It’s the end of the month and most, if not all, just received their salaries.
So what do you do with your money now?
Of course, there would be some for your debt payments and some for your living expenses.
But how about a portion for your savings or emergency fund and a few more for investing?
While you [...]

Welcome to another edition of Reader Mail.
For today, I will be answering several questions sent by readers regarding how to start a business.
Let’s now read some of the emails I received in my inbox.
Please note that the names of the senders have been excluded for privacy and the responses may have been edited from my [...]

Students will soon be going back to school here in the Philippines.
And if you’re a parent, then I’m sure one of the things in your mind right now is your budget.
When I was a kid, I would always notice how stressed my parents were during the opening of the school year. They’d go through their [...]

Are you thinking of starting a vending machine business? What are the things you need to know if you want to start a vending machine business?
Personally, I’ve always wanted to start one but never really took the time to study how.
But recently, I saw some ads on used vending machines for sale in a local [...]

Last May 11, this blog was featured in Manila Bulletin’s Blog-O-Rama.
Blog-O-Rama is a regular section in the newspaper which features bloggers in the Philippines.
So if you’re interested in learning more about blogging, then I suggest you read this column often.
Anyway, for those who missed the article, here’s some of the questions that was asked to [...]

What are the things you spend your money on?
If you’re already in the habit of tracking your expenses, then I’m sure you could tell me exactly where your money goes.
However, if you’re someone who is not used to budgeting and creating a spending plan, your answer might be a random litany of your usual daily [...]

The song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield is one of the most beautiful inspirational songs that I’ve heard in most recent years.
I’ve long wanted to share this song with you but have hesitated because of its very strong association with a hair care product which used it in an advertisement. (bleh!)
Nonetheless, I’ve decided that it’s now [...]

If you’re interested in putting up a business inside a mall, the first thing that the mall administration will ask you to submit is the Letter of Intent (LOI).
A Letter of Intent is not a document we often see that’s why a good number of people don’t know what to write inside it.
Some might also [...]

A lot of people want to make money through blogging. If you’re one of them, then I’m sure you’ve read a lot of make money online blogs and tried to learn the things that these probloggers are teaching.
This is also what I did at the start when I first came into the blogosphere.
After more than [...]

Probe recently featured mystery shopping in one of their segments.
The television program hopes to inform its audience about this very good income opportunity specially for those who enjoy going out and shopping.
I was contacted by Probe last week after they stumbled upon my article last year on how to become a mystery shopper.
So just in [...]

For today’s reader mail, we’ll give advise to someone who has a problem we all wish we had – having money and not knowing what to do with it.
I know a lot of possibilities are now running through your thoughts. So what would you do if you have money? Start or buy a business? Invest [...]

There are a lot of Philippine trade shows and expositions for the month of May 2009.
This month features the Business Technology & Graphics Expo, Dream Wedding Fair, International Tourism & Trade Expo 2009, Philippine Building & Construction Exposition (PHILBEX), Cebu Auto Show and the Cebu Food & Beverages Exhibition (CEFBEX).
Kindly note that this website is [...]

A friend of mine gave me yesterday a brochure from the Bank of the Philippine Islands. It’s a marketing flyer about the different BPI Investment Funds.
He was hoping for me to have a look at it and eventually help him decide which one to invest in.
But I said to him that I’m not in the [...]