The Pinoy Entrepreneur

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) through its Bureau of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (BMSMED) conducts free SME briefing sessions monthly at the BMSMED Training Room, 5/F DTI Building, 361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City. 

For the month of September, two schedules still remain.  

This post is about learning how to trade in the Forex market.  A profitable home-based business venture you can try.  Aside from learning about the Forex market, we'd like you to take a look at these two trainers and consider the potential of the Self-Help training and seminar business.


A lot of people would refer to trading in the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) Market as committing financial suicide.  The market moves so fast that you could lose millions in an instant.  However, educating yourself with the right information and understanding how the market works will help you avoid this.  This is according to Mario Singh, a forex trader from Singapore, probably Asia's most well-known Forex trader.  If you want to learn the basics of Forex trading, below are 5 videos about the Basics of Forex Trading.   

The Go Negosyo "Sigaw ng Kabataan" Youth Entrepreneurship Summit is finally here!  If you want to become an entrepreneur and to learn how to start your own business then this summit may just be the right one for you.

The Chinese Filipino Business Club Inc.  (CFBCI) together with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Manila Bulletin in celebration of the the DTI's SMED Week and the Third Founding Anniversary of the DTI-CFBC SME Center presents Negosyong Entrepinoy : A Series of Business Seminars and Training Sessions.

The seminars topics range from instructional topics like How to Start a Business and Writing a Winning Business Plan to setting the proper mindset in Chinese Confusian Values for Successful Entrepreneurship and Power of Mindset.  It also includes topics on managing human resources an labor laws for SMEs.  All seminars will be help at the CFBCI office at 8F Sky 1 Tower, 68 Dasmarinas St., Binondo, Manila.  And will run from July 6-10, 2009.  

Continue reading for the complete schedule of seminars and instructions on how to register for the event.

The Manila Food and Beverages Expo (MAFBEX), the biggest and most comprehensive food show of the year, will run from June 17 - 21, 2009 at the World Trade Center Metro Manila.  The expo will feature Chef Bobby Chinn.  The French-trained, New Zealand-born, San Francisco chef of Egyptian and Chinese heritage will be the main chef in this year's MAFBEX, promising to treat Filipinos to a gastronomic journey. 

Continue reading this article to see the schedule of activities below.

I'm looking forward to attending the Food Processing and Packaging Technology Expo in Davao City.  There's a lot of informative seminars on schedule.  And best of all, there all for free!  If any of you guys are going, let me know (^o^)/  I hope to see some of you there.

Goldman Sachs Charitable Fund with its 10,000 women initiative aims to expand the entrepreneurial talent and managerial pool in the society, especially among women.  In the Philippines, the IESE Business School and the University of Asia and the Pacific will co-develop a 150-hour curriculum Business Training Program.

The Technology and Resource Center (TRC) of DOST offers Livelihood training courses every month.  They offer a wide variety of courses.  The training seminars range from agricultural products to digital photography!

I was interested in the course Commercial Breadmaking and Bakery Management and so I took the course last April.  For a fee of 4,169 pesos, over 4 days, I was able to learn how to prepare and bake bread, from the most common pandesal to the classy cinammon roll.  The fee already covers the seminar hand-outs and the ingredients.  I tell you, it was worth all the money.  Not only will you learn how to make these breads but also they will teach you about costing and bakery shop layout.  After the seminar, I'd say you'll be around 70% ready to start your own bakery business.  The only complaint my batch had was the not so clean workshop room.  Compared to all other baking courses I've joined, this offered the most value for money.

Join the IBM Business Reality Summit and learn how Information Technology (IT) can help grow your business.  It's a good venue to socialize and expand your network as well.  The summit will both be held in Makati and Cebu City.  The Makati Summit will be held on June 4, 2009 at The Peninsula Manila while the Cebu Summit will be held on June 24, 2009 at the Marriott Hotel. 

Finally, a Coffee Shop Business Seminar is going to be held in Davao City.  Be one of the firsts to join this class.  The seminar will be held at the Joji Ilagan Career Center (JIB) College of Business and Tourism at Gov. Chavez St., Davao City.  Classes will be held all saturdays of June 2009.

• Learn to be your own Barista in 4 meetings.
• Prepare and Serve different kinds of Coffee
• Learn Cost Control Procedures
• Learn about Safety and Sanitation

       Plus! A bonus lecture on Coffee Shop Pastries!

For inquiries, call +63-82-2276602 or visit their website at www.jojiilagancareercenter.com.

The Technology Resource Center  is offering a Coffee Shop Management and Operations Livelihood seminar on April 20-22, 2009.

The seminar will include lectures on  personnel administration, organization, site selection, marketing, materials and equipment.  It will also include a hands-on workshop on  making different coffee concoctions / preparations.

Registration fee is at PhP 3,729.  A minimum of 5 participants is needed in order for the program to push through.  

Registration (Contact)
Mr. Raul Durante
Technology Resource Center
(02)727-6205 local 208 or 209

Technology Resource Center is a government corporation attached to the Department of Science and Technology who serves the public through the acquisition and promotion of technology and livelihood skills providing information to Filipinos worldwide.