Success takes team effort. We see this in nature all the time. Human beings, however, sometimes step on others to succeed, not knowing that doing so takes him far away from real success.
Not in Open For Business. We just announced today that marketing professional Willy E. Arcilla will mentor eight INQUIRER.net readers who need help in growing their businesses, for one year, for free.
Read our news article on the business mentoring activity:
MANILA, Philippines — MARKETING professional Willy E. Arcilla has agreed to help eight readers of INQUIRER.net who need guidance to grow their start-up businesses in a business-mentoring activity for the publication’s entrepreneurship blog called Open For Business.Arcilla will meet with ten selected readers once a month for 12 months, and help them with their strategies in positioning and marketing their products. The progress of these businesses for the duration of the exercise will be published in Open For Business so that other entrepreneurs can benefit from them.
A panel of judges that include Arcilla, INQUIRER.net editor-in-chief Javier Vicente Rufino, multimedia editor Joey Alarilla and business editor Ma. Salve Duplito will choose which readers will be introduced to Arcilla.
Readers who are interested in joining the mentoring activity should have a business that is at least one year old, need help in marketing and selling strategies, and who are not in the high-technology or engineering sectors.
Readers may send the following information to lightdream (at) gmail (dot) com: name, company name, location, year/s of operation, product or service description and description of business difficulties.
Arcilla is the president of Business Mentors, Inc., a newly formed management consultancy firm, and concurrently regional director of ZMG Ward Howell, a provider of human capital solutions. He is also a professional lecturer in business schools. He has worked as an expatriate for 18 years across the Asia-Pacific region for leading multi-national corporations and Philippine conglomerates.
So send in your applications! Who knows, you might be one of the eight. 
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Donnel San Antonio
Hello Sir,
My wife and I has a pawnshop business in Roxas City for almost 5 years. Just recently, we also opened a Western Union outlet at the same pawnshop premises. But, we are lacking for some marketing and selling strategies on how can we make the business big and open new branches for the pawnshop. Actually, thats my and my wife’s goal for the long term, so that I can also stopped working here in Dubai, UAE as an accountant and go back to the Philippines, instead to be with my family and manage our business grow and help our community grow at the same time, by creating local jobs.
I believe with your profound and tested marketing and selling strategies, it can make us realize that goal.
Looking forward for you best business advises.
Thank you and more power.
Yours truly;
Donnel San Antonio
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Star
I own a small internet business selling cosmetics and I struggled finding good marketing strategies to make my business grow. I came across Clickbooth Affiliate Program Network which has really helped me. This type of networking will also work for businesses in the community, not just online. Hope this helps!
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