SME BizLink

163rd Issue Vol. 38 No. 1Monday 03 December 2007

Today's Issue

Featured SME of the Month!

At Congo  Grille  Bar & Resto: Everything  is  Filipino!


Have you been busy with work lately and you can't have time for your family and friends? Take a break and give yourself a dinner treat with your loved ones and visit Congo Grille. A Marimba music will welcome you to relax and soothe your tired soul the wooden sound instruments will make you gyrate to the Safari beat. Congo Grille Bar & Restaurant's interiors paint an African-inspired setting.

Dining at Congo Grille is like seated amidst a jungle of east coast of Central Africa; where banana plants sprout all over the restaurant. Painted murals are displayed on its wooden walls; a portrait of genus gorillas playing, swaying from foliages to another. Congo Grille has its own house mascot called, Silverback, a male gorilla that roams around while the sumptuous food alluring you with its enticing smell like the all-time favorite sizzling crispy pork (sisig). Waiters in safari outfit gets your attention as they serve diners with such gusto.


The passion for good food and satisfying service is what every Congo Grille service crew member aims to embody incorporated in delicious Filipino dishes.

To read more, click here!



Tax Calendar

December 3 - Last day of

e-Submission list os sales/purchases by VAT registered taxpayers (EFPS) for TQ ended October 2007

Filing for engagement letters and renewals or subsequent agreements for financial audit by independent CPAs for FY beginning February 2008

December 5 - Last day of 

e-Filing/Filing & e-Payment/Payment for 2000 - DST for November 2007

Submission for Summary report of certification issued by the President of NHMFC (RA 7279) for November 2007

Source: Punongbayan & Araullo

Editor's Take

A Risky Business?

In the next issues of SME BizLink—it will have its new release. 

Why the sudden move? It is precisely to address the growing requests of our newsletter subscribers to have it delivered on a mid-week basis. The new schedule of release will commence on Wednesday, December 12. 

At SME.com.ph, we are not resistant to change. After all, change is inevitable. As a team, we are ready for it. We welcome changes with outstretched arms and embrace it fully with the anticipation of positive results in the process. 

We commit to bringing more relevant contents that would make this change worthwhile. We want you, our dear reader-subscribers to receive useful pieces of information that would further boost you as entrepreneurs and your business operations in the most convenient way. 

The change of delivering the newsletter on Wednesdays would mean adjustments for us, but we treat this as our ally not as a stumbling block; and we know that this will ensure greater conquests for us and for you, too. 

Imagine when someone is injected with anesthesia—it is a foreign body that numbs someone’s system. The process is done in order to make the body pain-free. But with change, it should be the other way around. It should push one to achieve not just for better outcome, but something excellent. 

Then, why stick with the old mindset? Why be afraid? In the first place, running a business is always risky. Most of the entrepreneurs, who achieved success, never rest on their laurels. They continue to take risks. They fall. They stand up again if not move by just walking, but by running their businesses either smoothly or roughly. 

What is important is—one would learn from the experience and not just stagnate or backslid.

What's your take on this? We want to hear from you! Click here and participate in the discussion. 

Russelle S. Trinidad
SME BizLink Editor

SME Toolkit Road Show Update

QUEZON CITY: SME Toolkit Roadshow's Final Leg!

Time moves very fast. It was only in September this year when SME Toolkit Roadshow started its journey in Dagupan City, and on Thursday, November 29 the last stop, the 15th SME Road Show was held at Jade Valley restaurant on Timog Avenue; with 54 entrepreneurs trooped in.

To read more click here!  



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