For Trans: 
Hi future ABAMer! Start your transformation in the most awaited orientation for the transitionals:
The TRANSORNERS!
July 1, 5:30-8:00 pm at BA 302.
Get to know ABAM's Optimus Prime and the rest of the family who will help you be transformed into a valuable ABAMer.
So come and join us in BREAKING GROUNDS and PUSHING LIMITS. See you there! :)
For Mems: 
Hi ABAMer! You already watched Transformers, didn't you?
Well now it's time to watch and join the TRANSORNERS, ABAM's most awaited orientation for the transitionals.
Get to know the transitionals and help them be transformed into valuable ABAMers.
Be there and show them how WE break grounds and push limits. Showing on July 1, 5:30-8:00 pm at BA 302.
UP ABAM presents: TRANSORNERS.
ADVERSITY
by Eric Mansfield
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil,without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?" He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"
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How about you? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?
Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.
When people talk about you, do your praises to the Lord increase? When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, does your worship elevate to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110165&page=8
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil,without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?" He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How about you? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?
Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.
When people talk about you, do your praises to the Lord increase? When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, does your worship elevate to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110165&page=8
Setting Up An Online Business: Things to Remember
By Valerie Tort
More and more businesses are going online especially buy and sell transactions. Internet is an avenue wherein you can earn money from scratch. So why not take advantage of the global opportunity for you to introduce your products to the rest of the world at the comfort of your home?
Online business and marketing is the trend these days. Get yourself involved in the fast paced buying and selling business online. Anyone can set up their enterprise virtually without additional expense. However, do not rush your business venture. These are some tips to help you getting into setting up the business of your choice:
All an entrepreneur needs are fast and reliable Internet connection, a free personal web site with the help of multiply.com or any other blog sites, a digital camera for capturing your items to be sold, and some time to update your web site often and to answer the queries of the potential buyers.
Links are very important. It generates more traffic to web sites than the traditional search engine. Online business is like networking. Spread the word through your friends so they will check your site. Add them if you can so they will be updated with your new products and services.
Have a unique domain name yet connected with the kind of business you are into so people could remember your site easily. In effect, they would likely visit it.
Online business is just like blogging. You inform everyone that you have a range of products to offer to prospective clients, how much is it, what sizes are available if it is a shoe or apparel business, and how can they place their order or reach you.
Know your clients: their wants and lifestyle. Sometimes, the reason why a business venture fails is because the products offered are irrelevant to the customers' lifestyle. From there, you can gain an insight on what kind of product to sell. Do they love athletic shoes? Are my clients into clothes and accessories? What kind of clothes do they want? Why not have an online poll so you would know their preferences.
Consider the prices of your items in conjunction with your target market. Could they afford it? Is the price worth the quality of the product?
Inform them of how the customers could receive their purchases. Is it by cash on delivery (COD) or by courier? Is there an additional charge for the courier?
Have some giveaways for your potential clients. Giveaways may be in a form of samples, tips, free downloadable music, software, or movies. This would keep your prospective buyers in book marking and visiting your web site often.
Be creative! There is nothing more pleasing to the eye than to visit an organized, functional, and eye-catching layout. But remember, check out for broken links. This is one of the awful things when shopping online. To keep your customers coming back, everything in your web site must work.
Email newsletters and other product offers. Even if your target clients do not visit your web site often, they would be updated of your new stocks and bargains.
Promote your web site by using search engine optimization. Utilizing search engine optimization would allow your site to be viewed by other people who are not in your links. This creates a particular interested group that would eventually make your site the word of the mouth.These are only some tips that could be helpful for entrepreneurs who would like to join the bandwagon of online business. But it could jumpstart your small business just as effectively.
http://www.magnegosyo.com/money-tips/setting-up-an-online-business-things-to-remember-2007-06-21.php
Start up! More Business Tips for SMEs
By Carina Roncesvalles
The most difficult part of a task is always the start, especially when several options come to mind and the final choice is far from sight. In an attempt to analyze the available business options, the problem of getting started gets complicated with the clutter of information from all forms of media: print, television, radio and online.
The information clutter is mirrored by the endless possibilities in the world of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This makes analyzing options difficult and setting foot to establish business territory risky.
But the back to basics approach may prove to be handy in starting a business. Sometimes, the attempt to be complex and sophisticated gets in the way and hamper what could have been a smooth start. The following basic steps may be helpful in putting up a small business:
Read education materials and news on the latest trends in micro businesses. There are various online sites readily available via the search engines. To limit your search to the relevant information, it may be wise to choose information materials coming from the Philippines. This way, the information is trimmed down to those applicable to the local market.
Remain abreast on the latest developments in your locality where you are likely to put up your own small enterprise.
Keep in mind that the business you are about to start will require your utmost attention. So make sure that the business is in your own field of interest. This will keep your interest on the business strong. This will also inspire you to continue improving your business since you are in love with what you are doing.
If you think that starting a business will enable you to escape a 9 to 6 job, you are right but not entirely so. Businessmen advice budding entrepreneurs that running a small business will require more time, almost a long 24-hour day.
Be on the lookout for the best location. The success of an enterprise especially those in the consumer line, is determined by the location. High-traffic locations are the key but it is also important to study the buying power of the pedestrian traffic.
Grip your finances really well. Short-term businesses have faulted complacency and overconfidence on the hefty return on investments right away for their unsuccessful venture. Just like a child transferring to a new school, it takes time to adjust to the new environment. For a new business, it takes a while before consumers realize their curiosity and try the product, and be regular patrons of the new offerings.
Be extra patient in making your employees embrace the same commitment to your small business, and to the customers who may have questions and even premature complaints on the products and services that you offer.
Be polite in addressing customers and remain honest in your dealings.
Plan ahead the possible improvements in your products, services and store. Put premium on what the customers may have to say on your business. After all, you are in the business for them
Be passionate about being the best for your market.
Be creative in improving your products and services, and eventually in expanding your store. Do not be contented in being "in the market". Always strive to be a "key player" in the highly competitive business.
Remain excited to your business, no matter how small. After all, this is the culmination of your hard work as an entrepreneur.
And the last but the most important tip is to start now. There are many days in a year and putting the plans to start a business to a later date might mean that would never get started at all.
http://www.magnegosyo.com/money-tips/start-up-more-business-tips-for-smes-2007-05-21.php
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