“Sulit.com.ph: A Basket of Gifts”

“Sulit.com.ph: A Basket of Gifts”

Business is everywhere. There is no part in this world are not getting involved in business. But the thing is how will you go with the flow? You are like in City of New York surrounded by gigantic buildings and towers. Some people may think that it's really easy to become an entrepreneur, but they are very wrong. There are many factors that help in making an entrepreneur like qualities, education, skills, and many others. Mindset plays a very important role in the success of businesspeople. Personally, I really don’t know how to compete in my case that I am just an 18 year old student at that time. As what I have stated before, there are many factors that may help a person to be an entrepreneur; qualities, education, skills, etc. and I am not so convinced that I got it all however mindset is important. Without it, you will definitely find it hard to succeed in whichever business endeavor you take. To be one of the successful entrepreneurs, you must have the qualities needed to become one.

 Tony Tan, a Filipino entrepreneur who started his way, washing the dishes and waiting on tables in his fathers' small restaurant. In 1975, with the help of his family this Filipino acquired an ice cream franchise. Ice cream parlors were popular then and it was supposed to be a decent and proven formula. But like most popular businesses that are copied, the Ice cream parlor has eventually to be given up. After a good start, the Ice cream business failed. Tony Tan has to start all over again this time it was not ice cream but selling hamburgers. He gave the hamburgers his own twist, and with the help of family members, tweaked on other fast food items and that was supposed to be the story of it. Obscure beginnings from a country that was supposed to flock to Mc Donald for hamburgers. No one could, in a sane mind, hope to compete with Mc Donald's right?

And then there is Antonina Cesario of Mila's Lechon.

Lechon for those who wonder is a whole suckling pig roasted over an open pit.

A fresh graduate of Pharmacy from the University of Santo Tomes, one of the more prestigious schools in the Philippines, one would wonder what Antonina Cesario was thinking selling lechon at a time (1968) when a college diploma was a decent way to start a more prestigious career. But I am jumping too fast. Antonina started out not even with a lechon but hawking boiled corn in the streets. After a while, she opened what is termed in the Islands as a Sari-Sari Store which is actually holes in the wall stores that are popular in any typical Filipino neighborhood.

I am so inspired by them for being successful. Let me emphasize this; for being a successful Filipino entrepreneurs. The only thing that plays in to my mind is that I am also a Filipino and I wanted to be like them but how?

It was September 14, 2009, doing nothing. I started to browse and play until I found out a place where I can put my dreams into a reality. I finally found out the gateway for my success. I urgently signed up in this site and start browsing different things. You may wonder what site it is but I am willing to share it to you guys. Sulit.com.ph changes my life. It was a blessing to me and to my family. And with the help of sulit, I realized that even an 18 year old can do something for herself, her family and for her community.

Here in sulit I play a role of being a buyer but most of the time being a seller. It is like a basket that is full of gifts for me because here in sulit I earned a lot; money, friendship, mentors and values. Now I could say that I am one of them (Tony Tan, Antonina Cesario) though just a part of their wealth I am able to earn right now but the point here is I became successful even in a simple way and I believed that someday my name will also be heard and inspired by others.