Shift to QR code from UPC Bar Code after 50 years

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UPC bar codes made supermarket check out and inventory efficient:   faster and cheaper.   However there are news that the barcodes will be discarded in favor of the better tech:   the QR...

If you have a machine that can turn P20.00 into P100, or sell you milions what will you do to have it, develop it and have one of your own?

       

  SUBJECT  f you have a machine that can turn P20.00 into P100, or sell you milions what will you do to have it, develop it and have one of your own?

  Date:   July 26, 2026

We discussed this yesterday  to upgrade the marketing plans and resubmit the same in the new format, incorporating the new promos discussed.   This post further discussed

various tactics and tools to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of such machine

Objectives        1.  To further advance self improvement

                         2   To help SBUs reach sales targets

                         3.  To help develop skills and determine tools that will make sellers more effective

Background:    1.  Only people sell, AI cant

                        2.  We have to develop one system that sells, and here is one I see that can be effective and efficient

                        3.   Sellers create wealth that pays expenses and salaries. 

                        4.  Sellers make the world go round and advance move forward

                        5.  We have seen resistance of subordinates who do not like to see their work that does not work questioned or ordered revised

Gleaned from  YT:   How to sell so good that saying No looks stupid

From :    A LITTLE BIT BETTER  by Alex Horowiz

There are just four ways/methods

        1.  Attraction

        2.  Upselling

        3.  Downselling

        4.  Continuity 

        to address various situations and customer behavior

     SOME EXPLANATIONS

     A.  ATTRACTIONS

    1.  Attraction are offers that attract prospects as in AIDA, no offers, the ad readers will continue to scroll, no asttractivve offers, no hooks, no offers.

        Not a discount -  discount removes values,  FREE OR ADD ONs freebies add value

       1.  Grand price offers that is really valuable

            1.  Win millions, a car, by getting an offer

            2.  Win a plot FREE if you buy now;   or reserve now.

            3.  Free offer is better than a discount

                1.   Buy one take one instead of 50% discount

                2.   $30.00 for one set is bettone free  than $10.00 each

               3.   After you increased the price and there is resistance.     P1,700,000 for a GE, 12th lot is free (that is less 8%)

      2. Decoy offer:   offer a low ticket offer, and then upsell the prospect for something bigger.  Get his feet at the door

           e.g   offer a cheap lawn and when you sense he/she can buy GE offer him  one.  

     3.  Performance based free;   (Mostly gymn related)   "If you reach your weight reduction goal, we return to your $__enrollment fee

         We guarantee you (no one dies in your family in the next 90 days)  if you do we will give you an __discount;

    4. Pay less if you buy now  (referring to our at NEED VS pre need price)

Secrets of winning in business (from a millionaire)

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

The guyis the leader in FI racing ticketting.   His secrets:

1.  The hardest worker mindset is passe  Results, matter. 

2  If you are not winning, you are sticking to the rules

3.  Let the competitors underestimate you

4.  Winners repeat, (they become complacent)  losers improve reset.

5.  Be the best in the category....

Entering into a different sub branch of the industry? Dont we need focus? Doesnt it weaken the main business

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

Earlier, I had a the idea of letting a thousand flowers bloom, the  model being that of a keiretsu (or indu strial group) which happens in an industrial group.  If you are in an industry, you gather all your resources that are relevant:  suppliers, housing for employees, restaurants, malls, hospitals other materials   Thus an industrial estate matters.    You place all these in one location.  That is why an industrial estate does not work here in the absence of such model

Recently I learned that the family bought a commercial property near SM.  for good 8 numbers.  Said it wa xxx square meters.   Found out it was just yyy square meters and for which they paid for double.

Now this is the problem:

1.  The funds needed to expand tthe main business is frozen.   They said it was for flipping.  But the supposed buyers is not there.

2.  The seller is a sob although a religious person

3.  Colleciton is difficult

4.  The rent gives a slightly better than bank deposits...

Before when I was not married we had rental properties which we abandoned because of losses from:

 1.  unpaid utilities by the renters,   2.   renters damaging the property.   WE solved the problem by disposing off the rental properties

It is better to focus.  By focussing many opportunities reveal themselves.  The conglomerates have found it the hard way that they cant manage conglomorates welll (SMC will find out when it branched into infrastructures copying the MPTC group) ...  So some focus on the cash flow:   all cash flow in industries that people use everyday:   telephone, water, express way...    or condo  (however the downside is that if the industry is down, the whole ship goes down)     Or energy....

How could you be so wrong? Which data you rely on?

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Are experts better or unschooled memories?   Here experts  5 in all did not match the farmers memory which identified the site as former creek...

Personal improvement on source of data

Claiming credit for premium subdivision projects in my hometown

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Two of the prime development in  Angono Rizal were envisioned by this post.:   Bloomingdale Homes and Richmond (on top of Venus compound)  We did not make much on the project;   the profits we had were the commercial properties in front along Quezon Avenue which became Capitol (RCBC now) bank, Puregold, (formerly Active Bank) and  Unishoppe.)  Houses there are in mid  7 numbers.  Bloomingdale connects the church with the market.    And several key commercial establishments are there:   public market, Unishoppe, Jollibee, Uncle John, McDo soon...

This post also headed the planners and group that built Richmond, then envisioned to be the Ritz world for the achievers in Angono.  Most were OFWs and ship captains.  The buildings in front, changed the skyline of Angono.  Lined up in front are Jollibee, Pizza Hut and KFC, not to mention other commercial buildings.   

These were key  developments that drove up demand and prices of real estate in Angono, and why it probably attracted key name locaters  (Not to mention a commercial complex development and a memorial park project)

The above projects attracted residents from other places and made Angono their home...

We risked whatever little the family had for these projects.    And they paid off.  We made  a little margin but mostly benefitted the community.  We developed our skills and made sure we used that and the little skills we had to make  Angono a better community.  

Angono is now an urbanized community.   And the other anchor projects would not have come here if it were not for these key projects..

Its not bad to lay a claim as to who planned and develop these projects.    Thats the only reward we can reap from the hard work and the early pioneering risky works for the community (not be sidelined nor forgotten completely.  If we cant claim credit for these acheivement, who else  will do this for me at this senior age.     True to the vision of hte company which promoted community development for its scholarship projects, which benefitted the author