Today's Issue
- Editor's Take: Time to Reflect
- SME TechZone: Blog for Business's Sake?
- SME Power Quote
- Events: ISO/IEC 17025: 2000 Laboratory Internal Audit (Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March); Java Training Philippines (Monday 17 to Wednesday 19 March); Comprehensive Beaded Accessory Design and Business Operation Seminar-Workshop for Beginners (Tuesday 18 March); Desktop Publishing with Adobe InDesign CS3 (Tuesday 18, Thursday 20 and Tuesday 25 March); Job Fair @ the Mega (Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March); and Pinoy Galing Mo! Ayos Ka Expo 2008 (Sunday 30 March)
- Tax Calendar
SME TechZone
Blog for Business's Sake?
For most people, blogging is one crazy idea to do especially when it comes to incorporating it in business. In fact, Heather Armstrong got dooced [a verb that means getting ‘fired for blogging’] when she discussed her job on her blog.
Today, it is one venue where businesses can find a potential client or create profitable opportunity.
In 2004, Merriam-Webster declares the word ‘blog’ as ‘Word of the Year’, which rightfully earn its attention even to businesses and corporations. Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs Incorporated and successfully grew its portfolio into 85 blogs. In October 2005, he then sold his blogs to AOL for US$25 million. Quite a hefty amount of money, isn’t it?
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Tax Calendar
March 24 Last Day of:
e-Filing/Filing and e-Payment/Payment 2551Q – L/SNL/NL Taxpayers for TQ ending the month of Feb. 29, 2008.
Filing & Payment 2550M & 2551M together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) - NL Taxpayers for the month of Feb. 2008.
e-Filing 2550M & 2551M together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) (Groups B,C,D & E) for the month of Feb. 2008
March 25 Last Day of:
Filing & Payment 2550Q together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) - NL Taxpayers FQ ending for the month of Feb. 29, 2008
e-Filing & e-Payment 2550Q together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) - L & SNL Taxpayers FQ ending for the month of Feb. 29, 2008
e-FILING 2550M & 2551M together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) L & SNL Taxpayers (Groups A,B & C ) and FY Taxpayers for the month of Feb. 2008
e-PAYMENT 2550M & 2551M - L & SNL Taxpayers for the month of Feb. 2008
Source: Bureau of Internal Revenue
Editor's Take
Having a bad day? Are the sales results not bright as you expected? Are there too many recurring slip ups in production? Is cash flow suffering because of a pile up in uncollected debts?
Before you pin the blame on "unfair competition," so-called "in-born indolence of Filipinos" or pure "bad luck" caused by a river running behind your property, you don't have to look very far. Most business problems are systems-related and start at the top.
As the key person in the business, you may have been contributing to your own company's downward slide. Problems happen when a business is growing too fast for the entrepreneur to cope. Or because the entrepreneur has become complacent soon as the company has reached success.
Don't let a few setbacks keep you down. Remember, you also have the power to turn things around for the better.
- Accept the fact that you made a mistake. After all, to err is human.
- Second, do not be too hard on yourself. Give yourself a pat on the shoulders. Love yourself. Forgive yourself so you'd be able to move on and be able to start a clean slate.
- Third, start today. Do not delay it any further. You would not be successful if you keep on procrastinating.
- Then, you focus your goals. Choose your goal and imagine what it would be like to touch success.
- Share the burden or the vision with your team. No one is an island. Any goal can easily be achieved if you work with more hands and more brains.
This four-day Easter Weekend, let us take time to find solitude and quiet to reflect, meditate and renew ourselves for the long haul ahead.
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SME Special Report
Plantersbank’s multi-media SME Community Philippines advocacy campaign garnered the Anvil of Merit during the 43rd annual competition for outstanding PR programs and tools organized by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP).
With nine out of 10 businesses in the Philippines classified as small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Plantersbank’s SME Community Philippines campaign aims to promote entrepreneurship in the country and honor the Filipino SMEs that contribute largely to job creation, foreign exchange revenues and economic growth.
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