Today's Issue
- Editor's Take
- SME Special Report
- Events: 22nd SME Toolkit Road Show (Thursday 24 July); Facilities Planning (Thursday 24 and Friday 25 July); Pasta and Siomai Making (Saturday 26 July); Basic MS Powerpoint (Tuesday 29 July); Leadership in Times of Crisis (Tuesday 29 July); How to Become an Effective Quality Management Representative (Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 July); Professional Events Management (Advanced Course) (Thursday 31 July to Friday 1 August); and Mindanao Printing 2008 (Thursday 31 July to Sunday 3 August)
- Tax Calendar
SME Special Report:
SME.com.ph at MSME Dev't Week
At 6 o'clock in the evening of July 10, Adonis C. Yap, SME.com.ph's president talked before 26 MSME crowd gathered together inside a makeshift training room prepared by DTI-Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprise Development at SM Megatrade Halls two and three in commemoration of the MSME Development Week. 'Sa Negosyo, Abot-Kamay ang Asenso' was trade fair's theme.
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Tax Calendar
Friday 25 July- e-Filing & e-Payment of 2550Q together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) - L,SNL & NL Taxpayers for CQ ending June 30, 2008.
Source: Bureau of Internal Revenue
Editor's Take
In the wake of the success of SME.com.ph, the pioneer virtual community for Filipino entrepreneurs, Planters Development Bank and this company launched the sister site Bizster.com.ph, a spin off the successes of existing social networking sites.
From SME.com.ph’s Business Opportunties page—we have expanded the section to offer more detailed profiles for small and mid-sized businesses keen to take practice runs in the information superhighway. Bizster.com.ph provides registered users with a FREE account, enabling SME marketers and micro entrepreneurs to upload and share product photos, service updates, company news, store events and contact information on the Web.
“We take off from the phenomenal growth of social network sites,” says SME.com.ph president Adonis C. Yap. “We have seen the successes of Facebook.com (69 million), Friendster.com (12th largest Web site in the world with 41 million registered users and 25 million monthly unique visitors), MySpace.com, Multiply.com (5 million users), LiveJournal.com (1.35 million) and a lot more. Our group thought of putting up a site, specifically tailored for businesses thus, Bizster.com.ph was born.”
The Inquirer’s Chupsie Medina tells more about Bizster.com.ph
These SMEs have one thing in common—they never thought of being small-time. They did not fear competing with the giants. They even created the NEED for their products and services, which users online learned about it and patronized as well.
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