Chuck Close :: essays research papers

Chuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits. Close is one of the very few modern realists or photorealists who focus on the human face. In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column. He regained partial use of his arms, and was able to return to painting after developing techniques which allowed him to work from a wheelchair.All of Close’s works are based on photographs he takes himself. Close always follows the same guidelines in planning a painting. The source photograph is a tightly cropped head and shoulder shot. The subject is a family member or friend. The finished work is always titled by the subject’s first name alone (with the exception of â€Å"Self-Portrait†). This decision was intended to project an aura of anonymity, allowing viewers to approach the work without preconceived ideas about the sitter.Close’s working method is extremely labor-intensive. He begins by dividing his source photograph into a grid and creating a corresponding grid on the canvas. He then meticulously transcribes the image onto the canvas square by square, proceeding from the top left to the bottom right. Some of the largest canvases contain thousands of squares; Close completes all of his paintings by hand. Given the painstaking nature of this work, some of the earlier large-scale paintings took up to fourteen months to complete.Close's work falls into two periods, the early and the middle, in which he is now fruitfully engaged. It is easy to divide the two periods on either side of Close's 1988 stroke that left him unable to hold a brush. (He paints with his brush tied to his hand by a metal and Velcro device.) Close started to work with bolder, more expressive and colorful marks before his great physical trauma. The new work is both the same; they're recognizable as works by Close and could be by no one else He still uses the grid and he still paints heads. Although the amount of information the new pictures carry is less than the old, the characters depicted seem warmer, more immediate, and more exuberant.Close's repertory of marks has changed dramatically. In place of the discreet dots and miniature strokes of his early work, not to mention the pictures constructed of fingerprints he made in the early'80s, each of the enlarged squares in the new grids contains colorful, painterly marks that function as mini- abstract paintings of their own.

Island of the Sequined Love Nun Chapter 27~28

27 Girl Talk Sepie washed the pilot's hair in a bowl with pounded coconut and brackish water. She had been taking care of the unconscious white man for two days and it was starting to get tedious. She was mispel of the bachelors' house, and washing and ministering to a sick and stinky white man was not in her job description. This was women's work. There are legends in the islands, and some of the old men swear they are true, that the women who service the bachelors' houses, the mispels, were taken to the secret island of Maluuk, known only to the high navigators, where they were trained in the art of pleasuring a man. After months of training, a mispel was required to pass a test before she was allowed to return to her home island to take over the duty of tending to the sexual needs of the men of the bachelors' house. The test? She was sent into the ocean with a ripe brown coconut clutched between her thighs, and there she floated, in heavy surf, for the entire circuit of the tides. Should the coconut pop loose or the mispel touch it with her hands, she failed the test (although there was some leeway in the event of shark attack). It is said that the inner thighs of the mispels of old were as strong as net cable. The second part of the test required the girl to find a delicate dragonfly orchid with a straight stem, and while her teachers looked on, she would lower herself over the flower until it disappeared inside of her, then rise again after a few minutes, leaving the stem unbent and the petals unbruised. The mispel held a position of honor, respected and revered among the is-landers. She was n ot required to do housekeeping, cooking, or weaving, and while the other women toiled in taro fields from the time they could walk, a mispel was allowed to nap in the shade, conserving her energy for her nocturnal duties. A mispel often ended her tour of duty by marrying a man of high status. No stigma followed her into married life, and she would be sought out to the end of her days by the other women for advice on handling men. Sepie, however, had not been chosen because of any special skill, nor had she passed through any vigorous concubinal boot camp. Sepie had been marked for mispel from the moment of her menses, when she emerged from the women's house with her lavalava tied a bit too high and showing a bit too much cappuccino thigh, her skin rubbed with copra until she glistened all over, and her breasts shining like polished wooden tea cups. She had painted her lips with the juice of crushed berries and peppered her long black hair with scores of sweet jasmine blossoms. She giggled coquettishly in the presence of all the men, danced dangerously close to the taboo of speaking to them in public, risked beatings by refusing to fall to her knees when her male cousins passed, and went about her chores with a wiggly energy that had caused more than one of the distracted village boys to fall out of a breadfruit tree during harvest. (She broke ankles as well as hearts.) Sepie was all titter and tease, a lazy g irl who excelled at leisure, a natural at invoking and denying desire, a wet dream deferred. At fifteen she took up residence in the bachelors' house and had lived there for four years. When Malink and the men brought the flyer and the man in the dress to her, she knew she was in for some trouble. â€Å"Take care of them,† Malink said. â€Å"Feed them. Help to make them strong.† Sepie kept her head bowed while Malink spoke, but when he finished she took his hand and led him into the bachelors' house, gesturing to the other men to lay the flyer and his friend on the ground outside. The men smiled among themselves, thinking that old Malink was going inside to receive a special favor from the mispel. What, in fact, he was receiving was an ass chewing. â€Å"Why don't you take them to your house, Malink? I don't want them here.† â€Å"It's a secret. If my wife and daughters find out they are here, then everyone will know.† â€Å"I'm the only one who can keep a secret in the bachelors' house. Take them to old Sarapul's house. No one goes there.† â€Å"He wants to eat them.† Malink couldn't remember ever having to argue with a woman and he wasn't at all prepared for it. â€Å"You're chief. Tell him not to. I will not cook for them. If I feed them, they will shit. I'm not going to clean it up.† â€Å"Sepie, what will you do when you marry and have children? You will have to do these things then. I am asking you as your chief to do these things.† â€Å"No,† Sepie said. Malink sighed. â€Å"I am asking you to do these things because these men have been sent to us by Vincent.† Sepie didn't know what to say. She had heard the Sky Priestess chastise Malink in front of the people, but she had been more concerned with losing coffee and sugar for a month than with the actual offense. â€Å"You will tell the men to cook for them?† â€Å"Yes.† â€Å"And they will carry them to the beach and wash them if they shit?† â€Å"I will tell them. Please, Sepie.† No man had ever said â€Å"please† to her before, let alone the chief. It was not a courtesy that women deserved. For the first time she realized how desperate Malink really was. â€Å"And you will tell Abo to wash his dick when it is his turn.† â€Å"What does that have to do with this?† â€Å"He is stinky.† â€Å"I will tell him.† â€Å"And you will tell Favo to quit making me put beads in his ass.† â€Å"Favo does that?† â€Å"He said he learned it from the Japanese.† â€Å"Really? Favo?† â€Å"Yes.† â€Å"But he's old, and he has a wife and many grandchildren.† â€Å"He says it makes his spear stronger.† â€Å"He does? I mean, does it work?† Malink had momentarily forgotten why he was here. â€Å"I don't like it. It is evil and unclean.† â€Å"You're talking about my old friend Favo, right? He's the one you're talking about?† â€Å"I told him only bachelors were suppose to stay here, but he says his wife doesn't understand him. His hands are like the skin of a shark.† â€Å"What kind of beads?† â€Å"Tell him,† Sepie said. â€Å"Okay,† Malink said in English. Then to himself he said: â€Å"Old Favo.† He shook his head as he walked out of the bachelors' house. â€Å"Beads.† Sepie watched him go, wishing that she had asked for more favors. Outside the men were grinning when Malink stepped into the moonlight. He hitched up his loincloth and averted his eyes from theirs. â€Å"Take them inside. You must cook and clean for them. Don't let the woman do it. It is too important for her.† As the men carried Tuck and Kimi into the bachelors' house, Favo ambled up to Malink. â€Å"How was it?† Malink looked at his old friend and noticed for the first time that Favo wore a long string of ivory beads around his neck. â€Å"I have to go home now,† Malink said. Sepie was, once again, swabbing up the wooden floor where the pilot had urinated on himself, when she heard the other one speak for the first time. The men had propped the Filipino up in the corner, where he had sat drinking the coconut milk and fish broth that she had been pouring into the pilot, but except for a few grunts when he made his way outside to urinate, the man in the dress had been quiet for two days. Sepie had learned to ignore him. He didn't smell as bad as the pilot, and she sort of liked his flowered dress. She'd said a prayer to Vincent for a dress just like it. â€Å"Where is Roberto?† the Filipino said. Sepie jumped. It didn't surprise her so much that he had spoken, but that he had spoken in her language. Although the words were clipped, the way someone from Iffallik or Satawan might speak. â€Å"He's right here,† she said. â€Å"Your friend stinks. You should take him outside and wash him in the sea.† â€Å"That's not Roberto. That's Tucker. Roberto is shorter.† Kimi crawled over to Tuck and laid his hand on the flyer's forehead. â€Å"He has bad fever. You have medicine?† â€Å"Aspirin,† Sepie said. Malink had given her a bottle of the tablets to crush into the flyer's broth, but after he gagged on the first dose she had stopped giving it to him. â€Å"He is more sick than aspirin. He needs a doctor. You have a doctor?† â€Å"We have the Sorcerer. He does our medicine. He was a doctor before the Sky Priestess came.† Kimi looked at her. â€Å"What island is this?† â€Å"Alualu.† â€Å"Ha! We have to get doctor for Tucker. He owes me five hundred dollars.† Sepie's eyes went wide. No wonder he wears such a fine dress. Five hundred dollars! She said, â€Å"The chief says I have to be secret about this man. Everyone knows he is here. The boys get drunk and talk. But I can't get the doctor.† â€Å"Why are you taking care of him? You are just a girl.† â€Å"I am not just a girl. I am mispel.† Kimi scoffed. â€Å"There are no mispels anymore.† Sepie threw down the rag she was using to wipe the floor. â€Å"What do you know? You are a man in a dress, and I don't believe you have five hundred dollars.† â€Å"It was a nice dress before the typhoon,† Kimi said. â€Å"Wash-and-wear. No dry cleaning.† Sepie nodded as if she knew what he was talking about. â€Å"It is a very pretty dress. I like it.† â€Å"You do?† Kimi picked at the crushed pleats around his legs. â€Å"It's just an old thing I picked up in Manila. It was on sale. You really like it?† Sepie didn't understand. Among her people, if you admired someone's else possession, manners bound them to give it to you. How could this silly man speak her language and still not know her customs. And he wasn't even looking at her that way all men looked at her. â€Å"What island do you come from?† â€Å"Satawan,† Kimi said. â€Å"I am a navigator.† Sepie scoffed. â€Å"There are no more navigators.† Just then the doorway darkened and they looked up to see Abo, the fierce one, entering the bachelors' house. He was lean and heavily muscled and he wore a permanent scowl on his face. The sides of his head were shaved and tattooed with images of hammerhead sharks. He wore his hair tied into a warrior's topknot that had gone out of fashion a hundred years ago. â€Å"Has the pilot awakened?† he growled. Sepie looked down and smiled coyly. Abo was the one boy in the bachelors' house who didn't seem to accept the communal nature of her position. He was always jealous, enraged, or brooding, but he brought her many presents, sometimes even copies of People that he stole from the men's drinking circle. Sepie thought she might marry him someday. â€Å"He is too sick for this,† Kimi said. â€Å"We need to take him to the doctor.† â€Å"Malink says he must stay here until he is well.† â€Å"He is dying.† Kimi said. Abo looked at Sepie for confirmation. â€Å"Well, he smells dead,† she said. The sooner they sent the pilot to the Sorcerer, the sooner she could get back to spending her days swimming and preening. â€Å"Malink will be angry if he dies,† she added for good measure. Abo nodded. â€Å"I will tell him.† He pointed to Kimi. â€Å"You come with me.† Kimi got up to leave, then turned back to Sepie when he reached the doorway. â€Å"If Roberto comes, tell him I'll be right back.† Sepie shrugged. â€Å"Who is Roberto?† â€Å"He's a fruit bat. From Guam. You can tell by his accent.† â€Å"Oh, him. I think Sarapul ate him,† Sepie said casually.† Kimi turned and ran screaming into the village. Malink looked up from his breakfast, a banana leaf full of fish and rice, to see Abo coming down the coral path toward his house. Malink's wife and daughters shuffled to the cookhouse at the sight of the fierce one. â€Å"Good morning, Chief,† Abo said. â€Å"Food?† Malink answered, gesturing with his breakfast. Abo had already eaten, but it would have been rude not to accept. â€Å"Yes.† Malink's wife poked her head out of the cookhouse and saw the chief nod. In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence. â€Å"The pilot is sick,† Abo said. â€Å"Very bad fever. Sepie and the girl-man say that he will die soon without the Sorcerer's help.† Malink suddenly lost his appetite. He set his breakfast on the ground and one of his daughters appeared out of nowhere to take it to the cookhouse, where the women shared what was left. â€Å"And what do you think?† Malink asked. â€Å"I think he is dying. He smells of sickness. Like when Tamu was bitten by the shark and his leg turned black.† Malink rubbed his temples. How to handle this? The Sky Priestess was angry with him for even dreaming of the pilot. What would happen if he suddenly showed up with him? â€Å"What about the girl-man?† â€Å"He is not sick, but he has gone crazy. He runs around the village looking for Sarapul.† Malink nodded. â€Å"Catch him and tie him up. Make a litter and take the pilot to the betel nut trees by the runway. Leave him there.† â€Å"Leave him there?† â€Å"Yes, quickly. And bring the litter back with you. Make it look as if he walked to the runway. Send a boy to me when it is done. Go now.† Abo put down his food and ran off down the path. Malink went into his house and pulled the ammo box out of the rafters. Inside, next to the portable phone, he found the Zippo that Vincent had given him. He clicked it open, lit it, and sat it on the floor while it burned. â€Å"Vincent,† he said, â€Å"It's your friend Malink here. Please tell the Sky Priestess that this is not my fault. Tell her that you have sent the pilot. Please tell her for your friend Malink so she will not be angry. Amen.† His prayer finished, Malink snapped the lighter shut, put it away, then took the portable phone and went outside to wait for the boy to tell him everything was in place. 28 Choose Your Own Nightmare Tucker Case rolled through a fever dream where he was tossed in great elastic waves of bat-winged demons – crushed, smothered, bitten, and scratched – and there, amid the chaos, a pink fabric softener sheet passed by the corner of his eye, confirming that he had been stuffed into a dryer in the laundromat of Hell. He tumbled toward the pink, ascended out of the clawing mass, and awoke gasping, with no idea where he was. The pink was a dress on a heart-faced woman who said, â€Å"Good morning, Mr. Case. Welcome back to the world.† A man's voice: â€Å"After your message and the typhoon, we thought for sure you'd been lost at sea.† He was a white blur with a head, then a lab coat wrapped around a tall, smiling middle-aged man, gray and balding, a stethoscope around his neck. The doctor had his arm around the heart-faced woman. She too was smiling, with the aspect of an angel, the vessel of human kindness. Together they looked as if they had walked off of fifties television. The man said, â€Å"I'm Dr. Sebastian Curtis, Mr. Case. This is my wife, Beth.† Tuck tried to speak, but emitted only a rasping squeak. The woman lifted a plastic cup of water to his lips and he drank. He eyed the IV bag running into his arm. â€Å"Glucose and antibiotics,† the doctor said. â€Å"You've got some badly infected wounds. The islanders found you washed up on the reef.† Tucker did a quick inventory of his limbs by feel, then looked at them lest he had lost a leg that was still giving off phantom feel ing. He raised his head to look at his crotch, which was sending pulses of pain up through his abdomen. The woman gently pushed him down. â€Å"You're going to be fine. They found you in time, but you're going to need more rest. ‘Bastian can give you something for the pain if you need it.† She smiled beatifically at her husband, who patted Tuck's arm. â€Å"Don't be embarrassed, Mr. Case. Beth is a surgical nurse. I'm afraid the catheter will have to stay in for a few days.† â€Å"There was another guy with me,† Tuck said. â€Å"A Filipino. He was piloting the boat.† The doctor and his wife shot each other a glance and the â€Å"Ozzie and Harriet† calm shattered into panic, but only for a second, then they were back to their reassuring cooing. Tuck wasn't even sure he had seen the break. â€Å"I'm sorry, but the islanders didn't find anyone else. He must have been lost in the storm.† â€Å"But the tree. He was hung in the tree†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Beth Curtis put her finger gently on his lips. â€Å"I'm sorry you lost your friend, Mr. Case, but you need to get some rest. I'll bring you something to eat in a little while and we'll see if you can hold down some solid food.† She pulled her hand away and put her arm around her husband's waist as he pushed a syringe of fluid into Tuck's IV tube. â€Å"We'll check on you shortly,† the doctor said. Tucker watched them walk away and noticed that for all her â€Å"Little House on the Prairie† purity, Beth Curtis had a nice shape under that calico. Then he felt a little sleazy, as if he'd been caught horning on a friend's mom. Like the time, drunk and full of himself, he'd hit on Mary Jean Dobbins. To hell with solid food. Gin – in large quantities over a tall column of ice – that's the rub. Tonic to chase away the blues of bad dreams and men lost at sea. Tuck looked around the room. It was a small hospital ward. Only four beds, but amazingly clean considering where it was. And there was some pretty serious-looking equipment against the walls: technical stuff on casters, stuff you might use in complicated surgery or to set the timing on a Toyota. He was sure Jake Skye would know what it was. He thought about the Learjet, then felt himself starting to doze. Sleep came with the face of a cannibal, leg-jerk dreams, and finally settled in on the oiled breasts of a brown girl brushing against his face and smelling of coconut and flowers. There was a scratch and scuttle on the tin roof, followed by the bark of a fruit bat. Tuck didn't hear it. The pig thief had been caught and Jefferson Pardee had to find a new lead story. He sat at his desk pouring over the notes he'd written on a yellow legal pad, hoping that something would jump out at him. In fact, there wasn't a lot of jumping material there. The notes read: â€Å"They caught the pig thief. Now what?† You could run down the leads, pound the pavement, check all your facts with two sources, then structure your meticulously gathered information into the inverted pyramid form and what you got was: The pig's owner had gotten drunk and beat up his wife, so she sold his pig to someone on the outer islands and bought a used stun gun from an ensign with the Navy Cat team. The next time her husband got rough, a group of Japanese tourists found him by the side of the road, sizzling in the dirt like a strip of frying bacon. Mistaking him for a street performer, the tourists clapped joyously, took pictures of each other standing beside the electrocuted man, and gave his wife five dollars. The whole intrigue had been exposed when police found the pig-stealing wife in front of the Continental Hotel charging tourists a dollar apiece to watch her zap her husband's twitching supine body. The stun gun was confiscated, no charges were pressed, and the wife beater was pronounced unharmed by a Peace Co rps volunteer, although he did need to be reminded several times of his name, where he lived, and how many children he had. The mystery was solved and the Truk Star had no lead story. Jefferson Pardee was miserable. He was actually going to have to go out and find a story or, as he had done so many time before, make one up. The Micro Spirit was in port. Maybe he'd go down to the dock and see if he could stir up some news out of the crew. He slid his press card into the band of his Australian bush hat and waddled out the door and down the dusty street to the pier where rock-hard, rope-muscled islanders were loading fifty-five-gallon drums into cargo nets and hoisting them into the holds of the Micro Spirit. The Micro Spirit and the Micro Trader were sister ships: small freighters that cruised the Micronesian crescent carrying cargo and passengers to the outer islands. There were no cabins other than those of the captain and crew. Passengers traveled and slept on the deck. Pardee waved to the first mate, a heavily tattooed Tongan who stood at the rail chewing betel nut and spitting gooey red comets over the side. â€Å"Ahoy!† Pardee called. â€Å"Permission to come aboard.† The mate shook his head. â€Å"Not until we finish loading this jet fuel. I'll come down. How you doing, Scoop?† Pardee had convinced the crew of the Micro Spirit to call him â€Å"Scoop† one drunken night in the Yumi Bar. He watched the mate vault over the railing at the bow and monkey down a mooring line to the dock with no more effort than if he was walking down stairs. Watching him made Pardee sad that he was a fat man. The mate strolled up to Pardee and pumped his hand. â€Å"Good to see you.† â€Å"Likewise,† Pardee said. â€Å"Where you guys in from?† â€Å"We bring chiefs in from Wolei for a conference. Pick up some tuna and copra. Same, same.† Pardee looked back at the sailors loading the barrels. â€Å"Did you say jet fuel? I thought the Mobil tankers handled all the fuel for Continental.† Continental was the only major airline that flew Micronesia. â€Å"Mobil tankers won't go to Alualu. No lagoon, no harbor. We going to Ulithi, then take this fuel special order to the doctor on Alualu.† Pardee took a moment to digest the information. â€Å"I thought the Micro Trader did Yap and Palau States. What are you going all the way over there for?† â€Å"Like I say, special order. Moen has jet fuel, we here in Moen, doctor wants jet fuel soon, so we go. I like it. I never been Alualu and I know a girl on Ulithi.† Pardee couldn't help but smile. This was a story in itself. Not a big one, but when the Trader or the Spirit changed schedules it made the paper. But there was more of a story somewhere in those barrels of jet fuel, in the ru-mor of armed guards, and in the two pilots that had passed through Truk on the way to No One's Island. The question for Pardee was: Did he want to track it down? Could he track it down? â€Å"When do you sail?† he asked the mate. â€Å"Tomorrow morning. We get drunk together tonight Yumi Bar. My boys carry you home if you want. Hey?† The mate laughed. Pardee felt sick. That was what they knew him for, a fat, drunken white man who they could carry home and then tell stories about. â€Å"I can't drink tonight. I'm sailing with you in the morning. I've got to get ready.† The mate removed the betel nut cud from his cheek and tossed it into the sea, where tiny yellow fish rose to nip at it. He eyed Pardee suspiciously. â€Å"You going to leave Truk?† â€Å"It's not that big a deal. I've gone off-island before for a story.† â€Å"Not in ten years I sail the Spirit.† â€Å"Do you have room for another passenger or not?† â€Å"We always have room. You know you have to sleep on deck?† Pardee was beginning to get irritated. He needed a beer. â€Å"I've done this before.† The mate shook his head as if clearing his ears of water and laughed. â€Å"Okay, we sail six in morning. Be on dock at five.† â€Å"When do you come back this way?† â€Å"A month. You can fly from Yap if you don't want to come back with us.† â€Å"A month?† He'd have to get someone to run the paper while he was gone. Or maybe not. Would anyone even notice he was gone? Pardee said, â€Å"I'll see you in the morning. Don't get too drunk.† â€Å"You too,† the mate said. Pardee made his way down the dock, feeling every bit of his two hundred and sixty pounds. By the time he made it back to the street, he was soaked with sweat and yearning for a dark air-conditioned bar. He shook off the craving and headed for the Catholic high school to ask the nuns if they had any bright students who might keep the paper running in his absence. He was going to do it, dammit. He'd be on the dock at five if he had to stay up all night drinking to do it.

Profitability of Network Marketing Business in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated at Quezon City Essay

Introduction Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like business-minded people recognize, create or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity. There are several prominent business networking organizations that create models of networking activity that, when followed, allow the business person to build new business relationships and generate business opportunities at the same time.Network Marketing Businesses (MLM) in the Philippines is spreading like a virus. Many Filipinos are so crazy engaging in these kind of business, from Top Multilevel Network Marketing Companies to some unregistered Network Marketing Businesses in the Philippines Especially if they heard about the â€Å"kitaan† or â€Å"compensation plan† and they see the ‘million-income-potential’, they tend to take the lure and register to the Network Marketing company they are invited in. Many business people oppose networking business is more cost-effective method of generating new business than public relations  effort. This is because business networking is a low-cost activity that comprises more personal commitment than company money. Researchers were able to study the importance of investing in the Network Marketing Business. The advantages of this kind of business, especially how high the profits you may get, will surely guides everyone in engaging on the right company for them. There are lots of learning opportunities that a person to be involved in a network marketing business will acquire. One of those opportunities is learning how to sell. Not all individual have the skills to presents their self in front of many people or customers. Once a person gets into a business networking, the skills in selling and persuading as well, and the good interaction to other people are developed. As the researchers tried to know the reason why some people gets involved in a Network Marketing Business like Frontrow Enterprise Phil. Inc.; as a survey, people who engaged at Frontrow Enterprise are getting a high range income. On the other hand, the researchers tried to assess the increase of the demand in getting into a Network Marketing Business; they tend to study how money circulates and how this kind of business improves the lifestyle of people. The purpose of the study is to know the profitability of engaging in the Network Marketing Business; the type of transaction uses in the business; and how the income increases by communicating to other people. Background of the Study Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated is a dynamic and rapidly expanding direct selling company in the health, beauty, and wellness industry in the Philippines today. It is a 100 percent Filipino owned corporation spearheaded by two of the most-promising new-breeds of entrepreneurs, Raymond ‘RS’ Francisco and Samuel ‘Sam’ Verzosa. They are graduates of University of the Philippines and orgmates of UP Samahan ng mga Mag-aaral sa Komunikasyon (UP Samaskon). Raymond ‘RS’ Francisco, a graduate of B.A. Mass Communication and he’s been in the advertising industry since 1997, where he has directed a lot of T.V Commercials such as Pantene, GSM Blue, Chow King, Close-up, McDonald’s, Globe, Smart and other. Together with his partner, Samuel ‘Sam’ Versoza a licensed Civil Engineer and took another  challenging road that is sales and marketing. Here he mastered the art of sales and communication where he emerged as a well-respected and promising entrepreneur. He earned his first million at the age of 22. Through the years, the rapport between the new blood of businessmen, they introduced a new formula for success in the multi-level marketing industry in order to build a more forward-driven company that is FRONTROW. (Frontrow Enterprise Phil., Inc., 2010) Statement of the Problem This research paper sought to answer the following questions: 1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents? In terms of: I.1 Age I.2 Gender I.3 Economic Status 2. What is the profitability gained by the respondents in engaging at Frontrow Enterprise Phils., Inc.? 3. What is the importance of investing at Network Marketing Business to the Global Reciprocal Colleges? Significance of the Study The significance of the study can be perceived in the following: To Students . The proposed study serves as the reference and guide for students as they enter the business industry. It will also help the students that are taking business related courses to know and identify the best and easiest way of earning money. It could be helpful for students to earn extra income while studying without interfering their studies. This study can help students to decide on which field of business they want to be focus on, this can be included to their options. To Teachers. The proposed study will help teachers to have deeper understanding about Network Marketing Business. As they discuss the information about networking business, students tend to try and explore what the opportunities are there in networking business. To Future Researchers. The proposed study will benefits and help the future researchers as their guide. The study can also open an opportunity for development of this study. This study can also serve as a summary for next researchers for deeper understanding and for extra knowledge or additional information. Scope and Limitations The study focuses on the profitability at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated located at Quezon City as they give benefits to those who invest on their company .The respondents of the research study are the neophyte business men who engage or engaging to networking business. The study will also include some points in gaining more income rather than setting up your own business. By determining the profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated this 2012, by using survey questionnaire that will perform. The study does not cover any Network Marketing Company that is not important to the research work. Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature and Studies This chapter presents the review of related literature and local studies. Related Literature Always remember that network marketing is a team business. In order to make money in this field you must be prepared to work closely with your team members. Welcome them to the team, introduce yourself as their upline and offer help if they need it. Some of your team members will respond, others will not, work with the ones who do respond. These are your potentially strong members and are the lifeblood of your business. Try to build relationships with these members by offering help and discussing marketing techniques. Remember the team concept, your downline’s success is your success, you will all profit together. If something has been successful with you share, and encourage your team members to share their successes with their downline. In this way you will spread success to all members and build a strong active team, who are continually adding dedicated people to  the team. Cooperation of everyone can put each member to a profitable businessman. Most of all the students experience this kind of situation, participation of each member to perform a certain job, sharing ideas and helping to get their goals. As one of the researcher experience the difficulties and successfulness in a group. Encountering some member will not agree to the given ideas and conflict of philosophies but as it go through, performing of each member will come out because of the given task that should be done and clear. At the end, the result will benefit each member for their due diligence. In networking business, interaction with other people is indispensable to be profitable and get a long tenure in the field of networking. By helping the member to recruit new member will increase the salary of both sides. This networking business, frontrow enterprise Philippines incorporated, team members need to function for the sake of themselves and earn high profit as everyone looking for. For a start-up or small business, networking can provide a lifeline of support and business generation. Networking can help you improve your business performance, products and staff skills. It can also help you develop knowledge and skills, by providing opportunities to: Participate in benchmarking, which can help you identify areas where you can improve your business performance. You can use networking to boost your reputation and gather new leads. You can: raise your business profile by becoming an established and regular networking member, getting your face and the business known; meet new people and build mutually beneficial business relationships; expand your markets by generating new business contacts with potential customers, suppliers and partners; establish overseas partnerships, eg through international exhibitions and conferences Networks can also be a key source of information and support. You can: compare and discuss issues of common interest, eg legal and regulatory developments, staff retention, supplier networks, customer service and technological breakthroughs develop and share ideas, innovation and knowledge of best practice Simply selling products is the common thoughts of other about networking but actually that is definitely wrong. Networking is communicating to people and building a business relationship. By investing Php. 5,999 for silver member or Php. 10,999 for gold member as the starting  of the business transaction and when the time comes that the person who invest is already a member of network marketing, the networking company provide some products that can be use or sell. The products that the company gave as a starting line were help people to earn extra income, the most important thing here is to get involve yourself to the company and invite other to join. It can be call this process a circular motion. Making business relationship to others is the best way of earning high profit. Every member of the group will contribute and useful for a better result. In frontrow after joining in the group the team group will explain more about the company and how to be a millionaire. Team group will use the new person who is interested to join and make it invest to the company and the new invited person will do the same to earn also and recruit as more as can. The process of payment and earning profit are, In Frontrow the group member/employee will get P500.00 for each person convinced to invest and P1000 for every partner in silver member, for gold member is P1000 for each recruit and P2000 for every partner. The group member/employee can also earn by means of invites of their group member. So that is network marketing why earning money is faster than the other businesses. Network marketing will help us in earning money, especially for students because it helps students to earn money without inconvenience in their studies. And it will also help to build self-confidence and having a good communication to others, the reason why is networking need to be powerful in communication and have a knowledge to deliver the ideas into one another. But first, believing to yourself and having a high confidence is more important. Here in network marketing, making business relationship is very important. Engaging a large group of team members and cross selling is one of the most important aspects in becoming profitable in a Network Marketing Business. Keen business sense is required as well as your tact in speaking to your network of business people. The smoother and more dedicated you are, the more money you will make from your work efforts. As you begin to build your network marketing business first imagine a large network of outlets of people. Belief you will be able to reach a large base of clients who will be thrilled to use your product or service in your network marketing business. Each network and person who knows about your services and product represents  the potential for sales. The more networks and people you influence the more products you will be able to sell. Once you have established a client base cross selling to existing clients becomes a way to maximize profits. Generating repeated sales is easier when your product is usable and consumed like the sale of soaps, vitamins and shoes as opposed to selling a piece of furniture for instance. When you have a team of members on your side helping you to build your network marketing business it becomes easier to motivate these entrepreneurs to make additional sales when you are excited in lieu of going out to try to find a new team member. Your main goal is to build a group of team members that is wide and deep however it is more profitable to build wide in getting fresh new business people on board to try out your product and unique business opportunity. Building a deep network will assure you business security and building deep will equal profitability. To make a network marketing business profitable, people who will engage must have to build teams. Frontrow conducts seminar for the people to know more about networking business and how it improves lifestyle. The company will orient the people who engage to elaborate more of the company’s profile when they are about to deal with future clients. The person who undergoes the discussion about Frontrow, will surely have the power to talk and convince people who will help them to have team and profit. . The main goal of networking marketing business is to build a group of team members that is wide and deep however it is more profitable to build wide in getting fresh new business people on board to try your product and unique opportunity. This is the fundamental thing that so few understand when it comes to the MLM industry. If you want to create a business that lasts, in this industry, you have to be willing to work hard at least in the very beginning. You can build your business as part time as you want in as few as hours as you want but that also means you can take as long as you want. I suggest putting as much time as possible into your business without overly sacrificing your sanity or your family, at least in the beginning. When you get your business to over $10,000 a month residually, you can afford to go  on more trips and vacations. This is the main point of our industry. There is light at the end of the tunnel. With almost all small businesses and almost all jobs, there is no light. You trade dollars for hours, as you rise the rank and compensation ladder, more is expected of you and if you want to slow down, especially in these times, you might get booted out. In this industry, it actually, to the contrary, gets easier. Now, most flake out before they get to the easy part. They either give up out of lack of faith or work ethic or they get to a point where they are making money and take their foot off the gas or lose their focus too soon. Beware of these as they are the killers of the greatly talented. I see it on a DAILY basis where someone of great talent destroys what they were in the process of building to do something else or slack off and think they are at a point where it will automatically grow. There is a 99% chance that you will NOT get to a point of lifetime automatic income prior to 2-3 years of intense focus. Now you know why so few people have what it takes, but, armed with this knowledge, you now do. To sell products is the perception of some people in networking business. Networking business is not actually centered in selling products but they invite people who will help them to build a profitable business. If you engage in a networking business, they will give you their products as part of your investment. In Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated, to sell products is just an option for you. If you invest in their company, you will receive their products and it is up to you if you will sell it or use it for your own needs. They will focus to teach you on how to interact with other people in order for you to convince them and to build your downlines. In making your networking business profitable, you must be able to exert effort in doing that business. Even some people take it as their part time, it needs a hard work for them to earn profit. Interacting with other people is one of the eagerness of the person in doing their business cost-effective. Some person who engaged in FRONTROW is still students and they can support themselves by the money they receive. Company events and recruitment tactics have hyped things like earnings potential, creating the impression that it’s only a matter of time before you will be rolling in Cadillacs and caviar. Most network marketing recruits never achieve that level of success. In fact, the majority of network marketing recruits never even realize a profit. Network marketing  can be profitable – it just takes an organized and structured approach to get there. Towards that end, these network marketing business tips should come in handy: Understand Your Costs; Create Lists; Make Sales Calls; Stay Focused; Leverage Team Resources. There are strategies and techniques in making your business more profitable. Once you invest in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated, they will able to orient you for you to know the organizational culture and the strategies on how you will expand your business. People who will invest should have hard work in recruiting or inviting others to be their downlines and help them as well in building their business. Related Study The New Economy has arrived- It is a global revolution challenging businesses’ status quo. It has opened up new structures, new strategies, and new markets with the internet as its foundation; traditional ways of doing business has been changing in a faster face. This thesis attempts to propose a model for New Economy business, especially in the telecom industry. It analyzes five telecom companies in Asia, discusses their experiences and current models, applies the to their respective countries microenvironment analysis and fits them into the New Economy description for the Philippine environment. This research examined the characteristics and practices peculiar to home video shop in Baguio city and tried to determine the level of profitability and rate of return on investment that this establishment enjoys it went into a thorough investigation of the prevailing characteristics not only of the shops but of the type of customers they cater to. The problems that beset the operators of these establishment were likewise examined, their causes determined, and recommendations on how to solve them, formulated. The respondents in this study were 88 proprietors of video rental shops that were operating in the city as of November 1993. From their responses, the needed information was gathered and analyzed to check on the veracity of the subjects responses in the questionnaire-checklist, the main data-gathering instrument, informal interviews and participant observation were conducted by the researcher. How profitable when you engage to a networking business like Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated? Earning a high salary, strategies and skills in communication is to lead the networking businessman into a high profit. It is also by helping of each member in a group to make them both profitable. By engaging in Frontrow, people need to work harder to earn high profit and communicate to get more recruits. Conceptual Framework The profitability of network marketing business in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines at Quezon City was shown by the survey questionnaire that was given to the employees and recruits at FRONTROW. It was conducted by the researchers to seek answers on how to gain or earn profit in a networking business. It was conducted to gather information about the profitability of engaging at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorported. Paradigm of the Study Definition of Terms Business relationship – creating of each member to built an agreement for the progress of the business. Capital – the sum invested in business. Compensation plan â€Å"Kitaan† – process on how they are rate base on their performance. Engaging – giving or getting involve to a business. Income – proceeds from labor Investment – layout of money productively. Inviting – attracting people to join in a business. Neophyte businessman – beginner businessman. Networking business – is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. Profit – money gain to the work done. Recruit – to furnish new people. Retail Business – business sell in small quantities. Scrutinize – inspect or examine closely the date gathered. Springboard – something that supplies condition for a beginning change or progress. Stress-free-job – working without thinking more obligations. Chapter 3 Research Methodology This chapter discusses the following methods how the researchers gathered information about the present study. Research design  The researcher used Descriptive Method in this research study. This method was applied for the researchers to gather about presenting existing condition of the profitability in engaging at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Inc. The descriptive method helps the researcher to describe the nature of situation as it exist at the time of the study and to explore the causes of particular phenomena. This method congregates to answer questions concerning the procedure of the recruits in engaging at Frontrow and how high profit will earn. That is why it fits the topic about the profitability of network marketing business at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines, Incorporated. Sample and Sampling Technique The researchers used the Random Sampling by selecting the desired sample of the respondents. The total sample population is 100 respondents out of the total number of the employees and invites at Frontrow Enterprise Philippine Incorporated which is 110.The table A presents the distribution of the respondents. Table A Distribution of Respondents Male Female Total Employee 23 27 50 Recruited People 15 35 50 Total 38 62 100 Data Gathering and Procedure The researchers prepared a survey sheet as a springboard to gather information and data. They made sure that the questions on the survey questionnaire are related to their topic, and made the subject teacher check it before distributing them to the students. The survey was done during weekends and free time of class; two researchers went together to the place of the said company, Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Inc at Quezon City and the other five took the seminar . The researchers distributed 15-item questionnaire which is about the Profitability of Network Marketing Business at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated to the employees of Frontrow in 50 respondents and to the invites in 50 respondents. When the Employees and invites are answering the survey questionnaire the researchers asked if there were clarifications and need to add about the given survey sheets. The invites said that that it was clear and they all understood it but in the Employees said that the term of payment was weekly and can increase the profit depends on the recruitment of individual. After an hour, the researchers was able to get the result of the questionnaire and scrutinized the data gathered. Having accomplished gathering the data in a day, the researchers computed the frequency count and percentage. After both data are tallied and computed, it was interpreted through a measurement level such as table and graph. Statistical Treatment of Data Statistical tool such as percentage technique was employed by the researchers to determine and to access the data collected from the research. Percentage technique was used to show the result of the evaluation based on the data gathered from the respondents. This was also applied to acquire the total percentage of the number with the same answer. The formula getting the percentage is: Percentage= n x 100 % = percentage N n= no. of answer N = no. of respondents Chapter 4 Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data This chapter discusses the data gathered from the survey, as well the description of the respondents and the presentation, analysis and the interpretation of the data. Description of the Respondents This research study contains two kinds of respondents-the employees and the recruited people. Their perception and opinions are of great importance to determine the profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated. The table shows the number of respondents, 50 employees of Frontrow and 50 recruited people from Frontrow were selected as respondents of this research. Table 1: Distribution of Respondents Respondents Frequency Percentage Employees 50 50% Recruited People 50 50% Total 100 100% Table 1 shows that the respondents of this study are the employees and the recruited people of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated which has a total of 100 respondents. Table 2: Age of the Respondents Age Employees Recruited People Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage 18 and above 45 45% 39 39% 17 and below 5 5% 11 11% Total 50 50 % 50 50% Table 2 illustrates the distribution of age of the respondents; in employees, 45 or 45% of the respondents has an age ranging from 18 – above and 5 or 5% of the respondents has an age bracket 17 – below. In recruit people 39 or 39% of the respondents has an age ranging from 18 – above and 11 or 11% of the respondents has an age bracket 17 – below. This means that the majority of the respondents has an age bracket of 18 and above in both employees and recruit. Table 3: Gender of the Respondents Gender Employees Recruited People Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage Male 23 23% 15 15% Female 27 27% 35 35% Total 50 50% 50 50% Table 3 shows the genders of the respondents, as shown in employees, 23 males or 23% and 27 females or 27% while in recruited people 15 males or 15% and 35 females or 35%. This means that majority of the respondents in both sides are females. Table 4: Economic Status of the Respondents Monthly income Employees Recruited People Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage 10,000 below 13 13% 16 16% 10,000 – 15,000 9 9% 21 21% 16,000 – 25,000 24 24% 11 11% 26,000 up 4 4% 2 2% Total 50 50% 50 50% Table 4 illustrates the economic status of the respondents. Most of the monthly incomes of the respondents’ respected families are consisted of 24 or 24% which has 10,000 below, 9 or 9% which has 10,000 – 15,000, 13 or 13% which has 16,000 – 25,000 and 4 or 4% which has 26,000 up for the employees. For the recruited people, 16 or 16% has 10,000 below, 21 or 21% has 10,000 – 15,000, 11 or 11% has 16,000 – 25,000 and 2 or 2% which has 26,000 up. This means that out of 50 employees of respondents, 24 or 24% has a monthly income of 16,000 – 25,000 who are engaged in Frontrow while in 50 recruit of respondents, 21 or 21% has a monthly income of 10,000 – 15,000 who are willing to engage in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated. 1. What is the easiest way of earning money? Retailing % Buy and Sell % Networking % Franchising % Employees 9 9% 12 12% 25 25% 4 4% Recruit 8 8% 18 18% 19 19% 5 5% Total 17 17% 30 30% 34 34% 9 9% In question 1, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 9 or 9% of the employees answered retailing, 12 or 12% for buy and sell, 25 or 25% for networking and 4 or 4% for franchising. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 8 or 8% of the recruit answered retailing, 18 or 18% for buy and sell, 19 or 19% for networking and 5 or 5% for franchising. This means that the majority of the respondents both employees and recruit, which is 34 or 34% in total, prefer to choose the easiest way of earning money is networking. 2. Are you satisfied with your monthly income? Yes % No % Employees 4 4% 46 46% Recruit 10 10% 40 40% Total 14 14% 86 86% In question 2, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 4 or 4% of the employees answered yes, while 46 or 46% of the employees answered no. in the other hand, out of 50 recruit respondents, 10 or 10% of the recruit answered yes, while 40 or 40% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of both respondents, which is 86 or 86% in total, are not satisfied to their monthly income. 3. Do you think networking business is a stress-free-job? Yes % No % Employees 38 38% 12 12% Recruit 31 31% 19 19% Total 69 69% 31 31% In question 3, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 38 or 38% of the employees answered yes, while 12 or 12% of the employees answered no. In the other hand, out of 50 recruit respondents, 31 or 31% of the recruit answered yes, while 19 or 19% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 69 or 69% in total, thought that networking business is a stress-free-job. 4. What comes in your mind when you heard about networking business? High High Easy job Selling Commission Investment Range salary Products Based Employees 2 28 8 6 6 Recruit 12 19 13 2 4 Total 14 47 21 8 10 In question 4, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 2 or 2%of the employees answered high investment, 28 or 28% for high range salary, 8 or 8% for easy job, 6 or 6% for selling products and 6 or 6% for commission based. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 12 or 12% of the recruit answered high investment, 19 or 19% for high range salary, 13 or 13% for easy job, 2 or 2% for selling products and 4 or 4% for commission based. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 47 or 47% in total, when they heard networking business the first thing comes on their mind, is having a high range salary. 5. Are you willing to invest in a networking business with as much as Php. 5,988? Yes % No % Employees 50 50% 0 0% Recruit 40 40% 10 10% Total 90 90% 10 10% In question 5, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 50 or 50% answered yes, while 0 or 0% of the employees answered no. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 40 or 40% of the recruit answered yes, while 10 or 10% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 90 or 90% in total, are willing to invest in networking business with as much as Php. 5,988. 6. Do you think investing in networking business is more profitable than any other business? Yes % No % Employees 49 49% 1 1% Recruit 50 50% 0 0% Total 99 99% 1 1% In question 6, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 49 or 49% of the employees answered yes, while 1 or 1% of the employees answered no. Out of recruit respondents, 50 or 50% of the recruit answered yes, while 0 or 0% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 99 or 99% in total, prefer to invest in networking business because of getting a high profit than the other company. 7. In your own perspective, do you think Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated would open more opportunities for you in attaining your success than any other businesses ? Yes % No % Employees 50 50% 0 0% Recruit 47 47% 3 3% Total 97 97% 3 3% In question 7, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 50 or 50% of the employees answered yes, while 0 or 0% of the employees answered no. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 47 or 47% of the recruit answered yes, while 3 o3% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 97 or 97% in total, thought that by investing in Frontrow can open more opportunities to attain your success. 8. Do you think Php. 5,988/Php. 10,988 as investment in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated is too much for a neophyte businessman like you? Yes % No % Employees 7 7% 43 43% Recruit 18 18% 32 32% Total 25 25% 75 75% In question 8, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 7 or 7% of the employees answered yes, while 43 or 43% of the employees answered no. Out of the 50 recruit respondents, 18 or 18% of the recruit answered yes, while 32 or 32% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 75 or 75% in total, thought that Php. 5,988 / Php. 10,988 are enough for a neophyte businessman to invest in a networking business like Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated. 9. Does profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated satisfy your need? Yes % No % Employees 49 49% 1 1% Recruit 40 40% 10 10% Total 89 89% 11 11% In question 9, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 49 or 49% of the employees answered yes, while 1 or 1% of the employees answered no. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 40 or 40% of the recruit answered yes, while 10 or 10% of the recruit answered no. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 89 or 89% in total, said that the profitability in engaging at Frontrow can satisfy their needs. 10. If you are going to engage/invest in Frontrow, what is your main reason? To earn a high income Stress-free-job As part time job/extra income Employees 38 3 9 Recruit 41 3 6 Total 79 6 15 In question 10, out of 50 employees’ respondents, 38 or 38% of the employees answered to earn a high income, 3 or 3% for stress-free-job and 9 or 9% for as part time job. Out of 50 recruit respondents, 41 or 41% of the recruit answered to earn a high income, 3 or 3% for stress-free-job and 6 or 6% for as part time job. This means that the majority of the both respondents, which is 79 or 79% in total, prefer to engage/invest in Frontrow because of earning high income. Frontrow Compensation Plan As shown in this diagram of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated compensation plan explain how the employee earn and how high depends on the number of recruits. Each employee will received Php. 500 for every recruited person and for every pair of recruited people can have an additional salary of Php. 1,000. Chapter 5 Summary, Findings, Conclusion and Recommendation This chapter summarizes the whole research, naming down the findings, the conclusion and the recommendations of the researchers from the data and information that they have gathered from the research study. Summary The research study’s main objective is to know the profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated as a networking business. The survey sheets and seminar were done to gather data from the Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated which is composed of the employees and invites, these were the person who are recruited by the employees. The survey serves as an instrument to collect and gather data from the respondents. Findings Based on the result from the data gathered, the following are the findings drawn from the research study. 1. Most of the respondents are females. Employees are composing of 23 males and 27 females, recruited people are compose of 15 males and 35 females. They have an age bracket of 18- above both the employees and recruited people which indicate that most of the respondents are adults. Employees of Frontrow earn 16,000-25,000 pesos monthly income while recruited people earn 10,000-15,000 pesos monthly income. 2. Most of the respondents are willing to invest at Frontrow Networking Business because they think that it is a stress-free-job and one of the main reasons on investing at networking business is to earn high income. They think that networking business is more profitable than any other businesses and can satisfy their needs through inviting people to invest in this kind of business. 3. Most of the respondents think that Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated would open more opportunities for them in attaining their success. As neophyte businessmen, they think that engaging in Frontrow provides them conveniently in terms of work and earn high salary as they expect to the business. Conclusion Based from the findings gathered by the researchers, they have listed down the conclusion they have drawn from the study. 1. Based on the data gathered most of the respondents are adult and are females, both employees and recruited people which earn high income. That is enough for the recruited people to invest at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated. They tend to engage at networking business for them to further know about the process and to start gaining profit. 2. Based on the data gathered most of the respondents believe that networking business is the easiest way of earning money and profitable than any other business. The greater part of the percentage of the answers came from the respondents of Frontrow employees, as they proved it when they invested and worked for the  company. The recruits also believe that networking business is profitable, as they influenced by the employees because of knowing that Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated can give them high income. 3. Based on the data gathered, people find opportunities in investing at networking business. The importance of working for that kind of business gives them lot of experiences as they interact with various types of people and dealing with the same goal. In the same aspect, Recommendation After gathering the following finding and conclusions, the researchers have listed down the corresponding recommendation. 1. Aging 18-above comes to more opportunities in life. As a researchers suggest to dream high and don’t stop trying to engage in other opportunities that can benefit you in the future time. To those who earn also high income, try to establish or engage in other businesses and develop your skills in the field of business. 2. The researchers suggested that people who are not satisfied on their monthly income should find way to earn more profit by investing at networking business like in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated that have a good company mission and vision in helping new businessman in creating and building their own journey in the field of business. People who are also willing to engage in Frontrow networking business should work hard for them to attain their goals. 3. Recruited persons are willing to invest with as much as Php 5,988 in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated as they see that networking business is a stress-free-job and they tend to engage because of the high income potential. The researchers recommend that the recruits should invest at the company Frontrow to start working for their business and start inviting for their downlines or team members. The researchers recommend that people, especially to the neophyte businessmen, should consider networking business in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines incorporated is more profitable than any business as it gives opportunity to them in attaining their success. Employees of Frontrow invited people who are willing to engaged at the company to show more of the process on how networking business flows,  how they will earn money; as they said that it is the main reason why they are about to invest their money in Frontrow networking business. The employees should encourage more people to show the high profitability of network marketing business at Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated. The Profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines, Inc. as Networking Business Name: Date: Age: Gender: Status: Profile: Working Student Student Housewife/ husband Regular Employee Business Owner other:_____________ > How much is your monthly income? Php10,000 below Php10,000-15000 Php16,000-25,000 Php26,000up Q1. What is the easiest way of earning money? Rate it to 1-4, one is the highest and 4 the lowest. __Retailing __Buy and Sell __Networking __Franchising Q2. Are you satisfied with your monthly income? Yes No Q3. Do you think networking business is a stress-free-job? Yes No Q4. What comes in your mind when you heard about networking business? High investment/capital High range salary Easy job Selling products Commission based Q5. Are you willing to invest in a networking business with as much as Php 5,000? Yes No Q6. Do you think investing in networking business is more profitable than any other business? Yes No Q7. In your own perspective, do you think Frontrow Enterprise Philippines, Inc. would open more opportunities for you in attaining your success than any other business? Yes No Q8. Do you think Php 5,000 as investment in Frontrow Enterprise Philippines, Inc. is too much for a neophyte businessman like you? Yes No Q9. Does profitability of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines,Inc. satisfy your needs? Yes No Q10If you are going to engage/invest in Frontrow, what is your main reason? To earn a high income Stress-free-job As part time job Bibliography Building a Profitable Business by: Cathy Qazalbash http://www.finalsense.com/learning/e_marketing_articles/networrk_profitable.htm Benefits of Networking http://www.businesslink.gow.uk/bdtog/action/detail Building a Profitable Networking Business http://bizcovering.com/opportunities/building-a-profitablee-networkingmarketing-business How to Create a Truly Profitable MLM Business http://rayhigdon.com/profitable-mlm-business/ Building A Profitable Network Marketing Business http://www.gaebler.com/buildin-a-profitable-marketing-business.htm Tanada, J.K.,(2001); A Business Model for Philippine Telecom Companies for the New Economy Enriquez-Cruz, L.D., (1994); The profitability of the home video shop business in Baguio city Acknowledgment We would like to extent our deepest and warmest appreciation to the following for making this research study possible. First of all to Almighty God, for giving us strength and wisdom in creating this research study. Second, to all the employees and the recruited people of Frontrow Enterprise Philippines Incorporated who answered our survey questionnaire properly. Third, to Marjorie P. Ella and Juanito P. Baybayan Jr. who exerted so much effort and so much knowledge to be able to finish this research study. Fourth, to our entire group mates who contributed much in making this research paper complete. And last but not the least, to Mr. Joseph Dela Pena, for giving us a great responsibility and experience to make this research paper successfully. A million thanks to all of you. God bless GRC. Dedication The researchers dedicated the research study first to Almighty God, because without Him there will be no us. Also to our beloved parents and families who keep patient and understanding when we sleep late at night just to finish this masterpiece of us and lastly, to Mr. Joseph Dela Pena, who is responsible for this research paper and for being our inspiration in making this research study. Without his guide ,the researchers will never know how to make this research study.

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Immediately, the firs t words that came out of my mouth was, â€Å"Is it a boy or girl?! † hoping she said a girl of course.She looked at me confused, as if she was expecting me to be upset that there was going to be a baby coming into our house to steal my â€Å"baby of the family† shine. That didn’t matter to me though; I just wanted someone to play with and to teach things to. I mean, I had older siblings to play with but the chances of playing dolls or kitchen with my older brothers was usually slim to none. As for my sister, well she’s ten years older than me, so there wasn’t much hope there either. I was already imagining all the stuff we could do.We would play dolls and house together, we’d play in the tree house in the backyard, we’d make forts out of blankets in the living room, there was just so many things that I wanted to play but would end up doing alone. There wasn’t much anyone else said, beside the forced-like â€Å"Congratulations. † My parents didn’t say much at all, they weren’t thrilled at the idea of my sister having a child at eighteen but they also didn’t yell at her because they knew it wasn’t going to change anything. Later that night my mom asked me, â€Å"So what do you think about what your sister told us earlier? â€Å"I’m so excited! † I replied, â€Å"I can’t wait to have someone to play with and do stuff with! † â€Å"You know you’re not going to get as much attention as you get now, right? † She told me. â€Å"We’re not going to be able to buy you very many toys anymore, your sister is going to need all the help she can get. † I have to admit hearing I wasn’t going to get any new toys was somewhat upsetting, but I got over it. All I wanted now was for my niece to arrive! As my sister grew bigger and bigger so did my excitement to finally see my baby niece.Nine months flew right by, and on February 15, 2002 my beautiful niece was born. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to go to the hospital when she was born, not only because I was too young but also because it was late at night, but I couldn’t sleep regardless. I was so anxious for my sister to come home with the baby; there was just no way I was going to sleep. I waited in the living room, hoping that someone would walk in through the front door. Finally, I see my parents come in and I run right past them wanting to make sure my sister was walking in with the baby behind them. To my disappointment she wasn’t.I turned around to ask my parents where she was but before I could say anything my mom smiled and said to me, â€Å"You’re sister is still at the hospital with the baby. She named her Hailey Hannah. † â€Å"Hailey Hannah. † I repeated, â€Å"I love it! † After that, my parents sent me off to bed but I still couldn’t sleep. I kept repeating Hailey’s name in my h ead, I even imagined myself telling everyone at school! â€Å"Hi Coach, I have a niece now. Her name is Hailey Hannah! Hey Summer I’m an aunt now, and my niece’s name is Hailey Hannah! Good Morning Mrs. Adams, my sister had a baby and her name is Hailey Hannah! † I loved it!I wanted to let everyone know that I had just become an aunt! I vowed to myself that I would be the best aunt I could be. I would play with her, help her with whatever she needed, look after her, protect her, and anything else I need to do to make her safe and happy. The next day the whole family woke up bright and early to go visit my sister and Hailey at the Hospital. I couldn’t wait! The anticipation was building as we walked into the hospital and walked towards the room where they were also waiting to see us all. As soon as I walked in the door, I saw my sister lying in bed holding my newborn niece.My heart was telling me to run towards them, jump on the bed, and lay there with the m both. My mind told me different. After all I didn’t want to be the first in the family to make her cry! So I kept calm, and walked over to them with the biggest smile that has ever been on my face. As I touched her soft little head she opened her eyes, looked up at me, and slightly smiled. It made me laugh because it made me think that she was just as happy to see me as I was I to see her. Now my Hailey is about to turn ten, and she is definitely my best friend and it really feels as if she’ is my little sister.She has grown so much and so fast that it’s hard to believe how much time has passed. I was there when she took her first bath, took her first steps, got her first haircut, and lost her first tooth. I’ve watched her dance at her dance recitals; I’ve cheered her on at her soccer games, and supported her when she sang with the choir at her elementary school. I’ve learned so much about myself from being with Hailey that I think sheâ₠¬â„¢s the reason why I love being around children so much and that I’ve chosen to major in Education in College. It’s safe to say that becoming an aunt is definitely the greatest event of my life.

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