The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced Administrative Order 09-01 Series of 2009 (Temporary Reduction of Business Name Registration Fees.), which effectively reduces the cost Business name registration and renewal by 50% for 6 months.

According to Mark Cuban, a good salesperson isn’t somebody who can talk someone into anything. Its not the smooth talking hustler nor the top student in the company’s sales training class.

According to Cuban, anybody can learn to be a great salesperson. All they have to do is put in the effort and care about your company, your prospects and customers. Its also the most important job in every company because there has yet to be a successful company that has survived with zero sales. No amount of sales training can make you a better salesperson till you take this to heard.

A Good Sales Person Is:

Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to get rich? Almost everybody does right? I remember my Dad telling me that there were six ways to get rich in this world (he probably read it somewhere), and those six ways were:

The Six Ways of Becoming Rich

They say an economy is in a recession when there is negative growth for 2 or more successive quarters in a year. Credit becomes tight, money doesn’t move and everything becomes scarce.

How do companies survive during a recession? Well there are a couple of things that through the ages companies have practiced in order to be competitive and survive. It usually boils down to reducing cost, maximizing productivity and squeezing every once of profit that you can get till demand goes back up again. Staying Liquid, Cash heavy and Debt Light is a must in these times.

Some Tips for Surviving a Recession

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed on December 24, 2008, Proclamation 1699 that lays out the holiday schedule for this year. The president advocates holiday economics, which switches holidays around against their intended dates, closer to the weekend so as to boost local tourism and improve family ties.

It is good practice for businesses to always plan for the holidays so that one can better maximize their profits and reduce their cost.