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Below are available TRC (TLRC Philippines) courses and seminars for August 2010:
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There are many home made bath soap in the market today and maybe since it looks saturated it’s not easy to start a bath soap home business. And also, when you find a procedure on the internet, like what I’ve posted in the past, the ingredients seems hard to find. You have to look for a chemical store or a specialty store catering to soap making business. I also posted the suppliers in this blog and it’s up to you if you will pursue this business. Since I also wanted to try it myself, I was discouraged because I always think that it might not be successful and fear that the end product might not be what I have expected.
But thanks to my daughter’s project I was motivated to try to make a herbal soap with very limited budget. The ingredients are not hard to find if you will just want to experiment. The basic ingredient is plain soap. It should not be scented and the best candidate is plain Ivory soap or much better is plain glycerin soap. Plain glycerin soap is much harder to find because those you will find in the market are already processed with all sorts of herbal extracts and other natural ingredients to beautify skin like papaya, guava, milk, honey or oats. You have to find a supplier for that and I found one on Sulit.Com. It is commonly called “melt and pour” because you can reshape it anything you want. Maybe you can find them on other local classified ads online or offline.
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I’ve been digging around some old magazines and saw this interesting article about selling used books. The magazine is quite old, about 6 years ago but the information is looks very useful and can still be applied today. Even though you can search the internet with lots of information with just a click of a mouse, still many people are fond of reading books. And one way to make it affordable and reach a lot of people is by bringing the price down. The only way to bring the price down is by selling second hand books because brand new books can still be unaffordable even on discounted prices.
To sell used books successfully you must have enough capital, a good and consistent source of cheap second handbooks, and the right mix of titles to win customers over. To get started in the used book selling business, you must decide what type of outlet to set up. With a specialty bookstore, you can focus on the rare, old and special interest publication. Compared to a general bookstore, you can tap into a wider market but it will require a bigger investment. The key ingredient to successfully run a bookstore is finding a trader who can offer a wide selection of books at low prices. According to a well known entrepreneur on the used magazine business Filemon Barbasa, he estimates that the a rent inside a mall will cost you P150,000 and initial investment of P100,000 so a minimum of P300,000 is what you need to invest on setting up a secondhand bookstore. You also need to register it on DTI ( Department of Trade and Industry) which is a must, and secure local government permits, and buy fire insurance because books are made of paper which is a fire hazard.
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