hello everyone! this is saldy. exports is my life. i had a conversation yesterday with my brother in-law bob, also with an indirect export industry support, that exports has been affected by chinas exports. i told him its true, but how long can they sustain it?.. we are involved in handicrafts basically, bicol handicrafts but in a recent visit by a buyer from italy, he explained a design they buy from china and its no good quality, the embroideries they made could easily be destroyed., even when i went to the mall, china products are really cheap, but it depends on the buyer what they are looking for. when i say exports, it refer to different products aside from handicrafts.coming from bicol, we have laing, coconuts, abaca, rice and corn, services, manpower(seamen, nurses, laborers, specially in the middle east other parts of asia, and the americas), as per conversation with my cousin, benjie, deploying nurses to the carribean is just like exports of handicrafts. in 1976, we only have aro0und 6,000 filipino overseas workers, while to this date 2006 around after 30 years we have now around 8 million filipino workers, most of them, speak english very well and very much skilled.,, so exporting is really much diversified, and only if i focus in our area, i could find a lot of items that could be exporter traded with other areas in the world. again we have this complexities of the international trade, but we can simplify, it with the use of technology now, wherein new systems are being offered to make life easier and enjoyable, in the pursuit of this international trade. this coming week i am going to have an export documentationfor our buyer going to guam, we hope this will continue to have monthly sales.
sti;;prospects and opportunities are always around, like the japanese market is bouncing back again, thus we have to focus on this market. but we have to devote more time in the webuducation as this is a trillion dollar industry nowadays, like forex industry, its also part of the export and import trade... i am devoting my time more on internate research and slaes for the next six months of the year2006,which i hope will let me increase the sales of reario's crafts and arts for at least 20%. the idea is, we only have to focus on the present buyer, then promote to them our present products, ideas like, putting additional experties on our site, like, arts,(thishas wider coverage than just crafts, it could even include martial arts, dances and related materials to it. recently i read in the fortune magazine, that the number sales now in india is its works of arts, wherein indian paintings are being bought by fellow indians from other parts of the world, in millions of values.. much even higher than computer and real state growth transactions. so reario's arts and crafts could increase sales. another point for improvement maintaining the status quo, and focusing just on the present buyers, we could explore other sources of products, other than our present, supply sources, of course, have to study on the cost of expenses, for example the sosurce is in leyte, how much could be spent, lets, sat 10,000.00is spent, could we get an order of about 2million pesos to cover the expenses? otherwise we only have to focus on our area, to minimize expenses, but the products are also greatly reduced..in terms of coverage.

till next time. on the life an exporter, the daily life of an exporter....