The Filipino Entrepreneur

Potable water has been an important part of our nourishment. Since most of the water coming from our faucet is not safe to drink anymore, many people now opted to buy purified bottled water to avoid disease causing micro organisms. It is a method of water filtration by means of removing harmful chemicals and micro organisms by using water pumps and filters. Since this has a very good demand, many people also wanted to try to start this kind of business. But the question is, is it really that lucrative to choose this kind of business? and regarding with the operation, since the only product is water, we might assume that this is an easy business. But if you only knew how intricate and costly to operate this, maybe you will have second thoughts. Anyway if you like to know some information about it, below are some guides before starting one.

For the equipment, below are the basic requirements: (quoted from a supplier of water refilling business)

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Kusina Salud, a new resto in San Pablo Laguna was featured in Kabuhayang Swak na Swak weeks ago and they shared their renowned fern salad recipe. Just seeing the video, the place looks very native and authentic as Amy Perez said that it was coutesy of Patis Tesoro. Chef Paul Poblador of Kusina Salud demonstrated on the preparation of the Fern or pako salad. Seems not very complicated to make. You just need the following ingredients:

Pako or Fern Salad

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As we’ve seen in our discussion so far, poor or improper delegation of authority can result in confusion and indecision on the part of subordinates. The end result can be a breakdown in the whole system of management. Therefore, a few words of caution are in order at this point: Delegation has a potential for management failure! However, the risk of failure is also present whenever managers plan, organize, motivate, and control. So, in this sense, delegation is simply one of several high-risk activities in any management system.

To overcome weaknesses in delegation, the following guides can be used:

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When you’re speaking to someone about your services do you sometimes feel as if a barrier is coming up from them? The person may resist listening to you, they may resist opening up to you and they possibly might not trust you right from the beginning. These are all signs of sales resistance. Sales resistance is virtually an automatic reaction we all have. To understand this, put yourself in their shoes.

Put yourself in their shoes and think about your own reaction when someone is trying to sell you something. How does it make you feel? Do you feel resistant? Do you feel tense? Do you feel that all the seller cares about is making a sale instead of caring about you? Do you want to leave the conversation as soon as possible? If you feel like this, it is only natural that the person you are talking to will also feel like this if you are trying to sell them something.

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When selling your services, wouldn’t it be great if you could get to a “yes” quicker? So how do you do that?

There are several ways to do this. There are some low leverage but important strategies and there are some extremely high leverage strategies.

Some low leverage but important strategies to use are:

-Make it very clear in all your marketing materials who you serve, what problems you solve and what results you deliver. Chances are then that the people who contact you will be pre-qualified and will be in your target market and will have problems you can solve.

-Have testimonials in all your marketing materials which show results your clients have achieved from working with you. These testimonials will help you speed through the credibility part of the sales cycle.

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