Prepaid Load Station- Prospect Business

Last week, September 15, 2012, Saturday after sunset, I visited my cousin living in Makati City, Philippines near Cash n Carry mall; let’s call her Ada (not her real name). As we were having our conversation regarding ways to generate revenue to cover credit card debts and purchases, she tipped me about the prepaid load station business.

My cousin noticed that a lot of shoppers from the mall are waiting from a very long cue just to buy either airtime load or prepaid cards. We realize that this (prepaid load station) could be one most affordable business to start-up with combined skills in customer relations and financial background. After our conversation we decided to spy. Before I left, from Makati to Paranaque, we decided to make a feasibility study regarding the prepaid load station.

During the phase of my research, I found MegaFon Kard in an internet offering a franchising business, the exact business that we are looking for. I called their office but they informed me that they had disengage their franchising activity. I was dismayed for the result. However back to the feasibility study stage, I called the telecom companies regarding the product inventory prices but I received unclear information since it was unknown for the customer service in phone and in store with regards to the prepaid load retailing. Currently, our feasibility study was still in-progress and hoping for its release by the first week of October 2012.

To prove to all that we were experienced in customer service and in sales, here’s our background

Me:

-        Smart E-load retailer during college years (nagtitinda ng load)

-        Mobile sari-sari store entrepreneur during college (naglalako ng chichiria)

-        Currently a VMobile Technopreneur (nag-level-up na)

-        Previously an Accounting analyst and currently an Associate Auditor (medyo seryoso na)

Ada (my cousin)

-        Family own Sari-sari store sales associate (tagabantay sa tindahan)

-        Restaurant crew for 2-3 years (level up na rin)

-        Currently an IT auditor (seryoso na yan)

Sounds funny but true.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux

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Why Teachers are So Stressed?

Why Teachers are So Stressed...check it out!

When in School we always wondered why teachers always seemed so mad
Now we know the reason….coz they are so stressed out by our kids
Why??????? Read below the essays to knowI really sympathize with this teacher….

Want more?.................. Check out these Mathematics geniuses…

Special thanks to the anonymous original source.

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Signs of Colonial Mentality

The growth of globalization and modernization of the Philippines has transformed its rich culture and traditions into an Americanization. It re-oriented Filipino aspirations towards the American, Korean or some other foreign way of life.

I admit that I'm guilty for having this mentality, maybe because of the great influence of American culture from 1900 even until today in our own land.

Here are the symptoms:

• trying so hard to be maputi (white), with whitening lotion, soap and everything in a kit


• getting a nose lift and a bust lift


• dyeing ones hair to make it blonde


• always saying 'ang sarap parang mansanas!'


• a bowl of plastic apples, grapes and pears on the dining room buffet


• preferring to be an American citizen (based on Hodel survey 1960)


• wanting to have been born in another country (based on UP survey of schoolchildren)


• imitation of all foreign brands except Chinese brands.


• following the dictates of fashion magazines through spring, summer, fall and winter (thank God, the air gets cooler around December)


• hoping that there will be snow in December


• putting an American (or Japanese/Korean) brand name on a local product so that it will sell


• die hard K-Pop or Hollywood fan


• prefer NBA over PBA


• insisting that the maid speak to the baby in English


• speaking in Tagalog with American/British accent (for native Filipinos)


• hoping the US will intervene in ousting a homegrown dictator

These are just common traits of Filipinos with colonial mentality and I can't write it down all here because it will take me thousands of hours to finish.

One thing I noticed with the commercials aired over the national televisions and with the billboards along public sites is that they are promoting insecurities of Filipinos in own land. Examples were the commercials of whitening lotion, whitening soap, whitening pills and whitening facial wash (I'm sure you know this brand), they always portray that being moreno/brown is equivalent to ugliness while whites is beauty and attract guys. I'm hoping that this mentality will soon be faded out in the mind set of Filipinos and to me as well.

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Mga Paalalang Pangkaligtasan Pagkatapos ng Baha

MGA PAALALANG PANGKALIGTASAN PAGKATAPOS NG BAHA

Kung sakaling nabaha ang inyong bahay, mag-ingat sa pagbukas ng power switch o main switch breaker, pagsaksak sa outlets at pag-on ng mga appliances.

Kung sakaling nawalan ng kuryente ang inyong tahanan, tingnan kung pati ang inyong mga kapitbahay ay apektado. Kung ang bahay lang ninyo ang walang supply ng kuryente, kaagad na ipasuri ang inyong electrical system sa isang qualified electrician.

Tandaan lamang ang mga sumusunod na paalala para sa inyong kaligtasan:

• Siguraduhing nakababa o nakapatay ang main electrical power switch o circuit breaker ng bahay ninyo.

• Mainam na bunutin sa pagkaka-plug ang lahat ng appliances o anumang gamit na de-kuryente. Patayin ang switch ng mga permanently-plugged appliances. Tanggalin din lahat ng mga bumbilya kung maaari.

• Tanggalin ang putik at dumi na nasa service equipment o main circuit breaker/fuse gamit ang personal protective equipment dahil maaring naibalik na ang kuryente sa lugar ninyo.

• Laging isipin na “live” o ”energized” ang lahat ng linya ng kuryente.

• Bago buksan, siguraduhing tuyo ang lahat ng switches, outlets, electrical wires, sockets, connectors, breakers at iba pang may kinalaman sa daloy ng kuryente. Kahit abutin ng ilang araw ang pagpapatuyo nito, mas mabuti nang maging ligtas.

• Bago isaksak at gamitin ang mga appliances, siguraduhing tuyo at malinis ang mga ito. Dapat ang mga ito’y nasuri ng electrician o service center agent.

• Maging mapanuri at alerto kapag nakataas na ang main switch ng bahay para mapansin agad kung may kakaibang nangyayari.

Tumawag sa Meralco hotline number 16211 o mag-text sa 09209716211 (SMART) o 09175516211 (GLOBE) kung sakaling nabasa o pinasok ng tubig baha ang inyong metro ng kuryente.

-This is a reminder from MERALCO

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Philippines Most Visited Websites

Website traffic becomes an important factor to determine website popularity and to attract potential gains from online marketers. Alexa.com, an internet information provider, ranks sites based on tracking information of users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox and from their extension for Chrome. Below are the lists of top 10 websites in the Philippines based on website traffic as at July 2012 information.

1. Facebook

facebook.com

Type of Site:   Social Networking

Facebook is a social networking site that allow everyone to create own profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, uploads photos and share links and videos. Facebook is undoubtedly being the most popular website in the Philippines, almost every citizen in urban as well as some of the rural areas in the region have their own Facebook account. Facebook started to gain popularity in Philippine social networking community in some 2006-2007 as it took the place of Friendster.

2. Google

Google.com.ph

Type of Site:   Search Engine

3. Google

Google.com

Type of Site:   Search Engine

Google is the dominant search engine not just in the country but the entire world. It enables users to search the world’s information including web pages, images, and videos.  Google has been associated as the word for web searching and the fact that it is one of the newest words in Merriam-Webster Dictionary which literally mean “to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) in the world wide web.

4. Yahoo

yahoo.com

Type of Site:   Web Portal & Search Engine

Yahoo! is best known for its web portal which provides content including latest news, entertainment, finance and sports information. Its variety of products and services such as Yahoo! Messenger,  Yahoo! Answer, Yahoo! Mail and the latest news and buzz pulls large Filipino Audience in all ages.

5. Youtube

youtube.com

Type of Site:   Video Sharing

Youtube is video sharing website that displays wide variety of user-generated video content. It is the easiest and cheaper way to be discovered all around the world.

6. Blogspot.com

blogspot.com

Type of Site:   Domain Service Provider

Blogspot is a free domain service provider owned by Google. It actually supports Blogger in delivering free blogging service. Blogspot and Blogger (free publishing platform) were designed to work together, however Blogger doesn’t have to be used with Blogspot while Blogspot have to be used with Blogger. That’s why when we visit Blogspot site we are directed to Blogger. In some countries and territories the domain .blogspot.com was blocked due to substring “gspot”.

7. Wikipedia

Wikipedia.org

Type of Site:   Internet Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free collaboratively edited encyclopedia whose articles have been written by volunteers around the globe. The name wiki was derived from Hawaiian word “wiki”, meaning quick.

8. Twitter

twitter.com

Type of Site:   Social Networking and micro blogging

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables to send and read SMS based posts of up to 140 characters known as tweets. Your tweets can be considered in different categories, News, Spam, Self-promotions, Pointless Babble, Conversational or Pass-along Value. According to Peer Analytics, the majority of the tweets are pointless babble (social grooming) and conversational that covers about 90% of all the tweets. Choosing the right group/person to follow could definitely give you  up-to-date highly valued information. Trending topic is the most observed and watched by Netizen that become popular either through concerted effort by users or because of an event that prompts people to talk about.

9. Sulit.com.ph

sulit.com.ph

Type of Site:   Classified Ads

Top buy and sell and free classified ads website that caters primarily to Philippine market. It is an online market place for buying and selling wide variety of products and services. It’s best known for its tag line “Anong Hanap Mo”

10. WordPress.com

wordpress.com

Type of Site:   Blog Host

Wordpress is a free and open source blogging site, it allows to you to design or customize your own blog site with creative themes.

To complete the list of top 20, here are the top 11 to 20 sites with short descriptions.

11.  Tumblr

tumblr.com

A social networking and rich feature micro blogging platform.

12. Blogger.com

blogger.com

A free publishing platforms that allow users to publish blogs on other hosts via FTP.

13. LinkedIn

linkedin.com

A professional social networking site that allow users to connect their professional colleagues and business partners. This is one of the best sites for professional and business men.

14. Multuply

multiply.com

Multiply is a social networking site with a blend of vibrant online shopping destination. If you got the best goods and marketing strategy in town, well this is the one fits for you.

15. Amazon.com

amazon.com

It is the world largest online retailer. It is known for its consumer electronics and retail goods.

16. About.com

about.com

Directory featuring links, articles and reviews.

17. 1-Click Answer

answers.com

An internet free based knowledge market.

18.  Conduit

conduit.com

An online platform that allows web publishers to create custom toolbars, web apps, and mobile apps at no cost

19.  Pinterest

pinterest.com

a pinboard-style social photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more.

20. Philippine Daily Inquirer

inquirer.net

A leading newspaper in the Philippines.

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