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Honestly I wasn’t sure if this blog post is related to this blog’s theme but I want to keep an open mind on any opportunities that might pass by. One night when I was browsing my emails (actually all my emails from all my website’s domain is transferred on a single software called Thunderbird so is will be easy for me to browse all my emails) I saw an email from someone who was asking to promote his book. It is actually my first time being contacted by an American author, and I was asked to promote it using a blog post. We had an agreement, I’ll promote his book and I’ll get a copy of his book (want to have a copy? just share this post to your facebook wall or twitter, or if you have a blog, make a blog post with a link to this blog post then send me an email to mmontala[at]thefilipinoentrepreneur.com and I’ll send you a copy of the ebook). I don’t know what to say and I really can’t decide if I’ll accept it or not because I’m always busy specially now that I’m struggling due to the Google algorithm updates since last year. I was also helping my wife on our small food cart business to make ends meet. I can’t find time to read or browse the book at first but when I had a chance to read it, specially the part of Adam’ adventure in the Philippines, I was immediately captivated. He had a long story about the people’s champ Manny Pacquiao and his stay on Boracay islands. And his first meeting in person of his Filipino virtual assistant who was residing near Boracay when he arrived in the Philippines.

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Do you have a Facebook? Who doesn’t. Facebook is the dominant social network of our time, with one billion users, more than one billion USD in revenue (that’s 41 billion pesos!) and a company worth of about $90 billion.

Facebook is one of the most powerful corporations on the planet, and not just in the tech sector. So I was someone skeptical when I was recently invited to check out a new social networking site by a friend of mine who hates Facebook.

The latest alternative to Facebook is a tiny, unknown upstart called Zurker. It’s still in private beta, so you need an invitation to sign up (here).

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DesignCrowd, an Australian crowdsourcing company has launched it’s crowdsourcing services in the Philippines. You can check the local version of the website here:  DesignCrowd.com.ph. The company is an online crowdsourcing marketplace for web designers and small businesses in the Philippines.

The company targets local online graphic designers in the Philippines and search for small businesses who needs help with the logo, website or graphic design. DesignCrowd Philippines (DesignCrowd.com.ph), offers local crowdsourcing, which allows businesses to crowdsource design from local designers in the Philippines as well as international crowdsourcing that will allow local businesses to access over 90,000 designers from all over the world.

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I had mixed reaction when I saw and read the news in Yahoo! that a European village was copied in China. I thought only iPhones, Blackberries, other gizmos and gadgets, radio controlled cars, airplanes and helicopters and other man made things on this planet. But a village? I thought it’s impossible but now it happened. So what’s next? humans? he he he seems ridiculous but it might happen someday. Many of us are fond and patronize replicas of the original gadgets like mobile phones and tablets. Cloned iPhone, iPads, Nokia, Blackberry, designer bags like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, shoes like Nike, Adidas  and since I’m crazy about rc helicopters, since I can’t buy the original pricey Trex 450, I’m contented with a clone trex 450. Have you heard of this saying:

“God made the world, and the rest was made in China”

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Would you believe Cebu Pacific Air, one of the most popular airline in the Philippines ranks 2nd on the most tweeted airlines all over the world last month? This is according to Eezeer Data Lab, a Twitter analytic products company.

According to VP for Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog, the reason why the tweets increased is:

We owe this increase in public tweets to @cebupacificair to our Twitter promos and games. We currently have a Where in the World is Ceb promo that is linked to a CEB Facebook app. There, we give fans the chance to win four tickets to any CEB destination they want,

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I read the news on Philippine Daily inquirer regarding the Filipino tycoon, Mr. Manny Pangilinan who is in deep talk to buy Philippine Airlines but on one condition. He will buy the flag carrier from Lucio Tan once the labor row with its ground crew union and  Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) was resolved. Not only that, Mr. Pangilinan wants to slim down the company’s workforce before buying it so it will be more profitable and he is also in favor to outsource PAL’s services like the in-flight catering,  call center reservation operation and ground services.

I’m just wondering why he didn’t downsize the company after buying it like what he did in PLDT in 1988. So far, below are the companies that he acquired over the years: Continue reading →

If you have used twitter not just to socialize but have used it on your business, then this might be a good chance to know if twitter really does any good. Honestly I didn’t really know if twitter is useful to me or if it does drive traffic to my blog. What I see in my web analytics tool I’m using right now is there is no traffic coming from twitter.

Maybe because there is a problem on most analytics software identifying the traffic coming from twitter or maybe there isn’t any visitors coming from twitter. I’ve tried 3 kinds of web analytics tools already, and those are Statcounter, Hitslink and Google Analytics and so far I can’t see any referral from twitter although I have implemented an automatic tweet to my blogs. Automatic tweet is useful so you don’t have to log-in and update twitter on any new post created by your blog.

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