This week I was inquired by my sister-in-law what business I have in mind that we might start this year. The truth is, I have my own plan of starting an online business (again!) but wasn’t sure if it will succeed because the items I like to sell are only focused on hobbyist and those interested on that hobby. The items are also expensive but I was really interested on it, in fact is also my passion. But I’ll set it aside for now and focus on a more realistic approach. My wife suggested that we should try a food card business and she choose a food cart that sells pizza. I was at first hesitant because the brand name is not popular. I saw another one, a nacho food cart that I think might be a good choice because I’ve seen it on malls like SM and Robinsons department store and the business has been running since 1995.
So the first thing I have in mind is where to place that food cart. Although I have been warned by a friend before that choosing a place like SM or Robinsons Dept store will not give you much profit because the cost of the rent or lease is impossible to produce just selling on food carts. He told me that the cost is roughly 20 to 25k a month in which you will only have an average profit or just break even. I tried to ask the SM administration about the cost of the rent but she said they can’t give it until I send a letter of intent or LOI and have evaluated my proposal which is also stated on SM Supermall website. If you are interested to rent a space there, you can visit SM Leasing Services page.
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There is a saying, “It’s better late than never”. I was also wondering why TRC didn’t release their January 2012 schedule earlier. Anyway at least you know now the rest of the schedule that are still available for this month.
Below are available TRC (TLRC Philippines) courses and seminars for January 2012:
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Before I start this article, allow me to greet you Happy New Year this 2012 year of the black water dragon. This year will bring prosperity according to astrologers and specially those who believes in Chinese astrology. And those businesses that relates to water will have a good chance to succeed unlike those connected with fire. Anyway so much for that topic, what I want to emphasize now is the business trends regarding marketing and advertising. Since the internet popularity explodes, with it, online advertising was introduced and in no time it was accepted as one of the means to market and advertise a business. In my observation and also those who were knowledgeable on online advertising know very well that the ads network Google Adwords (when Google also introduced Adsense) revived the online advertising after the dotcom bubble burst in 2000 (March 2000 to October 2002). I’m not sure if I’m 100% correct but that is how I observed it. Google introduced Adsense on June 2003 that enables small publishers to participate and I think it is no coincidence that after launching Adsense the online advertising industry was standing on it’s feet again.
Compared to traditional advertising: print media and television commercials, online advertising was cheaper and more cost effective because you can track your advertising expenditures, ads behavior like banner clicks and impressions and other detailed information. Yes online advertising was a great invention and tool for businesses but since the dawn of the internet, computers was the only device capable of browsing websites. And only a few years ago that mobile phones can now be used to access the internet. Yes of course there is an internet device also invented a few years ago and that is the tablet like the Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy and others I didn’t mentioned. So aside from traditional online advertising, are you also paying attention to mobile advertising? According to the survey of emarketer.com, the time spent on mobile increased to 30% from 2010 to 2011. More than the time spent on reading newspapers and magazines combined.
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This is a guest post of Jessica Francisco of lukeroxasinfo.com
“First Impressions Last” – Here is a famous tagline from a TV commercial in the 90’s that caught the attention of people. How did this commercial affect their business’ performance? It was brilliant! The tagline was able to produce a lot of sales and improve their profit during that year. Over the past years, taglines like these have been very much abundant as it attracts more prospect clients that boost the name and reputation of a particular business. It is a business standard that has been very effective, a strategy that falls under a wide variety of business concepts and ideas in running a company’s interaction with their customers and potential clients. Customer Relationship Management is one of the assets of known business tycoons throughout the world. They reached their accomplishments because they know how to take care of their customers.
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Below are available TRC (TLRC Philippines) courses and seminars for December 2011:
Basic Meat Processing
Meat preservation technology, production and quality control guidelines, packaging, handling and storage, new trends in the business. Hand on: bacon, tocino, pork and chicken ham, pork sausage (fresh native and canton), corned beef, hamburger, and beef tapa. Bring apron and hand towels.
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Well there are blog posts I read regarding the topic about how to find your true passion but if it is not connected to a business or something that will profit you, I think it is useless. Yes I agree it is hard to distinguish what your true passion is because of the many influences we absorb from our parents, relatives, friends or co-workers. Even the media like television or movies can also influence us and I think it might have more impact than the ones I mentioned before because we constantly watch and absorb those influences when we watch television, movies and surf the internet.
People do change and your passion for something in the past might not really be your true passion. Like for example you might get this information regarding finding your true passion: [click to continue...]
Below are available TRC (TLRC Philippines) courses and seminars for November 2011:
Basic Meat Processing
Meat preservation technology, production and quality control guidelines, packaging, handling and storage, new trends in the business. Hand on: bacon, tocino, pork and chicken ham, pork sausage (fresh native and canton), corned beef, hamburger, and beef tapa. Bring apron and hand towels.
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