Good Learning ang Listening Attitude

Yo Kenny,
Your blog is highly entertaining and informative.The thing is, can you please switch the position of the pictures... i.e. your iced tea picture--it's in landscape mode, can you at least make it portrait mode. It's kinda hard to tilt your head and view the pic and read again. (OK will change the picture hahaha) You know? ergonomics.Secondly.... May alam ka bang business seminar na pwede kong i-attend? :) I'd like to know more about entrep and marketing. :)
May 8, 2008 10:03 AM



The comment above is from Mitzi Alojipan, a very close friend from college. Her family is very nice and I consider them as family. Mitzi, base on our conversations, is trying to change her mindset of being an employee to being an entrepreneur and I am more than happy to help. Ladies and gentlemen we will have a convert by the end of this entry hahaha.


Mitzi was asking if I know or recommend any business or marketing seminars that she can attend. Well there are a lot of business seminars out there if you really look hard enough. But most of them are created to sell you stuff. Like "free seminar on soap making" but buy your raw materials from me - hahaha. Start your own perfume business and be like every shop corner fragrance store you see in the mall. If you are interested in starting those kind of business, go ahead attend as much as you want to learn the technical stuff but they wont teach you the "HOW" to earn money part.

I am currently attending an informal seminar by Tim Bennett of Millionaire's Anonymous (MA). I've mentioned Tim before in my previous blog Race to 1 Million pesos. Tim is a British national but has lived in the Philippines for so long that he considers this his home, . And the only goal of his company MA is to create 1000 filipino millionaires in 5 years. That is his goal! His seminar sessions used to be free but he realized everyone who wishes to be a millionaire should invest in what he or she is doing to reach that goal, so now he is charging a 200 peso door charge on his weekly seminars in Makati. Not a bad investment in learning from an actual Millionaire!
If you are interested to attend his sessions it is every tuesday night at the 7th foor of Radisons bldg. in Aguirre St. Makati (just behind AIM). If you have anymore questions about the seminar you can ask me directly... send me an email klao8@yahoo.com or kendoughmagic@gmail.com I will gladly answer anything.

Another good seminar that I personally want to attend is Josiah Go's Blue Ocean Strategy Seminar. As I recall, I think it's a 2 day seminar worth 13 thousand pesos. Pretty expensive for someone who is just starting in the business and quite short on funds. I suggest that you just buy his book because it is more apt in the Philippine setting. For those of you who don't know what the Blue Ocean Strategy is, it is a marketing strategy where we should try to create a product or a service that does not fall under the red ocean (competitive market; price wars; similar products etc) and sail in the blue ocean ( creating a market of your own, not affected by price wars and being pioneers)

Here are just 2 seminars that I highly recommend but there are still a lot out there like the seminars conducted by Entreprenuer Magazine Philippines. They have a lot of interesting seminars that we can all attend.

But all these seminars will not work if the individual is stubborn and arrogant. A student to a path of wealth must have a good learning and listening attitude. We should be open minded to ideas and realities around us. We must be open to change. And most especially we must be open to advice. We are not rich because there is something wrong in what we are doing. And just like any problem the first step is accepting that we have a problem and we need help. Seminars and books are a lot of help but if we remain in our frame of thought and not be open to new ideas, we will only be stuck in the mud instead of climbing our way to wealth.