The Filipino Entrepreneur

I just like to say Happy Halloween! to everyone although this ocassion originated and celebrated in the western society. Tomorrow will also be a busy day because most people will visit their departed love ones (All Saint’s Day). Just take care and enjoy your trip and stay.

There are many recipes you can find in the internet and they also abound in print like in magazines or even at the back of can goods. But do you know that you can help your business by sharing recipes? I read in Hitwise Intelligence by Heather Hopkins about the recession proof category - Recipes. The analysis is based on the U.S. population, not in the Philippines but Filipinos are food lovers so adopting it will have no difference.

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Its interesting to know that despite the U.S. recession, the Philippines is taking advantage of the cheaper labor cost. Comparing labor cost in the U.S., one job there is equal to 4 or 5 jobs here with regards to pay. So companies there are seeking to cut down expenses by outsourcing to cheaper labor cost. That is why just last week when I bought a newspaper, The Manila Bulletin, on the classified ads section there were lots of call center jobs available despite of the crisis. Although this is good to our economy, I still pray that the recession will soon be over because in the long run our economy will be affected too because this is a global crisis.

If you are wondering why there is a reduction of traffic in your website or blog this last two weeks of October, then the possible reasons are the semestral break and festivals here in the Philippines. I can’t think of other possible explanations but the facts are there. But I guess it will depend on the kind of niche your website or blog has and the kind of visitors who visits. I read Yugatech’s blog when he posted about the reduction of his traffic in the  summer months of April and May which is the end of school year. So we can assume that it is the same thing when there is a semestral break in October up to the first week of November. And we can conclude that students is a big part of any kinds of businesses whether they sell in food carts, selling celphones, a book store or internet businesses.

Patience is really a quality for someone to be successful. Because if you quit, you already loose, right? Many successful people in all kinds of profession reached their goal because of this virtue. I read a Shakespeare Quote in Macuha’s blog about patience and I’ll requote it again:

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Thou know’st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time.”

-From William Shakespeare’s Othello

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