Opportunities abound

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While recuperating from an eye operation, phone calls come in for new ventures:

1.  A partner from North wants to buy a 2.5 property at P1,000 foreclosed by a bank.  He wants us to enter into a JV.   We can have about  6,000 inventories.  We can sell at 80,000 /per plot   Thats about P480,000,000 estimated sales

2.  A partner in Visayas is proposing a 1.5 hectare property which he plans to buy at 1,200 /sm but which will require about 2,000/sm development cost:   1,000 backkfilling and 1,000 infrastructures.   We can have 3,000 inventory.  We can sell this at P80,000/plot    About P240,000

3.  In Rizal we can have a 2.2 hectare project 1.4 + 0.8.   It becomes an 5 party project:   2 to ROW owners, two to lot owners and us.  We can have about 5,000 plora.  Selling price in the area is about P200,000 and we can sell billions.  Thats about a billion

4.  In another space in in Rizal an adjoining lot is selling to us at P5,000 /sm.   Our counter is JPA.  Or at P2,000 per square meter.     It is good for 5,000 inventory.      Good for  P500,000,000.  

Thats a total projected revenues:  

        P480,000,000

          240,000,000

       1,000,000,000

          500,000,000

Thats 2,200,000,000 total while resting at home recuperating post op from cataract.  I am happy that without going around, these opportunities knock at my door. It is hoped that we can close most of them.  There are still many obstacles to be overcome.  Am proposing a 1% catalyst for those who can close the projects.   

Debt (or excessive use of it) caused the downfall of empires.

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

Rome and the Ottoman empires lost their glow due to debt.   Is this similar to the US situation with $37 trillion public debt (due to deficit spending mostly due to wars and war machinery)

The Ottoan empire problem  started when they borrowed  for their war effort vs Russia.   They were screwed by terms favorable to the lenders:   high interest rate, short repayment terms etc.   Which were not matched by tax collection and revenues.  

When they defaulted the European demanded a say in tax measures and collection.    There was capitulation.    There was economic capitulation.   

Could this similar to Philippine situation where the debt of the country has been steadily rising since January of 2025 due to financing of plunder  by top govt official

Does corruption affect the investment climate in the country or buy when there is flood scandal?

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It would seem to be such today with corruption now running into billions.  It was massive.  Other factors could be at play and one of the Cabinet Secretaries disputed the claim that corruption  caused the loss of Php 1.7 trillion loss of market value at PHP.

I would like to remember the old yarn,  " Invest in countries where there is blood on the street."   Black marketeers flourish during war or crisis times.  "  Ji Wei says Chinese.  Opportunities, and threat

We small businessmen have to live with corruption with even the lowest Barangay official demanding as much as P5/sm for a permit, or for his endorsement of a Citiy Resolution.  Without the permit, we cant go into a business.   We have to live with corrupt, dirty officials.   

Location, population stat no longer important in Marketing and Sales?

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Right after my hospitalization, somebody viber red me me regarding a property he earlier presented earlier before this event.

I requested that as soon as I am well, I will discuss.  But he kept badgering me and this post had to research that there is all ready an existing  business at the municipality and population is below 50,000

Well since I replied he lectured me on population and location

    1.   That with digital age it is no longer necessary to be overly concerned with location or population;

    2.   He cited that a business leader is engaged in widespread expansion and does not care about

          location nor number of residents

This post after a decade of academic experience and 4 decades of actual business experience still subscribe to the time held business principles of location and demographics.   

There are businesses that are no longer dependent of these:    financial services, computer, cloud, but establishments such as:    housing, retail, banking are site and demographic dependent.

Some notable examples:

1.  A cousin who was head of a regional bank closed down the branch in a Pacific facing town because there are no borrowers nor depositors.   They transferred to a city in Central Luzon

2.  There is a mall in far flung town of this province  (middle of nowhere) which ha no traffic, nor tenants.  Foot traffic is probably zero.   So who needs location and demographics?

Price increase should be accompanied by increase of benefits and features

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We are finally increasing our price by true mark up formula by end of the month.  We thought that its not just going to be increase in features and benefits to the customers that should include

       1.  Set up

       2.   Features;

              Flowers

              Soc Media posting

               Ceremonies

               Music 

               Food

 

        3.  Operations

             Mechanizing;  obtaining an excavator and dump truck

        TO MAKE OUR SERVICE DELIVERY UNIQUE AND EXCEPTIONAL

             

        3.  Catalysts

             Incentives for our staff to do job well and deliver the features

Our goals are:

       1.  Increase customer satisfaction

       2   Improve margins and profit

       3.  Motivate our staff

Leadership power and strategies for the same; why we cant be equal for all

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Why we cant be equal even for philosophies espousing egalitarianism

There was a story about  a fox who wanted to be a leader.  After a  hunt, he aspires to divide the spoils equally for every one in the team.  But at the end of the day, the leader was ousted by the members who ganged upon him   And tearfully the fox left the team.

Then it was chance of the lion.   The lion say allotted 30% of the catch to him and let the others fight over the 70%.   So the followers, the rest of the team spent time and energy fighting each other

Fot the next hunt, the lion alloted himself 50% of the hunt and left 50% for the rest.  The team fought each other savagely until one was left to deal with him, which was easier rather than fighting all of the cohort.

Lesson learned:

1.  Divide and rule

2.  The term of management for this are:

      1.  Organization chart

      2.  Division of labor

      3.  Compartmentalized communication

      4.  Need to know basis

      5.  Salary scale

       6.  Power and authority structure.

3.  You cant be naive with power and leadership

4.  Read Machiavelli the Prince

5.  Leadership power means you have to keep them oppressed or illiterate