MOVING ON

That picture is from one of those moments when I figured out a selfie would represent what was running un-clearly in my mind. I would be always out and about here in New York City (NYC) where I have been based for the past 10 years. Among accomplishments I've completed, I've been able to grow, expand my online business while I have been doing part-time jobs to continuously provide for fodder to folders in my mind where I draw materials to write about. Hence, this posting is one of those very pleasurable days when I have finally been able to write and share something here online (again). I continue to write for my own pleasure. I really just want to read and write, practically almost everyday. But that's not possible right away if I choose to live and stay very well here in NYC. Yesterday's unplanned meet-up with a couple of retired Filipino teachers who have their own house somewhere in a relatively expensive neighborhood in Queens, NYC has mainly prompted this post...

Read the article on TNYT here. Even businesses, which are owned and managed by people, have moving on experiences. Certain changes can't be helped, if you get to see how changes have continuously enveloped this 'much expensive' section of Manhattan. In this particular case, I see it's technology that has brought about the actual moving on event to unfold and take place. And so many people's lives would be affected as this moving on process continues to take place. Somewhat dreaded (it seems to me) by some, we can all learn to be prepared to face our respective moving on experiences. The process is not exclusive to human beings, as we all get to become more familiar with 'Moving On' while we go about doing and pursuing our respective lives. It's not something I invented - I just happened to experience it so strongly many years ago and have decided to face it and highlight it in my writing works. Don't take it against yourself if you're very ...

P.S. To Jill Abramson: Grads, You Must Learn The Word ‘Fungible’ I'm surprised that this article fell short of directly advising college students these days to seriously consider ways to become entrepreneurs. I was just chatting briefly with a security guard of a Barnes & Noble store in downtown Brooklyn. He was asking me about the experience of being a 'home health aide' (HHAs) when he saw me wheeling my client in with his family in the store. I had to tell him,  HHAs are are called caregivers. I had the impression from him that he thinks it's a relatively easy job. I had to correct his mis-impressions right there and then. No job is ever easy or else it won't be called a job, isn't it? But I also took the chance to tell him to check out this opportunity to become a business owner after I had the impression that he's on the look-out for better career opportunities. I'm doing it now with my Market America / shop.com franchise. And look more clos...

Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" - YouTube : Gratefully, I am inspired by what I heard from this guy. Yes, what he's been expounding on is truthful and factual. However, those statements are very political as well, and so I can understand why this talk has been banned (if it's true that it was indeed banned). But no matter what your political leanings are and your attitude toward his ideas, they are not really relevant here. Just consider more seriously that he's actually talking from experience. As an entrepreneur myself (I have online businesses--- my online bookstore , my eBay.com store , my writings works , my shop.com business with Market America , among other online storefronts that I grow and maintain), I can only rightfully claim that I'm mostly a capitalist myself, i.e. I make use of the small amounts of money I make from my part-time jobs to finance and grow my businesses. To-date, I've not gone out of my way t...

Very impressed with this OUTSTANDING seller--& I buy more than 100 used books online each year. I honestly couldn't be happier with this purchase--the quality of the book, price, & super fast shipping. I can confidently state that this is one of the best sellers I've had the pleasure of doing business with on Amazon. Highly recommended, & I will DEFINITELY buy more books from them in the future! (from a customer in Denver, Colorado, and who bought the book "A Dictionary of Modern English Language" from my storefront on Amazon.com) I'm very grateful for customers who would find time to praise and give feedback for their buying experience from one of the online storefronts I grow and maintain. I have several online storefronts where I market and sell a variety of products for over 2 years now. In addition to mostly positive feedback I receive, I get terrible feedback as well. Once in a while I get very difficult-to-please customers who are so petty and...

I've been a small scale entrepreneur since at least 15 years ago. Or I should say, I had learned to take the first few critical steps in becoming an entrepreneur as a child when I followed a good friend's suggestion that we earn money by acting as guides and guards for people who would park their cars while hearing the Sunday mass in a nearby church. Boy, we did earn some good money that time, which we would continue to do for the next few weekends. I would eventually study in the school that's affiliated with the church in high school, which experience gave me more valuable lessons in many areas in life that I make good use of up to now. In my career as an entrepreneur, I've been a hog raiser, a beauty salon owner, a retailer of a variety of services and products, a freelance writer and author, a pawnshop owners, a masseur who chooses his clients if they're fun to be with, a lender, an equity investor, a keen saver of pennies that earn compound interest, a busine...

Today has been one of those days in my online selling business that I'm giving up the opportunity to earn more. What do I mean by this? I just sold the tiny book ' Collected Writings of William De Kooning' thru my Amazon.com storefront and, gratefully, it was sold at a good price! However, I soon realized that other sellers are selling the item at over 120% higher than the price I set for my item. But I reminded myself that I made more profit because I got the book for free before I listed it online, i.e., a good friend gave away some of his books to me so he could continue making space in his tiny apartment in Manhattan. And I continued to calculate more. I could opt to cancel the sale, actually. I think the buyer would probably sell the item himself and earn profits along the way. But I figured out soon I won't be doing that. I'd never know when items in my online storefronts would get sold, although I know they would be sold eventually. In the meantime, I have ...

Diversity will always be an asset to any organization, as long as it's recognized as such. If you're a businessperson willing to take risks, one area where you can focus your efforts on is to hire from a diverse pool of people, as long as you personally like them. It's always a smart move to recruit people who are different from you, and who will complement your own strengths and weaknesses - you simply can't do everything. Of course, this is difficult to do, as your ego will always distract you from what the real and critical issues are when you do recruitment. And it's more of a big challenge is you're a control freak. click on the title for more...

"Recruitment and selection" used to be the biggest part of my workload when I was still leading a full time corporate lifestyle. Well, that's a pretty loaded statement. In short, I was a "Recruiter" which job was the first one I did fresh from college, where I was taught the rudiments by the experts in that field and who were then building and running their own executive search firm. There's a lot of jargon involved, but it helps if you become familiar with recruitment and selection processes, even if you're not into HR. Becoming familiar with them is click on the title for more...

Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com I'm sharing here a rather old vid from another source ( see latest in FoxBusiness ) on freelance work. I'm grateful being able to hack it out doing freelance work , which to most people I meet can be confounding to even listen to, whenever I try to explain myself to them as to how I'm doing work and earning living at the same time. Thank God, I happened to be doing freelance work nowadays, which I have started ever since I came here in the US three years ago (although I did some full time work for some small businesses one time, and gained some exposure locally, but I soon learned I had enough of that, and that's another story by itself). Obviously, hands down, there are no benefits that are similar to what employed people have. There are so many trade offs to think about, but I like to look at my situation as being that of "a glass of water half-full." It could have been worst, you know. I'm just happy am...