Archive for August, 2007
Crappy Internet Connection? Know Your Rights
Aug 29th
Have you experienced not having an internet connection when you’re used to have it everyday? It feels like the end of the world isn’t? Kidding aside, It really sucks if you are being deprived of the service that you are paying for and specially if you’re using it to fuel your business.This happened to me recently. No internet connection for almost three weeks. Why? well let’s just say some unavoidable circumstances happened. Like natural calamities such as storm and one freakin’ guy who stole the telephone line cables in the midst of that storm.Anyway, I didn’t bother my ISP’s technical support department because I am aware that they might be on the process of restoring all the services back after the weather. I gave them at least 10 to 12 days. Then it really became unacceptable when I was nearing the three week mark of not hearing anything and not getting any service at all from my ISP. I became really upset and decided to contact their customer support.
I asked them if there are any on-going process of restoring the service back in my area. And you know what? The agent bluntly answered “NO, as far as your area is concerned, everything was fine. The last reported trouble was on April of 2007 “. I said, “eh say WHAT now?” That instance really made me furious. I asked for the supervisor and requested to have my service up and running on that same day. But to my dismay, It didn’t happened. We spent 4 days on the phone talking to different agents, talking to different supervisors as well as technician and stating the same issue over and over again.
After almost 5 days of what they call TROUBLESHOOTING, because apparently they do not know where the problem is and it seems that I am the only one having some issue with, I requested just to change my bandwidth even it would cost less speed and I told the supervisor that I will cancel the service within 2 days if they can’t fix it in a definite time.
Well guess what? They have me up and running after that phone conversation with the 10th supervisor and as a bonus, or consuelo as they say here, my bandwidth tripled. From 512Kbps, now I am having 1.5Mbps. I know for sure that they will revert the connection back to my current plan but for the meantime I’ll just enjoy the speed and the rebate that I will get from not having an internet connection. Bottom line is “If it is not fair, then speak up!”
First Food Link Franchise Update
Aug 23rd
It’s been barely a week ago since we first started our food venture. And like what I have said I’ll lay out the details of our investment and how we do business.
Doing Business
First Food Link offers three ways of building it’s franchise. First is by being a food dealer, Second as a food cart operator and lastly being a Product center itself. Being a food dealer entitles you to an automatic 20% discount on all of the products that FFL offers. Also part of being a food dealer, you will also have an accident insurance from PhilamLife as a bonus, a starter kit and gift certificates from FFL. In a month and if you’re residing in a residential area, a gross sales of P 9 – 10k pesos per month is attainable. As a side income you would normally get around P 1.5 – 2K. Nod bad eh?
As a food cart operator, in which this is the package that we have, you will sell cooked FFL products like our traditional food concepts of tapsilog, tocilog, and many more. It includes Food cart with Initial Products, Multi-Cooker, Weighing Scale, 2 pcs. Sauce Dispenser, Tray, Apron, Menu Board, Cooking Manual, Accident Insurance worth P50,000. Benefits include, 24% discount on FFL products. So you can sell frozen food and earn 4% from your members and 24% on non-members. Over the week, we are averaging at least P300 – P600 gross sales per day. We hope to double the sales as soon as we employ our marketing tactics.
Product Center will act as an extension of First Food Link’s main office operation. Main function includes processing of membership, product sales and a venue of seminar for potential members. What will you get from being a product center? A service fee for every member who will register at P88.00, a 100% refund of gift certificates redemption of members and a huge 28% discount on all FFL product line. Package includes: Seven (7) Membership Packages @ PhP 1,888.88 each, One (1) unit 14 cu.ft. Chest Freezer, First Food Link Products worth PhP 26,600.00 SRP, Signage, Tarpaulin, Marketing Materials and One-Time Franchise Fee.
Franchise Cost
- Food Dealer – P 1,888.88
- Food Cart Operator – P8,888.88
- Product Center – P88,888.88
In the next few months we will be upgrading our franchise package to a Product center. To maximize the potential of gaining more members in our area and availing the huge 28% discount.
Network Marketing Scheme
Yes, It does have network marketing but not like those traditional and conventional way of just recruiting people and this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. FFL decided to imply network marketing for one purpose, to push the product. We all know how powerful the word of mouth marketing is. By doing such step FFL, as a new player in the food industry, would like to deliver quality products at affordable prices. If you would like to know how their Network Marketing works, feel free to subscribe to my feeds and I’ll have it posted in the next few days.
Quality of Food
All of these will be worthless if the product itself is a junk. Right? First thing we made sure of before signing up is that we will not be compromised on the food that we will offer. Well true enough, the food itself speaks to it’s quality, superb taste and within your pocket’s reach. With this, I believe that the company has a very promising future. To my fellow kababayans, go ahead and try it for yourself, I know we don’t have the same taste buds but I tell you guys this one is definitely worth trying.
All in One Bookmarking Site
Aug 16th
If you’re tired of manually adding your site to multiple social bookmarking networks then why not promote your site to these social services in one shot? Onlywire.com is a website capable of bookmarking a site all at once targeting social bookmarking networks. It has a list of 22 social bookmarking network including de.lirio.us and del.icio.us.
The most important key aspect of having onlywire.com as your bookmarking tool is saving your precious time and getting your site exposed right away in a snap. Also you may want to try ping services, it let people know that your blog/site is updated and in return having the possibility of gaining more traffic.
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