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This is a guest post by Blanca Billanes of Fabuleaux Atelier
I have always wanted to make a blog about Do-It-Yourself accessories but every time I’m about to type the first word for my blog, I get to stop and think- How do I tell the readers how to make something?
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I think the idea of “looking for success” is one of the many things that many people have in their minds right now. If you find this post in Google or Yahoo, chances are, you are also looking for topics on how to succeed. Be it financially or whatever things you have in mind. But again, let me ask the question, is it hard to find it? was it inside us or will we find it on other people? Let me share you the quote I found accidentally just browsing the internet:
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it — David Henry Thoreau
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This phenomenon on the chicken barbecue business of Mang Inasal is somewhat mind boggling. Imagine a simple chicken barbecue business with all it’s stores nationwide could earn billions of pesos each year. Why not Bacolod Chicken Inasal? which I think has pioneered the concept of making a restaurant out of chicken inasal. It was ten years ago that I first tasted chicken inasal in a restaurant called Bacolod Chicken Inasal which I think, their chicken barbecue is tastier and really authentic with matching banana leaves on the native handcrafted plates. There are also other dishes like the fried crablets and lumpiang bangus which I don’t usually find in a Filipino fast food restaurants. But just last year me, my wife and my daughter ate in one of the branches of Bacolod Chicken Inasal but was a little disappointed because I expect the food we ordered will be as good as in the branch in EDSA Central (ten years ago). Maybe it depends of the branch or franchisee.
So why Mang Inasal is now the fastest growing fast food restaurant here in the country? Why not Bacolod Chicken Inasal which has really authentic chicken barbecue? So it’s true that as an entrepreneur, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just have to be creative. I admit that Mang Inasal has captured my taste. Yes their chicken barbecue are delicious but it taste more like an ordinary chicken barbecue with a sweet spicy taste which I think you can do yourself by marinating your dressed and chopped chicken in Mama Sita’s barbecue marinade. So in my opinion it’s not really how authentic your cuisine should be, but it’s how people will accept the taste. So below are some of my observation why Mang Inasal have captured the chicken barbecue market.
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Something catch my attention while I was surfing the internet last two weeks and it was a website that makes and sell hand made clay fashion accessories and souvenirs . I contacted the owner and asked her to feature her business here so I immediately. The reason why I became interested is because I was impressed on her products which were unique and the designs were very creative. I asked her a few questions so I could feature her business on my blog. To know more about her and her business, see what she has to say on her interview:
Me: What is the nature of your business Rachel?
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I think this is a valuable resource to those who are interested to undergo a training or those who were searching for what livelihood training are available offered by the government. The compiled training programs called 2010 HRD and Entrepreneurship Training Programs for MSMEs is a down loadable PDF file which you can open by Acrobat reader and this is made possible and compiled by the PHILIPPINE TRADE TRAINING CENTER/DTI under the direction of the TWG on Training Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee (IACC).
The compendium of 2010 HRD and Entrepreneurship Training Programs for MSMEs is a list of training programs offered by government training institutions in support of the National SME Development Agenda, a priority program of H.E. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The Department of Trade and Industry is the lead government agency tasked to implement the SME Development Agenda and provide MSMEs with seamless access to government agencies. HRD and Entrepreneurship Training is one of five core elements of the Agenda that also includes financing, marketing, product development and technological intervention, and advocacy for an enabling environment.
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I really don’t know what is the criteria (aside from beating the odds in 2009) for crowning (sorry I can’t think of other terms) those entrepreneurs as the most outstanding Filipino entrepreneurs last 2009 but it is on the Entrepreneur magazine on the December 2009 issue. Many businesses have survived last year and not only them. My hunch is maybe they had an unexpected growth or more revenue created than any other businesses.
Nevertheless I will just give their names and their business names on the list below but if you want to know more about them, then get a copy of the Entrepreneur magazine.
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Although I know the meaning of the word entrepreneur, I always assume that an entrepreneur is synonymous to a businessman. But just yesterday I was reminiscing my past employment days when I had a chance to meet the owner of the company I’m working with. He was a foreigner, a Swiss, which only visits his company here in the Philippines once a year. That is the kind of boss I really like to have. You only meet him once a year, he he he, just joking. I always consider him as an entrepreneur and he handles his business satisfactorily but not as efficient as I would expect.
He is a kind of person that who wants to do everything himself because he was very keen in details. He wants to know exactly what is happening on his company and employees which I know is also important but managing a multinational corporation, it will be impossible to manage everything. That is why there are managers to do his tasks.
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