Today's Issue
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Editor's Take: A Lesson from the Edge
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SME Toolkit Road Show Update: The 13th SME Toolkit Road Show adventure at Club Filipino Greenhills
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Power Quote for SMEs
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SME News: RP urged to focus on multilateral trade despite poor performance
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Tax Calendar
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Events: Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) (November 19 to 21), OHSAS 18001:2007 Awareness Training (November 20), Dynamic Negotiation Skills (November 21), Awareness Seminar on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) (November 22), 5th IECP National Convention and Exhibition (November 23 to 24), more events
SME Toolkit Road Show Update
The 13th SME Toolkit Road Show adventure at Club Filipino Greenhills
From Executives to budding Entrepreneurs, the people of the city of San Juan trooped together to witness the SME Toolkit Road Show – the new technology innovations for their daily business operations last Thursday, November 15, 2007 in Club Filipino Greenhills.
Despite of the nonstop rain, these entrepreneurs from Makati, Manila, Greenhills and other places in the city still came to see for themselves the importance of SME Toolkit to their businesses.
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Power Quote for SMEs
“ Success: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails”
Tax Calendar
November 20 - Last day of
Filing & Payment for 2550M & 2551M - VAt & PT for October 2007 (non-EFPS taxpayers)
e-Filing/Filing & e-Payment/Payment for 2551Q - PT for TQ ended October 2007
November 21 - Last day of e-Filing for 2550M & 2551M VAT & PT for October 2007 (Group E)
November 22 - Last day of e-Filing for 2550M & 2551M VAT & PT for October 2007 (Group D)
November 23 - Last day of e-Filing for 2550M & 2551M VAT & PT for October 2007 (Group C)
Source: Punongbayan & Araullo
Editor's Take
A Lesson from the Edge
After several weeks on the road for the SME.com.ph national tour, I chanced upon a book on taking risks and winning success. It's called "Lessons from the Edge' by Maryann Karinch, an icon in extreme sports circles.
In her book, Karinch relates how a team of open sea kayakers would, before heading out on an adventure, stand on the beach and ask the ocean to "Let us pass or give a sign." They look for something like a gust of wind, a wave that breaks hard or a shark fin. Not all of them consider it a ritual or a prayer, although some of them do. One of them calls it a "mind switch"-a personal moment that helps you prepare for the transition through the surf on to the acceptance of the open water and its rules.
We all need this "mind switch" moment. When the sales figures, the forecasts and personal issues are terrifyingly confused and conflicted in your head, it's probably time to put temporary distance from the job at hand, to draw a deep breath and clear your mind.
The market, with its dangers and ambiguities, is like the open ocean. We-as entrepreneurs and SME marketers-are like those kayakers seeking a route to the next, still invisible landfall. Unless we learn to face our fears, to trust our intuition and to channel our emotional energy into our pursuit, the challenge will always seem impossible.
And so, as I personally prepare for the next leg of my journey, join me in telling the ocean of initiative and enterprise: "Let us pass or give a sign."
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Russelle S. Trinidad
SME BizLink Editor
SME News
RP urged to focus on multilateral trade despite poor performance
Despite the Philippines’ “anemic” performance after it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country should still continue to focus on multilateral trade, according to a new study from the Center for Communication and Research Foundation.
The recommendations of the study “Analysis of Trade Liberalization and its Implications on the Agriculture and Fishery Sector of the Philippines” urged the country to not only focus on multilateral trade but also explore the feasibility of South-South trade, pursue a strong policy to integrate trade issues into the national agenda, and institutionalize a mechanism for Aid for Trade.
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