap at the leading supermarkets and public markets. In February 2003, Aileen Leveriza, 28, put up a fruit-shake stand beside a hospital canteen. Before that, she bought two blenders at P2,500 each. For another P5,000 she bought a fruit slicer, plastic glasses, straw and ice to start her business. She spends P900 to P1,000 to buy 18 kilos of unripe fruit, P120 per sack of crushed ice, and various amounts for milk, sugar, cheese, chocolate and other flavors. Who will my customers be? People of all ages, but particularly primary and high school students. Fruit shakes are in particular demand in summer when it's hot and many fruits are in season. How much should I charge? P20 to P25 per 16-ounce glass. You may serve your fruit shakes plain or in combination with cheese and other flavors. Charge P5 extra to customers requesting their own combination. How much will I make? You'll recoup your investment in weeks if you set up in a high-traffic area. Leveriza says she recouped her capital within days. Just make sure your fruits are always fresh and you observe proper hygiene. PIZZA DEALER What will I be doing? Try becoming a dealer of Mr. Mappy, a network of pizza outlets in the public markets, schools and residential areas. What will I need to start? Find a location with a high foot traffic. You'll need to invest around P4,000 to apply as a dealer. You'll be given a booth for P2,000, a single burner oven stove for P500, and a gas cylinder for P1,500. The pizzas and boxes will be supplied to you. Mr. Mappy has 50 booths in Laguna and Cavite and is open to new applicants. Call Ronald Convento at (046) 434-1222 or 0919-3080707 to inquire. Who will my customers be? People from the middle and lower classes looking for cheaper alternatives to regular pizzas. How much should I charge? Your pizzas will cost P8 to P30 depending on size and toppings. How much will I make? Add P10 or more to the price of each box of pizza that you get from your dealer. You can sell 80 to 100 boxes of pizzas a day if you get a good location. POCKETBOOK TRADER What will I be doing? If you like reading and collecting Tagalog romance novels, you can make money swapping them with other such novels. What will I need to start? Initially, invest in a set of romance novels or used books to start your collection. In 2000, hairdresser Don Guiala, 29, put up a cart-type pocketbook trading business beside the salon he was working for at the Imus Public Market in Cavite. He invested P2,500 on 300 books to kick off the business, then he rented a cart for P75 a day to display them. To save on rent, try setting up your business at home. You can get cheap used books from Recto Avenue in Manila. You may also try buying new books when they go on sale at the leading bookstores. Books normally cost P35 to P40 each, but you can get huge discounts if you buy them directly from the publisher or dealer. If you have books that you would like to trade, contact Don Guiala at 0920-2448629. Who will my customers be? Students, housewives, and middle-aged women who read for leisure. Get as many titles as you can to attract customers. Guiala buys new books every week to add to his titles. Some readers look for particular authors, so watch out for these. How much should I charge? You'll make P5 from each new book and P3 from each used book that you sell at P10 to P12 each. The price of each book will depend on its condition. When selling, make sure there are no tears or missing pages. How much will I make? Your earnings will depend on the number of people swapping books with you. Guiala says he lost during his first three months, but now he makes P4,000 a month because he has regular clients he can depend on. His peak trading hours are 2 to 6 pm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This article appears in the March 2004 issue of Entrepreneur Philippines. Get more helpful articles like this from every issue of Entrepreneur Philippines! Quote Link to comment
LovenFaith Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 (edited) me and my fiance' just have started up a marketing/ manufacturing company of resin and friberglass base decorative items few months ago... we're dealing with japanese market & trying to penetrate the european countries... we're accepting local orders in case you guys need ones... our items are not just decoratives...but deco with significance... not just mere displayed or standing ones....... interested...? email me at jessie_ong03@yahoo.com (our website's still underconstructions) :mtc: Edited May 10, 2004 by jessiebaby Quote Link to comment
ichi Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 share ko lang uli.... MarketingHow To Launch Your Product By Beverly Camarsi It takes more than making noise or causing temporary mass hysteria to secure a good position in the market. So before you go about ordering the flowers and hiring the band, take time to ensure your opening day doesn't turn into a hit-or-miss affair. Take note of the following: Identify your market. "Start with a very clear vision of who your target market is," says Anton Lorenzo, chief executive of GBSI, makers of Tropical Ice (flavored sparkling water). "You can't just strike anywhere." Exporter Kirk Arambulo of Hacienda Gervasia Inc. says understanding the market segment you want is essential to promoting your product or service. He makes an industry analysis before launching any product. It can be tedious, but "the knowledge you can get from these studies is priceless. Roughly 90 percent of new businesses fail because of lack of study," he says. Understand your customers. It's not enough that you know them. What's more critical is to recognize what they need and want. "You have to listen to your market," says Lorenzo. "If you don't, they won't notice your product." John Justo Villamiel of Artwork, makers of affordable but high-quality T-shirts, says understanding your market allows you to fine-tune your product. Early on, Villamiel developed reasonably priced products because his company serves the mass market. Says Lorenzo: "Your consumers will give you solid responses if they feel you are reaching out to them by providing for their demands. In the case of Tropical Ice, we originally planned to market it to the segment of the young professionals or the yuppies, but on our launching day in Boracay, we immediately saw the demand for Tropical Ice from the younger consumers-meaning kids. So that's when we decided to distribute in schools and colleges to make Tropical Ice more available to the young." Arambulo made the same strategy. He tailored his products to the American taste and started networking to sell them. "It's really a matter of empathizing with your consumers," he says. "Gervasia's processed seafood like milkfish sausages is ready to eat, clearly fitting the fast-paced lifestyle of the Americans." Spend wisely. Launchings need not be expensive. Says Arambulo: "This is not a money thing. It doesn't matter if you have a budget of P1 million or P1, 000. What's important is you are getting the people who matter." Use your network. "You can never underestimate the power of word of mouth," says Lorenzo. Also, use the Web to e-mail your message. "Make the most out of every peso you spend for your opening or launching," says Lorenzo. "Assess your projected expenses and see if they are really significant to the success of your launch. If not, you might as well cross them off your list." Now you've come to your big day and are ready to launch. How do you get it right? Do the following: Pick the right time and place. Says Lorenzo: "We set the date for Holy Week. But then we realized it was vacation time and people from Manila were generally either in Baguio or Boracay, so we decided to bring the launch to Boracay." It was a success. "Wala talagang tao sa Manila at the time. It would have been a big mistake had we launched it here as planned." Says Winlove Martinez of Baron's Taco: "We wanted to have masa appeal-that's why we situated ourselves in the mall, where the masa is. We wanted Baron's Taco to be a household snack for the family. That's where the business concept springs from, tacos being a household merienda in our house for many years. Arambulo picked the West Coast Seafood Show in Los Angeles, California. "Gervasia had to be there because that's the global market, and we are a part of that," he says. "It was a wise investment because the exposure we gained was invaluable." Dress it up. "Since all our 18 outlets are positioned in the malls where clothing apparel are lined up next to each other, we had to make an extra effort to stand out [on each launching]," says Villamiel. "We work around the view concept. Consumers respond to things that catch their eye, so we always make it a point to make the store clean and the displays well lit. You won't get customers to notice you if you don't consider the way your place looks." "Packaging is relevant to creating an appeal," says Arambulo. "When I launched my product in the US, I had to repackage my premium line of sausages to make it more appealing to the US market. For that particular product line, we learned that black and gold packaging gives the impression of premiere quality than the same red and yellow that we use for the regular sausages. If I had launched our premium line of sausages in Manila, Filipinos would not have responded to gold and black as well as the Americans did. So if you're having a series of launches in different locations, you'd do well to put that in mind." Villamiel suggests a little decorative flair to make your place more exciting. Flowers, balloons, and banners are good attention-grabbers on opening day. Entice your market. Tropical Ice gave away 200 cases for free tasting at its three-day launch in Boracay. It would seem expensive, "but that should be part of your marketing budget," explains Lorenzo. People will rarely pay for something they're not familiar with. Villamiel dangled 20 percent discounts on opening day. Martinez of Baron's Taco offered free tasting. "It's called banking on your image," says Lorenzo. "As long as you're guaranteed you're reaching your market, cashing out at your launch will be worth it in the long run." Arambulo cooked his fish onsite for free tasting in LA. "The expo visitors were very eager to taste the product. The concept of ready-to-eat processed seafood was not familiar to [the Americans], so I had to make them taste my product for free." A word of caution: "It's not just a matter of enticing your market. You must be careful not to appear too pretentious," says Villamiel. "Consistency of product quality should follow after the opening or launching. What you sell or serve on your opening day should not differ in quality from what you sell a week or years after." "Be as transparent as possible," says Arambulo. Strive to provide customers with relevant information about your company so they will know you better. Make a good impression. Impress on your staff how critical excellent customer relations is to the business. Don't let unimportant details prevent you from interacting with customers particularly on opening day. Chat with them and anticipate their questions. Don't fret about the caterer not getting your menu right, or the flowers not being delivered on time. When everything else fails, smile. The enthusiasm you radiate will rub off on your customers, and they will remember your product or service long after your opening. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment
lexraven Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 That's great Ichi, good articles. Anybody else want to contribute. Just post 'em. Quote Link to comment
ichi Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 EVENTS May 12-14 5th Corporate Entrepreneurship for Top Management Certificate course for owner-entrepreneurs, company founders, and top management people Venue: Asian Institute of Management, 123 Paseo de Roxas, Legaspi Village, Makati CityOrganizer: Asian Center for EntrepreneurshipTrunkline: (02) 892-4011 to 25 locals 252, 376, 187, 356 and 369Fax: (02) 813-3302E-mail: ace@aim.edu.ph May 14-23 26th Philippine Furniture Festival Venue: Megatrade Halls 2 & 3, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong CityTelephones: (02) 633-1697, (02) 633-5043/46 local 118 or 127Organizer: Chamber of Furniture IndustryTelephone: 631-2834 May 17-21 5th Monitoring and Evaluating Programs and Projects Provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for project monitoring and evaluation Organizer: UP Institute of Small Scale IndustriesAddress: E. Virata Hall, E. Jacinto Street, UP Diliman, Quezon CityTelephones: (02) 928-7076 to 79Telefax: (02) 920-6923E-mail: training.issi@up.edu.ph May 17 - June 28 8th Project Preparation, Appraisal, Evaluation and Monitoring Course Seeks to upgrade participants' skills in evaluating, analyzing, and monitoring small and medium enterprise projects Organizer: UP Institute of Small Scale IndustriesAddress: E. Virata Hall, E. Jacinto Street, UP Diliman, Quezon CityTelephones: (02) 928-7076 to 79Telefax: (02) 920-6923E-mail: training.issi@up.edu.ph May 24 - June 4 11th Entrepreneurial Leadership for Business Advantage Certificate course for owner-entrepreneurs, managers and other professionals Venue: Asian Institute of Management, 123 Paseo de Roxas, Legaspi Village, Makati CityOrganizer: Asian Center for EntrepreneurshipTrunkline: (02) 892-4011 to 25 locals 252, 376, 187, 356 and 369Fax: (02) 813-3302E-mail: ace@aim.edu.ph May 26-30 World of Food Features fresh and processed food and marine products Venue: ThailandOrganizer: Center for International Trade Expositions and MissionsTrunkline: (02) 831-2201, (02) 832-3956, (02) 831-2382E-mail: info@citem.com.phWebsite: www.citem.com.ph May 28-30 International Food Exhibition Features fresh and processed, organic and natural products Venue: World Trade Center, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay CityTelephone: (02) 551-5151Organizer: Center for International Trade Expositions and MissionsTelephones: (02) 931-2201, (02) 832-3956, (02) 831-2382E-mail: info@citem.com.phWebsite: www.citem.com.ph Quote Link to comment
xcalibr Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 does anyone has contacts on package manufacturers? Quote Link to comment
xcalibr Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 how to be a dealer of globe autoload max? Quote Link to comment
LovenFaith Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 me and my fiance' just have started up a marketing/ manufacturing company of resin and friberglass base decorative items few months ago... we're dealing with japanese market & trying to penetrate the european countries... we're accepting local orders in case you guys need ones... our items are not just decoratives...but deco with significance... not just mere displayed or standing ones....... interested...? email me at jessie_ong03@yahoo.com (our website's still underconstructions) :mtc: sample of our products...!...an all purpose hanger...!hanger.tif Quote Link to comment
kotiko Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY IF YOU ARE WILLING TO TRY THIS OUT. THIS IS REALLY WORTH THE TRY. Hey everyone, I surfing around the site lately and I saw this post about getting paid by reading and clicking emails. I got curious and started to try it out. I found out that there are lots of them that aren't really scam and they really pay you. I researched for sites who has a pretty good background on paying their members, and I've come up with 3 right now. Here's a FAQ a friend gave me who's also in the business. This is for all of you guys to understand it better. It's about Resource-A-Day, one of the referring sites. - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Paano ba sumali? Answer: After you read this site, ibibigay sa iyo ng AFFILIATE (yung nag rerecruit sa iyo) ang URL nya, doon ka mag sisign up. 2. May bayad ba ang pag sali? Answer: WALA! Wala kang babayaran dito kahit magkano. Wala ka ring kailangan bilihin. At wala ka ring kailangan ibenta. 3. Paano ba kikita sa RESOURCE-A-DAY? Answer: Kikita ka sa RESOURCE-A-DAY thru ONLINE RECRUITMENT. Bawat new member na ma refer mo sa RESOURCE-A-DAY, kikita ka ng $.40cents (or 22.50 Pesos) 4. Paano ba mag recruit? Answer: Once na nag sign up ka na, may marereceive kang E-mail, nandoon na ang URL mo. Yun ang ipapamigay mo sa mga PROSPECTIVE RECRUITS mo. Pag may nag sign up na new member at sa URL mo dumaan automatic na under na sya sa account mo. 5. Legal ba ito? Answer: Legal ito. This is one of the thousand side of E-COMMERCE. 6. Saan ba located ang RESOURCE-A-DAY? Answer: Resource-a-day is located at 9083 Brown Rd., Liberty, Kansas 67351 USA 7. Just in case kumita na ako, paano ko makukuha? Answer: Ipapadala sa iyo ang pera VIA CHECK, so if you want to join, make sure na ilalagay mo ang COMPLETE NAME at COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS mo. Dahil doon ipapadala ang pera. 8. Gaano katagal bago makuha ang pera? Answer: In order to get your commission, kailangan tumagal ka muna sa company ng 2 MONTHS, para makasigurado ang company na SERYOSO at WILLING ka magtrabaho sa kanila, at dapat lahat ng recruit mo, tumagal din ng two months. Then after two months, makaka receive ka na ng check, then after that, monthly na. Kailangan din na bisitahin mo ang mga SPONSOR ng RESOURCE-A-DAY na makikita mo sa email mo, kahit once or twice a week. 9. Pyramid ba ito or networking? Answer: Hindi. Online recruitment ito. Wala tayong membership fee, at wala ring mga products na involved dito. Its pure ONLINE RECRUITMENT AND ADVERTISING. Pero ang model ng Recruitment natin ay may "hawig" sa Networking. 10. Paano kikita ang company sa akin? E wala naman akong babayaran? Answer: Advertising company ito, tumataas ang rating nila pag maraming bumibisita sa site nila. Kaya nag hahanap sila ng mga affiliates na katulad natin para lalong tumaas ang web hits nila, then dadami ang mag aadvertise sa site nila, kikita sila, kaya kailangan nila tayo. 11. Thru recruitment lang ba ako kikita dito? Answer: Meron pang isa. May downline programs tayo. (Kaya ko nasabi kaninang "hawig" sa Networking) Pag ikaw ay naka recruit, kikita ka ng $.40 (22.50 Pesos), pero pag ang narecruit mo ay naka-recruit din, may additional $.20 ka (11.20 Pesos) its like this: 1st level ($.40 or 22.50 Pesos) - mga recruit mo. 2nd level ($.20 or 11.20 Pesos) - mga na recruit ng recruit mo. 3rd level ($.05 or 2.80 Pesos) - mga recruit ng recruit ng recruit mo 4th level ($.03 or 1.70 Pesos) - mga recruit ng recruit ng recruit ng recruit mo 12. Kasali na ako, nahihirapan akong maka recruit. Ano ang gagawin ko. Answer: Ipakita mo ang site na ito sa mga prospective recruits mo, ipabasa mo sa kanila, then give them you URL kung interested pa sila. 13. Paano ko malalaman kung kumikita na ako? Answer: Pag may sumaling new member at sa URL mo dumaan, may e-mail na dadating sa iyo. But if you want to see your stats, go to the members area of RESOURCE-A-DAY and look at your stats. Makakpunta ka doon by clicking your own URL. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - So, medyo gets niyo na? Anyway, my philosophy on this is, it's worth the try anyway wala namang mawawala sayo if you do try it. If "SCAM" ito, how come I have read about a bunch of people who are getting paid with cheques in Dollars every month? So, ready ka na? If you are, I'll be your first affiliate. Here's my URL to SIGN UP! By the way, signing up will give you a FREE $10 BONUS! (but you will not be allowed to cash it out until you have successfully referred other people) Join Resource-A-Day Now and Subscribe! - - - Instructions on Signing Up . . . 1.) Once you are in the page, enter your e-mail address at the box (located at the middle of the page under "Subscribe...It's Free" or at the upper left) and click SUBSCRIBE. 2.) You will receive a confirmation URL in your e-mail, and when you do, click that or copy and paste it on the address bar to surf on the sign up page. 3.) You are now in the Sign Up page, now fill up all the forms correctly (especially the address - where the cheques will hopefully be sent to). 4.) After you are sure that you have completed the fields, click the final button to subscribe now! 5.) 2 E-mails will be sent to you again, and one of them will be containing your personal URL (like mine) and you are now ready to refer other people in! You will occasionally receive emails from Resource-A-Day, it's up to you to read it or just delete it. Just don't unsubscribe! - - - Now that I started this, lets make this the first official MTC network and lets make it big for all of us to earn money! Let's help each other out! By the way, here are some other sites which have very good feeback for paying their members for clicking and reading e-mails or referring others. Misty and Sam's Cash Webber Cash Mga tsong, wala naman sanang magpopost ng pa-kontra or mga hirit na nakakainis. I just want other people to try it out like what I'm doing, WALA NAMANG MASAMA KUNG MAGTTRY, AND WALA RIN MAWAWALA SATIN. Let's help each other especially ngayon that we all need money. It's a good possibility na we will get payed off with this. PM me guys if you need any help. Wala lang sanang tatanga-tangang tanong. I'm willing to help everyone out. PEACE! Quote Link to comment
kotiko Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Join Resource-A-Day Now and Subscribe! CLICK HERE! Misty and Sam's Cash Webber Cash (Repeating it lang) Quote Link to comment
hitman531ph Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 You need to send thousands and thousands of emails to get an amount substantial enough to get 4-digit figure payment in Pesos... And such "schemes" make spammers out of those who join... Quote Link to comment
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