Small Biz Exchange Post

Small business owners are their own boss, call the shots, and are supposed to  “own” their own time. Nevertheless, to say that entrepreneurs can take it easy could not be farther from the truth. When Read More

Panya Go Boonsirithum, a Thai-born naturalized Filipino, relates how his employer, Arcya Commercial Corporation,  built City Hub Mandaluyong, a spartan, dormitory-type inn for blue-collar workers from old container vans,. A few years ago, the real Read More

Goolai Salads to Go is a food service with a difference – it delivers healthy, vegetarian, or semi-vegetarian meals to offices in Makati, Ortigas in Pasig City, and Eastwood in Quezon City. Some of their Read More

  Andok’s.  Baliwag.  And now … Sr. Pedro. Based in Misamis Oriental, Sr. Pedro is widely regarded as the most popular lechon manok brand in Visayas and Mindanao and has made inroads in the Luzon Read More

Esmerna Gabutina owns Tinabuan Arts and Crafts, an OTOP (one-town-one product) sinamay making enterprise in Lagonlong, Misamis Oriental.  Since it began more than 10 years ago, it has diversified its product lines and grown in Read More

How does one successfully run a beach resort? Let’s hear it from Roland and Flor Verzosa, owners of El Puerto Marina Beach Resort and Spa, a leading tourist destination in Lingayen, Pangasinan. “First of all Read More

In distributing their product, the makers of Fruits in Ice Cream (FIC), a premium ice cream brand in the country,  didn’t go to supermarkets but rather went directly to the consumers. “Since ours is a Read More

In the early 1990s, I found myself in a huddle with doctor-friends, brooding over the state of medical care in our province (Iloilo).  A few things were clear to us.  One, that the three big Read More

Miraflor Aquino Torrente, owner and directress of Village School of Parkwoods (VSOP), Barangay Payatas, Quezon City, which offers pre-school to high school education, speaks from her rich experience when she answers the question:  “What does Read More

What does a business owner do when customers become irate and start berating the owner or  his staff, with or without reason? Here are two answers by two entrepreneurs   “Keep cool” In our retail Read More