Starting a business
How to start a business in the Philippines: first 30 days
How to start a business in the Philippines once the permits are done: a week-by-week checklist for your first 30 days, from your sign to your first suki.
Starting a small business in the Philippines
The part after registration that nobody writes down: opening the shutter and getting the first customers through the door.
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Registering a business is a form. Running one is everything after: a sign people can read from the jeepney, a payment QR on the counter, a listing on Google Maps and Facebook, and the first fifty customers who decide whether you become someone's suki. These guides cover that part, for one shop or three. Start with the first month of a new business, then how to attract customers with little or no budget. Running a food business? There are guides for a carinderia and a milk tea shop.
Starting a business
How to attract customers to a small shop, cheapest first
How to attract customers with little or no budget: tactics for a small shop ranked by cost, how to try each one this week, and how to tell if it worked.
Starting a business
Free business directory listings in the Philippines
The business directory listings in the Philippines worth your time: free ones on Google, Facebook, Waze, Apple and Bing, the apps, and a copy-paste template.
Starting a business
Running a carinderia business: menu, display, lunch rush
Running a carinderia business day to day: a menu list that rotates, a food display that sells, what to put on the tarpaulin, the lunch rush, takeout and GCash.
Starting a business
How to start a milk tea business: menu, design, first month
How to start a milk tea business in the Philippines: franchise or own brand, a menu that sells, small-shop design, delivery apps and a one-page plan.