The Filipino Entrepreneur

Last Saturday, December 15, 2007, Kabuhayang Swak na Swak featured the following episodes:

1. Micky Shop Digital - it’s a shop for personalized novelty items with your picture and Walt Disney’s / Pixar cartoon characters. There are many personalized novelty items shop on malls but the only difference with Micky Shop is the use of Walt Disney Characters. They are licensed to use the characters that is why the prints is high quality. There are many options for giving your digital picture to them: by CD, blue tooth or you can just have your picture taken by them with a digital camera. The featured shop was located in Megamall but they also have branches in Mall of Asia and Glorietta. Contract info: 725-8078 / 721-2221 email: mickyshop@gmail.com

2. Historic Camalig Restaurant - this restaurant is actually a 100 year old warehouse which was converted by its owners in 1980’s located in Clark Pampanga. With an inital investment of 4,000 to 8,000 pesos the father of the present owner with an American soldier started their venture. Their best seller is pizza. Why? because all the ingredients are local, the pizza tray is “bilao”( bamboo tray ) and the pizza sauce is cooked for 6 hours. They also maintain their original recipe since 1973 up to now. The ingredients are also mentioned like the cheese, sauce, salted egg, longganisa and chopped onion. Maybe the salted egg and longganisa makes it unique and pinoy. Contact info: 045-332-5641 / 888-1077

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Christmas, Birthdays or just even if you want to be sweet there is always a reason to send greeting cards. Who in the world won’t like to accept a greeting card from someone who thinks of you? Not every one has an email address and not everyone have access to a computer to receive electronic greeting cards so it’s never out of season to make a traditional greeting card sent via post office. And if you know how to make one you can profit or earn from it.

You only need a small capital for a home based business opportunity making greeting cards. Aside from paper you can use different kinds of materials to decorate your cards. Be creative and resourceful to make beautiful and unique cards. The return of investment is very easy if you are just industrious enough on selling. Below are the materials needed to make a simple greeting card:

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Because every year we celebrate many occasions like birthday, graduation, Valentines and specially this coming Holiday Season like Christmas and New year, giving gifts is always there. So there are lots of
home based business opportunity to earn on making unique gift baskets. You can even have a gift basket business and sell your gift baskets online.

To make it unique and became a hit you should think of a theme for your gift baskets specially if you are planning to have a have a gift basket business. For example, if your target market is people who love to cook, make a gift basket with pasta, canned tomatoes, olive oil, cheese and italian cookbook then put it in a cooking pot. To those who loves craft put a craft scissors, glue, art papers with assorted colors, stickers and scrapbook in a box.

Below is a sample of how to make a gift basket for gardeners. Call it what ever you want, Gift Baskets for Gardeners Etc.

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I don’t know if this idea will work for us pinoys since we very cautious when we get stains in our clothes. Specially this coming Christmas and New Year we will indulge in many kinds of food. I found a website selling Puke Pets in UK. It looks like plastic or rubberized dog shaped safety pins that looks like it puked on your clothes camouflaging the stains. You can use indigenous materials like coconut shell or capis and put a safety pin on the other side.

Anyway this is the description of the product from Lazybones:

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Last Sunday, December 09, 2007, Kabuhayang Swak na Swak featured the following episodes:

1. Banig Handicraft and Novelty Shop - creates different kinds of products made from indigenous materials like the “Banig”. For example fashionable bags, lamp shade, picture frames, gift boxes, tissue holders and so forth. The owner Pacita Raneses started making banig boxes with a capital of P10,000. Contact info: 758-2216

2. Psalmstre Enterprises Inc. - featured one of the user and dealer of new placenta products. The wonders of the papaya soap and what good benefits that she got from using the products.

3. Ampalaya Plus - featured the wonder medicinal plant ampalaya or bitter melon to lower blood sugar of diabetics. They are also giving away a new diabetic recipe book called “Healthy Pinoy Meals”. Just send box stub of the ampalaya plus capsules or 5 boxes of ampalaya peel and put your name, address, email address(if available). Then send with stamp or self addressed stamped envelopes worth P45 (within metro manila) or P69 (outside metro manila) to:

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