Main Topic: Alternative Businesses: Creates Job Oppotunities

Sub-Topic: Starting a Small Business Out of Coconut Tree Products

I. Objectives

• To discuss available resources that will help in starting a small business.

• To share some tips helpful in starting a small business.

II. Learn How

A. Helpful Tips on Starting a Small Business

Starting a small business requires determination, motivation, capital and know-how. Darrell Zahorsky shares some essential steps to provide you with the know-how to have a successful small business startup:

1. Identify Your Business Opportunity

Choosing what kind of business to start can be an immobilizing task when confronted with the multitude  of opportunities. It’s important to determine where your passions lie and to understand your personality type and the skills you bring to the table and whether you are entering a dying industry or a fast growing emerging business.

2. Build a Business Plan

For any start-ups, a business plan allows you to gain a better understanding of your industry structure, competitive landscape, and the capital requirements of starting a small business. A study mentioned in “Business Plans For Dummies” by Paul Tiffany states that companies with a business plan have 50% more profits and revenue than non-planning businesses. Writing a business plan just makes good business sense.

3. Find Start-up Money

To start a business, you must invest in the business. The journey of finding start up funds will be different for each individual. Finding the money you need may come for a source you never thought of.

B. Potentials of Native Wine in Starting a Small Business

C. Starting a New Business

III. Think About It

Write a short essay about the following questions. Limit your answer from 100-160 words.

1. How to start a small business?

2. What are the essential steps in starting a business?

3. Give one product made from coconut tree. How can you start a small business?

Send your answer to alad_j77@yahoo.com now.

IV. Infossignment

For more information about business, feel free to visit the following sites.

A. Local Business News

• Pinoy Negosyo
• OFW Negosyo
• Small and Medium Enterprises
• Negosyo Tayo
• Filipino Entrepreneurs
  

B. World Business News

• Fox Businesss
• Business World On Line
• World Business News
• Innovation In Business
• Business Magazines
  

C. Business Features

• Pinoy Entrepreneurs
• Growing Local Business
• Money/Inquirer Features
• Multi-Awarded Pinoy Business
• Franchise and Investment
  

V. Main Sources

I just came back from a wonderful trip to Perhentian Island. There were 20+ of us in the trip.

We went to Perhentian Kecil to be exact. It is really a very beautiful island.

Clear Sea

Old Jetty

Beautiful Beach

Couple sunbathing on the beach

More Perhentian photos here:
Eugene’s Facebook Album
Mun Keat’s Blog

Bald coconut tree, originally uploaded by anpsmn.

Lightning struck this tree…n then the computer www.twitpic.com/6g394 .Luckily noone was there on that day.

When we arrived the place, one of my nephew take Dhyaan near the carabao.  As you can see he is not afraid of that animal.  He is just staring at it.  Having pleasure to see those animals.

When we first arrive the place, I went around looking at the place.  And really it was nice.  I saw the carabaos (kind of animals that used by the farmers to plant rice) under the tree.  They are just standing there.  that’s why I did take a nice shot of them.

Not far from the tree where the carabaos was staying, I have my picture taken there.  The sun shines bright, that’s why I wear that hat.  The other picture was taken just before few steps near that trees.  The thing there at my back is a dried leaves of a coconut tree which they made like a design, instead of a stone or brick.  Cool Place.

This is the River Narmada.  It’s a quiet place, where people are living.  It’s a big river.  And as you notice even the water were quiet.  It’s a good thing to watch.  You got to see for yourself.

You have eaten coconuts but have you seen coconut trees?

Coconut trees grow in the lowlands and on mountainsides.  They are planted in rows by the roadside as decoration.  They grow up to thirty meters high or more.  They start bearing fruits when they are about seven years old.  They grow and live until they are about a hundred years or more.

Photo courtesy:  minustidejewelry

After research aplenty, this, an educational film about, growing coconut trees.

Play the video, and grow more trees:

These  birds found in backyard of my village home during my recent visit.  I never expected this much of birds are there behind my home. Of course I am visiting after a long gap with my new lens… It was a very short visit and took the shots with the available light and time. 

Many of these birds name I dont know. Readers pls. update the Birds name in comments……..

For those of you who read my previous post about the coconut tree being used as timber and the possibility of PNG becoming a market leader in cocowood production, here are some examples of cocowood furniture:

Ronnie Wood's self portrait

By Cara Sulieman
ROLLING Stone Ronnie Wood is hoping to prove he has more to him than sex, drugs and rock n’ roll when he unveils his art exhibition in Scotland.

The 61-year-old wrinkly rocker’s work is a mixture of celebrity portraits and animal scenes; showing he doesn’t just paint it black.

But Wood himself is unlikely to visit the capital during the show as he is thought to have escaped to LA with his 20-year-old Russian lover Ekaterina Ivanova.

So the public will be left to decide if the guitarist’s art gives them any satisfaction when it is unveiled at The Dome in Edinburgh later this month.

The exhibition’s curator Jonathan Poole reckons Wood is becoming better known for his art than his outlandish behaviour.

He said: “I don’t think people are interested in his domestic life, they’re interested in him as an original artist. The works most certainly stand up on their own merit.

“He sold an original called Beggars’ Banquet for £1.2 million – no-one would pay £1.2m just because he’s a rock star. He’s a good investment and he’s a good visual artist.”

Wood with Rod Stewart

It certainly helps that Wood has a barrage of famous friends willing to pose for portraits – adding an extra dash of appeal.

As well as famous faces such as Paul McCartney and Jack Nicholson, there are plenty of paintings of the Stones in action on stage.

Poole explained: “Obviously the majority are going to include the music world because that’s his world, but we’ve got a number of animal paintings as well. There’s one called Tusk that is of rhinos and elephants, for example.”

Poole has been involved with rock art for years and has in the past arranged exhibitions of work by John Lennon and Miles Davis.

“With these exhibitions, it’s a very personal thing. Other people back him up on stage, but he’s on their own when he does this. I have the utmost respect for him as an artist.”

But offstage Wood is notorious for his extravagant and erratic behaviour, hitting headlines last year for leaving his wife for a girl 40 years younger than him.

On the way to Terengganu I saw a lot of things.

My big sister Kaman took a lot of pictures.

I saw an old house. It is beautiful.

I saw a big Petronas sign board.

I saw Malaysian flags and Terengganu flags too.

I saw triangle trees.

I saw rivers. They are long.

I saw coconut trees. Some are big and some are small.

I saw a big young coconut by the road.

My big sister Kaman also took a picture of my big sister Kafah.

India travel – Fresh coconuts being sold by a street vendor.

Vacation in India – It was quite interesting to see that every home had a coconut tree where my parents live.