December 2010

Again Christmas day is being celebrated across the globe and we are one of those who celebrate this day. But again as I’ve said time and time again that Christmas is not really what we believe in. It is commonly believed that this day is the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ but look around us, Santa Claus is more popular and there are Christmas trees, gift giving and caroling. Even the old belief on the meaning of Christmas of the birth of our Lord is changed with other things. If you will dig deeper on the meaning of Christmas, the truth is,  it is meaningless. Just a commercial commodity that many merchants use so they will have more sales. But there is also a good effect on this because many workers have 13th month pay and bonuses. Sorry for being a killjoy but the reason why I’m telling this is because not all people can afford to have a lavish Christmas and not everyone can give precious gifts to their loved ones and thus they will feel disappointed. So cheer up! because this is only a tradition that have been handed to us Filipinos from our ancestors and our ancestors got it from the west.

Anyway even though I sound opposing the spirit of Christmas, I want to greet you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! [click to continue...]

It was after I decided to try online entrepreneurship back then and when I was retrenched from the company I worked with (together with those poor employees like me who were very loyal to that company) that I noticed Sulit.com.ph is gaining popularity across the country. That was in year 2007, when I went full time on the internet to make a living. Those days were full of hope and dreams that someday I might be one of the dotcom moguls of the internet like those famous successful people like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marcus Frind of Plenty of Fish or Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist. But now I realized that it might just be a dream because I’m still chasing it. Maybe I don’t have the qualities needed to become even just a fraction of what they are now or maybe I’m not in the right time or in the right place.

Those successful online entrepreneurs are from the western world and so I was very skeptic that someone in our country like the Philippines can be like one of them. But it seems that I’m wrong because Sulit.com.ph changed my perception and now the biggest online classified ads in the country. I also read on Yugatech.Com that Sulit.com.ph is already sold with an undisclosed amount and sounds like it involved hundreds of millions. The founders were RJ David and her wife Arianne. There was a nice Q&A with the Founders of Sulit.Com.ph I read in Pinoy Tech Blog that can inspire someone who have a passion on the internet. One noticeable portion of the post is about RJ David who was a former Mechanical engineer  who left his field to become a web developer. He entered the IT industry in 2003 as a Software Test Engineer then moved on to be a PHP Architect / Senior Developer in 2005. By the end of 2005 he decided to go full time with freelancing. He said that the decision to leave the security of employment was brought about by the influence of the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” (by Robert Kiyosaki) on him.

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This coming Christmas there are many gimmicks that we can see on many stores specially departments stores like SM or Robinson’s department stores like big discounts on their selected items or 0% interests on installments. Many shops and stores are preparing for long opening hours and many online businesses are expecting a busy websites because of the holiday seasons. But no matter what type of business you have there are other things that you can do to boost up your sales this coming Christmas.

Offer a Free Day to Your Customers

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