Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 264 views

    National Book Store Newsletter

    Uploaded by

    Versoza Nel
    Here are a few lessons we can learn from Socorro Ramos' success with National Book Store: - Start small but think big. She began by working in a small bookstore branch but had the vision to grow it into a large national chain. - Be resilient in the face of challenges. Her business faced destruction multiple times but she rebuilt from scratch each time. - Utilize opportunities that arise. She adapted her business during difficult times like war by selling other goods. - Passion and hard work pay off. Her dedication to the business through many struggles led to its success. -

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    National Book Store Newsletter

    Uploaded by

    Versoza Nel
    264 views3 pages
    Here are a few lessons we can learn from Socorro Ramos' success with National Book Store: - Start small but think big. She began by working in a small bookstore branch but had the vision to grow it into a large national chain. - Be resilient in the face of challenges. Her business faced destruction multiple times but she rebuilt from scratch each time. - Utilize opportunities that arise. She adapted her business during difficult times like war by selling other goods. - Passion and hard work pay off. Her dedication to the business through many struggles led to its success. -

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    National Book Store Newsletter.docx

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Here are a few lessons we can learn from Socorro Ramos' success with National Book Store: - Start small but think big. She began by working in a small bookstore branch but had the vision to grow it into a large national chain. - Be resilient in the face of challenges. Her business faced destruction multiple times but she rebuilt from scratch each time. - Utilize opportunities that arise. She adapted her business during difficult times like war by selling other goods. - Passion and hard work pay off. Her dedication to the business through many struggles led to its success. -

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    264 views3 pages

    National Book Store Newsletter

    Uploaded by

    Versoza Nel
    Here are a few lessons we can learn from Socorro Ramos' success with National Book Store: - Start small but think big. She began by working in a small bookstore branch but had the vision to grow it into a large national chain. - Be resilient in the face of challenges. Her business faced destruction multiple times but she rebuilt from scratch each time. - Utilize opportunities that arise. She adapted her business during difficult times like war by selling other goods. - Passion and hard work pay off. Her dedication to the business through many struggles led to its success. -

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 3

    HTTP://WWW.MILLIONAIREACTS.

    COM/862/NATIONAL-BOOK-
    STORE-SUCCESS-STORY.HTML Issue # 862

    NBC
    Nanay Coring

    February 27, 2009

    SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN THIS ISSUE: ENTREPRENEUR

    NATIONAL Nanay Coring or Maria


    money from her mother.
    Her elder sisters helped
    BOOK STORE Socorro Cancio in her the family by working in a
    early years was born in candy and bubble gum
    SUCCESS STORY Sta. Cruz, Laguna on factory and she spent her
    February 27, 2009 Rags to September 23, 1923. Ever summer doing summer
    Riches Entrepreneur 28 she was young, she grew jobs too. In one instance,
    Comments
    up in an entrepreneurial young Socorro was hired
    National Book Store, the environment as one of the to peel off the paper used
    Philippine’s largest chain six children born to in old cigarettes so that it
    of bookstores is the entrepreneur parents and can be reuse to make new
    featured success story for grandmother. Her parents fresh cigarette sticks. She
    today as we witness the used to run a store selling received 5 centavos per
    life story of the woman a lot of stuffs from slippers pack of cigarettes. But the
    behind it, Socorro Ramos to clothes and a lot more young Socorro started her
    or more commonly known while her grandmother entrepreneurial skills and
    to her staffs as Nanay had a market stall where hired kids and their
    Coring. the young Socorro got neighborhood paying
    used to seeing customers them 5 centavos for every
    Her story is truly an withdraw items on credit. two pack of cigarettes
    inspiring one as she built Unfortunately, her leveraging her efforts.
    the business National grandmother did not Since then, the young
    Book Store from scratch manage the business Socorro was on her way to
    with a lot of challenges carefully not maintaining become an entrepreneur
    and hurdles as she and a list of those items as early as 10 years old!
    her husband Jose Ramos availed on credit and their
    literally built and rebuilt business fell. Immediately after
    the business three times graduating from Arellano
    from scratch. That’s the After that event, they High School, she worked
    true entrepreneurial spirit went to Manila. Her as a salesgirl at Goodwill
    with enough courage and mother struggled hard to Book Store owned by the
    determination. feed six children and the family of her present
    young Socorro considered husband Jose Ramos.
    herself as lucky if she got Socorro’s brother Manuel
    NBC NANAY CORING | Issue # 2

    married one of the Ramos First, Socorro admitted they have to start from
    children and in 1940, they that it was not easy to zero.
    needed someone to look start the business from
    after the branch they set scratch. She recalled that They struggled hard to
    up along Escolta Street, during the Japanese rebuilt National Book
    on the ground floor of occupation, they would Store for the third time.
    Panciteria National. Jose look on each and every But since then, every
    Ramos took over it and book title on sale. If they centavo that they earned
    asked Socorro to work on found questionable books, were used to buy the lot
    him in that branch. They they would just tear the where the Rizal Avenue
    renamed it as National pages off leaving them Branch of National Book
    Book Store. useless. So instead of Store stands to this day.
    selling books, Socorro and
    Their love story began but Jose decided to fill their Today, National Book
    her parents were against bookshelves with stuffs Store is considered as the
    with it as Socorro was just from candies, soap, largest chain of
    18 years old back then. slippers, papers, and bookstores in the country.
    She was told to stay in the cigarettes. During the war, They have ventured into
    province to keep away she would transfer goods several businesses
    from marrying Jose to her smaller stores. already such as a
    Ramos. But as they say, convenience-type store
    true love never dies, the Second, when the named NBS Book Express,
    young Socorro with just 11 Japanese were driven publishing companies
    pesos in her pocket, away, it was now the time named Cacho-Hermanos
    struggled to went back to for the Americans. Their printing press, Anvil Books
    Manila to marry Jose. National Book Store stall and Capitol-Atlas
    Because of this act, her in Escolta was damaged in Publishing, another book
    family was so furious and the war. They recovered a store named Powerbooks,
    angry that they bit by selling unused music store named Tower
    considered her dead greeting cards and Records and Music One,
    already. It was short-lived uncensored books, which Gift Gate, the home of
    though lasting only until they had hidden in their Hello Kitty and Swatch,
    Socorro gave birth to her home. and a department store
    twins named Alfredo, who named Crossings
    is now the President of Third, in 1945, they department store.
    National Book Store and relocated their National Socorro’s children and
    Benjamin, now the Vice Book Store previously relatives ran all these.
    President. located at Escolta to
    Avenida. The business is Socorro Ramos’ life and
    As mentioned above, the doing quite well during success story and the
    business National Book first few post-war school challenges that she faced
    Store faced a lot of years but unfortunately, with her business National
    challenges as it was built three years after, a Book Store business was
    and rebuilt three times typhoon blew the roof of another inspiring story. In
    from scratch! their store and they were fact, it was recognized
    left with soaked books and when she was chosen as
    stuffs that were worthless. the Ernst and Young’s
    Again, for the third time,
    NBC NANAY CORING | Issue # 3

    Philippine Entrepreneur of
    the Year in 2005.

    Today, at the age of 85,


    Socorro Ramos or Nanay
    Coring acts as the General
    Manager of National Book
    Store. And she told that
    the core values in her
    success are to keep
    learning, being actively
    involved in the business,
    being able to read
    changes and act on them
    immediately, and most of
    all, never give up!

    Credits: Go NeGOsyo

    Question: What can you


    learn from the successful
    entrepreneur mentioned
    in the article who started
    from small beginnings?

    You might also like