Making your New Year’s Resolutions – with a twist of business

Before anything else, I want to greet everybody a Happy and a Prosperous New Year! It’s year 2009 now – a new year to start and a fresh start to move on. I just checked out Yahoo today and I found out that many people are searching for the keyword “New Year’s Resolutions”. To contribute my insights about this subject matter, I list down below some simple tips to make your resolutions achievable. The following are universal and can be applied in business.

1. Make it specific. If you want something to get, specify that thing. Instead of saying “I want to reduce my weight”, say “I want to reduce my weight by 10 pounds”. If you are a businessman, saying “I want to increase my gross profit by 10 percent next year” is better than saying “I want to avoid losses next year”. Read more

What is your business wish list for the New Year 2009?

What are your business wishes for 2009? For me, the following are my wishes for my business, for businessmen, and the business world in the year of the Ox

1. Reduction of business tax rates which totally burdens all the Philippine consumers – whether these consumers are businessmen or not.

2. I hope businessmen will pay right amount of taxes to the government so that the government can generate higher internal revenue and will have no reason to implement additional unsound taxes. Read more

Simple tips and techniques in planning your business for the year 2009

Year 2008 is only a few days left and its over. Whether you still have backlogs courtesy of inefficiencies or inadequate resources in that year, you may consider them for the next year – the year 2009. Actually planning for 2009 should have been already done and accomplished earlier than this time. But if you still can’t finalize your business plan for the year of the Ox, then the following list of simple tips might be of significant to you and important to be considered.

Review your history. Before you plan for the future it is important to look back first of what happened in your past. If your goals last year did not realized and materialized, then find out why it did not realized. In other words, by reviewing your history and experiences, Read more

A simple guide for businessman: Business 2009, the year of the Ox

In the Chinese Zodiac, the ox is a sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. This powerful sign is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. People who were born on this zodiac are dependable, calm, and modest. Like the Ox, they are unswervingly patient, tireless in their work, and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint.

Ox people are strong and dependable. They are systematic and organized. They are not easily influenced by other ideas. Oxen create good ideas although they are not seems to be imaginative. These people have long patience, but have its limits – and once roused, their temper is remarkable. Read more

Business future predictions: What businesses and industries will boom and rise in 2009 and the coming years?

As the year 2008 is saying goodbye and the New Year 2009 is entering, I give to you my bold predictions on what businesses and industries will rise in 2009 and the few years ahead.

1. Biotechnology

Biotechnology is technology based on biology. The future ahead promises growth in the industry of genetics, molecular biology, bio chemistry and cell biology.

2. Nanotechnology.

With the popularity of Apple’s Nano Ipod in 2008, nanotechnology will revolutionize in 2009. This industry will not only rise in the application of electronics but also in medicine. Read more

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