05 July 2006

Am all maxed out. I have talked to almost all of the pharmacies here in Patong beach for the nth time and still to no avail. It would have been the best distribution for the beach since these retail shops are everywhere. “Slow business. Get back to us when its in season. We will purchase one. We stiall have a lot of sunblocks in stock.” I don’t know if its really wrong timing, but Thai owners of pharmacies there are not in favor of trying it our. I just wish that they could have shared to me their contacts of distributors. That would have been a big help.

Add to my ill-fated day, my appointment with Holiday Inn at Patong was moved until I was able to show them a license “Authorized to sell in Thailand.” Helen broke this sad news, “Reproduce the license just like San Miguel has to distribute product/s.” I am not aware of this and that’s another lesson that has to be charged to experience. Holiday Inn is a global company, who practices good business in a procedural way.

That night, my new friend Lyn, the lawyer, called me and mentioned that she was trying to check if Beach Hut will pass the government approval in selling the product. If there will be no restrictions on the ingredients it has. She will confirm this to me as soon as she heard news about it. Also she mentioned me about offering her services on the trademark application of it. I was really glad that she is helping us out here. Some things that we might have missed up.

With what had happened this week, I have another option to walk the front doors of the 3 most biggest supermarkets in Phuket (which I was told have chains in Thailand). These are Big Sea, Lotus and Central Festival. This would be my agenda before the week ends. I wish myself goodluck!

I believe in the law of averages. I will close a distributorship for Beach Hut after many trials. This is what I am banking on! I am learning...I hope its just faster.