Category: Blog
An update – What’s happening in the Philippines.
An update – What’s happening in the Philippines. TIME YOUR HUNT FOR NEW PEOPLE Second week in December every employee in the Philippines get a Month’s pay, on top of their normal pay. This is is called the 13th Month Pay. Whilst it’s nice for the worker, it actually disrupts the job market. If you […]
The easy way to start an app, online platform or an online business
Not sure what the writers of most start-up’s business plans have been smoking – but it blows common-sense out the window. I’m an investor and practicing serial entrepreneur – currently with 8 businesses in 3 Countries. I regularly have start-ups pitch me for investment funds and I’m around lots of thriving and the odd techy […]
Great News – MikesBusinessTours now on dates to suit you!!
Yes;- Mike’s Business Learning Tour has EVOLVED. Now, it’s a customised 2½ day Philippine specialised business growth learning tour. The NEW tour is modified to suit 1-6 participants. You start on any day to suit YOU – Monday to Thursday. As a rule you can plan on 4 days – a day either side for […]
Next Available Tour Date
Learn the tricks around developing a low cost but effective Offshore Team Our next tour will be on August 7-10. This is a highly organised and effective learning experience. Set lectures around the 7 different ways you can use Offshoring, the culture differences and how to use Offshoring to your advantage. Visit 20+ workplaces – […]
Restoring Hope: Salie’s First Steps to a Professional Career
Bagong Silangan is a city notorious as a squatters’ area. It used to be composed of mostly farmlands rich in rice produce, but urbanization efforts forced informal settlers to relocate in the city. Years after, the city mayor granted rights of land to its residents. Gawad Kalinga, entered the picture–a nonprofit organization with a goal […]
Why Website Projects Fail
I’m being asked regularly “can you find me a person to do my website?” I’m also witnessing many businesses messing up their websites and/or online strategy. It’s also worth noting the dynamics of SEO this year has greatly changed when Google released RankBrain. RankBrain the artificial intelligence of Google. It is the 3rd […]
Business Survival Strategies to Stay in the Same Business for 32 years
We started MiniMovers with a new-fangled golf ball typewriter – it was amazing, you didn’t need the hit the key hard when using 3 pieces of carbon paper but even better, was the “correct” key which typed backwards correcting mistakes (on the top copy). It made us more “efficient” than competitors. Yesterday, 32 years later […]
Recruitment Strategy: Finding the Right People for your Business
I believe most business owners and practically every recruiter focus on the WRONG criteria when matching people to a role. The wrong criteria are “experienced” and “qualified”. These words should never be used – they should be replaced with “capable of doing the job” and/or “core skills to do the job”. I have seen many […]
Outsourcing Terminology 101: What SMEs Should Know
The capacity of corporate world to think of new confusing words and acronyms never stops to amaze me. The once black and white world of outsourcing and offshoring is a good example. It used to be a simple case of “Do I” or “Don’t I”. Now, you will need to choose between BPO, KPO and […]