The Filipino Entrepreneur

Raising and selling tilapia is a lucrative business for most fish pond and fish pen owners here in our country. The main reasons are because they are hardy, grow quickly and require inexpensive feeds. The two types I know are raising tilapia in fish pens and in fish ponds. If you live near a bay like for example Laguna bay, it’s much easier than a fish pond because the water is already there and feeding them is not as much as when you will raise tilapia in a fish pond because there is natural food already in the lake like planktons or other small organisms. Building pens on the bay with the use of bamboo and of course labor, fingerlings, feeds and permits are the essential things to worry about.

But if you will consider digging a farm land for raising tilapia, you will need a bigger capital. Let’s say at least 500,000 pesos. You have to lease a land, rent a bulldozer to dig a pond, invest a water pump if you are far from a water source, buy fingerlings, a professional service of an aquaculture engineer and register to a local government. There are also factors to consider like fish density for a given square meter of pond which are applicable to both fish pen and fish pond. Just to give you an idea for example you should only raise 3 to 8 tilapia per square meter of the fish pond. Quality and quantity of feeds to be given should also be considered. If you have business plan of tilapia farming it is best to attend a seminar in TLRC which they are conducting every month. Just search this site for TLRC Courses Available for their schedule or go to the TLRC website.

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I was thinking that discussing about SEO is not necessary in this blog because this topic is all over the internet. There are many gurus that teach SEO and technically experienced but there is no harm to make my own version of this topic. So what is SEO? This is an abbreviation of ‘Search Engine Optimization’. So again what is it? It’s how to make your websites loved by search engines like Yahoo! and Google search. Search engine optimization is one of the most important things to do to gather visitors to your websites. Without visitors your website has no use because the only purpose for a website is for someone to visit it. This is how you will make business. It’s like setting up a retail store. You want to build it in a commercial place where people flock. With out people, there will be no business. The same thing as in a website no visitors, no business.

It is a fact that there are many ways to gather traffic like promoting it by visiting forums, advertise it in a magazine or news papers or media. But visitors coming from search engines are more targeted (potential customers) compared to any other type of visitors. Again, comparing it to an offline business it separates the spectators from buyers. Those visitors form search engine are more aggressive because they are looking for something that they want. Unlike those who are just surfing around from other websites and then will click and follow your link or to those repeat or loyal visitors. The same thing in online advertising. Visitors coming from search engines have more value in ‘Click Thru Rate’ than those coming form other sources.

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I was a bit startled when I saw all my sites not showing adsense ads. I thought there were something wrong with my account so what I did is checked all the websites that have adsense ads in it. I found out that the glitch is worldwide because all the sites I’ve visited have no adsense ads also.

It happened yesterday about 11:30 A.M. (Philippine time) and lasted for almost ten minutes. Jozzua also noticed it and posted a blog about it. My appologies if I’m using the wrong term ‘glitch’. Maybe there was an update or maintenance being performed that time. I was used to the term when I was still an active radio controlled airplane enthusiast.

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While I was surfing the net I came across in yugatech the news of huge price drop in some computer parts like the CPU and RAM. I was thinking that this might have a domino effect on all the semiconductor industries specially the semiconductor bonding tools manufacturer like for example the company I’m work with before I left who always have retrenchments. This year the company have retrenched employees because of very low sales and losing from competition.

But in the brighter side, computer parts will be more affordable and I hope not only CPU’s and RAMs but also LCD monitors and laptops as well.

There have been a few other blog focussed social networking sites introduced within the last year but none have impressed me like BlogCatalog. So how did BlogCatalog impress me?

• User Friendly -BlogCatalog is easy to use. Not all people have the time or desire to try and figure out how to sign up and use an interactive site.
• Site Design - I like the ‘blog style’ Blog Detail and Profile pages. As a blog reader and blogger author I feel very comfortable with the design. I was instantly familiar with the layout of this site.
• Directory -I like the directory style blog browsing. Separating blogs into categories and being able to browse through the categories is simple but effective.

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