Hi everyone. Today, I’d like to introduce you to my latest project called 199Jobs 199Jobs is a marketplace where you can buy and sell services starting at 199 Philippine Pesos. It’s an online store, but instead of buying or selling tangible products – people can either sell their services, or hire someone to do a [...]

This is the story of Earl Crawley, a 69-year-old Baltimore parking lot attendant. He’s been working there for around 44 years. He’s dyslexic and is earning only a little over the minimum wage for employees in Maryland, United States. And yet, he owns a fully-paid house and a net worth of $500,000 (that’s roughly Php [...]

Yesterday, I attended the 2013 Opening Conference of the Foundation for Enterprise Management Innovation, Inc. or FEMI Inc. I was invited as a speaker to discuss the “Opportunities for the Missing Middle”. As much as I want to share with you my talk, I’d like to reserve that for another time because I feel it’s [...]

One passion that I share with my friends is the love for travel. But ever since most of them got married, our trips to far and off the beaten tracks have become less frequent. Because first, it’s no longer that easy to go on unplanned and spontaneous trips when you have kids. And second, the [...]

Richard St. John is one of my favorite “informational” speaker. What’s an informational speaker? Well for me, it’s someone who inspires and motivates through facts and information, as against to others who simply use “big” words, if you know what I mean. Anyway, below is a TED Education adaptation of my favorite TED Talk of [...]

Building your own business is a very exciting activity. Once you’ve discovered your passion, and committed yourself to its vision and mission – nothing else will seem to matter, and you’ll feel unstoppable. That is until you come to the point when you’re already running your business, and begin to feel drained and exhausted because [...]

Our Facebook Page has been pretty active lately, thanks to everyone who would always “Like” and “Share” our posts, and specially to those who’d take the time to even leave a comment. I talked to a few readers and almost everyone said that their favorite type of update on the page is the inspirational photo [...]

Henry Ford once said, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Makes sense, right? That’s why I find people who constantly complain that nothing’s happening in their life, a bit crazy. Even Albert Einstein would agree, because he defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and [...]

Are you using only traditional media to market your brand? If so, then you’re missing out on a great and cost-effective branding and marketing strategy that has already been proven by many to produce results – and that is social media. I’ve already written several articles here about Social Media Marketing and how businesses can [...]

In my previous Reader Mail post, I posted and answered the question: “Is insurance an investment?” I said that it is not an investment, but just a form of protection. I also said that getting term-life insurance and short-term health insurance is important. In fact, you should have them before you even think of investing. [...]