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