PinoyEntrep.com – Thoughts, Feedbacks and Suggestions

I’ve recently started on another web project of mine which is quite close to my heart. Its a site called PinoyEntrep.com which aims to give web exposure to small and micro entrepreneurs and their products/services.

Its a project which I had in mind back when I was in my practicum period for DLSU’s Entrep program. As Entrepreneurship students, we had to come up with our own innovative product, create a business plan and run the company for a year. It was hard relying on the 1 week bazaars alloted for the Practi 1, 2 and 3 companies since its not enough to sell everything we had, and it certainly wan’t enough time to get people to see our product. Also it was hard finding interested people outside the campus since we have regular classes so really going out and selling around was hard.

I don’t have many connections and the site is really new, so joining the site does not assure these people instant success and recognition of their products. The concept of the site is fairly simple. Entrepreneurs with small, micro and medium businesses can be included in the site listing as well as the forum, whereas strictly buy and sell businesses, can only have their thread in the forum.

Interested entrepreneurs can send an email to the admin (which is currently me) and asks to be included in the site listing.

Included in that email is a bit of a marketing pitch, where they would include images of their product or service, description and relevant information about their products/services, their contact information as well as some company profile with information on how the company started, their objectives, and maybe a bit of their vision and mission.

Then from the emails, I’d sort them out and check which could be the featured products/services for the week. Each week, there will be 3 posted in the main page of the site so people who drop by can learn about these products and if they are interested they can contact them.

A forum is in place as well to encourage people to share advices, experiences as well as other information that can help their fellow entrepreneurs. PinoyEntrep.com is a community created for Filipino entrepreneurs where they can showcase their new products and services. Its a place for all pinoy entrepreneurs to share their experiences in starting and implementing their own small businesses.

You can drop by the site and read the stickied pages to learn more in case you are interested. I’d appreciate it if you told people or communities you know who might be interested to have their product/service featured in the listing. It won’t hurt to try and get featured. Its free to join and who knows maybe it can help you get an interested buyer along the way.

I’d really appreciate feedback and suggestions. The forum is still not finished yet, I haven’t thought of other sections to add yet but I will add more to it as soon as I can. Its still not open for registrations since its still incomplete.