Here are some of the Philippine business and livelihood training schedules and events this coming June 2008. Most of these events will happen in Metro Manila but feel free to contact the sponsors for possible schedules in your province or locality. Unless specified as a special event, most of these offices conduct these trainings regularly [...]

I was at the mall a few days ago when a familiar face greeted me. I immediately recognized him as one of my teammates during my competitive days of playing Magic: The Gathering. “Wow,” he said to me. “After what – six or seven years? It’s nice to bump into you today. How are you? [...]

How long will it take for you to become a millionaire? Let’s have a bit of fun today by trying this financial calculator. You will start by entering your Current Savings. Then look into your monthly budget and determine how much you can save in a month, enter this amount as your Monthly Deposits. In [...]

I’d like to share with you this video of Johnny Lee from TED Talks last February 2008. In here, the speaker presents a cool Wii Remote hack wherein he transforms the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. For those unfamiliar with this gadget, the Wii is [...]

A lot of establishments nowadays offer discount cards for loyal customers and I’ve learned to love and take advantage of these promos to save money. Out of all the various local stores that have these membership loyalty programs, I have been able to accumulate the most points from Shoemart’s SM Advantage Card, Mercury Drug’s Suki [...]

What’s the difference between being frugal and being cheap? Surprisingly, when I asked my friends about this, most of them have various definitions and only a handful knows the correct boundary which separates the two. Furthermore, when I presented them with several situations and asked their opinion if the example was frugal or cheap. Many [...]

A product or service that becomes profitable in the market will almost always invite new players. As a business trend becomes increasingly popular, more and more enterprises tend to join the industry, and soon enough, the market becomes saturated. If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, the high demand and profitability of such businesses are very attractive. [...]

Everyday, we get exposed to different opinions and ideas from other people. And how exactly we process these information plays a factor of influence on our own thoughts. Too often, when we get repeated reinforcements from these agents, we begin to think parallel to their beliefs. For this exact reason, most marketers bombard consumers with [...]

What is leverage? What does it mean and why do a lot of finance experts use this term often? How important is it when it comes to money, business and wealth? I first encountered this term in my high school Science class when we were studying about simple machines. That day, we talked about seesaws, [...]

Do you have any amazing or funny home videos? Or are you an amateur video producer or an independent film maker? What if I tell you that you can earn from your videos by uploading and sharing them online? You’d be interested, right? Then read on and find out how you can get paid and [...]

I was studying the traffic data of my blog the other day and one particular search phrase caught my attention. Apparently, a visitor was able to find my website by asking Google, “Do you need to be a genius to be rich?” That question got me thinking which eventually prompted me to start my own [...]

According to Albert Einstein, the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest. How can a great man of science speak so highly of a mathematical and economic concept? Surely, there must be a reason behind this claim and I’ll try my best to explain it here. Right from the very beginning of our [...]