I recently attended a gathering and one of the speakers is Gardenia's President Mr. Simplicio Umali ( I hope I got the name right).

He was talking about the story of Gardenia how they, at first, found it difficult to convince the market that Gardenia is synonymous to a delicious bread. For one, at first, they are always identified to a motel in Sta. Mesa and/or a landscape company in Metro Manila.

But you cannot put a good product down. So after a few months or a year, the public (including me) begin to take notice of Gardenia, a delicious bread, which if my hearing is correct, has a gross sale of 1.2 Billion a year !

Another brand story that is lovable and worth emulating!

For those who would love to hear the famous author of books like POSITIONING AND FOCUS, he will be here again in Manila this coming October 1. Yes! Al Ries will be here to share another cutting edge marketing knowledge that we all can use in our companies, products and services.

Call Salt and Light for more information!

By the way, the picture here is not the official poster of the event. Thanks!

Events make tourism in our country robust. Events that creates B2B opportunities makes the robustness longterm and with deep economic impact.

Learn the MICE Industry attend this summit!

All prices are going up but the booming property expo seems unaffected by these backdraft. As the saying goes, Opportunity is a thing riding in Dangerous wind. For those who would love to own a home or invest in a property, I guess, now is the best time. So hope you visit the event.

Congratulations to one awarded business show in the country ASENSO PINOY, shown every Sunday, 11:30am at ABC 5.

This business show is the voice of SMEs in the country as they tell their success stories and challenges in surviving their business.

To Sir Francis Cardona, Ana, Mabel, Ramil and the rest of the staff CONGRATULATIONS!

May your program continue to be one of the beacon in inspiring the entrepreneurial spirit of our nation.

Mabuhay kayo!

The spirit of entrepreneurship continues!

This FIL-NEGOSYO EXPO, October 14-19, 2008 at Megatrade, SM Megamall we will be having the first Women Entrepreneurs Congress (WEC).

They say women is are best fitted to be entrepreneurs because of their inherent multi-tasking abilities.

So see you there!

After having experienced my unforgettable date with Discovery Suites Ortigas, we went to Astoria Plaza.

I am a frequent guest of this Hotel. First, it is at the outer area of Ortigas and the facilities are great and the room spacious and comfy.

I have no booking there, and they are fully booked. But they did an extraordinary thing, the were avail to do a magic to allow my family to have our overnight sked with a hotel.

Yes! They were able to give us a room and its more sweeter because they did it with all the difficulties that went to it just to give us a room.

Kudos from the management of ASTORIA!

This is a service worth a toast!

I had a very bad experience with Discovery Suites Ortigas. It was bad because it happened during my special day - my birthday.

My family and I booked for an overnight stay as way of celebrating my birthday at the Hotel. We booked via internet and phone. Alas, when we are already there the reception people told me that I was not booked.

The matter was aggravated because after saying this, they never said any apologies and left me their like I was invisible.

I was looking forward to having a good time at Discovery Ortigas but it was turned into a horro story.

Service...damned hard to give.

The event is very enlightening. Corporate Social Responsibility is a must and it is a growing concern among big corporations.

There was a very indepth discussions by different companies the like of Hapinoy, Ayala Group of Companies, Chevron, IBM and other proponent of CSRs.

Seeing and listening the AVP of different companies in the first day of the event, make me conclude the corporate greed is nearing its death ( I hope). Since the bigger companies are all drumming about how we can be SUSTAINABLE!

With the havoc that we did to Mother Earth, I wish CSR is the answer for the business communities mismanagement of Earth's resources and I pray that we don't suffer the fate of the people in the movie "THE HAPPENING" of Director M. Night Shyamalan.

Entrepreneurs see the good in the bad.

So no matter what the political and economic challenges that we have the vision continues. A country of entrepreneurs to achieve the First World Country Status.

So those who are going into business the PFA Expo is a must see!

Paceos Lifestyle Bazzar will take place next week alongside the Flora and Fauna show at the World Trade Center.

This event is for the benefit of the M.I.C.E. Industry (Meeting, Events, Convention and Exhibiton). I would like to invite you all to visit and be part of this event.

Thanks!

Hello guys telling the story is different from seeing the story.

FILNEGOSYO EXPO June is uploaded youtube. Hope you see it to give you a clearer picture of the event. Thanks.

Investing in tradeshow promotion is a winning experience. It gives you the opportunity to increase your BRAND Recogntion, and Sales and Lead Generation.

"Experience the Brand" is only achievable in events, one of which is tradeshows and exhibition.

But we would like to up the ANTE, make the delicious more delectable, that is why we are offering a chance to WIN A LAPTOP 3X by joining EXLINKEVENTS.

Yes we are. So for all those entrepreneurs and owner who would like to try tradeshow as part of their promotion strategy. The time is now and the reason is more compelling. You can be a DOUBLE WINNER.

For every event, we will be raffling off one laptop.This means that you can have three chances of winning a laptop by being an exhibitor of EXLINK in its 3 events. Cool!

EXLINKEVENTS has three upcoming tradeshows left this year, they are FILNEGOSYO EXPO, October 14-19,2008, ASIAN BUSINESS EXPO, November 28-30,2008 and MEGABALIKBAYAN EXPO AND BUSINESS CONGRESS, December 10-14,2008.

Besides the Laptop we are also giving away 10 consolation prizes in each event.

So what are you waiting for call us now at tel# 640-1280 / 643-3887 or email me at ex_link2001@yahoo.com.

Before anything else, events can only be said successful on the number of visitors and the happiness of the exhibitors or participants in the event.

FIL-NEGOSYO EXPO is a successful event because of the number of visitors and happiness majority of the exhibitors felt after the event ended. Our data shows 80% of the exhibitors are very happy about the result FILNEGOSYO EXPO produced for their companies. While the remaining 19% are happy about the results. There is a 1% of which said they failed to achieve their goals.

The data only shows a room for improvement.

Lastly, the data shows that majority of you blessed us by being their during the event.

Therefore, our heartflet thank you goes to all of you who supported the event and use it as your tool for making your journey to entrepreneurship faster.

Barely six months left before we end this year.

For myself, I am thinking how far have I gone in accomplishing my goals. Did I di the right things during the past six months to make me closer to my goals.

Barely six months and I can feel the BER months cold hands wrapping in body and reminding me that I must hassle and paddle more to reach my goals.

They say that TIME is the greatest equalizer between the rich and poor, for both group have only 24 hours to do their things.

Six months my friends, let us go back to our January Goals and try to make the most out of our time and achieve what we set to do this year.

Kudos to Mr. Ardy Roberto and, his Philippine Marketing Icon Dad, Dr. Ned Roberto for the successful book launch of their book "The Best of Marketing RX for Entrepreneurs", yesterday at Powerbooks, Greenbelt 4.

The book is a compilation of the best articles the Roberto's write in their famous and well loved Philippine Daily Inquirer column carrying the same title.

I recommend that you add this book to your personal library. Definitely, its one of the best book that will give you pieces of the puzzle in being a successful entrepreneur.