Author: rgconsultingbz
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Cashew and Cashew Wine
In 2012 I had 50 cashew trees and only 30 of them bore fruit in this year. While the previous year a number of them bore fruit, this year 2012 the crop was much better. The harvest included extra large red ones, medium red, medium yellow and very small yellow (one bite size). Having had…
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Visit to Kin Yuc Tilapia Farm in Motul near Merida, Mex.
Visited the Kin Yuc Tilapia farm in Motul, abour 50 Km from Merida Yucatan Mexico. The farm has 6 – 12M Diameter tanks and 2-8M Diameter tanks, the former for the larger fish and the latter for the fingerlings. Photos attached feeding the fingerlings, harvesting the tilapia, sorting and weighing the tilapia, and the tank…
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Guerrilla Marketing in Belize
Congratulations to the management of the Bowen group for their remarkable and creative marketing strategies employed over the last few months. Their sponsorship allows them to move th eRuta Maya landing in Burrel Boom to about half mile or a mile from the original landing location thereby hijacking sales from other competitors. They also through…
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Entrepreneurship in the Micro-Micro Business Sector
Two basic requirements of entrepreneurship include courage and judgement. Judgement to select the best business ideas and courage to start with the first step. Many people have one but not the other. So many people have the greatest ideas, but they never go beyond being ideas, and so many people have courage and start businesses…
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Making wine from Suriname Cherries at the Savannah
By early February 2012 the Suriname Cherries were in abundance at the Savannah, and while some friends were given some whole fruit which when totally ripe they are a dark red and very sweet, there was a dilemma as to what to do about the volume of cherries that were falling. And then I decided…
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Tilapia Fest in Merida – Fiesta de Tilapia en Merida
English & Spanish (scroll down for Spanish Version) Ingles y Espanol ( Version en espanol debajo del de ingles) Every day we learn something new, while in Merida, Mexico for two weeks on a family visit, we participated in a Tilapia backyard party, While some of the tilapia was fried, some were completely salted on…
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Texting at Work
A member of management took this pic on Holy Thursday when the supermarket was very busy. This is the second pic. On taking the first pic, the flash went off and the girl looked up, kinda surprised, but continued to text. She did the same after the second text, and even after looking at me…
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Belize Celebrations and the Micro-Micro Entrepreneur
In Belize we celebrate in September a series of National/Patriotic historical events. These celebrations include the 214th(2012) anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye which took place in 1798 and is celebrated on September 10th every year and that of Independence day which takes place on September 21st; this year (2012)marks the 31st. anniversary…
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The Best Tacos in Orange Walk Town, Belize
On Monday when passing through Orange Walk, the people I was with only wanted to stop at a specific Taco Shop. While there I noticed that only one Taco Shop had customers, and the other next to it had none. From a Business/Marketing standpoint why does one have zero customers and the other has an…
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