Small Biz Exchange Post

I guess you might call me a COO (child of the owners). My parents are successful entrepreneurs.   They had been running Sizzling Plate for well over 17 years when I thought I’d put up a Read More

In the meat processing industry I am in, consignment is a common marketing mode.  (It is when you deliver your products to another business, usually a retailer, on the understanding that the goods will be Read More

Let’s hear it from a young businessmen who thinks social media networking is an indispensable tool for making a business grow.  He confirms that  Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc  is great for promotion, customer relations, and Read More

Debbie Palao There are no walls in the administrative offices of Design Ventures Cebu (an export oriented furniture making firm).  No separate rooms nor cubicles for us, who manage it. Without walls, communication is open Read More

Some of my workers would personally request that no SSS deductions be made against their earnings.  I fully understand their wish, for the little they earn would be rendered even smaller by deductions which they Read More

My  entrepreneurial values were immediately put to a test.when I was starting to manufacture my commercial fish feeders (an automatic fish feeding device I invented that would help aqua-farmers simplify feeding management). I was on Read More

When my husband’s copra business went bankrupt in 1987, I felt I had to do something to help out. At first, I sold dried fish on the sidewalks in my neighbourhood in Gubat, Sorsogon.  In Read More

A woven pandan accent chair by Reeds and Weeds Our company, Reeds & Weeds, Inc. is a community-based handicraft-manufacturing enterprise in Bacolod City. We subcontract most of our production of basket ware (pyrex holders, trays, Read More

Entrepreneurship, first and foremost, is all about proper handling of the people in the workplace.  An enterprise is built on people-to-people relationship and when an entrepreneur inculcates good values in his people – integrity, hard Read More