A free seminar on How to Start Your Own Business will be conducted during the Negosyong Pinoy Expo 2007. The event is scheduled on Sept 16, 2007 at the Mini-Trade Hall, 2nd Level, Festival Mall in Filinvest Corporate City, Alabang. 

Topics include:
  1. Improving Filipino lives through entrepreneurship
  2. Why Go Into Business
  3. Rewards of Going Into Business or Entrepreneurship
  4. Risks of Going Into Business or Entrepreneurship
  5. Process Flow : Starting A Small Enterprise
  6. Looking Within (Self Analysis)  - Are You Entrepreneurial?
  7. Looking Outside Factors to Consider
  8. Decision-Making / Planning
  9. Types of Business According to Ownership - Advantages & Disadvantages
10. Writing a Business Plan
11. Sources of Capital
12. Rules for Sound Financing
13. Choosing the Site/Location of Your Business
14. Registering Your Business
15. Requirements for Business Name Registration
16. Barangay Micro Business Enterprise (B.M.B.E.) Law
17. Managing Your Finances
18. Financing Assistance / How to get Business Loan
19. Franchise Concepts + “Mga Negosyong Kaya ng Pinoy”

Be moved. Be changed. Be a leader.

Seldom will you have an opportunity to listen to world renowned personalities. The Global Leadership Summit will bring to the Philippines an extraordinary line-up of speakers like Colin Powell, Michael Porter, Jimmy Carter and others.

The Global Leadership Summit is an event that will be held in 193 cities and 31 countries. To know more about the event and to register, visit http://www.glsphilippines.org/

Since the line-up of speakers are pretty impressive, I don’t expect these speakers to be present personally but rather, I assume that they would be there through video.

The Chinese Filipino Business Club is once again sponsoring a free learning event this August 24. Strategic Marketing for New Market Segments will be held at the 8th Floor Sky Tower I Building, Dasmarinas St. , Binondo, Manilafrom 1pm to 5pm.

Invited to lecture on targeting emerging market segment is Ms. Maria Aileen Abiva-Sazon. Ms. Sazon is the President of Felta-Multi-Media Inc and a Director of the Philippine Marketing Association of the Philippines. She is also the Education Committee Head of the Direct Selling Association of the Philippines.

In the session, expect to learn the following concepts:

• Keys to successful marketing
• Consumer behavior — Emerging Market Segments
• KYC for your Business (if you don’t know what KYC means, attend the event)
• Know what your customers are buying
• Developing a competitive edge
• Determining your pricing strategy
• Market place and marketing planning
• Marketing action plan

Call 2416463/2444996 to register.

The Philippines biggest food show is underway from August 1 to 4 at the World Trade Center. The World Food Expo (WOFEX) 2007 once again brings together the many different types of food, beverages, and other related products under one roof. 

Aside from the various food exhibitors, a whole day of seminars are lined up for trade visitors.

DAY 1 (AUGUST 1 - WED)
11am       Learn, Bake & Earn: Baking Made Easier Using San Miguel Mills Pre-mixes <HS>
11am       Food Styling + Food Photography <A; P800>
11am       Workshop Using Fresh, Frozen and Canned Products for Fresh & Dried Noodle Making + Recipes on
               Siopao-Making, Kakanin Puto &  other Local Pastries, Pizza Making <TS>
12nn        Secret Ingredient for a Great Food Biz <B>
1pm         Lea & Perrins Culinary Demo <HS>
1pm         Beverage Mixing Seminar <B>
1pm         Serve Safe for Catering Services, Chemical Spill Management, Floor Care / CR Maintenance <C>
2pm         FANCY COCKTAIL CREATIVE CHALLENGE with Torani <HS>
2pm         French Baker Workshop with Johnlu Koa <A; with fee>
3pm         Best Management Practices in Commercial Kitchen <B>
3pm         The Guide to Reducing Metal Contami-nation in the Food Processing Industry <C>
4pm         Food Freezing & Cooling Technologies <C>

DAY 2 (AUGUST 2 - THU)
11am       How to Prepare Meat Magic <HS>
11am       Innovative Baking <TS>
12nn        Get Healthy w/ Norwegian Salmon <HS>
12nn        Food Handling, Master Butchery, Cooking Techniques & Marination <A>
12nn        The Right Technology for your Biz <B>
12nn        Universal Weavers Corp: Are You Ready To Be A Connoisseur <C>
1pm         HOTEL & RESTAURANT CHEFS ASSOC. CULINARY SHOWDOWN w/ Sunbest <HS>
1pm         Have A Culinary Profession in Canada <B>
1pm         How To Develop & Start Your Own Food Stall Business <C>
2pm         Int’l Food Certification Program <B>
2pm         LPG Product Knowledge & Safety <C>
3pm         All About Chocolate w/ Transworld <A>
3pm         Hygienic Application in F&B Processing <B>
3pm         Floor Safety Maintenance in the Foodservice Industry <C>
4pm         BARISTA GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP with Da Vincci <HS>
4pm         Pressure & Temperature Calibration <B>
4pm         Basics & Beyond, The Start Of A Real Bartending Career by the Philippine
               Bartender’s League <C; P600>

DAY 3 (AUGUST 3 - FRI)
11am       Fave Dinners for 2, Love Your Heart <HS>
11am       Baking Workshop w/ Chef Ernie Babaran <A; P800>
11am       Trends In Doughnut Making, Cake Decorating, Making Pastries & Cookies,
               Standardizing Recipes, Product Dev’t <TS>
12nn        Going Japanese! <HS>
12nn        Biz Opportunity in Meat Processing and Food Processing using Hygel
               Carrageen & Meat Magic Alternative (TVP) <B>
1pm         Kusinang Kraft <HS>
1pm         Modern Refrigeration <B>
1pm         How to Franchise your Business with PFA <C; with Fee>
2pm         FLAIR EXTREME SHOWDOWN with Artics & Crocs <HS>
2pm         International & Local Food Labeling Nutrient Claim <B>
3pm         Fruit & Vegetable Carving Workshop with HRCAP <A; P800>
3pm         Develop Your Own Perfume & Scented Candle Business  <B>
4pm         Develop Your Own “Shelf-Stable” Functional Beverages & Sauces <B>

DAY 4 (AUGUST 4 - SAT)
11am       Mega-Garantisadong Sarap Cooking Demo <HS>
11am       Workshop Using Fresh, Frozen & Canned Products For Spreads, Paste,
               Preserves using Durian, Calamansi, Ube etc.  <TS>
12nn        A Taste of Spanish Cuisine <HS>
12nn        All About Chocolate Session with Transworld Trading <A>
12nn        Dare to Flair, Your Way on “How to Flair” by the Philippine Bartenders League <B; P600>
1pm         Monin FLAIRTENDING COMPETITION <HS>
1pm         The A to Z’s of Buying a Franchise by PFA <C; with Fee>
2pm         Coffee Class <B>
3pm         Chocolate Pralines, Truffles & Chocolate Decorations with Chef Buddy Trinidad <A; P800>
3pm         Having the Sweet Without the Guilt Seminar/Demo on Application & Effect of
               Sugar Substituteson Food Preparation, Health and Diet Concerns <B; P600>

Legend:
<HS> = Hall Stage;  <TS> = Tent Stage;  <A> = Seminar Room A;  <B> = Seminar Room B;  <C> = Seminar Room C.