10 business lessons I learned from Facebook’s Farmville

October 8, 2009 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Tips

farmvilleBusiness lessons can be dug anywhere and anytime. If you have the entrepreneurial mind, you can reflect and learn important business virtues from your simple daily activities. I’ve been an ardent Facebook user for a couple of months now. The world’s most popular social network site is really fun and interestingly interactive. There, you can enjoy great games and applications including some marketing tools to promote your site. And here comes one game called Farmville – the only game I can allow to play for myself for currently experiencing time poverty.

Farmville is a very popular Facebook game application created by Zynga, a prominent company and developer of social games on the web.  It has more than 55 million monthly active users as at the date of this post. Inside the game, you can create your own farm, plant fruits and vegetables, raise nice animals and decorate the farm the way you want it. You can also send and receive gifts to and from your friends and neighbors. In the market, you can buy your desired seeds to plant, animals to breed and other stuff and infrastructures you want depending on your current level. As of the writing of this post, I’m just in the 12th level of the game. Nevertheless, I already enjoyed and had so much fun with it. And beyond that, I have learned the following ten business lessons that every business owners and entrepreneurs should reflect. Read more

How to attract more money into your life

July 5, 2009 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Virtues

attract-moneyHow to attract more money into your life? What will you do to become a financial magnet and enjoy a life with money always around you? These questions are always raised in the minds of human beings. Of course, it is because everyone needs money. Even the most religious and most spiritual people need money to make their lives spinning. Even the new born child who cares nothing about money needs money – courtesy of his parents. So how would you keep cash and money coming into your life? To answer this question, we need to apply some theory of relativity.

Money, just like other things on Earth exists with a purpose. And what is the purpose of money? Money serves three main purposes: Read more