By entrep journal on Mar 17, 2013 in:
GMP, food establishment, SSOP, QPIRA, FDA, HACCP, ronielmacatol, LTO, entrepjournal, requirement
For anyone wanting to establish a food establishment, especially if you are looking into penetrating the export market (one of the ways is to join the IFEX 2013, BTW), one of the basic requirements is a License to Operate (LTO) issued by the Fo...
By entrep journal on Mar 9, 2013 in:
singapore, australia, saudi arabia, ronielmacatol, international business protocol, united kingdom, south korea, entrepjournal, france, japan
Our last week’s official trip to General Santos City allowed us to know about some food exporting companies. One that prefers Japanese market and another one which prefers American. The company which prefers Japan says Japan market buys at a high...
By entrep journal on Mar 1, 2013 in:
international food expo, entrepreneurship, marketing, export, market, IFEX 2013, DTI, international trade event, ronielmacatol, trrade fair, CITEM, entrepjournal, dti-mimaropa
This is what’s keeping me busy among other things in the office these days. We are prepping for our first ever participation to this prestigious international trade event as a region. Will share more about that as we get even more ready. Meantime h...
By entrep journal on Feb 22, 2013 in:
odessa manzano, daisy manzano, financial management, ronielmacatol, gabay sa buhay pinansiyal, finance, entrepjournal, personal finance, baskets of life, guide to financial life
It’s been quite a long time since my Financial Management post. In November last year, I met and learned more about a colleague who gives a training called Gabay sa Buhay Pinansiyal (Guide to Financial Life). It is a course designed by consolidatin...
By entrep journal on Feb 9, 2013 in:
pyramiding, scams, marketing, shoddy, franchising, SMS, winnings, deception, email, right, telemarketing, entrepjournal, consumer, responsibility, business
A friend recently tagged me in a post as a family member of his fell victim to a company selling massage equipment, among others due to uber-persuasive marketing that damaged them a serious amount of P40,000. This is a sad lesson learned as a lot of...
I was scheduled to blog about business name registration this weekend. Actually, I already have a draft have copied from the DTI Citizen’s Charter and the Philippine Business Registry (PBR). I included the link so I would not be repeating what can...
By entrep journal on Jan 27, 2013 in:
personal entrepreneurial competencies, PECs, assessing your entrepreneur self, entrepreneurship, self-assessment, self mastery, Mastery, ronielmacatol, master self, entrepjournal
Entrepreneurs are people who have the ability to analyze and evaluate business opportunities and who run into Entrepreneurship or the process of creatively converting ideas into goods and services which can be marked to obtain profit and to con...