Entries categorized as ‘Small Business’
I love it when I get directed to a new blog site that has so much to offer despite its narrow niche play. My buddy Gary, who operates the Exchange.ph Sites (the links to which you can see in my Blogroll to the right), told me about Southbound.
It’s a “blogazine” (a term they so aptly coined, I suppose) that talks about anything and everything about the South. South, in this relative case, would mean the locale south of Manila, Makati included (correct me if I am wrong, Guys of Southbound, since you categorized Makati as “Sana nasa South” 
). You can view it as your localized “Lonely Planet” guide. Or, moreso, your “Lonely South of Manila” guide.
It’s a great resource site for those of you who are unfamiliar with the deep south (not the “deep south” that Adam Sandler was referring to in “Little Nicky”, of course). If you are the type who goes for the hole-in-the-window restaurant variant or the not-so-famous-but-offers-great-food restos, then you this is the site for you to do your research before heading out past the toll gates of South Super Hi-way (I am gonna go try out Vibang’s one of these days….).
Keep it up, Guys! Your site is a perfect example of “finding a place” in the scheme of things, and executing well! May the aspiring bloggers and entreps out there who wish to make a living on the side (or better yet, full time) learn a thing or two from your worthwhile endeavor.
Cheers!
Categories: Entrepreneurship · Leisure · Philippines · SME · Small Business · eCommerce · mCommerce
Just yesterday, Globe Telecom has launched an online portal dedicated to the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) Segment.
The SME Online Portal aims to provide a one-stop resource and information center for SME’s. This site contains Globe’s list of products and services, already packaged and custom-fitted for the needs of the SME market, as well as tools, resource materials, and links which the Filipino entrepreneur can make fully use of. It also will periodically feature an SME success story to provide inspiration and sets of learning for the newly established ones and for those who are in the process of or thinking of putting up businesses of their own.
It’s not much as of the moment, but it’s a step in the right direction. (more…)
Categories: Globe · SME · Small Business
Hmmm… Interesting idea from Greenwich and Netopia.
While walking along a commercial center in San Juan, I saw a poster displayed at a Greenwich store that was promoting this this new “delivery channel”:
ORDER GREENWICH PIZZA AT NETOPIA
Too bad I was in a hurry and I didn’t have a camera with me.
Not a bad idea though.
The people in Greenwich found a creative way of tapping this market segment for online ordering and food deliveries —-> people who spend a considerable amount of their time at internet cafes to go online (obviously, these are the same people who don’t have any PC and/or internet connectivity at home). Netopia, considered the largest chain of internet cafes in the Philippines, with 150 branches nationwide (and targeting a total of 500 branches by 2008), is the best choice among existing internet cafe operators in the country. (more…)
Categories: Delivery · Fastfood · Internet Cafe · Merchant Tools · Netopia · Payment · Retailers · Small Business · Strategy · eCommerce · mCommerce · myDSL
The equation: 1 Employee + 1 Part-time Employee = Million $ Revenues.
Yep. Believe it.
I couldn’t get the permalink to work so I decided to lift the whole article from www.smallbizlabs.com:
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required, but this article is in the free section) has an article on the free web dating site PlentyOfFish. Online dating sites are very popular, with the leading sites doing heavy web and TV advertising and charging subscription fees. PlentyOfFish is a free site, supported by ads. The article says that PlentyOfFish has one full time employee/owner, one part-time employee, and generates between $5-10 million in revenue per year.
According to the article, PlentyOfFish is able to do this because web software has become simple enough for a single person to manage, and there is a robust 3rd party ecosystem of larger companies providing a broad array of services to support small web and ecommerce sites. The article points specifically to Google, which evidently is PlentyOfFish’s primary source of revenue.
Two major trends, both of which are discussed in the article, are providing the opportunity for small and personal web sites to create multi-million dollar businesses. The first is the growing ease and simplicity of the tools required to build and support relatively complex web and ecommerce sites. The second is the growth of 3rd party platform companies that help and assist small businesses. PlentyOfFish is a great example of these two trends coming together and creating interesting – and profitable – small business opportunities.
Categories: Business Model · Google Ad Revenues · Small Business · eCommerce
