The Filipino Entrepreneur

If you are an Ebay Seller, one of the worst (I think) changes is the inabiity of a seller to give negative feedback to buyers. Just recently, I’ve experience a rather new trick of those fraud buyers. When he bid for an item and won, the buyer pretends that he is not receiving any response from you. Probably the buyer realized that he really didn’t want to buy the item because of the costly shipping charges involved. Either the buyer was too proud not to apologize to the seller or just wanted to play around.

One of the known fraud bidders or buyers is a joy bidder who just bid and kiss the item goodbye. But the one that pretends that he is serious and send you email that he is asking how to pay for the item or wants to do meet ups but pretends that he is not receiving any response from you is I think a new kind of Ebay prankster. Then he will give you a negative feedback that you relisted the item or accused you that you did not sell the item to him. If you have been a victim of these kinds of bidders, go here >> Resolving Feedback DisputesYou

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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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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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It’s inevitable, recession is starting in the U.S. already and may affect the world’s economy. Many businesses are already laying off many workers and many business already folded up including many online businesses. But what about advertising? According to the article I read, its just the opposite. Many recessions already hit the United States and companies who survived knew what to do to save their company. It’s called “Branding”. In a weak economy, that’s what companies should be doing. They should advertise to make their name look important and stick to the minds of the people. It will also make an impression that a company is doing all right despite of a bad economy and many will be loyal to the products they are selling.

Recession comes and goes and the saying is true that “History Repeats Itself” and “There Is Nothing New Under the Sun”. In the article by Svetlana Gladkova at Profy he points out things about online advertising, and how it will be affected as our economy worsens. She provides a very thought-provoking analysis on the subject, comparing it to what advertising was like in the great depression.  This is some of her analysis: Read the rest of this entry »

Although I haven’t attended a time management seminar, I have a feeling that its all just common sense. I thought that time management will teach you how to accomplish many things in a short period of time and yet when I remember my previous manager who always boast about his knowledge in time management, he is still lousy.

I read in New York Time website about human beings given an an adequate amount of time and yet we still complain that we don’t have enough of it.

Everybody gets the same amount of time: 168 hours in a given week; 8,736 in a year. And yet a common complaint among entrepreneurs and small-business owners is that they wish they had more time.

So what do we really need to manage our time effectively? Here is an advice from Donald Wetmore, who conducts time management seminars, offers a number of ideas — some obvious, others not — on Powerhomebiz.com, a small-business Web site.

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