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Food business this summer seems very limited because here in the Philippines there are no classes. And only a few students takes summer classes. In my experience, students are the majority of the buyers specially on sidewalk vendors who sells street foods and other stores near a school. Obviously in a hot summer months, cold beverages and drinks are the best sellers and other foodstuffs that contains shaved ice.

Anyway starting a food business this summer don’t need to be extravagant because if you are only selling cold stuffs, it is always seasonal so when rainy day comes you have to switch to another kind of business. If you are planning to buy or fabricate a food cart, be sure that it is versatile and you can change the tarpaulin graphics signage so you can replace it once you switch to another kind of  food business.  I said that because I’ve experience buying a food cart with fixed signage and graphics  so I cannot changed the stuffs we are selling when the seasons change. So below are the lists of food business ideas this summer:

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Probably the number online classified ads in the Philippines is Sulit.com.ph because of the amount of posted classified ads is so many and varied, if you haven’t thought of posting a free advertisement on it, you are leaving money on the table. Why did I say that? The first thing is it is free. Unlike before when internet was not yet known to mankind, and especially here in the Philippines where we are always left behind with regards to technology. The good thing is internet is now widespread and many Filipinos are now enjoying this technology, thanks to the competing telecom networks the cost of having a DSL broadband is going down unlike years back where it is not affordable to common people like me. Not only that internet cafes can be seen on many places where you can rent a PC and internet connection, if you have a WiFfi capable mobile phone or an iPad tablet, you can go to fast foods inside malls with free WiFi. So what is our reason now to avoid using  that technology? it’s just very close to our fingertips.

So if you are a regular user on Sulit.com.ph but haven’t thought of knowing who visits your posted ads and what keywords they use to find your ads, then this is the best blog post  you will read in order to implement it. This technique is common and a must for Webmasters and bloggers like me. We have to know who visits our sites, where are they are coming from, what country they came from, what keywords they use to find our websites and how many visits and page views per day, per week and per month. And the tool we use is a website statistics software. There are many websites that provide that service either free or paid. Samples are Google Analytics, Statcounter and hitslink. But the one I use in Sulit is Statcounter. It’s very simple to use it, just register and create a project in your account and paste the code in the ads. You’re done!

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Summer is here now and it’s obvious because the temperature is really unbearable. After the cold weather we have been experiencing I think it’s time for a change. And if you are thinking of a good business idea for this hot weather we are experiencing right now, why not try an ice scramble business? ice scramble is one of my favorite treats since my childhood days where I see a mobile ice scramble vendor riding on a tricycle bike while mixing his scramble using a plastic pail and holding it on the bottom. On his side was a big hand mixer attached to the roof of his tri-bike sidecar and after mixing the crushed ice, red syrup and skimmed milk the vendor skillfully mix his concoction. Those scenes are not common these days and what you see most of the time are franchised food carts and one of them is the ice scramble business.

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Drop Shipping can be a blessing but sometimes can be a liability if not properly planned or researched. If you want to start a retail business but doesn’t want to keep lots of inventory, then this could be the answer to your prayers. You can also make an eCommerce website or post items on eBay with a very minimal cost, just setting an online shop or pay a listing on eBay without having the item. All you have to do is get the order and transfer the order to a drop shipper and the drop shipper will ship the item for you and of course, pay for the item plus the shipping cost. As a retailer, to protect your business, the drop shipper must ship the item using your business name and address on the return address. This has been a standard to the drop shipping industry so the retailers are protected and will thrive.

But on the other hand, there are only few companies here in the Philippines that offer drop shipping. One known company I saw in the internet that offers drop shipping is Natasha. You can check out there website here: http://www.natashamall.com/pages.php/page/dropshipping

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While surfing the internet something came to my mind and thought about what a super rich guy could buy and what gadget or gizmo suited for his taste.  I search for the most expensive computer ever created and found  a 24 karat plated golden mac book pro in the Google image search. Sometimes vanity is not avoidable when someone is rich so I thought there is a niche market for that. So I’m not wrong after all because I saw a business website called Computer Choppers that caters anodizing gadgets like xbox, PSP,  laptop computers and mobile phone. You can check their website here : http://www.computer-choppers.com/

Do you think that there will be a market niche here in the Philippines for people who wants their gadget turned into a 24 karat gold gizmo? I also doubt about the feasibility of this kind of business here because of the purchasing power of the masses. Only few rich individual can afford it and many still can’t buy an original iphone or a mac book so how much more will anodizing or gold plating it with 24 karat gold?

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When you say home business, obviously the thing that went to our minds is a business done at home. There are lots of home business ideas you can think of and you can search the internet for ideas. Home business is not new and in fact most Filipinos who started their businesses at home became big businesses today. One example is Red Ribbon bakeshop. I remember my wife when she told me about how Red Ribbon bakeshop started. She knew that because she worked there when she was still single, a couple of years before we came to know each other. It actually started as a hobby and the owner used to bake cakes as a gift to friends and relatives  and tied it down with red ribbon. So that is where the name of the bakeshop came from.

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In the Philippines, maybe it’s only my opinion when you say travel agency, that’s it its a travel agency. I think many are interested in starting one and if you are reading and found my post now in Google or Yahoo, then perhaps you are interested too. But the fact is there are many types of travel agencies and that includes the following:

• General Sales Agents for Foreign Travel Companies
• Business and Commercial Travel Agencies
• By Class
• Cargo Travel Agencies
• Online Travel Agencies
• Multi-Destination and Niche Agencies

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