HOW to MAKE MONEY by SOLVING PROBLEMS and IRRITANTS | THE HAPPY PANDEPRE...

My Christmas treat for Filipino Entrepreneurs all over the world: How to be a Happy Pandepreneur. The complete seminar hosted by the Pasay City Government!

With yours truly, Anton Diaz, Miriam Quiambao, Rey Calooy, Ramon Lopez. 

Be inspired by success stories!

Be equipped on how to set up a successful business in and out pandemics with the PISO model:

Look for ... 

PROBLEMS (i.e. Pain points)

IRRITANTS and provide... 

SOLUTIONS as 

OPPORTUNITIES to set up a new service and business.

...Watch the video to find out the rest of our Happy Entrepreneur tips!

Subscribe now to my new YouTube Channel: Ardy RobertoTV is dedicated to all viewers who need inspiration, wisdom and instruction for LIFE's most important issues: Love, Faith, Family, Work...your Dreams! We're here to help you not just solve but ENJOY life's adventures. Come and join us and live LIFE to the FULLEST!

"When LESS is MORE" | Starting from ZERO again in this pandemic | The Ha...

Ang YouTube video na ito ay tungkol sa WALA.

Wala?!

Oo.

It’s about the blessings of having or starting in business with nothing. Wala.

I hope this encourages those of you who are back to zero or almost zero because of the pandemic.

The big idea or lesson that I want to share with you is this:

LESS IS MORE.

Yes! LESS IS MORE.

The less money you have in starting a business, the more creative, hard working and dependent you become on God.

Let me share with you two quick stories to illustrate my thesis.

First story.

When I was 27 years old, in 1994, I ventured into business—a retail store in Limketkai Mall in CDO and later on a Gary V concert.

I lost all my money in the Concert promotion business but okay lang because that’s what God used to break me and my ego and bring me to a Bible study with my girlfriend where I heard the good news and surrendered my life to Christ.

I learned to read and apply the Bible and that turned around my life, including my finances. (The how of that later on became the content of my 2010 #1 National best-selling book, Ang Pera na Hindi Bitin. I mention that in the hope that I can hopefully sell some more copies of my book.Haha. Order na sa ardyroberto.com , please please.

Seriously, the girlfriend who brought me to that Bible study became my first wife. And we also became business partners. We were becoming very successful in a direct selling business and at the same time growing in our faith.

And then she became very sick with life threatening systemic lupus. She should have died that time—that was the year 2000—but God granted her a healing miracle and gave her a second life.

Our finances though were still in the ICU as the sickness and hospitalization of Tingting, sucked almost all of our savings. The miracle healing though (which became a book—The Heart of Healing—bili na kayo please) encouraged us even more in our faith to trust in the Lord with ALL of our heart and not to lean on our own understanding.

So with little money but faith in our BIG God, who proved faithful and worthy of ALL of our trust and praise—Tingting and I decided to make another GO of business. We decided to let go of our direct selling business which was stressful to her and start another business. The business we decided to get into, we realized, was right in our backyard: we had learned to promote and organize small public seminars for my dad, a professor of marketing at AIM that time, as a small side line.

Tingting and I prayed about it—we would start a new business that would organize seminars and conferences. We also prayed for a name. And the name came on a Sunday service when the pastor called the flock to be Salt and Light of the world.

There. We had a name and a tag line: Salt and Light Ventures, Inc. Bringing out the BEST in you.

I mentioned that we had little money but big dreams powered by faith in our BIG God.

We had the name registered already, we had two desks in our lanai by the garage, an old laptop connected to dial up internet and a fax machine. But still didn’t know how exactly to start the business.

I’ll pause here first for dramatic effect because this is where the important crossroad happens. This is where the story gets to an important God moment—and I don’t want you to miss it.

Hingang malalim.

...Watch the video to find out the rest of the story!

Thank you very much to

Edwin D. Pages

for inviting me to this Family Culture online event. Thank you to

Dodong Cacanando

and Dr

Alvin P. Ang

for being part of this event as well.

Please remember to subscribe to my new YouTube Channel: Ardy RobertoTV is dedicated to all viewers who need inspiration, wisdom and instruction for LIFE's most important issues: Love, Faith, Family, Work...your Dreams! We're here to help you not just solve but ENJOY life's adventures. Come and join us and live LIFE to the FULLEST!

SUCCESS MINDSETS of Entrepreneurs | GO NEGOSYO | Ardy Roberto | SME Mark...

What are the success mindsets that an entrepreneur should have? 

What's the difference between being self-employed and being an entrepreneur?

What's the best way to  market and sell your products? 

How do you start a business? How do you spot opportunities in business?

All these questions and more are answered in this Go Negosyo seminar. 

This video also includes a powerful session on Marketing for SMEs by Mylene Abiva and closing remarks by then Go Negosyo Executive Director and now DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez. 

#GoNegosyo #HappyEntrepreneur #NegoSem #DTI #SME #SuccessMindsets #ArdyRoberto #MyleneAbiva #RamonLopez

Adventures in writing a book about Adventures in Entrepreneurship

Adventures in Entrepreneurship...
That's the title that was approved by my publisher, OMF Literature, Inc. I've been toying with other titles, like,
Adventures of a Reluctant Entrepreneur
or
Adventures of a Dysfunctional Entrepreneur...
or
Adventures of a Procrastinating Entrepreneur/Writer

It's been more than a year since OMF sponsored a week long writer's workshop to help us get started on our approved book projects. That was October 2008 and we had the great blessing to be coached and mentored by the one and only Tim Stafford. Tim is the co-author of The Student Bible (with Philip Yancey) and author of Personal God. He is also a senior staff writer for Christianity Today. Tim is also one of the most humble and effective teachers. The fact that only one (congrats to Ru Dela Torre for releasing Road Trip last year!) or two of the 12 men who were at the workshop have so far finished their book projects is a great disservice and embarrassment on our part. (The writers that is..). Here we are below believing that we can conquer the world with our words! (Thanks Bong for the picture. How is your book coming along? :-)


What happened? The business of life and it's busyness happened. We didn't stick to our deadlines... Other projects took priority...

I actually worked on and submitted the finished manuscript of another book, Ang Pera na Hindi Bitin (The Money that Never Runs Short) last  January 5th. It was one of those ideas re-born in the shower and proposed to my publisher (OMF again) before the holidays. It was written in 2 weeks or so. (Yes, it is a short 28 page book or so.)

So here I am committing to posting what I have written and what I will be writing.

I need to have a goal to motivate me to finish this book amidst the pressing demands of being a husband, father to a terribly great 2 year old son, and running a couple of businesses (...and yes, trying to achieve my goal of getting my golf handicap from 32 to 2 in 32 months).

My goal: God willing, connect to the entrepreneurial spirits of 25,000 readers here in the Philippines and the rest of the world. (Read: target is to have a print run of 25,000 copies within 3 years of publication. ...and not to have to beg my Mom buy the first 24,999 copies...).

Submit the manuscript by May 1 (Labor Day)
Publish and launch at the next book fair this August 2010.

Pray for me? Here we go on this adventure in writing about a book called Adventures in Entrepreneurship...