INQUIRER.net welcomes new Open for Business blogger

SAY hello to Karen Galarpe, who has started blogging for INQUIRER.net on our Open for Business blog for entrepreneurs.

Here’s the intro from INQUIRER.net business editor Ma. Salve Duplito, who started the Open for Business blog and handed over the reins to Karen:

Karen is the editor of SME Insight, the Inquirer group’s magazine for entrepreneurs, and has been a journalist for almost two decades now. She has written extensively on entrepreneurship in many different magazines and books like The Ultimate Guide To Starting Your Own Business and has been a consulting editor of Entrepreneur. Karen is bringing in her extensive experience on writing about entrepreneurship and is a great addition to the INQUIRER.net team. Welcome, Karen!

And here’s an excerpt from Karen’s first post:

So why be an entrepreneur? It’s to do what you love to do. And I found out, through years of covering interesting people in my work as a journalist, that such passion is the one that will spell success in business. Indeed, when you do what you love to do, you excel in it, and in the process, you help enrich other people’s lives. The money will just follow.

In this blog, Open for Business, we’ll be featuring passionate business people and find out how they run their businesses. We’ll follow the travails of the winners in our mentoring contest and see what will happen when they implement mentor Willy Arcilla’s tips. We’ll talk about entrepreneurs’ concerns and what must be done to address them. We’ll talk business — plain and simple.

Thanks, Karen, and welcome to the INQUIRER.net blog network. And I agree: it’s all about passion. That’s why INQUIRER.net (then known as INQ7.net) has been number one for so many years, and why we’ll continue to strive harder to become the best we can be.

Cheers!